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inssein··on Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust
You use a forward proxy that can MITM.
inssein··on Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust
This is basically what https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/ (their main product), but it's heavily focused on credit card data.
inssein··on Show HN: AI CLI – Translate natural language into shell commands using LLMs
Blog post at https://agingcoder.com/posts/i-built-a-thing/
inssein··on Why we built our own background agent
Probably the best internal ai platform I've seen to date, incredible work.
inssein··on Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
Interesting, I had a post on Reddit talking about Cloudflare Images being their most expensive product (https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/comments/10vjxpm/cloudfl...), but maybe it was just billed incorrectly.
inssein··on Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
at that point you are likely slowing down your applications - I think a basic OpenTelemetry collector mostly solves this, and if you go beyond the available buffer there, then dropping it is the appropriate choice for application logs.
inssein··on Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Why do so many companies insist on shipping their logs via Kafka? I can't imagine deliverability semantics are necessary with logs, and if they are, they shouldn't be in your logs?
inssein··on Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed
That is not a great test. Maybe it's just me but I don't often write code with the proper code style (or even semi-colons depending on the language) and let the IDE handle all of that.
inssein··on K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
Loving K3S so far, I've got a "homelab" of 4 RPis running it and so far it has been pretty seamless experience.
inssein··on Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
Woah I had never connected the dots - I had used https://github.com/evanw/glfx.js for a realtime photo editor and then wrote https://github.com/inssein/jsfx to render the same without WebGL for printing.
inssein··on Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io
Damn, 30 days is quick. I found out about https://neon.tech but then quickly ran into a major bug, and then thankfully found out about bit.io, which is what I use for https://dittoed.app.

Looks like I will have to go back to neon (they fixed the bug).

If anyone has other ideas, I'm all ears. Project is hosted on Cloudflare and they have D1 now, but Dittoed uses a little bit of PostGIS.

inssein··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
A set of utilities for myself, especially the private notes for sending sensitive information that is e2e encrypted: https://utiliti.dev/
inssein··on Problems with AWS Amplify and its use of DynamoDB
AWS Amplify is the worst AWS service I have used, by far. The console was constantly broken in chrome, their reverse proxy is slow, the pre-baked auth components with Cognito were pretty useless, and so much more..

It feels like the team is trying to do way too much, all at once, and none of it well.

inssein··on Show HN: Utiliti – Online and OSS Utilities (Private Notes, JSON Viewer, etc.)
That's a really good idea, especially for the private notes functionality where you could pipe some output into a private note and get an e2e encrypted URL back. On the list, thanks!
inssein··on Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
I think this was sort of the key issue, it wasn't open source, but the docs / website was. Have been thinking of cleaning it up and open sourcing it.
inssein··on Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
Oh man I kind of built something like this. I took the project down because I got semi-burned out while also having a full time job. I have a video still up at https://github.com/aidmin-io/docs. Feedback on HN was that companies wouldn't trust it unless they could run it in their own infra, but clearly there is a huge need with BaseDash and now another similar company funded by YC.

HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26853339

inssein··on Password protect a static HTML page
Is this a problem? It will only leak on the sender and receivers browser history.
inssein··on Password protect a static HTML page
Today it does, but might need to find a way around it.
inssein··on Password protect a static HTML page
I just finished building a similar tool: https://utiliti.dev/private-note/

Currently it’s just for plaintext, but might allow for more complex things like the website.

The password is stored in the url after the # so it’s never sent to the server.

I was going to post this project after I build some more utilities.

inssein··on Ask HN: What's on your home server?
This was basically my holiday project - Photo: https://i.imgur.com/2AnP4pu.jpeg.

I'm running Longhorn for storage but haven't figured out backup yet, and haven't got to grafana / prometheus yet.

I put up my work on GitHub as well: https://github.com/inssein/mainframe. I wanted to create a separate ingress controller for internal dashboards, but for now I just setup a separate nginx-ingress for internal, and using traefik for external, feels wrong.

inssein··on Practical introduction to algebraic datatypes (ADTs) in TypeScript
ADTs like the one described here for remote data is a good start, but I haven’t yet found a good way to compose multiple pieces of data that is in potentially different states.

We use another class based concept on top at work where you can compose multiple pieces of remote data together, but it really only works well for the happy path.

inssein··on LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology
That's amazing! What have you learned to play so far?

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You could even ask to hear them play when you see them next.

inssein··on Auth0 Has been down for almost 4 hours now
Weird I searched auth0 and got nothing, which I was surprised by.
inssein··on Auth0 Has been down for almost 4 hours now
Link: https://status.auth0.com/incidents/zvjzyc7912g5?u=3qykby4vyp...
inssein··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
From the market research I have done so far, there are over 10 series B companies (some YC companies as well) that require exactly this kind of access.

Edit: They all offer an on-prem version, but only for enterprise ($$$$) customers.

inssein··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
Thanks for the feedback. How can Aidmin do better here? You are signing up for a service and effectively creating a workspace for your project / organization.

I could see it not needing a name, but its used to manage your users that belong to the workspace. I thought it would be a better experience than just show the email of the user.

inssein··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
It doesn't need root credentials. The RBAC is applied on top of the credentials Aidmin is given.
inssein··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
It doesn't need root access, the RBAC is applied on top of the credentials Aidmin given.

I hear you on the approach, it is something I have been thinking about for a while.

inssein··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
Yes, this is currently a big ask, and understandbly so.

There are a few SaaS companies that exist today which provide similar service, and they all require this level of access, unless you opt for their enterprise self hosted version.

I am probably going to release a self hosted version at some point.

inssein··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
Amost every language has a framework that lets you get some form of quick administration up, but I've found that even with this, developers are still having to do things directly in the database.

This is also just the initial iteration. If you had a chance to check out the demo, all the screens where you manage your workspace (users, data source, etc) are all joins and use the Aidmin to manage itself.

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