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snadal

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Maubic (www.maubic.es) CEO since 2011, and geek since a lot more time. Passionate about eLearning, software optimisation and system administration...
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snadal··on The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
Ouch! Thank you for checking it! It’s always nice to find Spanish people here :D
snadal··on The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
Would you mind to share here or by DM where you ordered items from? I’m in Spain and would like to build something similar.

Thanks

snadal··on Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework
Nice! I’ll try this soon, and I’m afraid I’ll end up using it a lot.

@jrswab, do you think it would be feasible to limit outgoing connections to a whitelist of domains, URLs, or IP addresses?

I’d like to automate some of my email, calendar, or timesheet tasks, but I’m concerned that a prompt injection could end up exfiltrating or deleting data. In fact, that’s the main reason why I’m not using Openclaw or similar projects with real data yet.

snadal··on Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
Yes. It is absolutely possible. We have been including for more than 10 years a pure C web server on some of our apps that is currently 100% compatible for both Android and iOS
snadal··on Gumroad’s source is available
License only mentions USD. So as far as you have no USD revenue, you are fine.
snadal··on ChatGPT Search
I would be happy if I could search my previous ChatGPT conversations! :)
snadal··on Smartphone Tethering: A Bigger Grind Than It Needed to Be
You can see this today with some eSIM providers. I’ve just travelled outside Europe one month ago and tethering could not be enabled until I changed to a different provider on an iPhone 15 without carrier contract.
snadal··on Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
Not the same thing.

- Libreoffice can edit Word and Excel files.

- There are several tools to read a PST file. Anyway… pst files are not commonly being shared with other people so the need to accessing it is uncommon unless you already use outlook.

- Autocad and Quickbooks are far less used (less people) than PDF.

I also wonder why there are no more tools to edit PDF files. Maybe licensing issues?

Edit: formatting

snadal··on Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
I second this. Maybe I'm missing something in the value proposition, but we already generate PDFs from .docx/.html templates using open source libraries and Docker microservices.

Do not misunderstand. A Stripe for generating PDFs can be great, but for a small team, $0.50/PDF is way more than I can afford (after all, you can create a small number of PDFs without too much fuss). Maybe you are oriented towards large companies?

snadal··on Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language
Nice! I definitely will try it :)
snadal··on Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language
Nice work, congrats!

I do love visual programming and I use n8n a lot for my side projects. I really like its "delayed debug" features, so that I can analyse each step of the flow weeks later than it happened (i.e, I can see why a webhook failed long ago and even replay it step by step).

One missing feature that I've been working on is a "export workflow to code" feature. This way, once you are finished working on a workflow, you could run it everywhere without the need of installing the full IDE.

Again, nice work!

snadal··on Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
Surprisingly this is something that I have been thinking on for the whole 2023.

I myself am really bad at documenting findings while doing research or bugfixing so I started at recording all my daily activities for both replaying research sessions and also for my future me in case something is not clear in the docs.

Then I knew rewind and I was happy to know that I am not alone. This REM is the confirmation that this definitely has great use cases :)

I’d rather prefer the recording phase to be as lightweight as possible so I am recording the full mp4 video and plan to re-encode at a lower rate at night. But there is a compromise between recording quality and file size, I do not want end up with several Petabytes of videos.

What codec do you recommend for this use case? Lossy video codecs usually are very efficient for real images (just like the comparison between jpg/png) and I am sure a video format that is PNG based should be more efficient in space while preserving text quality.

I am very interested in read your thoughts about this.

snadal··on AI Hype Is Real
Actually hairdressers will probably be impacted also because people would like to see how they will look like after their haircut :)
snadal··on Stable difussion trained with “El Risitas” dataset
This is the fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model trained on images from El Risitas.

Use Elrisitas in your prompts.

snadal··on Jira new pricing tier to –$765,432,091.03 per user / month
I'd bet that the current price of $0/month would be valid in court.

