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pellepelsteron Claude Fable now requires usage credits

I was using it normally ~16 hours ago and now it also wants API credits to continue. It was nice while it lasted

pellepelsteron Hacker News, GitHub and AI

I did an analysis of the GitHub repos posted to Hacker New, with a special focus on how the increased output fueled by AI affects the amount of projects that are posted there.

My hope was to figure out, if the AI assisted coding has an impact on how active the repositories stay, but it seems still a little bit early to tell.

pellepelsteron Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

I had my fair share of Hyperscaler -> $something_else migrations during the past year. I agree, especially with rented hardware the price-difference is kind of ridiculous.

The issue is though, that you loose the managed part of the whole Cloud promise. For ephemeral services this not a big deal, but for persistent stuff like databases where you would like to have your data safe this is kind of an issue because it shifts additional effort (and therefore cost) into your operations team.

For smaller setups (attention shameless self-promotion incoming) I am currently working on https://pellepelster.github.io/solidblocks/cloud/index.html which allows to deploy managed services to the Hetzner Cloud from a Docker-Compose like definition. E.g. a PostgreSQL database with automatic backup and disaster recovery.

pellepelsteron Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

I am working on a CLI tool, that deploys managed services on bare VMs, see a live demo here: https://pellepelster.github.io/solidblocks/cloud/index.html

Currently PostgreSQL, Generic Docker services and GarageFs is supported, Backup and disaster recovery included. Aimed at smaller setups that do not need the complexity of the big Hyperscalers.

pellepelsteron MinIO repository is no longer maintained

If you are on Hetzner, I created a ready to use Terraform module that spins up a single node GarageFs server https://pellepelster.github.io/solidblocks/hetzner/web-s3-do...

pellepelsteron Go ahead, self-host Postgres

I have spent quite some time the past months and years to deploy Postgres databases to non-hyperscaler environments.

A popular choice for smaller workloads has always been the Hetzner cloud which I finally poured into a ready-to-use Terraform module https://pellepelster.github.io/solidblocks/hetzner/rds/index....

Main focus here is a tested solution with automated backup and recovery, leaving out the complicated parts like clustering, prioritizing MTTR over MTBF.

The naming of RDS is a little bit presumptuous I know, but it works quite well :-)