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Ask HN: Should the ArchWiki be renamed to the LinuxWiki (or something similar)?

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 4:02am

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The ArchWiki is widely known as being the best documentation not only for the Arch Linux distribution, but for all GNU/Linux distributions and packages generally. Would granting it the honour of representing all of them, through some edict from the Linux Foundation or whoever owns the trademark, improve adoption from Windows and MacOS users switching over to it since they now have an excellent generalised resource?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022191

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How much longer until human verification on HN is mandatory?

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 3:58am

How will HN deal with the AI agents inevitably writing here?

Will HN accept AI agent writing? Will HN require human verification too?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022172

Points: 2

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Show HN: Scratchpad app that auto-saves notes as .txt files

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 3:53am

I know everybody has their own note-taking system and there are better ways to do this, but:

Whenever I need to make quick notes during a meeting, or paste some url / code / whatever to hold it, or paste formatted text to un-format it, I used to open TextEdit.

It's the equivalent of taking a scrap piece of paper and jotting something down.

These kinds of notes I don't want in any cloud, serious note-taking app or any code editor.

But the burden of having 1 extra click on open (new document), and deciding what to do with old notes when closing (delete? save?) was too much.

So I built my own notepad which behaves like a super simple textedit, but all notes are automatically saved to a predefined folder.

- Opens with a new note when launched, or re-opened.

- Notes can be auto-named by timestamp, numbered "Note N", custom prefix or by first line of text.

- Hideable sidebar shows all notes.

- Shortcuts can create, delete, switch between notes.

Bonus points for pointing claude code to that folder to organize or work with all notes.

Again: This is a custom app I made for myself, so probably it's not useful to anyone, but anyhow:

https://tomreinert.de/en/verygoodnotepad/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/very-good-notepad/id6758906859

PS: This was built with the new Claude Code integration in xcode 26.3, worked quite well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022138

Points: 1

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Show HN: Tufte Editor – Local Markdown Editor with Tufte CSS Live Preview

Hacker News - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 3:22am

A split-pane Markdown editor that renders live preview with Tufte CSS. Sidenotes, margin notes, epigraphs, full-width figures, and BibTeX citations with autocomplete — all in standard Markdown extensions.

Documents are .md files on disk. Images are regular files. Exports to standalone HTML with Tufte CSS baked in — my use case is writing essays and uploading them directly to my personal site.

Zero dependencies, no npm install, no accounts, no build step. Just `node server.js`. ~7 files total.

Full disclosure in the README: I'm a researcher, not a JS developer, and the code was AI-generated. Contributions and code review welcome.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021994

Points: 1

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