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lis··on Mistral AI Releases Forge
It depends. The key for their vibe-cli is actually different. You need to get a separate key if you have a subscription and don't want to pay API usage prices.
lis··on Qwant and Ecosia launch Staan, their search index as an alternative to Google
I found about it on LinkedIn, because Christian Kroll wrote about it:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christian-kroll_bigtech-europ...

I've no clue why they don't have a blog post or anything up yet.

lis··on My favourite German word
Not necessarily these words, but a lot of these translations stem from linguistic purism:

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

lis··on Insights on Teufel’s first open-source speaker
Unfortunately no. Here is a full list of countries: https://support.teufel.de/hc/en-us/articles/22903502875282-W...
lis··on Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
We've forked excalidraw a while ago to allow running excalidraw without firebase as a backend. This can already be self-hosted. It needs some love, but it's a good starting point:

  * https://github.com/b310-digital/excalidraw
  * https://github.com/b310-digital/excalidraw-room/
  * https://gitlab.com/kiliandeca/excalidraw-fork
  * https://gitlab.com/kiliandeca/excalidraw-storage-backend
lis··on Devstral
For aider and ollama, see: https://aider.chat/docs/llms/ollama.html

Just for ollama, see: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md#how-c...

I’m using llama.cpp though, so I can’t confirm these methods.

lis··on Devstral
Yes, I agree. I've just ran the model locally and it's making a good impression. I've tested it with some ruby/rspec gotchas, which it handled nicely.

I'll give it a try with aider to test the large context as well.

lis··on The Golden Owl treasure hunt is won after 31 years
> In a Discord vocal on March 13th 2025 Michel Becker revealed that a documentary film explaining the solution would be shown in cinemas around France on May 2nd 2025. He hoped a broadcast in other countries would follow.
lis··on Mistral's Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days
Yes, I'm really impressed by the speed as well.

A bit more about the collaboration can be found here:

https://cerebras.ai/blog/mistral-le-chat

lis··on Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty
Same here. Also one of the reason I loved building castles in Stronghold so much. It's so much more fun to build than to destroy.

That's also why I love Anno 1800 (as well as its predecessors). You can (mostly) avoid combat.

lis··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
For a lot of people in Germany it's not about the risk of an accident, but rather the cost of building and decomissioning nuclear reactors.
lis··on New WiFi Vulnerability: The SSID Confusion Attack
At least not intentionally, though I agree that the domain sounds spammy. I’ve found this on mastodon by Mathy Vanhoef: https://infosec.exchange/@vanhoefm/112440635423432857
lis··on Run a Phoenix Application on Scalingo
Recently someone mentioned that it's hard to deploy Phoenix applications. Starting from 1.6 the process has been greatly improved, so I decided to showcase a more complex application than a simple hello world.
lis··on Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
I've migrated one larger project with several containers / databases to AWS Fargate / RDS and a smaller one to Scalingo [0]. In both cases, I'm happy with how it turned out and the migration went fine.

One of the main drivers behind the decision was that Heroku required us to move to the Enterprise tier to run private databases.

If the architecture of your application is not too complex, I would suggest trying Scalingo (or Fly.io, Render, etc.) first. It took me around a day to get the application running on Scalingo, Fly.io and Render. This allowed us to be able to compare them a bit. In the end, we went with Scalingo, since the Review Apps feature to automatically launch environments from pull request worked well for our workflow.

You can see the configuration for Scalingo for a smaller elixir app on Github [1].

[0] https://www.mindwendel.com

[1] https://github.com/mindwendel/mindwendel

lis··on Handpicked No-Signup Tools
We’ve put mindwendel[0] out for free - no tracking, no ads, no data harvesting.

It’s a tool to brainstorm and vote on ideas.

We did so because we are using it ourselves and the resource usage is so low it doesn’t cost us more to share it with others.

[0] https://www.mindwendel.com/

lis··on Show HN: A brainstorming tool written in Elixir with Phoenix Live Views
In the last couple of weeks two friends and I have built a simple brainstorming tool, written in Elixir, using Phoenix Live Views.

Features

* Anonymously invite people to your brainstorming - no registration needed. Usernames are optional.

* Easily create and upvote ideas, with live updates from your companions.

* Preview of links to ease URL sharing

* Cluster your ideas with labels

* Export your generated ideas to html or csv (currently comma separated)

You can host it yourself or use a service like gigalixir to spin up an instance quickly.