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Show HN: Shoebox – S3 API for your local filesystem

Posted by deepjoy on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:04AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/deepjoy/shoebox

I have 2TB of photos across a 6-drive btrfs array. External drives from 2004, NextCloud phone backups, scanned photos from the 80s. Some files duplicated 3 times across forgotten folders. Finding duplicates was always a weekend project that never happened.Then I realized: if an object store knows every file's content hash, duplicates are just a GROUP BY.Built a tool that serves local files via...

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Re:Claude Code CLI Broken on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:15PM (#46532929)
Recently came across a project on HN front page that was developed on Github with a public repo. https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown/graphs/contributors 2000 commits over 20 days +497K/-360K lines

I'm not affiliated with Claude or the project linked.

Re:Welcome to Gas Town on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:33PM (#46507242)
Not sure if anyone else noticed. The first commit on that repository was just about 3 weeks ago. https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown/commit/4c782bc59de8cba...

Has to be close for the shortest time from first commit to HN front page.

Re:Intel preferentially offers two customers Skylake Xeon CPUs on Saturday November 26, 2016 @11:03AM (#13044254)
"New generation server parts significantly reduce operating costs and without a huge price rise, they will also drop TCO more than a little"

Looking at some outside evaluations of their capex, it does not seem to represent a significant drop since CPU cost is only a tiny part of operating a datacenter.

http://continuance.co/revisiting-capex/

Re:Your Best Work Will Be Invisible on Friday November 25, 2016 @10:41PM (#13041607)
“Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it.” – Jared Spool