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Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

https://poddley.com/guests/ana-kasparian/episodes
1•onesandofgrain•2m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

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2•karakoram•2m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

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1•mwenge•2m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

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1•r1z4•2m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

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2•dshearer•5m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

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1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

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Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

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1•ccie14019•10m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

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1•SirLJ•11m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

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1•randycupertino•12m ago•2 comments

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2•breve•17m ago•0 comments

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1•ahmedoo•18m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

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2•ks2048•18m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•22m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

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You Are Here

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3•mltvc•26m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

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1•JoanMDuarte•27m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

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Vouch: A contributor trust management system

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I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

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Tiny C Compiler

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Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

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Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

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Italy Railways Sabotaged

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Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

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Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

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"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

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1•rbanffy•40m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What does self-organizing notes mean to you?

1•tofficer•7mo ago
I keep spotting new PKM tools pitching self-organizing notes. Their product promise goes something like this:

“Just capture anything—no folders, no tags. Our AI will sort it out so you can spend less time filing and more time using your ideas.”

On paper that sounds magical…but what does “self-organizing” actually look like in practice?

- Which tasks should the organizing AI own? Detecting topics? Linking related ideas? Summarizing? Something else?

- Where does human intent still matter? Do you ever want to nudge or correct the system, or should it be invisible?

- What outputs feel genuinely helpful? Daily digests? Knowledge graphs? Smart search results?

- How do we judge success? Is it faster retrieval, serendipitous discovery, reduced cognitive load... or just a vibe?

- What’s gone wrong for you so far? Messy auto-tags, broken hierarchies, “smart” suggestions that weren’t so smart?

I’m curious to hear real-world experiences, wish-lists, pet peeves, dream features. Anything that moves the conversation beyond marketing copy. How would you define a note system that “organizes itself,” and what would convince you it’s the real deal?

Comments

keizo•7mo ago
I've been working on a roam research replacement for myself for almost 3 years now. And initially, my main thought with self-organizing notes was to tag things automatically. And use ai for retrieval. Generally I avoid ai from 'touching' your notes. But 'breaking apart' a single note with ai is something i think about doing. But haven't done yet. Either way, i always want human in the loop. Given this is hn i'm sure you're working on your own solution, but feel free to check out my project! :) https://grugnotes.com