Yep, out of precaution i've never used their sync infrastructure, which I guess was reasonably cheap to run, but the moment you add LLMs to the mix it is obvious that they are in for the free VC money and are soon going to need a lot of investment to keep the lights on.
The thing I found frustrating was I wanted to merge changes with just files without their sync server (i.e. just import this other atuin sqlite dB) so I raised a PR to support that.
They closed it (which is fine) but there is no offline migrate alternative.
It's a shame, and fair enough, their project, but I don't think my wishes and the projects are very aligned.
I keep half meaning to move back to zsh-histdb (I think that's what it was called) but haven't found an impetus to.
I'll probably check if there's a file based sync option next time I switch machines and decide then.
About the "ai", the announcement is very vague. Is this incorporating a local model on device, something running on your infrastructure or a third party model like Claude? Because to me nowadays adding AI on anything usually means higher running costs equals sooner or latter enshittification.
That's the only ingredient list I have ever seen on canned beans as well, here in the US. I tend to make beans from dry just because I like to cook them with other vegetables and spices in order for beans to be at all palatable for me.
I wish journalists would run their examples like these by the researchers directly to see if the journalist's conception of the idea matches the researchers.
It is happening already, recently Brazilian woman living in Italy was scammed thinking she was having an online relationship with Brazilian tiktoker, the scammers created a fake profile and were sending her audio messages with the voice of said tiktoker cloned via AI. She sent the scammers a lot of money for the wedding but when she arrived in Brazil discovered the con.
I know that hn is heavily populated by people from the USA, that the author is dutch but a non-english language would be... every other language beside English.
Commenting on the actual text, his solution for the cedilla is awkward and is one of the first things I disable on any computer, because it is a extremely common letter in portuguese.
I agree that typing curly braces and square brackets on non English keyboards suck, but typing non English languages on an English keyboard sucks too. I made the opposite of your decision: I brought a laptop with my national keyboard and I switch to US layout when programming. That has had a curious effect on me: as my editor and my terminals have black backgrounds and everything else has a white one, something in my brain makes my fingers reach for keys according to the color of the background. I make many mistakes when I attempt to program in a white window (eg: type in gedit) or write in my language in a black one (eg: an md file in terminal.)
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