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medv··on TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
Every programmer eventually creates own db: https://github.com/antonmedv/medb
medv··on Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences
> killed and slaughtered

then you see this kind of language you know what this article gonna be is about

medv··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
https://maml.dev

I wanted to make JSON/YAML configuration language for my projects. And i wanted a strict specification. This is want i created, now with specification and 100% coverage, reference implementation it’s just one prompt to reimplement parser in another language.

medv··on Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
obviously not more of ai slop, but people still do cool project!
medv··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I'm building HN alternative =)

- https://crow.watch

medv··on Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
this is why i think having different communities is a nice thing.
medv··on Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
I guess this is pretty much the point people don't like. I will redo the the registration.
medv··on Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.
medv··on Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
The https://crow.watch is heavily inspired by lobster. basically same algorithm, same flagging, amd tag filtering. one key difference is [show] tag with dedicated "Show" page. A feature from HN, which lobster does not have. Invite-only where is only to prevent spam in the future. I will rephrase the login page. Will make it "open" and as we see spammers will close down.
medv··on Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
those looks not very promising.

building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway.

this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.

medv··on Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
I was a lobster user for 7y. but i find it now way to big, and moderation is strange sometimes. I think, having an additional community is nice. No need to concentrate everybody in one or two website. And there are multiple communities already! I thought I can build one with not such restrictive self-promo rules as on lobster.
medv··on Banned on Lobsters
yes, crow watch focus is tech and computers only
medv··on Personal Blog Should Have Comments
> Comments need protection, otherwise you get bombarded with spam. That alone is a ridiculous amount of "hard".

This is not that hard. But your mileage may vary.

> Comments need a database, that is objectively harder than using Jekyll or the other examples you give.

Are we engineers or not?

> But the statement that it's not hard is objectively false.

Yes, I agree.

People spend hours polishing personal websites. I want to encourage building comments systems! This is as fun and as valuable!

medv··on Personal Blog Should Have Comments
> And ai commentary is a waste of electrons.

What is it?

medv··on Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments
we may be interested in it.

how does it handle very bad internet connection on-prem?

medv··on Show HN: CarbonLint – Real-time carbon footprint tracker for code
Finally, an Electron app to tell me that my Electron app is killing the planet.
medv··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Hey! Here is my personal website! Please, check it out!

http://localhost:8080/

medv··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Very nice!
medv··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Nice work! But cv can be designed better;)
medv··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
My website is in PHP plus SQLite :) with comments!

as it old days!

https://medv.io

medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
Update the text a bit to trigger save event.
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
The http://go/fmt-err? =) Yes, it is mine.
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
You can still write markdown. Nobody prevents you.
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
It uses DB at the backend.
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
No js is used for colors.
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
https://textarea.my/#ZY_NTgMhFIVd9ylYNZpMuQwDmZ9m4qM0SG9ncCg...
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
Sure! textarea.my support custom style attr: https://textarea.my/#Ky4tSlVUyCotLlEoLUhJLElVKC6pzElVSCwpKWJ...
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
In case you missed it: it is possible to style textarea via CSS and share it.

- https://textarea.my/#TYuxDcIwEEWpmeKUCiSIJQoKU0KFRBUWOGwnWDi...

medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
It also saves to localStorage
medv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
Thanks!
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