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cui··on Show HN: G3M – MCP server for physical outbound
Interesting approach to solve the cold outreach problem.
cui··on Htmx 4.0
It seems this version is also adding hx-live. Anyone used it before? How does it compare against Alpine.js?
cui··on FreeCAD in the Browser
Respect.
cui··on FreeCAD in the Browser
How long have you been building this?
cui··on FreeCAD in the Browser
If Solidworks and Onshape were born after the birth of LLMs, they'd probably be glitchy as hell.
cui··on FreeCAD in the Browser
Seems it's only supporting Chrome at the moment.
cui··on FreeCAD in the Browser
This. The browser as a universal platform.
cui··on Maybe you should learn something
Post like this is what keeps me on HN.
cui··on The frontier is open-source today
Which harness are you using?
cui··on Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?
What's wrong with Dropbox?
cui··on Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
Can you claim your product here? https://thecadhub.com/details/adam-cad/
cui··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
This is really useful. Thanks for sharing.
cui··on Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
I built the exact same thing 2 years ago, and then figured out that Inoreader actually already had it in their product. They are disabled by default, probably because this feature is not popular at all.
cui··on Show HN: Video Off – a Chrome extension that blocks common online video
I built Video Off to reduce autoplay/video distractions.

Background: in Firefox, I can edit user.js and disable specific media codecs, which makes blocking video much easier. Chrome doesn’t provide an equivalent user.js/codec-disable path, so this extension uses MV3 static declarativeNetRequest rules to block common video delivery requests.

No analytics/telemetry. No remote code. It blocks many common video requests, but it doesn’t claim perfect coverage on every site/player. I’d love feedback on false positives/negatives and breakage cases.

cui··on How We Rewrote 130K Lines from React to Svelte in Two Weeks
Do you mind sharing your master ruleset about Svelte?
cui··on Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees
Thanks. How are you dealing with worktrees right now?
cui··on Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees
But how did you use your main worktree's .env before? Symlink it?
cui··on Direnv Is All You Need to Parallelize Agentic Programming with Git Worktrees
This is how I currently use Git worktrees. Curious about how you are using it.
cui··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
I've been working on django-rclone, which bridges Django and rclone.

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone

cui··on Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone
Author here. django-rclone is a Django backup package that delegates everything non-Django to rclone.

The existing solution (django-dbbackup) reimplements a lot: Django Storages for upload, GPG in Python for encryption, gzip for compression, regex for backup listing. django-rclone replaces all of that with rclone subprocesses — rclone rcat for uploads, rclone cat for downloads, rclone sync for media, rclone lsjson for listing. Encryption and compression are handled by configuring rclone crypt and compress remotes.

Database dumps stream directly into rclone via Unix pipes — no temp files written to disk. DB passwords are passed via environment variables instead of CLI arguments (which are visible in ps).

The result is significantly less code. Django-rclone only owns what Django must own: database connectors, management commands, and signals. Everything else — storage abstraction, encryption, compression, incremental sync — is rclone's problem. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, MongoDB, and 70+ storage backends via rclone.

cui··on Bye Bye Gmail
I thought it's meant for business usage. Why are you interested in WorkMail compared to other million email products?
cui··on Show HN: Claude Code for Django
I honestly don't know because I never used Copilot. Hopefully we'll have some open source projects that can take one set of configurations and produce similar set of files for others.
cui··on Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
I actually wrote a blog post about it and checked lower level abstractions for web developers: https://yncui.com/post/lower_level_abstractions_for_web_deve...
cui··on Book Review: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
Thanks for pointing it out. I've fixed the title and added a link in the post.
cui··on Book Review: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
That's correct, it's Loch Kelly's The Way of Effortless Mindfulness.

Here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Way-Effortless-Mindfulness-Revolution...

cui··on Show HN: A crazy fast website built with Cloud flare workers
How do you deal with the sign up form in your backend?