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nik736··on Ask HN: SPA vs. SSR in 2024?
2024 is soo last year :)
nik736··on Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres
The readme assumes users with darkmode outweigh users without (the logo is white, invisible without darkmode). Would be interesting to see stats from Github for this!
nik736··on Why does Britain feel so poor?
Not in Germany ;-)
nik736··on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
I agree, but Numbers is sooo slow! When opening a huge file it is unusable.
nik736··on Ask HN: Why pay for Cloud Hosting if I can just use Cloudflare Tunnels for free?
This concept is not new. What people also miss is that you can simply rent dedicated servers instead of going with AWS. Often times the cloud only gets compared to colo, but renting dedicated servers is actually way cheaper and you still don't have to care about hardware, power, networking, etc.
nik736··on Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers
Well usually there is an about us page, or you know some kind of legal details which company I am buying from.
nik736··on Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers
Who is behind this project?
nik736··on Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?
Can you explain why VAT MOSS is such an issue? It saved me a lot of time so it was actually quite useful.
nik736··on Laravel Cloud
Where is it hosted at?
nik736··on Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
Most other AX models (AX42, AX52 and AX102) also have serious reliability issues, where they will fail after some months. They are based on a faulty motherboard. Hetzner has to replace most, if not all, motherboards for servers built before a certain date over the next 12 months [0]

[0] https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/general-info...

nik736··on Ask HN: Would you make every country have a wealth tax like Sweden used to
There is already such a thing as capital gains taxes, which would tax rentier income. Most rich people become incredibly wealthy by taking risks, a lot of risks ordinary people don't want to take. So why do you want to take something from those people?

Instead of taxing successful people additionally with a wealth tax, how about creating new opportunities so there are more wealthy people that pay regular taxes, have employees that pay taxes and so on.

The definition of hard work has nothing to do with a wealth tax. But let's play that game; is it more stressful to lead a company 24/7 and make sure your employees get their paycheck even during bad or turbulent times or simply showing up 9-5 as a dishwasher?

nik736··on Ask HN: Would you make every country have a wealth tax like Sweden used to
Depending on how the wealth tax is structured the "wealth" is most likely aready taxed, so there is no reason to tax it again. People have worked hard for their already taxed money.
nik736··on Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
Is it possible to send Webhooks to specific channels of an Ergo/any other IRC server?
nik736··on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for
Elaborate complex workflows please. And as if Mac users don't have complex workflows :)
nik736··on Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
Do you have a source for this? My last info was they rented space in an existing data center.
nik736··on Ask HN: Why did K8s win against Docker Swarm?
I don't think Swarm Mode failed. We are using it in production for 1000s of Hosts very reliably, it's a great piece of technology! :-)

K8s simply has all the hype and no one got fired for running k8s. I was thinking the same as you, k8s is quite complex, has a lot of options and moving parts which we don't need.

nik736··on Pg_analytics has switched to PostgreSQL license
Off topic but the designer who came up with that logo is a genius! :-)
nik736··on Show HN: Microsoft Teams Ticketing System – Ticketing as a Service
Yes, also when typing fast it somehow removes the first or last character sometimes which is really annoying! Skype doesn't have this issue.
nik736··on AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
Why not? It's ECC RAM and a server grade motherboard. The only downside is 1 PSU, but you can buy 10x the amount of servers compared to AWS :-)
nik736··on AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
No, it's at least 4x cheaper.
nik736··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
Only 62,7% of the trains were in time (and by in time they use a rigged system to count what is in time and what is not). So it's basically a 50% chance if you will be delayed at your destination or in time. Also note, that if you have to change trains mid travel you have that chance again. That means you will be late very very often. If you travel as an individual and you don't value your time at all this is a great deal, if you travel for business purposes good luck to you.

Apart from that, it's a lot more stressful (and time consuming) to go to a train station and leave at a train station instead of just driving by car.

nik736··on Help Needed: Programmatic Email Creation and Management with Custom SMTP Server
I am running Dovecot and Postfix in production for decades now. Both are stable and reliable.
nik736··on Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
How is it more privacy respecting when it's sending stuff to OpenAI servers?
nik736··on Meta's Hack (HHVM) language appears to be no longer maintained
Is the HHVM still in use at Facebook? Or did PHP catch up?
nik736··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Do you have some examples?
nik736··on Schedule Email API
Slightly off topic but the trend where websites are completely BLACK, even though I don't have dark mode on makes me quit them instantly. It's hard on my eyes, maybe it's my screen, maybe it's my eyes but I have a hard time reading it.
nik736··on Ask HN: What's new being done with P2P?
Does anyone have experience with P2P Livestreaming via WebRTC? Is it reliable?
nik736··on Making Machines Move
I know. It's called hot swapping. But what I meant is the size. Having 6x 3.84 TB NVMe in an existing raid array and wanting to upgrade to 6x 7.68 TB is possible but not as straight forward.
nik736··on Making Machines Move
Am I the only one seeing a lot of advantages with local storage? I don't think it's idiosyncratic at all – that's how DigitalOcean became the company it is today, with simple local storage VMs.

The performance of local NVMes is way better, it is more predictable and you don't have to factor in latency, bandwidth, network issues, bottlenecks and more. Redundancy can be achieved with a multi host setup, so even if the host fails the underlying application or database is not impacted.

The one disadvantage I can see is that you can't "scale"/change the underlying disks. The disks you bought when setting up the server are probably there to stay.

nik736··on Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
The drag and drop part is not working for me, Firefox, macOS. I can click on the elements on the left and they will pop up, but I am not able to drag them onto the email.
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