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Absolutely. There are many lightweight services that would fit. The rule of thumb is to look for something written in a native language that doesn't need to process a huge amount of data.
Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:00AM (#50349674)
It's always the monorepo people who hit git performance issues. I wonder why
Tangential but TierHive looks to be doing great work. You can get a VPS from them for about a couple of dollars a year.

It's not going to be powerful (128MB of RAM 1GB of storage) but if you run Alpine or NetBSD you can use it as a WireGuard peer, to host a small Website or to run some cron jobs.

Nice experiment. Also a reminder that while you can buy a speed up with better hardware looking for a better algorithm usually gives higher rewards.
Re:$48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:15AM (#50339015)
Kudos to Seeed Studio for not tying the hardware to a software ecosystem. That's how it should always be
Nice project but the writing smells so much of LLM that I didn't manage to finish the article
Re:Show HN: UK Farming Simulator on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:17AM (#50288514)
It could have told me that the game doesn't work on mobile before downloading all the assets

Ask HN: What YouTube channels should I let my kids watch?

Left to their own devices my kids would watch all day people playing Minecraft/Roblox or YouTubers doing questionable channels.I'm not too keen on that and I already limit a lot of what they can watch.I am so close to banning YouTube in general but I know it also has good channels. Do you have any favourite channel for primary school kids?

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Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:27PM (#50278614)
Depends on what you mean with "it runs". Does it boot? Probably. Can you use your WiFi adapter or graphics card? Probably not
Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:25AM (#50270614)
I use plain WireGuard. My use case is very simple: I have a server and a few clients (phone, laptop) I want to connect to the server when I'm away. I don't care to have VPN connectivity between my phone and laptop
Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:23AM (#50270606)
What's the advantage of adding a VPS to the mix?
Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:36PM (#50265408)
I like Tailascale as a product but I decided to move my homelab to plain WireGuard.

I wasn't using any of the additional features, I can get away with exposing a port on my router and I am changing devices rarely.

News like this make me happy I removed a lot of complexity and attack surface

Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:49PM (#50200129)
Arc felt designed for the general public, Dia feels very much designed for a project manager that spends all of its day in web applications.

Even the login screen asked for “your work email”…

Re:NixOS is making me less afraid on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:42PM (#50171613)
Do you request a version tag or a hash? In principle Docker tags are mutable
Re:NixOS is making me less afraid on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:40PM (#50171595)
I’ve never used it but https://trynix.dev/ should allow you to find the versions of nixpkgs with specific versions of a set of packages
Re:NixOS is making me less afraid on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:33PM (#50171514)
It can. For instance I have a flake where I define all of my machines, share some confit between them and have clearly defined customisation points.

Form that configuration I can build everything on one of my machines and push the builds to the others. Or each machine can do its own builds.

Have a look at projects like NixOps or Colmena to see some more automation on top of standard builds targeting other machines.

I have a Kobo Clara Color. I like the product but colors are mostly a gimmick. Useful for the occasional chart and for books cover and that’s pretty much it.

Don’t expect iPad quality color, they’re very washed out.

I think a dedicated e-reader is a great choice (I only read books, not comics or other graphics heavy documents) but for that grayscale would be more than enough and color is an extra.

I would recommend you to go to a store and have a look live at a color eink screen to get a feel for what they offer.

Re:Submarine Cable Resilience on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:49PM (#50095006)
I found https://smc.peering.tw/ fascinating. It shows an up to date status of submarine links to Taiwan and you can see many of them are having outages. Even more interesting is the historical view showing that the system operates in an always partly degraded regime
Re:Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:26AM (#50085304)
> our Git monorepo was developing an annoying problem

Sentences like this are so common from people using monorepos that I am convinced they actually introduce more problems than they solve

Re:Leaving Tech on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:04AM (#50068292)
The reality is that there is a huge fracture at the middle of the market. On the one side companies want people to go to an office and struggle to find good people. On the other side good people want to work remote and struggle to find good companies.

My email and LinkedIn are as full as ever with recruiters trying to hire me for positions I’m not really excited about. At my workplace (FAANG) we get tons of applications but very few of them are any good. When I apply to remote roles I can’t get an offer because I am competing with hundreds of other applicants and companies can pick someone with the exact expertise they’re looking for.

Re:Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:03PM (#50058383)
Are people actually looking for vibe-coded alternatives?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:55PM (#50008350)
So the exact same person working within the US, even better if sitting in an office, is a good employee but if they're working from abroad all of a sudden they're not that good?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:38AM (#50007149)
You know who doesn't need visas? Remote workers
Re:Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:20PM (#49998268)
Sure. Should I also pay rent for my desk at the office?
Re:What Meta Got Right with Muse on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:07AM (#49954544)
> I’d guess another team is probably tasked at researching a E2E encrypted remote inference mechanism where the personal data that does get out of the iPhone/ipad/Mac is encrypted with something Secure Enclave on processor, and “even Apple can’t read it”..

That’s already in production. Look for Apple Private Cloud Compute

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