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* Mirror my Github repos (in case GH goes down or closes my account) * Serve my small website (just HTML files using Nginx) * Monitor other applications (and hits a URL when they fail) * Occasionally use it as a WeTransfer alternative (just uploading files into the WWW directory with an obscure name)
Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:23AM (#49975701)
And example.net!
Nice!

Cool idea for you:

Have one of the widgets as a photo album.

Upload some images, or maybe connect to a Google Drive folder.

Then every day it shows a family photo! :)

Re:Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:40AM (#49431617)
XMPP is great. You can own your whole stack with no commercial restrictions.

If you're coming from Slack, this plugin is a game changer:

https://modules.prosody.im/mod_slack_webhooks

sudo prosodyctl install --server=https://modules.prosody.im/rocks/ mod_slack_webhooks

Re:Berd on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:49AM (#49358820)
This website is not very user friendly. Huge amount of assets to load, an unclear product, and a visually distracting experience.
Re:LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @04:12AM (#49269245)
Amazing. The hall of fame section is hilarious!
Re:Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:23AM (#49120857)
I don't want this. It's too complicated.

Plus it's vendor lock in.

Give it time. Soon you'll only be able to push using Github's CLI.

Re:Ask HN: Is Zig worth it over Rust in 2026? on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:58AM (#49069812)
Worth it for what?

The "what" is important.

Re:Ancient Roman Board Game on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:49PM (#48899372)
Neat, but this game seems too simple. I think AI has missed a core gameplay mechanic.

There needs to be something to stop a deadlock. Like an element of luck for the hares?

Neat as a pet project, but anyone thinking of using this is production is insane.

Rewriten in Rust is becoming a meme now.

Re:Resetting Xbox on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:55AM (#48816049)
Too little too late. Xbox is dying and PS won.

Try listening to your customers next time.

We don't want to be ripped off with paying for assets we don't own.

We don't want another monthly subscription.

We want the old games, remastered, with fully functioning multiplayer.

Re:The new HTTP QUERY method explained on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:44AM (#48642130)
We should have just added optional body support for GET requests.

So much simpler...

Re:Ask HN: Conflicted about founding engineer role on Friday June 19, 2026 @09:45AM (#48598521)
The cofounders will not put your priorities first. Their only goal is to make money for themselves. They will axe you if they feel like it.

They are not hiring a founding engineer because they want to do something nice. They've probably realised this path is cheaper than hiring an external software development company.

Don't think for a second that you will be an equal in this relationship. You will be at their beck and call. You will be forced to write bad code to get early sales.

You'll get paid less to do more. I would stay where you are.

Re:Mechanical Watch on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:02AM (#48556360)
What a brilliant resource.

I think this should be used in schools.

Really easy to understand and instantly captivating.

Please do more topics!!! :)

Two things jump to mind:

1. The best product rarely wins. As much as it pains me, marketing and sales matter more than product. Your competitors are likely better at marketing and selling themselves and their product.

2. It's a bit cliche, but look into the candy, vitamin, and painkiller theory. Your product is not a painkiller and I suspect it's a candy. Candies are very very hard to make a successful business from.

But, I wish you the best of luck. :)

Re:C++: The Documentary on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:19AM (#48409555)
Thank you for releasing this for free! :)
Re:Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:22AM (#48399093)
The reality is that SaaS is hard to sell these days. It's not 2010 any more, the gold rush is over.

That's not to say it's impossible, but it's so much harder than 15 years ago.

Everyone and their dog is starting a SaaS. Very few are selling them. And almost no one is turning one into a job.

The people who are self employed by their SaaS started them 5 years ago.

Get a job, support your family, and protect your mental health.

Re:Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years on Thursday June 04, 2026 @04:22AM (#48395757)
Agreed. SQL has been one of the most stable and useful skills I have.

Rivalled only by Linux, shell scripts, and Cron!

Re:NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised on Monday June 01, 2026 @03:38PM (#48361591)
This is a solved problem.

Use HTTPS and use the integrity attribute.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

Also, what's more likely? Someone hacking jsDelivr/cdnjs OR some random NPM packages getting hacked?

Re:NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:35AM (#48357404)
The joke is on you NPM! I only use CDNs for my JS libraries.
Re:Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:32AM (#48306648)
> The god does not need to have a concept of human suffering

It does if it wants me to devote my life to worshipping it.

Re:Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:46AM (#48291467)
I don't subscribe to God.

Humans have been inventing gods since the beginning of time as a way to control/exploit the masses or soothe the over active mind.

There are thousands of dead religions, but this round of current popular religions has hit the nail on the head... right?

A truly powerful and kind super being would not allow child abuse, cancer, famine, or rape to happen. Even if there is a god, I don't want to worship something that allows those things to happen.

Also, the term god is relative. To an ant, we are gods. Any sufficiently advanced being would appear god like to us. Should ants worship us given how little we care about them?

For every moment of beauty that must prove God's existence, there are an equal number of atrocities that must prove God's absence. We just don't see them as often, because humans hide that sort of stuff from polite society.

It's far more healthy to accept our mortality and short lifespan, packing it with things that make us happy. Masking your fears of death with a religion is a mistake.

Rather than devoting my life to worshipping something which may or may not reward me in the next life, I plan to spend my time doing and feeling positive things (because they feel good).

If I had to pick a religion, I think I'd choose Buddhism. It just seems like a good way to be peaceful.

Came here to say this. And you get access to lots of models!
Re:LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:23AM (#48132567)
Article doesn't make sense. Some of the "horizontally scaled" servers have their own state. A local cache, a temporary filesystem etc.

Also, has teh author never heard of long running queued jobs? Or long running scheduled jobs? They ultimately report back into the DB (updating their status etc).

This article reeks of someone using AI to make huge leaping jumps of logic. The "single source of truth" rule has survived this long for a reason. It works!

Recession signal.
Re:Batteries Included CLI Framework on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:33AM (#47948242)
What language(s) are you comfortable using?
Re:Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:59AM (#47873582)
Good, I wish them every success.

I hope this sets the trend for cars too.

I would happily buy a new car with a 2000s Japanese engine and no tech.

Re:GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @09:15AM (#47863147)
Remember that thing Microsoft does?

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

The first two have been done.

I give it five years before the GH CLI is the only way to interact with GitHub repos.

Then the third will also be done, and the cycle is complete.

Re:My adventure in designing API keys on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @05:20AM (#47776630)
Everything about this is over engineered. Just KISS.

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