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sliqqq··on sshole
jesus christ wtf
sliqqq··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)
Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file. Currently free, macOS (Silicon + Intel) and Windows. Has tags and priorities, can display many scientific syntaxes (mhchem, most TeX / LaTeX stuff, Excalidraw, PlantUML, Graphviz / DOT, Vega-Lite, and actual Markdown footnotes). Can show notes in vertical lanes like JIRA does. Free iCloud sync too. Still early alpha.

https://notesplus.io

sliqqq··on Elon Musk isn't an engineer or manager. He's an influencer and lobbyist
what you said has nothing to do with what i said.. are you even a real human? i meant that it's sad people blindly follow narratives instead of looking into the issue itself.
sliqqq··on Elon Musk isn't an engineer or manager. He's an influencer and lobbyist
No, he is correct! Hackernews is one of these platform without a negative-feedback-channel, and a very opinionated community, which is a serious problem. Especially when the post itself is a bizarre opinion, not a clear fact. This post is probably just another part of the campaign against him. Musk itself said he's not an engineer.
sliqqq··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Thanks mate, feels good to read this! The sentence "The moderators don't allow any discourse that challenges the approved narrative." should be printed in history books, it explains so well how political discourse happens (or not happens) these days. Brilliant!
sliqqq··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)
Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file. Currently free, macOS (Silicon + Intel) and Windows. Has tags and priorities, can display many scientific syntaxes (mhchem, most TeX / LaTeX stuff, Excalidraw, PlantUML, Graphviz / DOT, Vega-Lite, and actual Markdown footnotes). Can show notes in vertical lanes like JIRA does. Free iCloud sync too. Still early alpha.

https://notesplus.io

sliqqq··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Perfect explanaition! I see this not only in politics, but also in simple tech or niche fields I'm very familiar with, sometimes even medical things I have to deal with for 20 years: If it doesnt fit the (uneducated) mods' view, it will get downvoted or (shadow)banned. Resulting in bizarre threads with 40k upvotes, but no actual answers on the open question, because the answers have been removed. Totally nuts.
sliqqq··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Yes, yes, yes! I'm so happy to see this trending on Hackernews! Reddit has been an echochamber for simple, naive opinions, and people who avoid going deep into the problems of the world. Radical censorship by the mob.

In my experience, literally every thread or comment that even just questions the "big narrative", the opinion of the masses, is downvoted, banned or even deleted by mods or the mob.

Example: Germany is breaking apart politically due to the uncontrolled mass immigration topic, resulting in landslide wins of a far-right political party. I want to hear opinions of the voters, the protesters, the undecided, of everybody regadless of their position, but somehow, you will not find their voices on reddit. Like they dont exist.

sliqqq··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file. Still in development, started as a hobby summer project for Second Brain people and Markdown hoarders like me. Goal is to be able to read any form of files. I worked with Notes, Obsidian, Bear and Typora before and they all didnt even come close to what I personally wanted, so that's where the project idea comes from.

I'm struggling with the extremely different feedback from the internet: Some niches give excellent reviews, some literally destroyed it. Some days are fun, some make me think if i should cancel this whole thing.

https://notesplus.io

sliqqq··on Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc.
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it!

The cloud sync feature request is already on the roadmap (https://bugreport.notesplus.io/tickets/02a2ddcb-6770-4915-8b...), the fiddly grabber has now a bug ticket too (https://bugreport.notesplus.io/tickets/ad5a1c48-b652-43cd-91...)

;)

sliqqq··on Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc.
Yes, i create a ticket for that: https://bugreport.notesplus.io/tickets/beae09ea-ba82-4668-84... ;)
sliqqq··on Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc.
Thank tarwin! The app saves metadata like priorities, tags and rank/orders, pin status, favorite status (for files) and sorting (for folders) inside the app itself, technically in ONE simple .json in the app's macOS data folder (might have different locations on Intel and Apple silicon macs):

~/Library/Application Support/.... .notesplus/notes-metadata.json

It's a simple key-value JSON, simply a list of every file, and the according prio, tags, etc. (if set). The notes themselves are not touched and there are NOT any .files or so.

