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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:05AM (#45874005)
This is bloody good
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @12:37AM (#45564715)
This is impressive, inspirational.
Re:A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code on Friday May 09, 2025 @08:49AM (#43936153)
I wish these tools like Cursor, Windsurf etc. provide free option for working with open source projects, after all they trained their models via open source code.
Re:The History of S.u.S.E on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:07PM (#43051196)
I worked there for a few years during the Novell/Attachmate management. They had a strong bias towards the kernel teams and engineers. They had an european work culture and some very good leads. Their Engineers were very good. The internal mailing lists were ripe with technical discussions. Got some amazing friends and inspirational engineers with whom I would love to work again.

However, There were infighting between the GNOME and KDE desktop teams. The VPs were mostly overpaid and practically useless. The constant churn of acquisition, looking for a new buyer, etc. did not help their long term cause.

With the older system software (kernels, compilers, etc) and infra layer getting commoditized I wonder how long they may remain relevant. When they brought in a new CEO and acquired Rancher I hoped that they may recover with K8S etc, but the CEO has quit and the acquisition has not done much it seems. Until they remove some dinosaurs from the old management at VP levels, I honestly do not see any recovery for them. Thumbs up for the Engineering (and leads) and heavy thumbs down for the Management, is how I remember my time there.

Congrats on the launch. I have a golang backend, postgres db and a react app. I have added auth using email, password salting and saving in pg. It was about 1 day of work to implement all of this.

I do not have OAuth or SAML however. Is that the differentiating factor, if I have to use your solution ? Is a basic auth setup such a complex thing to handroll ourselves ? I do not intend to be snide but genuinely curios about it. Incorporating your project, its lifecycle management, etc. seems more work than implementing a 3-4 APIs (/signup /signin /verify-email /forgot-password /reset-password) and a periodic job (trigger emails and stuff). Is it so complex that we should bring in a new dependency with its own deployment, backup, monitoring etc. lifecycle management ?

Re:Lessons from my third year running a SaaS on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:21AM (#39489819)
Why would the hetzner vm fail the uptime tests randomly ? Did you investigate it ? Could it be some kind of DDOS prevention on Hetzner ?
Re:Why is Prettier rock solid? on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @04:26AM (#39439366)
Prettier was inspired by gofmt.

But I really wish gofmt gets inspired by prettier and automatically breaks long (80+ columns) lines into smaller lines (For example, move parameters of a long function each into their row).

Re:JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:44AM (#36134901)
> If you hillary your emails

LOL

I recently bought a home and had to spend a lot of time with a professional interior designer to explain the interior ideas that I had in my head. However, I was not fully satisfied with the video model, that the designer prepared, as there were problems in conveying my vision.

I so wish that I had your website a few months back. It is quite nice. This understands what I want clearly, and helps me play with various options almost instantly. If one has worked with some of the outdated interior modelling tools, they will understand what slowness pain, I am referring to.

Re:Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:57AM (#33831271)
Offtopic: I just looked through your website and I am so mighty impressed by you. Huge respects.
Re:SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:04AM (#31917588)
What stops you from running postgres on the same vm/machine as your app ?! You avoid the network and reap all the benefits of the NVMe storage.
Re:Zitadel: The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:03PM (#31412655)
Look at ory.sh tools
Re:Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:39AM (#31258676)
We tried using keycloak in a startup where I worked. It needed a loooooooot of memory and was very slow to start. It probably needed some JVM tuning, but we were just deploying as a stateful set (for the postgres). The docker images were also huge.

We had to use another FOSS project called Gatekeeper as an authentication software along with keycloak, which got obsoleted and replaced with a different project (lukedo proxy or some such).

The community support was also relatively not that active like other FOSS project that we used (for other areas of the stack). Overall, the experience was not so great that we decided to ditch both keycloak and gatekeeper. This was about a couple of years back. Not sure what the current status is.

Some other alternatives that we wanted to try were from the Ory project (Kratos etc.) But we just went with some proprietary AUTH solution in our startup.

Ask HN: Which API framework for rapid application development?

I want to start a hobby project which needs to have as less development time as possible. I would want social media login (sign up via email, fb, google accounts, etc.), user management, connecting to a posgres (or even sqlite) db, deployments (perhaps to a paas like cloudrun, heroku, aws beanstalk etc.), db migrations etc. all already automated. If there is some automation for the API body and...

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Re:The Framework Laptop is now shipping on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:46AM (#27927312)
Please make full sized keys for up and down arrows, with the arrow keys in an inverted T shape. Group function keys in groups of four.

Also provide Mac style keyboard if possible with a command key. I use mac keyboard because it is safer on wrists and thumbs.

All the best.

Absolutely not. We use pepper in every meal while cooking. Omeletes, Chutney, Sambar, Pongal. In fact I do not remember a single day where I had food without Pepper and Cumin mixed in some form.

Ask HN: What is the biggest monolithic app in a VM/baremetal?

There are plenty of debates and talks about monolithic vs microservices touting the benefits of each. Most such talks seem to indicate that monolithic apps scale badly. By that they probably mean horizontal scaling && developers/teams scaling, but we have good options for vertical scaling these days via monstrous VMs with high RAM/CPU from almost all cloud providers.What is the biggest...

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Nice handle.
Re:An Unlikely Database Migration on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:32AM (#25773710)
This comment helped me understand the problem and the solution better (along with a few followup tweets by the tailscale engineers). Thanks.
Re:Repairability on Monday December 28, 2020 @10:26PM (#25566418)
Because Apple does not have their own service centers in India. It has been outsourced, sub-contracted again to mulitple layers that any meaningful repair/service is impossible in India.
https://twitter.com/yadav_monica/status/1292047281676382210 is another instance where a teacher from India used a smartphone and a refrigerator tray for sharing hand-written notes. I believe that this would give more clarity than the surface area of the CD.
Thanks :) I appreciate your good intent. But at this stage of life, job and financial status, I cannot afford to work lesser. May be things would become easier in a couple of years.

Ask HN: Recommendations for a ergonomic setup after Covid related work-from-home

I have been working from home for the last six months or so, since the COVID related shutdowns began. I have been having terrible hand, shoulder and upper-back pain since then. It has increased to an extent that my productivity is getting affected.The right thumb (used for the mouse), the right wrist, the shoulders are the one that pain the most. Sometime I feel like I cannot even use the...

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Re:Google to Invest $10B in India on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:15PM (#23834735)
> the Indian equivalent of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is "Kaun Banega Crorepati"

The North Indian equivalent is called so. Atleast, In TN we have our own version of the show, based on the same "Crore" denomination but not thus called.

Re:SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:01AM (#23778277)
Ex-SUSE engineer here. Without a doubt SUSE is the best place that I have worked for in my career of 15+ years, across multiple companies.

They are neither mediocre nor a behemoth. They have some excellent engineers. SUSE has worked on Ceph even before RedHat acquired Ceph. OBS and SUSE Studio had envisioned containers even before the market was ready. SUSE has some prime contributors for Linux kernel, GCC, Linux HA etc. Greg KH was a SUSE employee once, before moving to linux foundation. Technologically, they are far from mediocre.

In my personal experience, SUSE always felt that they had good engineers but somehow lacked the sense of making enterprise sales or generating postive news. The company being head-quartered in EU and not in California may also be a reason for the lack of the news. During my times, they were going through multiple rounds of acquisitions and nothing was stable in the vision of the company. The SUSE management did not feel like a Behemoth because they were trying to satisfy their investors in Novell, Microfocus, etc.

Plenty. They even blocked github once because (do not laugh) some people used it to share pirated movie links.

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