# Lossless-memory

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Lossless-memory and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a personal AI memory that keeps full records, with useful versioned chronology. Caveat: relative time parsing is hardcoded for Japanese.

## Why people recommend it

- Clear design principles (2 comments): "The part I like most is the LLL rule: "the AI reads it; the human writes it."" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792036)) "The "never summarizes" choice matches what I've seen from the other side" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800697))

## What people warn about

- Will need other memory techniques (1 comments): "eventually you'll hit a wall where this doesn't work, and you have to add another memory technique" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790146))
- May break caching often (1 comments): "Seems like this would break the cache often." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791695))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Engrim](https://hackerapproved.com/p/engrim.md): 21 recommend
- [MemPalace](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mempalace.md): 9 recommend
- [Grov](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grov.md): 8 recommend
- [claude-mem](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-mem.md): 8 recommend
- [Letta](https://hackerapproved.com/p/letta.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Lossless-memory", https://hackerapproved.com/p/lossless-memory/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).