Regarding speed: To be honest i rebuild the app multiple times from scratch, every single time for performance reasons. ;)

sliqqq··on Show HN: Notes Plus – A Markdown Apple Notes Clone with Latex, Excalidraw etc.
thanks!
sliqqq··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
damn, i didnt know that! that's crazy
sliqqq··on Show HN: PhpEZ – A tiny PHP framework for shared LAMP hosting
haha, take my upvote just for the sex.php alone ;)
sliqqq··on Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
Everybody who's not totally limited in their mindsets. Twitter/X is uncensored. I think open minds who are hungry for the raw, real truth prefer such platform, rather than one that's regulated by one political party of one particular country.
sliqqq··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Why? X is one of the rare uncensored publishing / communication networks we have. Do you prefer living in a highly regulated, censored pre-gated world where information is hidden if somebody "feels offended" by it or state / ngo actors dont want something to go public?

The brainwashing against free, open, uncensored and community-corrected platforms is crazy.

sliqqq··on Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?
Keep in mind that the rest of the world does not even come close to US salaries. Buying a mac in most countries in the world means giving away multiple monthly salaries. Even in Germany, one of the richest countries in the world, a simple 16" Mac goes way way beyong the average salary.

Still going strong on a 2019 Intel MacBook, just for economic reasons.

sliqqq··on Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
WARNING! The link they posted on this Gitlab issue is a scam redirect loop, leading to something that uBlock rates as malicious. Also the /contact URL is not reachable, the entire .li of annas archive seems to be a scam. I'm writing this 2 days after this hackernews post went viral, it might be that somebody changed the links in between.
sliqqq··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
100% agreed! Reality is, many german businesses are just flying under the radar, as they simply dont want or cannot deal with all the tax crazyness and bureaucracy.
sliqqq··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
German here. And this is just the standardized SETUP! Wait until you have an edge case or a complicated tax situation, or - dare you - you want to work from a different country.

Germany feels like the government tries to make everything as hard and complicated as possible, to block ANY steps forward. It feels like organized sabotage to me.

sliqqq··on Cursor (IDE) tried launching on HN 8 times unsuccessfully
Worth 29 billion by the way. The impact of Cursor on the tech world is so huge it's hard to even calculate. Maybe hackernews is totally overrated as a "launch tool".
sliqqq··on JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it
Friendly reminder: Some nuclear silo facilities in the US still use 3,5" diskettes. Some highly complex system are by architecture, security issues or by incompetence still stuck in decades old tech. We as engineers oftentimes have to work with that, and keep the system running, if we like it or not.

You cannot refactor an battlecarrier designed in 1979 so easily ;)

sliqqq··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
Meanwhile, we here in Europe move our stacks over to other continents or at least ourside of the EU to workaround the crazy EU regulation nonsense ;) We live in crazy times my friends...
sliqqq··on Talking to strangers at the gym
love this! and the masses of upvotes show how important this topic is. let's all take action and get social
sliqqq··on Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
Bro i feel you so much! i am developing an app aimed at Intel Macs, but i cannot even publish it, because you need a Silicon mac to use the Apple Developer Program. It's so unbelievable brainless. The market still holds 10-20% intel devices, especially outside the US and in some high-end environments, where 128GB RAM machines cannot easily be replaced with a silicon mac.

Sometimes it feels like Apple has no clue how their users actually work and what the industry needs.

sliqqq··on Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop
Good idea, but a hard dealbreaker issue: clicking "Yes, totally" or "Hell no" is never accepted, as it always returns "Couldn't verify you're human — please try again.". Clicking a country in the list will also show a white page. But keep going, you have built something useful here my friend ;)