Hacker News: 6ak74rfy

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

6ak74rfy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:35:45 +0000

Rsync.net is really really good.

Just this weekend, my backup tool went rogue and exhausted quota on rsync.net (Some bad config by me on Borg.) Emailed them, they promptly added 100 GB storage for a day so that I could recover the situation. Plus, their product has been rock solid since a few years I've been using them.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

6ak74rfy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:02:38 +0000

Same.

Pi is refreshingly minimal in terms of system prompts, but still works really well and that makes me wonder whether other harnesses are overdoing. Look at OpenCode's prompts, for instance - long, mostly based on feels and IMO unnecessary. I would've liked to just overwrite OC's system prompts with Pi's (to get other features that Pi doesn't have) but that isn't possible today (without maintaining a custom fork)

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:31:00 +0000

Can you share the code? Specifically, curious how you did the browser integration. Did you use agent-browser? Something else?

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:42:07 +0000

Are there collaborative versions of these *claws today? Like, if an "admin" could self-host one on their home server and the whole family could use it? IIRC, OpenClaw has some version of "profiles" but does it allow, say, couple of family members to collaborate with the bot in a shared chat but each has individual/private chats as well.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

6ak74rfy — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:50:49 +0000

I too was thinking about something like this a few months ago. There were couple of reasons I didn't pursue the idea. One, the image generation AI wasn't reliable enough. Like, I couldn't get it to generate 2 images where the characters looked consistent, let alone a book worth of images. Two, the margins were quite small, so didn't seem like a viable business.

Wondering if you've thought about such things and your perspective.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

6ak74rfy — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:46:27 +0000

I am building a tool for synthetic monitoring for APIs. (Mimic users and generate continuous traffic against your APIs so that you catch problems before your users complain.)

There are some tools available today but setting them up is a lot of manual work. I am building an AI first tool that significantly simplifies the setup process (making AI do the heavy lifting) while creating high quality monitoring.

Early stages and collecting feedback from potential users. Reach out if something like this would solve some problems for you.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents"

6ak74rfy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:23:13 +0000

Glad I saw this comment.

The product sounds interesting but I am not gonna run this is in the cloud for my use cases.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

6ak74rfy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:17:53 +0000

nixos-anywhere to create, deploy-rs to deploy. sops-nix for secrets. Works great.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

6ak74rfy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:23:06 +0000

I didn't read any fickleness in the post. Sure, they tried multiple distros - who hasn't - and that too over ten years.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

6ak74rfy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:21:48 +0000

I've had a passing curiosity about Guix, so it was good to read this report.

One thing I didn't find is Guix on servers. I am all-in on NixOS for both my daily driver desktop and couple of servers, and adding more of either will be simple modifications to my flake repository. I really appreciate that simplicity and consistency. Does Guix offer that?

The other thing is package availability: it's amazing on Nix. Plus, they remain relatively fresh on the unstable channel. How's that on Guix?

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "That's not how email works"

6ak74rfy — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:38:44 +0000

Maybe this is what's happening to me at Fidelity. They keep complaining about my email on custom domain but the Protonmail address works fine. I use different apps for the two because PM doesn't support IMAP, so maybe PM doesn't block the tracking pixels but the other one does.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

6ak74rfy — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:05:30 +0000

For me, 2025 was the year of the Linux desktop. I wanted a replacement for an M1, something beefy to build side projects etc., so I custom built a PC and put NixOS on it. Still rocking it and quite happy with it.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Amazon has launched a major global crackdown on Fire Stick piracy"

6ak74rfy — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:22:19 +0000

Nvidia Shield is a really good device.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Why Self-Host?"

6ak74rfy — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:22:31 +0000

I too care a lot about privacy and data sovereignty but those aren't sufficient arguments to self-host. For instance, my wife cares about the two too and so she uses most of the services that I host at my home, but she isn't going to start self-hosting herself anytime soon.

I think the missing piece is you need to enjoy the process itself - without that, it's not really tenable (at least today).

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:28:15 +0000

ZFS is RAM hungry, plus doesn't like USB connections (like the article implied). So, I've been eyeing btrfs as a way to setup my NAS drives. Would I miss something in that setup?

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:40:26 +0000

What you are describing sounds more like backups (which is great) but not necessarily a declarative setup.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:25:36 +0000

Coolify and friends (Dokploy?) look like nice tools. But I am not very comfortable with them because the state of my server(s) isn't present in code. So, I like NixOS or Ansible more but then they require a bunch of boilerplate and custom infrastructure for setting up production.

Anyone know some infrastructure-as-code framework that makes it easy to spin up and maintain production servers? Something declarative, perhaps, but not Kubernetes?

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Self-hosting email like it's 1984"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:42:20 +0000

As for your second paragraph - I am more worried about the project being maintained by more or less a single person.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:21:40 +0000

Amazon's search results have been garbage from a really long time, I often wonder how come the executives or the team behind it never experience that themselves. I now to Amazon only if I know exactly what brand I am going to buy before opening Amazon.

I also quit Prime couple of years ago. Hardly miss it.

New comment by 6ak74rfy in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"

6ak74rfy — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:08:38 +0000

I would love to use KeepassXC but it doesn't make it easy to share credentials with the wife. I _could_ use a dedicated vault, but we'll then need to cut-paste things for sharing existing credentials.

So, for now, I've settled on Vaultwarden and it has been surprisingly stable so far.