Hacker News: byyll

New comment by byyll in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

byyll — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:35:15 +0000

I don't think that's an alternative to US hyperscalers. Scaleway is the closest thing there is. Replacing a single service with 10 others is not really an alternative in my opinion.

New comment by byyll in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

byyll — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:30:59 +0000

ClouDNS is probably the most popular one.

New comment by byyll in "Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?"

byyll — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:45:42 +0000

> They don’t want to actively police the internet

They do and they've done so in the past. They are just more okay with some illegal stuff than others.

New comment by byyll in "Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?"

byyll — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:44:43 +0000

Because cloudflare is and always has been a bad actor. They protect all sorts of illegal stuff.

New comment by byyll in "Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January"

byyll — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:36:19 +0000

They had a referendum for that?

New comment by byyll in "Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January"

byyll — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:47:02 +0000

Did they agree? I've read at least one news article in the past 2 years talking about a referendum.

New comment by byyll in "Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust"

byyll — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:54:36 +0000

Isn't the whole point of Cloudflare's Workers to pay per function? If it is self-hosted, you must dedicate hardware in advance, even if it's rented in the cloud.

New comment by byyll in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

byyll — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:28:58 +0000

I get the point. But those are incomparable. Hyperscalers don't compete on price, they compete on scale and services offered. The compliance, the security, the support, the integrations, the backups.

Can you host your own object storage open source software, key vault OSS, VPN, queue service, container registry, logging, host your own Postgres/MySQL? Sure, but you will need to research what is best, what is supported, keep it maintained, make sure to update it and that those updates don't break anything, wake up in the middle of the night when it breaks, make sure it's secure. And you would still need to handle access control across those services. And you would still need a 3rd party service for DDoS protection, likely CDN too. And you would likely need some identity provider.

New comment by byyll in "Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer"

byyll — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:25:32 +0000

They have it on their website + the version 2 which has reflective protection + a backlight and is also in 24 inches.

New comment by byyll in "Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative"

byyll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:18:39 +0000

It still seems to require a browser to use. But sure, I guess it's easier to start with.

New comment by byyll in "Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative"

byyll — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 12:36:11 +0000

How does that compare to https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF ?

New comment by byyll in "YouTube to be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16"

byyll — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:11:40 +0000

Setting aside the obvious privacy issues with de-anonymizing everyone, it's great to limit kids' access to media for adults.

New comment by byyll in "200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green"

byyll — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:22:02 +0000

Lmao, an app.

New comment by byyll in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

byyll — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:45:25 +0000

https://msty.app (cross-platform) and https://chorus.sh (Mac only) do that though they are both a desktop app rather than a service. Arguably better than putting your API key somewhere online in my opinion.

New comment by byyll in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

byyll — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:41:43 +0000

Is Poe pay per use or a subscription? I don't want to sign up just to find out.

New comment by byyll in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

byyll — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:38:35 +0000

Is it pay per use?

New comment by byyll in "NuxtLabs is joining Vercel"

byyll — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:59:20 +0000

It's platform agnostic but Vercel is the only one that supports it? At least that's in the docs I linked.

New comment by byyll in "NuxtLabs is joining Vercel"

byyll — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:24:34 +0000

> has that happened with Svelte?

Yes. There are features that have been deliberately kept on the platform level to force you to use the platform instead of implementing it on the framework level or guiding you through it with the docs.

https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/glossary#ISR

New comment by byyll in "A single line of code cost $8000"

byyll — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:41:06 +0000

I'll let my employer know to update my salary or reduce my workload.

New comment by byyll in "National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers"

byyll — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:06:25 +0000

Sounds like a necessary change to send a message. I find it normal that when you go somewhere, you adapt and learn the language. You shouldn't expect other to adapt to you.