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pbreiton Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

Instead of tunneling, why aren't there easier ways to develop and deploy to publicly accessible servers (for mere mortals)?

pbreiton Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

sish does get a mention: "Some only require a plain SSH client but rely on a specific SSH server, like sish.:

pbreiton Bill Draper has died

Have we heard of any of those nonprofits? Have any of them made a dent in anything? Why are people so mesmerized by nonprofits?

pbreiton Bill Draper has died

This take is ill-informed. He's just saying you can't get hung up on your previous investments, decisions, etc. Keep moving forward. A16Z folks are very human, terrific at what they do and good people.

pbreiton Python Workers are now generally available

It always seemed so strange to me that "native" http clients were so lousy or many cases even non-existent considering that that's half of development these days.

pbreiton Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

How do I get this more persistent?

pbreiton Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

No reason given?

pbreiton OpenRouter is joining Stripe

Copying others better and faster. I would say this is right up their alley.

pbreiton OpenRouter is joining Stripe

Even a business spend provider: https://router.com

pbreiton OpenRouter is joining Stripe

The other thing is, aren't the models mostly indistinguishable at this point?

pbreiton Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Shouldn't this all be easily doable via (auto-)prompting? Surely I don't need to "install" anything?

pbreiton OpenRouter is joining Stripe

This seems like something xAi could reproduce in a weekend

pbreiton Being ambitious and being a dad

Just remember, for 99.9% of us, work accomplishments are meaningless.

pbreiton PostgreSQL for Everything

I dunno. I think the main takeaway here is that you can do 80-95% of your stuff in Postgres and eschew all the unnecessary, unproven stores.

pbreiton We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

Agree. Couldn't care less. There are some neat aspects to "rare books" but overall quite insignificant.

pbreiton Firefox 153.0 Beta

Has Firefox not had containers until now????

pbreiton Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

That's ridiculous. All he espouses is that all of this stuff is going to happen and so you might was well do it right (with Palantir).

pbreiton Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

This seems ridiculously short-sighted and backwards.

pbreiton Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture

Bidet?

pbreiton Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture

I try to avoid hating but that's pretty rough.

pbreiton Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture

How much structural and geotechnical detail does an ADU need?

pbreiton Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

Since it's entirely possible (extremely likely?) the "problem" would never materialize, this is quite reasonable.

pbreiton Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

Storing money as an integer is OK but I've never liked APIs that required financial amounts to be integers. Amounts always eventually need to be displayed to a human as a decimal.

pbreiton Why Britain's fintech stars faded

Easy: non-competitive equity compensation.

pbreiton Heat pump sales rise across Europe

“ A total of around 575,000 residential heat pump units were sold across 11 European countries from January to March 2026, up from 494,000 in the same period in 2025”

Not a big increase on a relatively small base. What is the takeaway here?

pbreiton Talking to strangers at the gym

I don't go to the gym much but that is one place where I would be VERY careful trying to strike up a confirmation and heaven forbid tapping someone on the shoulder.

pbreiton Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

All my co-workers say Claude blows away Gemini. Is it really that good? How can I do Kimi?

pbreiton Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs

"half the employees of Google or Apple; only a third of Microsoft"

That sounds like 2-10x too many. Think about what Google, Apple & Microsoft do compared to Meta.

pbreiton Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

If no one hears them, do they really exist?

pbreiton Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents

That would be good if the changes are to slim it down by 80%.