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Re:Hister – private, self hosted search engine on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:36PM (#49404102)
Do you plan on adding filterable tags to the ui? Rather than just metadata.
This is a special one, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the MIT Swapfest and the 30th anniversary of c-base's discovery.

September 28th 2025 12:00 to 17:00 at c-base

Show HN: Berlin Swapfest #2 – Electronics flea market (July 20th, 2025)

https://www.swapfest.berlin/?number=2

Hey again HN!After the success of the first swapfest we're happy to announce we're back for a second on July 20th, 2025 in Berlin at c-base.Thank you so much for all the kind words and an even bigger thank you to those who came through in person.We're excited to be hosting this event again and excited for the second.More details on the site!As requested, we've set up a bluesky account....

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Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:28AM (#43228795)
Update: https://bsky.app/profile/swapfest.berlin

We’ll be using this microsite for now for updates, but will likely spin up a bluesky account for the swapfest!

Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:26AM (#43228783)
It’s mainly to figure out how many people are coming!

We have limited space at c-base and I want to be respectful of their fire code!

Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:08PM (#43225593)
That’s where I got the idea! I was blown away at how cool that event was, I emailed with their team to get some tips for it as well.

The coolest part was someone brought a Gemini lander to sell!

Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:42PM (#43224620)
Thanks!

Yeah c-base crew was incredibly adamant about that, they used to have people leaving stuff there or bringing them electronics, they’ve got closets of switches.

As you said the deposit will handle it, worst case if someone brings a 19” rack that will be used to bring it to the tip

Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:41PM (#43224591)
That was our designers idea! Will pass on the nice words. Also will try to have someone taking photos to document it.

Our event person at c-base ligi also suggested to idea of having a small show and tell time permitting for really cool items that have a story to them.

Re:Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:39PM (#43224571)
I’m an English native with A2 German at best and have no troubles there!

A majority of events are in English there, one tonight was all in English as well.

Show HN: Berlin Swapfest, electronics flea market

https://www.swapfest.berlin/

Hey HN,After scrounging the local classifieds and our version of Craigslist to find pre-owned equipment and getting frustrated I decided that there needs to be a flea market but for electronics tools and homelab stuff. The Berlin Swapfest follows in the same spirit as the MIT Swapfest!I’ve partners with a long time hacker space in Berlin c-base who will be hosting this event!Would love for...

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Re:So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:14PM (#42744239)
y’all really need to open source that racking modeling tool, that would save sooooo many people so much time
Re:Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @06:49PM (#41304896)
Seems text color is driven by light / dark mode at the OS level, but the background color is not.
Set this up internally at my job, works great. Since LaunchDarkly didn't have any docs for this I thought I'd write a little post about it to hopefully help some other people!

Do front end engineers with ASP.NET, VB, React / Razor knowledge exist

Friend of mine is trying to hire for a role looking for a senior frontend engineer.They want the following:Skilled with ASP.NET, C#, and VB.As well the frontend side with aspx, js, Ajax, Razor, GraphQL, React and ts.My friend has chatted with numerous candidates and all of them with .NET experience do not do any frontend at all. Is this an impossible role to fill and needs to be two roles or...

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I've heard arguments in favour of this level of surveillance going a bit like;

"I have nothing to hide and I think this is a serious problem, so I'm okay with the EU scanning my messages if it helps fight CSAM"

And if you argue against in case of wanting privacy the counter-argument ends up being; "Do you think CSAM isn't a problem or you're on the side of the pedos?"

Don't see how to argue with a person who simply doesn't care about the right to privacy or these regulations being the first step to mass surveillance. I.e. like someone wrote "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse"

https://skiff.com/data-migration

I’m really upset about this, I was about to go all in on Skiff after being burnt by ProtonMail.

Glad I didn’t. Feel really bad for those who did.

Netlify-cms seems alright, deff pretty rough around the edges though. It could use some polish and some more features 100%