t_mahmood

Thank you!

Can you list some of the recent good sci-fis please? I haven't read any new after Salvation series by P. Hamilton

I am working on a lightweight, note taking application that focuses on quick note taking, and fully keyboard based usage.

In my app Notes are all one liner, and it supports minimum Markdown, it can manage tasks, reminders, do inline calculations, unlimited undo/redo. Notes can organize by project and categories. Data is stored as simple text file.

https://mtarin.com/projects/nift/

Core point is simplicity, and frictionless note taking, high performance, and be open in nature. And, to build a framework that will provide ways to manage notes in many different ways. Like I have plans for kanban, Eisenhower matrix, back-linking, bookmark manager, time-tracking, etc. All from a single place, without fiddling with mouse, or any UI that stops me from writing my thoughts, or using my muscle memory.

I am looking for feedback, and wondering what would make people actually interested to buying this. The demo versions are feature complete, except it wont save to file.

It's completely hand written, no AI assisted code.

Back linking? Yes, I have plans to add that too in future.

Really glad to hear! Thank you

I have built a lightweight, note taking application that focuses on quick note taking, and fully keyboard based usage. Notes are all one liner, and it supports minimum Markdown, you can manage tasks, reminders, do inline calculations, unlimited undo/redo. You can organize notes by project and categories.

https://mtarin.com/projects/nift/

Core point is simplicity, and frictionless note taking, and high performance, my dev version, can work with 12k notes without any issues.

Data is stored as text file.

Demo version is also available

I am looking for feedback, and wondering what would make people actually interested to buying this.

It's completely hand written, no AI assisted code.

Or decency, empathy. Because of his actions, someone passionate about computers might not be able to purchase a computer even.

If I go check the largest computer shop in my country, it's adding general electronics now, and very few ram, GPU are available.

This is extremely bad. And this asshole says this. It's just infuriating

People using energy is waste, it should go to data centres, energy is limited by entropy, how dare people except Sam lives

That was a good read!

Ugh, I bought my first Earl gray because of the captain. And I still love it. I'll drink one tonight to him.

I never use LLM to write anything, but unfortunately now whenever I am writing something, I am worried, am I sounding like an LLM? Using certain words, makes me worry, it will make my writing like an LLM, so I have started to avoid some words in my writing.

I really don't like this timeline ... sigh

If that happens, I think the actors will have more serious things to hack around then phone-looping some poor souls

I am building a minimalist note app for taking quick notes, simple UI, but still powerful enough for serious use.

It work as simple as a Text editor, while providing features of an advanced note taking apps.

My priority is, make writing the thought effortless, and add the context, while writing the note, and only if want to add it.

Notes in my app are just one line, but allows you to assign the context with To-Do, Projects and Tags, in that same line, or you can just add them later, you can do inline calculations too.

And then I made it faster to find notes too. You can filter your notes using contexts, drill down as much as needed, very quickly.

What makes this difference is, all are done from a single place, not spread throughout the UI, without fiddling with any fancy tree view, buttons, or menus.

You can check here: https://mtarin.com/projects/nift/ Also have a demo link there for anyone to try it out.

Correct me if I wrong, I saw this when llama.cpp or ollama initializes, it is used as token separator of some sort.

I tried that too, but it wasn't very good.

And unfortunately, these posts goes on frontpage, because AI, but no ai posts are largly ignored.

I have tried both. Merlin is best for bird watching. It does not ask to upload any data. Just start the recording, it listens and let me know what is the bird is. Done. It only uploads, IF I want it upload.

But these AI labs are not Linus. So, they'll just keep on gobbling up, but never give. And, all the new comers, are going to be a loser, to feed some billionaire.

I am no one in anything, the thing is I love spending hours writing code, fixing some weird issue somewhere in the code, and then see it working as it intended. But now I can just put up some text and the whole thing is generated. Using my thoughts, the things I learnt, and applying them are not needed.

I can see there are still lot to do in the generated code, but I also feel something went away, Now I start working on it, and realize I'm reminded I just have to dictate what I need and it will be generated

It's like I have to pay for the best gun in the game to win, otherwise I can't just progress. Then why am I playing the game for?

Unfortunately, This happens everywhere.

So many years I couldn't use Gnome properly because of an NVIDIA bug. We paid handsomely for our GPU, and they give a shit about us.

Oh yes to that! It is also built in to IDEA, and It's just so good! I looked for other alternatives, but nothing comes close to their database tool. Works so well.

Just to add another note, Initially I was a bit skeptic about their new UI. But, they have improved it a lot, and it's really good. Even though I hide most of the UI elements in favor of `double shift`

I use only one, IntelliJ IDEA, which has all integrated, except Rider I believe.

It has full Rust, Java, Python, Web stack, things that I work with.

There were few issues here and there occasionally, but last few months I have not faced any issues, and it's been really robust. It gets slow with LLM providers running in the background on my 7 year old laptop though. But on desktop it flies.

It's not nostalgia/pity. It's something I have use for.

And, also, it's kind of having a principle, my own. I have issues with corruption manifested by all of these AI corporations. It's an itch that I can't scratch, so I am trying my best to stay away from them.

It's not JetBrains is good and all. But, they're not worse, yet.

Yeah! Refactoring, is already a solved problem, and deterministic with IDE (unless you have an untyped Python codebase), now we are reinventing the wheel, in more broken ways?

Want to add an additional parameter without creating a thousands of error? Change signature, Extract a part of code to another function? Extract Method.

People are taking these small, but extremely useful conveniences, without waiting, without paying for tokens, for granted.

Yes, Junie, Air all got mixed up too much, and it was a bad decision to override some important keyboard shortcuts with Air too.

But, they still have a solid IDE, they just need to figure out what they can do without losing that edge.

I am all for experiments, that's where all the innovations comes from. But don't push VSCode bullshit on me. If I wanted to use that shit, I would use NVIM/Vim. But not VSCode.

Yeah. Sometimes I have to go down to git cli, when I mess up really bad. But otherwise, nothing beats their VCS management UI, in my experience.

You can pay a corporate that steals other's hard work without any consequences, $20/m at least. But can't pay another one that is actually putting up a respectable product for so many years, and you at least own it, even if you decided to stop paying?

I have been a paid user for 12+ years. Things got difficult more me this year, but I still renewed, because it's that important a tool for me. And, probably, this is just the hill I die on, owning something, that can't be whisked away at someone else's whim.

Obviously, they are still a corporate, but, until now they've respected me as a consumer unlike many other corporations. I value that.

They have their issues. But, which application does not?!

Their Git merge UI, is just top-notch. And keeps on improving I might use another coding agent, once JetBrain's credit runs out, but I review, and make all minor changes through the IDE

Project management is just a bliss.

Working with multi-language project? No IDE can manage this how good JetBrains does.

VIM binding is just so good, I don't miss VIM editor.

And the most important point is, they do not push something I do not want continuously. Don't want AI, turn it off, and it's not even there. My data is not being used to train some big LLM, or I am not counted as a product, is really important too.

Yeah, I hope they survive this messy shit, with the core that I have respect for. I hope they don't ruin that.

> edit: forgot I can't use code blocks on HN

  You can, two space at the start of each line

It's not flying, it's just slowing the fall with compressed air maybe? If it's flying then drag racing cars can also fly.