However they did not state for how long is offer valid, so they will be able to change pricing tiers later.

snadal··on Confluence new pricing tier to –$567,901,228.83/user/month
Just for the records

https://ibb.co/bvSFTgL

snadal··on Jira new pricing tier to –$765,432,091.03 per user / month
Yeah. This price change also is applied to Confluence :D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33245254

snadal··on Confluence new pricing tier to –$567,901,228.83/user/month
LOL. I guess someone is having a really bad day at JIRA.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33244978

snadal··on Jira new pricing tier to –$765,432,091.03 per user / month
Me too

https://ibb.co/t8t43fT

I guess someone at Jira is having a bad day.

snadal··on Jira new pricing tier to –$765,432,091.03 per user / month
It looks like Jira is testing paying user acquisition. They currently pay $765 million for each new Standard user and $1,506M in the Premium Plan :-D

https://ibb.co/BP04ZNg

Really, I wonder where these numbers come from...

snadal··on Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN
Yes, that is what I was trying to point out. With Yubikey or other 2FA devices you can not see the transaction details of what are you signing unless the device has a screen so a screenless device does not protect much more than this virtual yubikey.
snadal··on Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN
So if your device is compromised, the attacker could trick you into entering 2FA for some minor action while it actually is transferring all your funds.

If your PC or smartphone is compromised nothing will prevent you from losing control of your accounts.

snadal··on Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of SQLite, Firecracker
Slightly off-topic: according to what I read, it is a lightweight proxy written in golang that is capable of starting a vm when receiving network traffic and 10 seconds after the last request it turns off the fly machine.

I've been looking for something similar for some time to use in my development docker instances (specifically with dokku). I have many services that, although they consume little CPU time, they do have a high overall consumption of RAM, but they are actually used for a few minutes each day.

I don't want to use kubernetes for this as it adds too much complexity for the benefit I would get.

Do you know any solution similar to this, to turn on / off docker containers when network traffic comes in?

snadal··on Tell HN: Today I made my first “bucks” on the web
Hey! I did the same with my first check that I got from Altavista, many years ago.

It was a $35 USD check and bank fees were higher than that amount, also in Europe.

I’ve it framed at my office and feel somewhat nostalgic every time I look at it.

Time flies!!

snadal··on Show HN: Sleepy Time Conference—conferences that comes together while you sleep
Because

1.- speakers do not need to know how to record their stuff and send it by some means.

2.- There is no need of somebody putting them all together before broadcasting.

As far as I understand, both processes are automated so that speakers just open the web app and record, and everything is ready on time.

Maybe it’d be a nice feature for services like Streamyard, allowing to introduce recorded videos in live events.

snadal··on IMAP API – self hosted daemon to access IMAP and SMTP accounts via HTTP API
We’ve working on this for one of our side projects. When you have hundreds of calendars and need to find availability for some of them on a timeslot, or fetching the slots for a period of time (I.e, a week) it becames hard really fast.

We are evaluating if it may be interest on it to release as a separate SaaS.

You can find my email on my profile if you want to discuss further your needs.

snadal··on Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
Teachbook.com was finally renamed to TeachQuest.com 2 years after the lawsuit
snadal··on Unsupervised machine translation
You would need a bilingual dictionary as the first step of the process, so I'm afraid that this will not be possible.
snadal··on Unsupervised machine translation
"We can improve upon this by making local edits using a language model that has been trained on lots of monolingual data to score sequences of words in such a way that fluent sentences score higher than ungrammatical or poorly constructed sentences."

Does anyone knows some references / corpus in English language for this?

snadal··on Ask HN: Did your life as a parent affected your life as a developer?
Father of two (aged 4 and 5) and running an small company of 14 developers.

Before they were born, I always reserved some tasks for weekends, and spend several hours coding at night during workdays.

It took me almost three years to realise that this was absolutely not compatible with family. I used to "steal" sleep time instead of family time, so I ended sleeping between 2 and 4 hours a day. Even productivity was good, I was always tired and in bad mood.

While it was really difficult to change long term habits, I work now from 9.00 to 17.30 with 15 minutes commute time, I dedicate most of my non working time to my kids and wife, and I am now a extremely happy person, and also the people closer to me :)

And productivity has grown because I can focus on the really important things, both at home and at work.

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