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heidarb··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Working on Infralyst: https://infralyst.io

Self serve AWS cost savings for Terraform users. Connect AWS (read only role via a Terraform module), GitHub and Terraform state. Infralyst finds underused resources and opens a PR to downsize, gated by best practice checks so it doesn’t suggest sketchy changes.

Free: 3 downsizing PRs per workspace. Pro: $99/mo unlimited PRs. Looking for early users and blunt feedback from teams running AWS + Terraform.

If you try it and mention you came from HN, I’m happy to set you up with an early adopter discount.

heidarb··on China Can't Win
I’ll just leave this here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_electoral_inte... It’s a complex issue. It’s understandable people want democracy but it’s also understandable that it can be seen as a security risk. The brexit referendum in the UK is probably the best modern example of this.
heidarb··on Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid
Until someone else makes phones that pass the strict requirements set by the GrapheneOS team, then yes.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

heidarb··on Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid
Pick any pixel device, except pixel 10. It’s not supported and no word on when they will add support since google are no longer open sourcing the drivers for the pixel phones. Hopefully they manage to figure it out.
heidarb··on Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
There’s also BirdNET-Go https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

It’s under active development and uses the same data models.

heidarb··on Digital Services Playbook
As far as I know the US one is heavily inspired by the UK one.

The UK kind of pioneered doing digital services in government well with GDS, 10+ years ago.

Some of the people who were central to the effort have gone to consult other governments on how to do the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service

heidarb··on Why Ruby on Rails still matters
Devise has made it easy to add auth to rails apps for many years now. More recently there is also the built in auth generator.
heidarb··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
I'm a happy customer. I wrote a ruby client for your API and have been parsing thousands of different types of PDFs through it with great results. I tested almost everything out there at the time and I couldn't find anything that came close to being as good as llamaparse.