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Re:Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily? on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:33PM (#49748213)
* Kavita: eBooks and Comics

* Jellyfin: Movies and TV Shows

* Seafile: Hosting my private files

* AdGuard Home: DNS/Ad blocking for all my devices

* Vaultwarden: Passwords

* Immich: For my photos

* Plausible: Analytics

* Audiobookshelf: Audiobooks

* Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr + Transmission

* Radicale: Calendar + Contacts

* HedgeDoc: For my Markdown files

LLMs made it REALLY easy to setup a self hosting server and maintaining it. I literally use all of these now daily.

Re:It is important who teaches you on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:49PM (#49578920)
New link: https://bastiangruber.ca/posts/it-matters-who-teaches-you/
Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code on Sunday April 26, 2026 @02:18PM (#47912527)
Funny enough that this article is written with AI.
Re:Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:33PM (#47405223)
Does this mean their gaming GPUs are becoming less in demand, and therefore cheaper/more available again?

Ask HN: What are some good AI usage policies?

Posted by recvonline on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:37PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am looking into different AI usage policies in Open Source software.One good example is Ghostty: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.mdI just want to get inspired and get as much pros/cons as possible to form and write my own!

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Show HN: Workledger – Your offline first engineering notebook

Posted by recvonline on Thursday February 12, 2026 @01:03PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://workledger.org/

I saw this HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949814) and though to myself: I always wanted to start a proper Engineering notebook. And I didn't love any online version, and my handwriting is too slow and messy for taking notes during meetings.Well, after reading the comments, I built this in about 6h, and probably keep developing it further.It's Open Source as well.

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Re:Using an Engineering Notebook on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:11AM (#46990592)
Let's say.... 10 shot with Claude Code :) Initial app, then hand refined, Claude Code again...back and forth. Spend my morning doing it and it was fun. Very simple so far, want to clean it up and add more meaningful features.

EDIT: Also, turns out the in-browser Editor landscape got GOOD the last few years apparently. It's really just plug and play. I remember 5 years I tried to do this and it was painful.

Re:Using an Engineering Notebook on Thursday February 12, 2026 @10:47AM (#46990264)
Based on this thread, I decided to implement my best take on an online engineering notebook:

https://about.workledger.org/

All local first. Happy to get some contributors :)

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:34PM (#46626208)
bastiangruber.ca
Re:CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting on a home server easi... on Sunday January 11, 2026 @06:42PM (#46581781)
I started the same project end of last year and it’s true - having an LLM guide you through the setup and writing docs is a real game changer!

I just wish this post wasn’t written by an LLM! I miss the days where you can feel the nerdy joy through words across the internet.

Re:AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @10:50AM (#46376572)
I am using Claude 98% of the time, and using Zed as an IDE for it.
Re:Nvidia: WTF? (Subscription Computers?) [video] on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:15PM (#46356863)
GeForce Now is a pretty good deal for people who just want to play the “Game of the Year” titles without paying 2.5k for hardware they barely use and loose its value rapidly.

Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?

Posted by recvonline on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:10PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a long time Apple user, but their software keeps getting buggier, worse and I just want to switch. I moved all my data to self hosting solutions, so I all I need now is an Android phone which… is fun? Like Framework Computer fun.Are there still community based OSes out which I can flash onto a phone? Last time I had an Android phone was 2013.

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Re:AI Code assistants has made completing side projects so easy on Saturday December 20, 2025 @12:31PM (#46337854)
Same here! I built around 6 side projects this year! One literally in 1h which now serves my little community I living in (<5k people) everyday.

A fun side effects I got from this: Now I can see my ideas fully fleshed out, and realised that, a), most of these ideas are stupid and better solved by existing solutions , or b), that the code was never the problem but tweaking the UI or user facing part to really hone in the problem I am trying to solve!

Ask HN: How to get ChatGPT perform as well as Claude?

Posted by recvonline on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am using Claude AI for most of my daily tasks. I bounce ideas off, let it write an implementation I had thought of and quickly want to see how it would look like implemented etc.Mostly, 4-5 sentence prompts plus attaching the whole codebase is enough.Trying to use ChatGPT is a nightmare (I use o3 and the mini-high models). The same prompt doesnt perform at all. ChatGPT sometimes doesn’t even...

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Ask HN: Which framework/book to get started into GameDev?

Posted by recvonline on Saturday May 31, 2025 @06:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a seasoned engineer, worked up and down the stack (from mainframes to servers and frontends). I always liked playing games as well.I am looking for a new "hobby", or something I can continuously build and improve, without it being another web application.I can do Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript. A bit of C. But no C#, C++.I know of Unity, but I haven't find a clear: That's the path for a...

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Re:Chuuchuu - Train travel, made smart on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @05:45PM (#44110906)
I would be so curious how they got to the data!

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