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Show HN: OS Yamato – A Wabi-Sabi OS Just Got an Upgradehttps://github.com/osyamato/os-yamatoOS Yamato is a poetic, minimalist OS built on the idea of impermanence — inspired by the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi.Now available in Spanish! Plus: New chat reactions (long-press to react with one emoji, gentle and expressive)OS Yamato lets photos, notes, and messages fade naturally if untouched for a year — no hoarding, no anxiety. A cherry blossom fades, not because it's broken, but because it's alive.Recent Highlights: - Spanish language support added (now available in 4 languages) - Chat reaction feature added (1 emoji per message, replaceable) - Seasonal message effects (e.g. cherry blossoms, rain, wind) - Auto-fade system for unused data (starts fading around day 330) - "Wind Messages": send letters to the future that arrive months laterRead more about the philosophy: https://krispitech.com/os-yamato-and-the-art-of-gentle-tech-...GitHub (open source): https://github.com/osyamato/os-yamatoOfficial page: https://hanaco875.comLetting go can be gentle. Feedback welcome.Jul 22, 2025 4:14 PM
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Feedback on Tool I Created?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871726Hey- I've been working on a minimalist tool called QuickPoint — it’s a minimal tool for quick text-first creation and sharing structured thoughtshttps://quickpoint.meBut rather than push a vision, I’m here to learn what people actually need. I built a rough prototype and are watching closely how (or if) people use it.I’d love your honest feedback: Please feel free to tinker about- and say whatever comes to mind. If you need to structure your feedback - I put some questions below. However- I'd rather just hear anything you have to say.Does it feel like it solves anything you’d do in real life? What’s your first instinct about what this tool is for? What’s good and what's missing or broken in the concept itself?Not trying to pitch- just trying to listen. Thanks in advance for any thoughts!May 2, 2025 4:16 PM
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Ask HN: Is there a minimalist CMS that converts gdrive to blog posts?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393748I was previously using blot.im with dropbox and loved it, but the gdrive integration appears broken.My goal is: write content in a google doc and have it automatically posted on my blog. Extremely minimalist - I want fast, simple, and clean without wordpress style bloat.Thank you!Aug 29, 2024 6:17 PM
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Ask HN: Why have post numbers become green and red?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21880128Dear HN, I appreciate you for the minimalistic interface that just does not contain anything unnecessary. For what purpose did you start using colors in post number?Does this mean the beginning of the end of the HN I know and love? Maybe now you will make a mobile app? Hang a banner warning that you store cookies? Forbid to use adblock?I could not understand for a while what this differentiation means. My first thought was that green posts - being voted positively and vice versa. Now I realized that they are simply alternating. It reminds me Mark Miller's "Tragedy of Common Lisp" story, and maybe the theory of broken windows a little bit.Thank you for all the wonderful that I discovered because of you.Dec 25, 2019 7:56 PM
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Ask HN: Why is hackernews so old-fashioned?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17412237As a web developer, it's always seemed strange to me that a tech incubator would have such an old-fashioned website.It's nice in some respects - pages load extremely quickly and the layout is compact and to-the-point. I was starting to think it was just minimalist by choice and not actually outdated, but then someone mentioned that async requests are done through an tag instead of ajax, so now I'm wondering what the story is there?Has it just been left alone because it's not broken? Or because they're worried people would get upset about changes? Or for maximum backward-compatibility? I'm not complaining; I'm just really curious.Jun 27, 2018 10:04 PM
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Ask HN: Why doesn't hn have a notification mechanism?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9502725//Half rant, half ask hn...please forgive.Why doesn't hn have a notification mechanism equivalent to reddit's orange-red?When someone posts something sensible in response to one of my comments on (any) social platform then I'd like to know about it so that I can thank them/respond/decide to ignore.hn does not do this - worse...recently responding to old comments was disabled.Now I appreciate hn's minimalistic design and that they don't bug me with adverts and random ad notifications...but this just seems broken when viewed in terms of the forum's broader purpose of facilitating dialog...May 7, 2015 12:47 AM
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Ask HN: Need of a much better GitHub/Gitlab?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618161Github [1] has become slow and the hosted solution (enterprise version) is too costly, so we have been using Gitlab which is a Github like repository hosting platform that also has issue tracking and merge/pull request based workflow and integration with its CI (gitlab-ci project).In the past couple of months, we've been facing a lot of problems for example -- Gitlab has broken our development workflow (due to bugs in it), the web hooks would stop working, the merge request diffs would be too slow to load, sometimes the ruby based backend would blow up and give us 500 etc. So, we've started working on a single page webapp based on Go and AngularJS that just does minimalistic things that we need. We wanted a tool that is easy to manage and install so we chose Go (single binary) and we wanted to keep the frontend easy to implement and use so we chose AngularJS (single page app).What are the pain points you've faced while using these tools, and what features etc. you want in it and will yApr 20, 2014 7:30 PM
