Hacker News: Nowaker

New comment by Nowaker in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

Nowaker — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:35:03 +0000

The general unavailability of everything was caused by the system.

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: Bitfusion Profiler – Compare application performance across clouds"

Nowaker — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:04:14 +0000

We're likely to use it in the future to choose the right provider and plan. However, I would definitely want to see DigitalOcean and Linode here.

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: HotelSaver – Save money on your existing hotel reservations"

Nowaker — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:26:46 +0000

"We spend the time and energy searching all over the web for cheaper reservations for you", are you really spending time on searching things manually? If so, I wouldn't pay anything for such a service, because you may apparently go on holiday and don't care about my reservation. If all is automatic, then I could go for it. However, then "spending time and energy" is a lie.

I believe anyone should be able to submit their reservation, along with credit card details. If you do find the cheaper rate somewhere, you charge them at that point and present with the offer.

BTW, A typo: we can try to ehysave you money.

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – self-hosted DigitalOcean – try on your CentOS or VPS"

Nowaker — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:26:18 +0000

VirtKick is open source, the code is on GitHub: https://github.com/virtkick

Show HN: VirtKick – self-hosted DigitalOcean – try on your CentOS or VPS

Nowaker — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:18:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.virtkick.io/blog/rpm-package-try-on-centos-or-opensuse.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8787839

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks"

Nowaker — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:00:03 +0000

That's indeed extremely funny. I spotted it some time after I wrote the original post, then started writing my auto-trolling reply to self. ;)

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks"

Nowaker — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:53:27 +0000

I found the reason to visit Stackshare real quick. I just checked today's Analytics of my startup https://www.virtkick.io - 20% visits originates from stackshare, so I now have to claim it. ;) Quite funny, I tell ya.

It doesn't change the main concern, though. leanstack.io was the greatest site to find services.

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks"

Nowaker — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:35:00 +0000

Leanstack.io was extremely useful for discovering services. Needed best A/B testing tools? I used to go to Leanstack. I don't seem to find any reason to visit Stackshare. I don't really care whether Twitter uses Zendesk or Freshdesk.

VirtKick Federation – Free VPS for Open Source

Nowaker — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:16:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.virtkick.io/blog/free-vps-for-open-source-meet-virtkick-federation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550825

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:37:07 +0000

You may be surprised that VirtKick wraps WebVirtMgr and uses it as a JSON API for libvirt. :-) This is a temporary solution but does the job - it allowed us to start real quick with features that users care about, instead of harnessing libvirt. (Of course, SSH key injection is in a scope of our project! https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick/issues/6)

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:31:43 +0000

I'm sorry but we missed your comment. Just created an issue to track this problem: https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick/issues/65 Please subscribe to the issue so you'll get the updates.

(De)websockify SSH to avoid lockdown in hotel rooms

Nowaker — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:17:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.virtkick.io/blog/de-websockify-ssh-to-avoid-lockdown-in-hotel-rooms.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538550

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:56:33 +0000

Oh, forgot to actually add something there. To give you a better understanding, it'll work the same way as on Heroku.

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:10:25 +0000

Cloud Foundry is a self-hosted Heroku. Both are PaaS (but it's you who provide the "P" with the former).

VirtKick is a self-hosted DigitalOcean. Both are very simple IaaS (but it's you who provide the "I" with the former)

Does it explain?

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:02:36 +0000

Thanks, can't wait!

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:01:33 +0000

Frankly, there are two mutually exclusive camps: free software and open source. I myself sympathize with free software (GPL) whereas RushPL with open source (MIT). Selling proprietary versions has never been the reason for CLA, though! We want to be able to re-release VirtKick under MIT (and automatically get rid of CLA) if we get funded, so businesses have no problems with it. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527999)

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:28:23 +0000

It's not our intention though, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527999

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:18:08 +0000

Exactly right, we value existing tools - that's what makes DO so strong. :)

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:06:26 +0000

What one regards as a feature, other regard as misfeatures. If you like virt-manager, then VirtKick isn't really for you. We value a simple UI more than virt-manager, and REST API more than virsh. We don't say your way is wrong. It's just more difficult.

Existing libvirt clients, at least those that we know of, aren't super reliable though. libvirt stucks when there's too much happening on the HV, or denies jobs without even trying (e.g. when a pool has async jobs). A backend that schedules tasks for background execution is needed for that (and we have it), so even now we're not "just" a frontend for libvirt.

The use case is a very simple panel with zero virt knowledge needed to start.

Thanks for your comment.

New comment by Nowaker in "Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean"

Nowaker — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:48:40 +0000

Yep. Our 128 GB hypervisor wasn't enough. We redirected traffic to a static HTML prototype, so - at least - you guys have a chance to see the design and planned features. https://demo.virtkick.io/