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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:08AM (#48357861)
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD

Résumé/CV: https://nowack.dev/cv.pdf

Email: max.nowack[at]mailbox.org

Full-stack engineer with 16+ years of software development experience, including ~9 years building B2B SaaS products as a technical co-founder / lead engineer. Strongest in TypeScript/React/Node.js and pragmatic product/system architecture, with ownership across product, backend, frontend and infrastructure. I also created SignalDB, an open-source local-first database with 600+ GitHub stars.

Re:Native Instant Space Switching on macOS on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:22PM (#47711034)
Honestly, this animation in one of the best things about spaces in macOS. I use the four finger gesture to switch spaces all the time and it make the spaces feature so much more natural than all other window managers I’ve used before
Nice Idea! I noticed a bug during contact import. The month of birthdays are shifted -1 :)
Re:Apple, What Have You Done? on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:10AM (#46763789)
That would be awesome
Re:Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:23AM (#45027871)
A few years ago, I did the same and started unsubscribing from newsletters as soon as they arrived. Now I keep only emails in my inbox that require action - everything else I archive or delete.
Re:Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT on Friday August 22, 2025 @03:55PM (#44989083)
I had "Use always two space tab size" because I was tired of long tab widths when code was returned. However, even when it wasn't about programming, I was reminded that the tab size would be two spaces ...
Re:Building an AI Server on a Budget on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:25AM (#44222171)
Did you not use any thermal paste at all, or did you just forget to mention it in your post?
Re:Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server - AirPlay to an iOS Device on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @08:29AM (#44180029)
What a pity! Thanks for replying anyway! :)
Re:Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server - AirPlay to an iOS Device on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @08:03AM (#44179798)
I‘m thinking about an app on the watch, that acts as an airplay (video) receiver, so I can stream and watch videos on my wrist while cooking
Nice work! Do you think that it is possible to port this to watchOS?
Re:Sora is here on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:50PM (#42369187)
Is there information when it will be available in other countries, like Germany for example?
You're totally right. I just quickly scanned the readme and had expected a tool that only check the files. But yes, it's a bad idea in general to run random cli programs without checking them in detail
You should switch the default to not delete any files and modify/remove the files only with some flag (--dry-run=false, --rm, --delete, etc). I just deleted all files accidentally in a monorepo :D Luckily I didn't had any uncommitted changes and could recover using git

Show HN: New Sync Engine of SignalDB

https://signaldb.js.org/sync/

Hi HN!I’m excited to announce the release of the new sync engine for SignalDB. This feature is designed to make data synchronization more efficient and flexible, whether you’re building offline-first apps or need reliable syncing with remote servers.Key features include:* Centralized SyncManager: Manage all collections’ sync from one place.* Backend-Agnostic: Works with REST, GraphQL, and...

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Re:Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell on Thursday July 04, 2024 @08:31AM (#40874378)
I love this podcast!
Re:Coding Machines on Saturday May 04, 2024 @05:13PM (#40260327)
Crazy episode. Thanks for this really thrilling story!
Seems like there are some XSS vulnerabilities :D
Re:Stop building databases on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:55PM (#38493708)
I'm trying to achieve something similar with SignalDB: https://signaldb.js.org/ It uses signals for reactivity and is framework agnostic with a mongodb-like query syntax
Re:OpenAI API Is Down on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:30AM (#38191795)
It seems that they have a major outage: https://status.openai.com/
Re:Show HN: SignalDB – Reactive Local JavaScript Database on Monday October 23, 2023 @09:27AM (#37985286)
The design is heavily inspired by Minimongo. I used Meteor extensively in the past, but since moving away from it, I've missed the simplicity of reactive data handling on the client-side through Minimongo. Now that signals have regained popularity, I've begun developing SignalDB as a versatile alternative that can be integrated with any framework, not just Meteor

Show HN: SignalDB – Reactive Local JavaScript Database

https://github.com/maxnowack/signaldb

SignalDB is a local JavaScript database with a MongoDB-like interface and TypeScript support, enabling optimistic UI with signal-based reactivity across multiple frameworks. It integrates easily with libraries like Angular, Solid.js, Preact, and Vue, simplifying data management with schema-less design, in-memory storage, and fast queries.

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