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Re:Select * from Internet.blogposts on Friday August 28, 2026 @09:50AM (#49478469)
I think for any kind of widespread adoption we're a couple of decades out regarding feasibility. The problem for managing your own thing is not necessarily the usability of current software (although that too), but education of the masses regarding technology.

It'd be great if schools taught foundations like how the internet works (not in-depth, but basics like what a server is) and how to create your own server. People would get gradually less afraid of technology and that'd enable systems like this.

As it stands, people are just more comfortable using walled gardens because their data is managed for them and they don't bear any responsibility for it.

Re:TypeScript 7.0 RC on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:47AM (#48595223)
Been using tsgo for months and unfortunately had many random crashes, the speedup made it worth it though. Looking forward to try the release candidate.
Re:OneDrive data now has an expiry date on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:04AM (#48457127)
Besides the OneDrive hate here, this doesn't seem that newsworthy? It reads like the storage of users that have their license revoked will be deleted. Which is how I'd expect the service to work. If anything, it's weird that their files were kept.
Re:OneDrive data now has an expiry date on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:00AM (#48457098)
There are actually really good free backup solutions, like https://kopia.io/ Tried a couple of paid ones first because I didn't know about them, but this is even better
Re:Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:15PM (#47852385)
It sounds like the same workflow that GitButlers UI has. Can anyone with more knowledge than me confirm or deny that?

Show HN: Free tool to create and edit blogrolls (with bells and whistles)

https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/blogroll-editor

Hi!Blogrolls are a cool way to share interesting feeds, be it the ones you follow personally or topic-specific collections. The existing editors I found were really basic, basically just textboxes.I attempted to create one that's easier to use and includes more features.If that contributes to blogrolls being more used in the future I'm happy to have done something. That's something I'd love to...

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Re:Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:50AM (#46495981)
I wrote an article about the different kinds of feed readers and listing a bunch, maybe that's useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-reader-deep-dive
This may be because most feed readers don't have a proper way to triage items. Adding a feed doesn't mean you want to read everything from said feed. Usually only a subset of articles are interesting.

I built a feed reader with that concept in mind, having a separate triage stage where you only decide if it's worth reading or not. This will make it easier to handle large feed lists and find the best articles from them.

https://lighthouseapp.io/

Re:Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive? on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:20PM (#46318109)
> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

Many sites have rss, it‘s just not advertised as much as it was some years ago. I built a feed finder tool that goes far beyond rss autodiscover, it might be useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

And an article how it works: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds

Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:16AM (#46158733)
It's back!
Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:01AM (#46158391)
I'm just realizing how much we depend on Cloudflare working. Every service I use is unreachable. Even worse than last time. It's almost impossible to do any work atm.

Show HN: Textwave – Versioning for Documents (free, local-only document editor)

https://textwaveapp.com/

What is Textwave?Textwave is a browser-based document editor. All data is stored in the browser (local storage and IndexedDB). Currently it's a side-project for me. The main differentiator is the version system. Typical editors only have one list of versions. Going back from version 5 to version 2, editing something, and creating a new version, appends to the list as version 6. Textwave's...

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Re:Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck on Saturday July 26, 2025 @05:37AM (#44692722)
If that happens with other websites too, you can also use feed finder tools like https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder
Re:Ask HN: Does an RSS-based Read-It-Later service exist? on Thursday July 24, 2025 @02:47AM (#44667704)
I developed Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/) where you can do something similar.

It's an RSS feed reader, and there's a browser extension with which you can add articles to your library directly. You can of course also add articles manually in the web UI.

If I understood you correctly this may be what you're looking for.

Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:47PM (#44066042)
A bunch of alternatives were already mentioned. If you’re looking for an rss feed reader that can also save links directly, Lighthouse[1] may be an option.

[1]: https://lighthouseapp.io/

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:55AM (#43820998)
Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/) - a different take on RSS readers, focusing on inbox zero

RSS readers show content based on the feed they're coming from, and show read and unread items in the same list. That makes it difficult to know which items you've already seen, and is especially annoying for managing items that you want to read at some point but not anytime soon.

Lighthouse splits it into Inbox (new items) and Library (bookmarked items). This makes it possible to process new items quickly, and take your time with reading them.

Re:Ask HN: Do you have RSS on your site? on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:55AM (#43780583)
Often RSS feeds are not even in the page's metadata. There are tools that can help find them, basically by trying out common suffixes for feeds.

One such tool is https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

(Disclaimer: I'm the developer)

Re:I gave up on self-hosted Sentry on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:23AM (#43735029)
HyperDX is a great alternative to Sentry, much easier to self-host, and also open source.

It's relatively new and did take some tinkering to make it work properly, so I wrote a short article about it: https://weberdominik.com/blog/self-host-hyperdx

But the feature set and user experience is great!

That all depends on how much time you have. Also, WordPress and other software create RSS feeds by default, so many people don't even know their website has a feed.
It's nice that people care about RSS and add tools for it!

Btw if you want to improve the feed finding, here's an article that lists a bunch of ways for finding them even if they're not linked in the html metadata.

https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds

Show HN: Blogroll editor, with built-in email to RSS support

https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/blogroll-editor

I developed an editor for blogrolls, you can try it out here: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/blogroll-editorThe basic idea is that you can create a list of blogs and newsletters (via email to RSS) and then export it to an OPML file, which you or others can use to import the list in their favorite feed reader.Recently I’ve seen it more and more that people publish blogrolls on their...

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