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edweis··on Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News
Can you make an interactive ssh instead?
edweis··on DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
I personally find it useful to search logs with AI
edweis··on Zed is 1.0
I just run it in the terminal, every time I tried their integration it was missing a feature or it was easier to read on a terminal
edweis··on Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
Is there a place where we can find the complete USA investment portfolio?
edweis··on Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing
It is the first time I see a specification 3881 pages long!
edweis··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
Use sym link in that case to keep the redirect.
edweis··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
Ok this product will be for project with less than 65k users.

For naming, just name the directory the same way on your file system.

Shareable urls can be a hash of the path with some kind of hmac to prevent scraping.

Yes if you move a file, you can create a symlink to preserve it.

edweis··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
Definity. Though SAMBA supports authentication natively. With SCP and sFTP you'll need another admin server to create users.
edweis··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
I do, password-protected of course. It is the only "native" way I found to get server files access to my iPhone without downloading a third party app (via Files).
edweis··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
Do you really need a database for this? On a unix system, you should be able to: CRUD users, CRUD files and directories, grant permissions to files or directories

Is there a decade-old software that provides a UI or an API wrapper around these features for a "Google Drive" alternative? Maybe over the SAMBA protocol?

edweis··on Fastmail desktop app
Not exactly. I use Fastmail to avoid using Google.

However there are tons of services that require Google (or outlook) to work with your emails.

edweis··on Fastmail desktop app
I would rather have more integrations with third parties rather than this.

My main problem is that I have to put a lot of effort to not use gmail for my business because most of third-parties (like CRMs) work only/better with gmail.

Fastmail team, how about a Gmail compatible API ?

edweis··on Making a font of my handwriting
What a bummer the website https://www.calligraphr.com is a subscription model. I could impulsively pay $100 to get my handwriting as a TTF font and be quite happy about it.
edweis··on Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components
Is there a way to efficiently use Lit without using a bundler?
edweis··on Moving away from AWS lambda/SQS/SNS/Aurora, worth it?
Thank you again, this is gold. We'll do a POC with 1-2 services and see how it goes.
edweis··on Moving away from AWS lambda/SQS/SNS/Aurora, worth it?
Nice, thank you for the insight.

I can tell that the on-premises will be deployed on AWS accounts. We can manage the resources ourselves.

We have few fanouts that can be refactored. So Redis/Valkey for SQS is OK, hopefully it can also cover our SNS use case.

I am afraid Kubernetes is overkill for our lambda needs.

If we manage to bundle our whole app in one server and have only 1-2 clients on -premise, do you still suggest Kubernetes or a simpler rsync on all servers is enough?

Also, should we have a separate database instance for each client, or a Postgres cluster sharded? The latter seams more manageable.

edweis··on Moving away from AWS lambda/SQS/SNS/Aurora, worth it?
Thank you for your input.

All your points are valid and can be included in the contract: - We'll be the ones to choose the cloud provider, - We'll take servers that are big enough, - The client should upgrade their server according to our specs, - Upgrades are mandatory.

Any idea what other (simpler) recovery plans we can have besides on-premise?

edweis··on Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email
Easy way to do this: search for the word "unsubscribe" in your email and delete all of them.

I did this 4 years ago on my personal email address and I never had to recover any email.

edweis··on Expanding Racks [video]
Are such racks tech used at an industrial level?
edweis··on A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
If you are interested in the topic, you can check the autobiography of the biggest manufacturer of LSD in history: "The Rose Of Paracelsus" by William Leonard Pickard [1].

It is both poetic and fascinating. It's not an easy read but I recommend it.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28930020-the-rose-of-par...

edweis··on Redis is open source again
Mesmerizing number of views. I must admin I refreshed the page multiple times to see the count increase. If I increased the view count several times, I must admin I did not read the article multiple times.
edweis··on AI TIMLINE – All prominent events in the field
Reverse the timeline, it is more natural to start from now and scroll to the past.
edweis··on Speak is personalizing language learning with AI
I want to try AI-based services to learn a new language (Dutch), any recommendations?
edweis··on Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform
Congratulation on the launch! I definitely see a future in visual scripting, the best candidate I have for my next project is https://luna-park.app/ but I'll be experimenting with FlowCode/Flyde.

What use cases do you target with Flwocode? As I see here it seems general purpose.

edweis··on European Critical Dependencies
We've been looking to migrate away from FastMail and we are considering Proton Mail. More alternatives there: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
edweis··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I am geoengineering yeast and bacteria using CRISPR to produce raw materials critical for European sovereignty.

Which one? We are figuring this out.

edweis··on $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
Who lost money during this deal? Or generally who indirectly paid these lucky gamblers?
edweis··on Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs
I love it, the code is so simple: https://github.com/simonfrey/tabsub/blob/master/tabsub.v1.js
edweis··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
Looking at the project:

  - Why is the demo impressive https://mpa.nuejs.org/app/ I believe someone can do the same web-app in React with the same performance.
  - I'd like to quickly see some code samples on the home page. I had to dig the documentation to find some code samples (https://nuejs.org/docs/view.html#clean-html-templating), is it inspired from Svelte ?
  - How is new faster and lighter compared to other tech? Specifically, compared to raw HTML/js.
To convince me that Nue is a framework worse using, please show that Nue:

  1. Is simpler than HTML+JS (or at least simpler than react): like https://alpinejs.dev/
  2. Is easy to understand: maybe the markup and logic are close to HTML or something else I already know
  3. Has a better DX with good build time and HMR: you nailed this one
  4. The tech is better: low overhead? highly based on WASM? virtual DOM? Server islands? 
  5. Show me metrics: https://esbuild.github.io/ nailed this one
edweis··on Show HN: A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL
Referring to OpenAPI: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification
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