Hacker News: wateralien

New comment by wateralien in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

wateralien — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:20:11 +0000

You have linked to a paid, closed-source product. There are hundreds. OP has shared a free and open-source project.

New comment by wateralien in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

wateralien — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:25:31 +0000

One of the most amazing things happened during the day long power cut in 2025 in Spain and Portugal... eventually the cell towers went down and everyone just went to the parks and socialised. Connected with friends, strangers. Everyone was so in the moment because there was nowhere else to be, nothing else to distract them. People would pick up their phone and realise there was nothing there for them and put it back down and continue chatting. People were present in a way I've never seen in these places before. It was pretty magical.

New comment by wateralien in "Flipper One – we need your help"

wateralien — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:54:59 +0000

Some projects are meant to scope creep. Like this one. If the project manager of the swiss army knife had defended it from scope creep it would have 1 knife.

New comment by wateralien in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

wateralien — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:19:17 +0000

So the web is now pay to play.

New comment by wateralien in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

wateralien — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:17:13 +0000

Deno's approach from the beginning seems to have proven out.

New comment by wateralien in "Warp is now open-source"

wateralien — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:47:01 +0000

100,000% I loved it when it was JUST good at terminal rendering. Ghostty alternative. Not a crazy bloatware AI play.

New comment by wateralien in "nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL"

wateralien — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:37 +0000

You download the app in case that site goes down.

New comment by wateralien in "nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL"

wateralien — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:57:17 +0000

https://nowhr.xyz/s#yzXyzs8PcDbxyQ_0KbYMzzRNytKNyE0JDM0x8zT2...

New comment by wateralien in "nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL"

wateralien — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:56:28 +0000

Like this: https://nowhr.xyz/s#yzXyzs8PcDbxyQ_0KbYMzzRNytKNyE0JDM0x8zT2...

New comment by wateralien in "Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war"

wateralien — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:10:12 +0000

Are they also changing the way America puts a new (wholly-owned) president in the white house in 2028 in order to approve these contracts?

New comment by wateralien in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

wateralien — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:35:56 +0000

I tried twice and couldn’t extract value. Loaded it with ability. Still couldn’t.

New comment by wateralien in "A New Way to Spray Paint Color"

wateralien — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:04:43 +0000

Wow. I was pondering this exact thing when I was thinking about the scourge of ugly graffiti tagging where I live. Sample the wall color and cover it instantly.

New comment by wateralien in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

wateralien — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:39:12 +0000

Bell costs more than the bike is ok?

New comment by wateralien in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

wateralien — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:50:10 +0000

what

New comment by wateralien in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

wateralien — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:30:41 +0000

Read this on my third screen while waiting for 4 Claude sessions to finish.

New comment by wateralien in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

wateralien — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:50:09 +0000

The pause in replies also suggests he's not around the corner.

New comment by wateralien in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"

wateralien — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:29:40 +0000

I'm guessing that if Apple can get it right with the next LLM based Siri, generating or editing Shortcuts may get easier anyway.

New comment by wateralien in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

wateralien — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:24:10 +0000

Can't use it yet because I need cmd-f find.

New comment by wateralien in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

wateralien — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:40:11 +0000

Done.

New comment by wateralien in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

wateralien — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:39:15 +0000

The adoption of, or adherence to an "identity" is a very western habit. The thought that you or your value derives from a mental construct or external idea.

It's limiting and dangerous. Limiting because you're relying on a relatively small network in the brain, governed almost entirely by your conscious ideas to provide a set of features of who you are. And dangerous because if something else comes up, if you discover something new about yourself, you change, or your circumstances, or the world around you changes and it affects one of your "identities" - that alteration can leave you lost. As the author seems to be saying.

Instead of these quips of, "you need to know who you are", "who are you?", "know yourself" - we should rather be trying, continually, in a never ending process, to discover ourselves.