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Re:Build your own decision model on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:34AM (#50041331)
Nice read! I also gave a shot building one on Gemma3 and Gemma4. It was a fun exercise. I’m sharing it if anyone interested, Gemma4 based one is on a branch: https://github.com/onatm/gev
Re:Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:36AM (#48935995)
I haven’t put too much thought into this yet. A "branch" depth threshold is the first thing that comes to mind, with RBD flattening as an option once that threshold is reached.
Re:Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:28AM (#48935890)
The performance definitely sucks but it's not a really serious project. I wouldn't use something like Homescale for using facing products.
Re:Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:26AM (#48935866)
It was a good read. I also worked on a similar product that used zfs instead of Ceph.

Also, as you said, Homescale is a lot closer to Xata. It all started as a joke and the name stuck.

Re:Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:28AM (#48935078)
I am not sure where you think I claimed it'll be "easy and quick". Do you really think building a system on top of k8s internals and Ceph is something that everybody can pull off?.
Re:Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:19AM (#48934164)
It's far from complete. This is just the infrastructure bit that I need to build the actual service. I am going to build an operator, a coordinator, an API and a CLI. I am going to continue writing posts while building them.
Re:Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:13AM (#48934059)
I hope they'll enjoy reading it.
Re:Phonicorn: A self-hosted phonics flashcard app for kids practice wo... on Saturday June 06, 2026 @04:02PM (#48428465)
Hey HN, I vibe-coded a small self-hosted phonics flashcard app for my daughter this afternoon. She has an "exam" next week based on the words in the data folder. If your kids struggle with phonics, you can use this too: generate word lists with any LLM, drop them into the data folder, and follow the README.

Show HN: Snapbyte – personalized email digests from HN/Reddit/Lobsters

Posted by onatm on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:58PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://snapbyte.dev

Creator here. I built Snapbyte because I stopped having the time/energy to browse Hacker News / Reddit / Lobsters / Devto regularly, but I still wanted to keep up with things worth reading. Snapbyte collects posts from multiple tech communities, filters them based on your interests, summarises them, and sends you a personalised email digest on a schedule you choose.You can try it without...

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Show HN: Snapbyte – personalized email digests from HN/Reddit/Lobsters

Posted by onatm on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:10PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://snapbyte.dev

Creator here. I built Snapbyte because I stopped having the time/energy to browse Hacker News / Reddit / Lobsters / Devto regularly, but I still wanted to keep up with things worth reading.Snapbyte collects posts from multiple tech communities, filters them based on your interests, summarises them, and sends you a personalised email digest on a schedule you choose.You can try it without...

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Re:Why I Built My Own Kubernetes Cluster on Hetzner Cloud on Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:09AM (#46097794)
I updated the title.
Re: on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:32AM (#45653384)
This looks great though I like TUIs more. I’ve been using https://github.com/idursun/jjui for the last few months, I highly recommend it if you are a TUI person like me.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:22PM (#36607341)
https://onatm.dev

It's been a while since the last entry but I got some interesting low level stuff there

- https://onatm.dev/2019/04/05/anatomy-of-a-hack-assembly-prog... - https://onatm.dev/2019/04/07/anatomy-of-a-hack-assembly-prog...

and this one is my fav piece: https://onatm.dev/2020/08/10/let-s-implement-a-bloom-filter/

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