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Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

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Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

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Post by vitalikpie »

ctxc wrote: post #9
vitalikpie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is :) No AI slop. I'm intentionally trying to write without LLM (my previous blog posts clearly disclose it).

(you mean it's _not_ AI generated)

Yeah this one is my attempt to write without LLMs rewriting my thoughts. P.S. Came to the decision after going through https://thebullshitmachines.com/

Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

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Post by vitalikpie »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #2

I used GNUCash years ago in Argentina while we had high inflation. Some operations were in local currency and other are Dollars. The currency exchange changing hourly. Tracking finance is a nightmare, since you basically need an exchange rate for every operation.

Lived through something like this after USSR collapsed and before Hryvnya was introduced. Boy I remember the bread cost - 10,000,000 :D

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Post by fbuilesv »

gostsamo wrote: post #3

Feels ai generated and waste of time to read even though the topic could be interesting.

I think English is not the first language of the author ("we are counting fingers and thumbs"?).

There's also a `Surprisingly written by a human :)` at the bottom.

Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

I would like to use finance tracking products like GNUCash. But I don't have the patience to download the csv for half a dozen accounts every month (Products like plaid are a no go from a basic security perspective). I am in Canada, and there seems to be no hope that I will have API access to my bank accounts anytime soon.

Also, did I mention how much it annoys me that the transaction description differs between the CSV and the PDF statement for pretty much all banks I use.

Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

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Post by gostsamo »

vitalikpie wrote: post #8
gostsamo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A true surprise if so, but still low in informational density and annoying to read.

huh, sorry I'm really bad at writing - this is one of my first attempts

Your title promises a story about the spanish traders. It does not deliver, but talks about 3 other different topics that I'm not interested in and jumping between them to test my nerves. If it is about the architecture of whatever you are doing, put the architecture in the title and don't make your title an offhand comment somewhere there. Fucked up clickbite.

Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

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Post by vitalikpie »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #15

I would like to use finance tracking products like GNUCash. But I don't have the patience to download the csv for half a dozen accounts every month (Products like plaid are a no go from a basic security perspective). I am in Canada, and there seems to be no hope that I will have API access to my bank accounts anytime soon. Also, did I mention how much it annoys me that the transaction description differs between the…

Agree. I wish banks have their APIs open. It's 2026 and we have OIDC.

But I used to actually pull the CSV once a week and feed it to GnuCash. It's pretty good at auto-categorization.

Also I simplified my finances to only a couple of checking accounts and only one credit account (for car rentals).

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Post by vitalikpie »

6LLvveMx2koXfwn wrote: post #16

I wonder if Hackernews ranking algorithm has been updated to exclude comments toing and froing about whether or not the article is LLM generated!

haha, true.

Thing is - I'm not a English speaker. But I chat a lot with Claude/ChatGPT - i feel like I'm picking the style from them unintentionally.

Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

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Post by phyzix5761 »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #15

I would like to use finance tracking products like GNUCash. But I don't have the patience to download the csv for half a dozen accounts every month (Products like plaid are a no go from a basic security perspective). I am in Canada, and there seems to be no hope that I will have API access to my bank accounts anytime soon. Also, did I mention how much it annoys me that the transaction description differs between the…

I simplified to just 2 accounts and I enter them manually twice a week. I keep a detailed budget so it helps to do it that frequently.
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