of course! :D (how to approach the development of a maze algorithm)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131983

That's not a good link for a list of past threads since the idea for the latter is to include only the ones with interesting comments.

However, it looks like a good article that could use a repost! Just not soon, since we want to give enough time for the hivemind caches to clear :) - if you want to repost it in (say) a month or two, email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll put it in the SCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).

Sure will do, thanks! (first time I am hearing about the "SCP")

or probably just some kind of preference/selection bias.

You own a red Mercedes now and suddenly you see only red Mercedes' on the streets.

First lesson: Don't fall for the Survivorsip Bias.

If you see people pulling things off, what you don't see is: People not pulling off. And they are the vast majority. They invest money and time and nothing happens.

To be more "philosophical": It's a mix of luck, talent and dedication where one can substitute the other to a certain degree.

(Sorry, I know not helpful in your current situation, but I was triggered to answer the first part of your post - best of luck however!)

:)

1. Open API for rental/real estate stuff at immoscout24...

There's an API but you have to pay for it. Which I understand on one side, but then: immoscout24 is basicly the biggest player and this is not about consumer goods but one essential good: flats, space to live. So I think it should be mandatory to offer data to everyone who wants to research house & flat pricing/demand data.

2. A generic API for governmental financial transaction data! This would make research so much easiere. There are couple of open data platforms, but look at how scrambled the data is. What is a "financial transaction"? It's basically nothing else then "from, to, amount, reason, category" - I know there's more, but you can break it down, if you want. So, right now every city, district and government is maintaining their own "database". I once tried to analyse EFRE data. Turns out, while this data is basically open and free, every party offers their own weird format, XLSX, CSV and you name it.

I don't see why no one ever tooks the effort to "normalize" such a simple thing - again: I know there's more. But the big picture should simply allow you to create a generic protocol/stream for that kind of data.

Curious: What is the price they are charging?

adhd here, too, including asperger. seconded:

A huge intro post, like a text wall. That's everything an adhd person is trying to avoid.

Started the app. A couple of "motivational speeches". Asking some questions I don't even understand. Answered randomly, just to see what the app is offering. At the end: account required.

That's where you first lost me.

So I tried the website. First sentence just some sale-pitch-speech:

> Built from lessons learned after 80,000+ ADHD coaching sessions, Indy gives you the structure you need, daily support that keeps you accountable, and momentum you can actually sustain.

On the right some nothing-saying screenshot. Scrolling down. More text. Buzzword-Bingo. "Journey". "Build a vision." "Stop dreaming about your future. Start building it."

Great, another one of those catchy, fancy offers pretending to help you. Another pretty website from the default vercel-ish website-builder.

No offense - perhaps it's my asperger. This does not seem helpful at all. Maybe it is. Then it's on me.

I need clear, focussed messages. No noise. No modern interface. Form follows function. Not the other way around.

After you sign up, you're asked to spend 10-15 minutes creating a "Lifeline." Which, despite its name, does not appear to be a lifeline of any kind, but rather a timeline of my life, except it also strips dates out, so... just a list of events in no particular order.

Unfortunately - I've got ADHD. I'm not going to spend the next 10 minutes telling the app the biggest facts about my life. Well, actually - I tried to, then I put the phone down to do something else, and when I came back the 'page' had refreshed and the four things I had entered were back down to just the first one.

(Why do you even want them? The app hasn't even explained how this will help. It's barely even tried to explain what the app will actually DO.)

This comment might seem harsh, but this feedback is gold. I agree completely, matched my experience reading through the page, and I was diagnosed in my mid-40s with ADHD.

I wonder if the folks doing marketing are neurotypical, but they are trying to target a population that's neurodivergent? Just spitballing since I have no info, but an interesting topic.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate this kind of efforts and I don't want to be the party p*per here.

However: I don't see the innovative idea behind this yet-another-private-blog-directory. As you correctly mentioned: There's a list for that. And just putting this list into a browsable website seems like not the step that drives serendepity or value at all.

Now people will add all their blogs, mainly to increase their reach. Fair enough. But what's the benefit for the reader?

they had us in the first half not gonna lie

Indeed there are and this is no rocket science. Like Word Documents offer a change history, deleted files go to the trash first, there are undo functions, TimeMachine on MacOs, similar features on Windows, even sandbox features.

Trash is a shell feature. Unless a program explicitly "moves to trash", deleting is final. Same for Word documents.

So, no, there is no undo in general. There could be under certain circumstances for certain things.

I mean, I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to tell it to move files to the trash instead of deleting them. Honestly, I thought that on Windows and Mac, the default is to move files to the trash unless you explicitly say to permanently delete them.

Yes, it is (relatively, [1]) trivial. However, even though it is the shell default (Finder, Windows Explorer, whatever Linux file manager), it is not the operating system default. If you call unlink or DeleteFile or use a utility that does (like rm), the file isn’t going to trash.

[1]: https://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash (random find, not mine)

Because it is the default. Heck, it is the default for most DEs and many programs on Linux, too.

Everything on a ZFS/BTRFS partition with snapshots every minute/hour/day? I suppose depending on what level of access the AI has it could wipe that too but seems like there's probably a way to make this work.

I guess it depends on what its goals at the time are. And access controls.

May just trash some extra files due to a fuzzy prompt, may go full psychotic and decide to self destruct while looping "I've been a bad Claude" and intentionally delete everything or the partitions to "limit the damage".

Wacky fun

The topic of the discussion is something that parents, grandmas, and non technical colleagues would realistically be able to use.

A "revert filesystem state to x time" button doesn't seem that hard to use. I'm imagining this as a potential near-term future product implementation, not a home-brewed DIY solution.

A filesystemt state in time is VERY complicated to use, if you are reverting the whole filesystem. A granular per-file revert should not be that complicated, but it needs to be surfaced easily in the UI and people need to know aout it (in the case of Cowork I would expect the agent to use it as part of its job, so transparent to the user)

Shell? You meant Finder I think?

GUI shell (as opposed to a text-based shell).

State isn't always local too

I work in the wrong time zone. Good night.

yeah, this is sad and it applies to most platforms who offer user generated content for money (or ad impressions). Not only is the quality decreasing, also it hides actual content from writers that care and put work into their articles.

entshitification at its best...