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Congratulations on the launch. I’m very bullish on this concept of allowing SMB’s and startups to roll their own software and internal tools. Many many moons ago I built an entire inventory tracking and CRM for a very small company in PHP (circa 2006). It ran the entire company with orders, customers, devices, and revenue. It was a monstrous app, and took forever. Today, could be build in a matter of days and much better.

Along the same lines. I got so fed up with Quickbooks self employed (god awful software and company) for my own business I wrote a replacement using Cursor. It tracks expenses (categorizing each in proper IRS categories) and estimating quarterly taxes. Uses Plaid to pull in business bank accounts and credit cards and has income and expense reports. It’s 100x better than Quickbooks.

I suspect all the good devops engineers left when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft. They got their pay day and living on a beach somewhere.

My docker container builds have been queued for nearly an hour.

Replacement for Quickbooks Self Employed (which is awful). Integrates Plaid and allows you to categorize business spending by official IRS categories and business income. Graphs of business spending, income, profit by month, quarter, and year. Export to CSV for easy entry into schedule C at tax time.

Future feature is estimating quarterly taxes and showing approximately how much should be paid each quarter if any and due dates.

Tempting if looking to build a new workshop or garage. Tear it down, and build from scratch.

Be warned, once you get into mechanical watches it can be a debilitating addiction. :-). I started out with a Tag Heuer Aquaracer Professional and then sold that to buy an Omega Seamaster Diver which I love. I’m lusting for a Audemars Piguet Royal Oak but that’s a ways off.

It all comes down to financial incentives. Unlike the internet and software where the barrier to entry was essentially free. Open source frontier models are extremely capital intensive, infact virtually impossible without hordes of money and power. So where are the incentives for investors to back an open source model? There isn’t any. The exception is Meta because they have so much capital they can endure the loss, but they have fumbled Llama.

Another potential player could be Apple if they open sourced a frontier model, and make back some of the capex on hardware. Imagine AIserve hardware with continued expansion of MacMini’s and Mac Studios.

Microsoft CEO Nadella just recently said their Fairwater (315-acre facility in Wisconsin) only uses around the same amount of water as a single restaurant over the course of an entire year.

25 data center projects were canceled in 2025, up sharply from only 6 in 2024. 2026 numbers gonna be dramatically higher. 69 jurisdictions have enacted some form of moratorium, ban, or restriction on new data center construction. The friendly states such as Texas are just going to have all the data centers and thus reap all the financial and job benefits.

The quickest way to lose the AI battle to China and reinstate censorship and model political bias is to hand the industry over to the government. This doesn’t just benefit democrats, whatever political party is in power will use them as tools of political means. Not to mention almost certainly pricing won’t act in accordance with free market forces but instead be regulated. See healthcare.

One reason is that politicians have vilified them for their own political means. Creating false narratives like they use huge amounts of water, when in fact the cooling is a closed loop system and use less water than a single busy restaurant. They are being used as yet another pawn piece to push inequity and climate change agendas. It’s been quite a successful strategy.

Ahh that's very nice. Unfortunately the default version of sqlite3 provided by Debian Trixie is 3.46.1.

The biggest annoyance about SQLite for me is no ability to:

    ALTER TABLE users MODIFY COLUMN…

    ALTER TABLE users ALTER COLUMN…

    ALTER TABLE users ADD CONSTRAINT…

You have to create a new temporary table with correct schema, copy data into this new table, drop the old table, and then rename the temporary table.

Smart move IPO'ing ahead of Anthropic. Can take a lot of AI capital being first mover... That is, until Anthropic IPO's which I expect shortly.

Heisenberg lives? The king of P2P with 99% purity.

What are said allegations I must have missed this news cycle.

Product manager; “That’s a great UX.”

If using containers I believe this change was pushed in image python:3.14.5-slim-trixie

I definitely used HipChat, but then Slack was released and took over the world.

A shout out to Databasus (https://databasus.com). It’s a remarkably simply utility and web interface to schedule PostgreSQL backups. I use it in my homelab and works great.

Appreciate the analysis and agree it's gone more vertical than a Saturn V rocket. I sold a large chuck today in AF. My point withstanding is the tech crowd (including HN comments) and tech YouTubers are clueless when it comes to investing. Perhaps when sentiment on HN of a publicly traded company reaches peak bear you buy, buy, buy.

Examples: Boeing during "covid". Tesla pretty much anytime. Intel....

I’ve been a holder of Intel since low $20’s and kept on accruing more and more.

Every once in a while opportunities like intel come along where a previous tech market leader loses strength and the market overreacts and drives the price down way too much.

Mainstream media latches on, calls the end of the company, tech YouTubers and the HN comment section follow suit. Price further falls to ridiculous lows and becomes a screaming value buy.

It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s a great opportunity. There are of course exceptions (Kodak comes to mind) but a company like Intel when we are going through perhaps the largest ever compute and processing demand surge was just silly.

Awesome. I’m currently using AWS SQS which invokes lambda functions for asynchronous tasks like email sends, but Honker seems like a great local replacement.

Any conflicts or issues when running Litestream as well?

His passion and oration skills are something to behold. Love the intro tie in with mechanical watches and cars, it's the same level of OCD as us computer nerds.

I wish Apple would lean into gaming and create a competitive GPU system. Does not have to compete with a 5090, but 5070 level and game developers will come and port games. Huge untapped market. I still have to run a dedicated gaming PC just to play games (especially Flight Simulator).

> Apple software is terrible

When is the last time you used Windows 11? I begrudgingly have to run it on my gaming PC and almost every time it's a frustrating experience where I want to put my fist through my monitor. Absolutely awful, zero taste, that will-do software. Windows explorer I believe is still single threaded, the integration of OneDrive into everything (my desktop is stored in OneDrive for some reason) with little to no way to undo it. Don't even get me started on Copilot. My blood pressure just rose off the charts.

I also used to work with on-premise installs of Kubernetes and their “security” postures prevented any in-bound access. It was a painful process of requesting access, getting on a zoom call and then controlling their screen via a Windows client and putty. It’s was beyond painful and frustrating. I tried to pitch using a tool like Twingate which doesn’t open any inbound ports, can be locked down very tight using SSO, 2fa, access control rules, and IP limiting but to no avail. They were stuck in their Windows based IT mentally.

I use Backblaze to backup my gaming PC. While .git and Dropbox does not affect me it’s worrisome that OneDrive is not backed up seeing as Windows 11 somehow automatically/dark pattern stores local files in OneDrive.

You have to give Apple credit, they nailed Time Machine. I have fully restored from Time Machine backups when buying new Macs more times than I can count. It works and everything comes back to an identical state of the snapshot. Yet, Microsoft can’t seem to figure this out.

I'm at about 150 watts at idle with 2x Intel E5-2640 with 8x drives. I've gone through the BIOS pretty thoroughly and optimized as much as possible.

I have a homelab with 4x Raspberry Pi 4's running Kubernetes a GMKtec Intel i5-12450H and a ProLiant ML350p Gen8 (which uses an ungodly amount of power). I'd add the following software/tools which have been awesome:

  - Portainer running on GMKtec & ProLiant
  - Dozzle (docker log viewer) on GMKtec & ProLiant
  - Beszel (server monitoring, awesome) all hosts
  - Kubetail (Kubernetes log viewer on Pi K8s)
  - HomeAssistant
  - Jellyfin
  - UptimeKuma (uptime and notifications)
  - Semaphore UI (ansible playbook runner)
  - Metabase (querying and visualization for dbs)