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niux··on Show HN: Pi and Ghostty Running on Cloudflare Workers
This very likely is against Cloudflare ToS
niux··on Show HN: QueryPad – I got tired of opening Python just to query a CSV
Wow this looks very sexy, thank you
niux··on Show HN: Headroom (OSS): Cuts LLM costs by 85%
Not a single example of what it does or how it works
niux··on Baserow 2.0: Self-Hosted Airtable Alternative Now Has AI Agents and Automations
The self-hosting solution is completely crippled, everything is paywalled. At this point, might as well go closed source.
niux··on Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go
Probably the commit history.
niux··on Qt 6.10 Released
Have fun dodging that minefield when distributing your app.
niux··on Qt 6.10 Released
With the insane licensing costs, I fail to see how this is still a viable choice for personal / small projects. Also, for larger projects, assuming you can afford the costs, the reality is that it's really hard to find decent Qt developers.
niux··on Show HN: NextMin – Generate REST APIs and Admin Panels from JSON Schemas
The admin panel requires an email and a password to check out.
niux··on [dead]
It appears to have a fatal flaw: you can't actually save and restore your data, just export it to PNG.
niux··on Just Use HTML
This article is an oversimplification describing basic forms, but as soon as you try to implement any sort of advanced validation using just HTML, the whole paradigm falls apart. Browsers support JavaScript for a reason.
niux··on Show HN: Userscript to enhance HN with favicons and hidden sections links
I thought some people might find this useful. It looks like this: https://share.cleanshot.com/4Fj7wLH9
niux··on UserScript that shows a "Search on Perplexity" button on Google Search
Example: https://i.imgur.com/vNEIaUI.png
niux··on Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2
I actually use Dokploy in production, you have to literally press just one button to redeploy using the latest version of your app, straight from the repo.
niux··on Outside of the top stocks, S&P 500 forward profits haven't grown in 3 years
What platform are you using?
niux··on What's happening to reading?
Just install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension. This is the author: https://x.com/Magnolia1234B
niux··on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
Why not add a boolean flag and use a single exit(1) at the end? That way the user can see all the environment variables that have not been set.
niux··on I used Suno AI to cover my own demo album
I'm wondering if we'll ever reach a point where the differences you listed truly become indistinguishable.
niux··on Clarifying our pricing
Claude Code can also do that if you pair it with the VS Code extension.
niux··on Clarifying our pricing
How is it more expensive?
niux··on Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go
https://github.com/overflowy/safe-result
niux··on Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
How might you inadvertently download illegal content while searching for legal content?
niux··on Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?
I primarily use Logseq because I've found that outliners best align with my mental model. I mainly take notes within my daily journal. When I encounter something worth saving, I simply create a new entry. A typical day looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/wAiYgSY.png

To categorize the information, I simply link the entry to a specific page. For example, if I discover an interesting React library, I create a new entry like this: https://i.imgur.com/dDlStkZ.png

A great feature is that Logseq understands page hierarchies, so if I click on [[Dev/JS]], it presents a clear hierarchical overview: https://i.imgur.com/z9hGmmh.png

Using this approach, I've stopped bookmarking sites in my browser altogether. In Logseq, I can connect useful things to each other, add entire notes, and more, as shown here: https://i.imgur.com/Krld2cS.png

If I want to remember something, I just add a #card tag to the block, and it automatically syncs with Anki via a plugin.

niux··on Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
The reason I wrote my own tool is because I couldn't find anything for Pg17 at the time and pgbackrest seemed overkill for my needs. Also, the CLI handles backup rotations as well. Barman looks interesting though, I'll definitely have a look, thanks!
niux··on Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
I recently deployed Postgres on a dedicated Hetzner EX-44 server (20 cores, 64GB RAM, 2x 512GB NVMe SSDs in RAID 1) for €39/month. The price-to-performance ratio is exceptional, providing enterprise-level capacity at a fraction of typical cloud costs.

For security, I implemented TailScale which adds only ~5ms of latency while completely eliminating public network exposure - a worthwhile tradeoff for the significant security benefits.

My optimization approach includes:

- Workload-specific configuration generated via PGTune (https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/)

- Real-time performance monitoring with PgHero for identifying bottlenecks

- Automated VACUUM ANALYZE operations scheduled via pgcron targeting write-heavy tables, which prevents performance degradation and helps me sleep soundly

- A custom CLI utility I built for ZSTD-compressed backups that achieves impressive compression ratios while maintaining high throughput, with automatic S3 uploading: https://github.com/overflowy/pgbackup

This setup has been remarkably stable and performant, handling our workloads with substantial headroom for growth.

niux··on Goenums: Type Safe Enum Generator for Go
Not anymore, since the Typescript compiler has been re-written... in Go.
niux··on DigitalOcean blocks SMTP ports 465 and 587 since last month
Can't you use another port to send emails?
niux··on montasaurus/result: A simple Rust-like Result type for Python 3
Funnily, I released something similar two weeks ago with more targeted decorators (sync vs async), a more strict `Err` type and a less verbose type guard (`ok`):

https://github.com/overflowy/safe-result

niux··on Show HN: Automatic Reindexing in Minima RAG
Not a single screenshot - I really have no idea what this is doing aside from being a repo filled with buzz words.
niux··on Show HN: CMD+C – Instant Grammar Correction Across All Apps for macOS
I love it! It would be amazing if you could allow users to customize the prompt for each style and to add allow adding custom styles (as categories).
niux··on OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics
Had a pretty bad experience with this. The web app is very buggy and frustrating.
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