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New comment by heidarb in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

heidarb — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:08:43 +0000

Working on Infralyst: https://infralyst.io

Self serve AWS cost savings for Terraform users. Connect AWS (read only role via a Terraform module), GitHub and Terraform state. Infralyst finds underused resources and opens a PR to downsize, gated by best practice checks so it doesn’t suggest sketchy changes.

Free: 3 downsizing PRs per workspace. Pro: $99/mo unlimited PRs. Looking for early users and blunt feedback from teams running AWS + Terraform.

If you try it and mention you came from HN, I’m happy to set you up with an early adopter discount.

New comment by heidarb in "China Can't Win"

heidarb — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:53:29 +0000

I’ll just leave this here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_electoral_inte... It’s a complex issue. It’s understandable people want democracy but it’s also understandable that it can be seen as a security risk. The brexit referendum in the UK is probably the best modern example of this.

New comment by heidarb in "Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid"

heidarb — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:09:24 +0000

Until someone else makes phones that pass the strict requirements set by the GrapheneOS team, then yes.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

New comment by heidarb in "Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid"

heidarb — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:05:56 +0000

Pick any pixel device, except pixel 10. It’s not supported and no word on when they will add support since google are no longer open sourcing the drivers for the pixel phones. Hopefully they manage to figure it out.

New comment by heidarb in "Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends"

heidarb — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 01:03:27 +0000

There’s also BirdNET-Go https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

It’s under active development and uses the same data models.

New comment by heidarb in "Digital Services Playbook"

heidarb — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:23:53 +0000

As far as I know the US one is heavily inspired by the UK one.

The UK kind of pioneered doing digital services in government well with GDS, 10+ years ago.

Some of the people who were central to the effort have gone to consult other governments on how to do the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service

New comment by heidarb in "Why Ruby on Rails still matters"

heidarb — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:37:03 +0000

Devise has made it easy to add auth to rails apps for many years now. More recently there is also the built in auth generator.

New comment by heidarb in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

heidarb — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:51:37 +0000

I'm a happy customer. I wrote a ruby client for your API and have been parsing thousands of different types of PDFs through it with great results. I tested almost everything out there at the time and I couldn't find anything that came close to being as good as llamaparse.

Show HN: Sensible Purchase Framework

heidarb — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:16:06 +0000

Hi HN,

I have been selling my things recently because I'm moving. It made me realise I could do a lot better with my consumption habits.

This is mostly a thought experiment, but I put together a flow chart for decision making around buying things.

The main goal is for it to be sensible and simple. Contributions are welcome.

Flowchart: https://github.com/heidar/sensible-purchase-framework/blob/master/flowchart.mmd

PS: Using it with AI can be quite interesting!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633852

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Children working as riders for food delivery apps – BBC investigation

heidarb — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:26:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67371473

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260982

Points: 19

# Comments: 60

Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android

heidarb — Sun, 15 May 2022 10:26:36 +0000

Article URL: https://baak6.com/baikal-openbsd-fossdroid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386619

Points: 166

# Comments: 61

Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install local backdoors

heidarb — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:57:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3062910/lenovo-companies-working-in-china-may-have-to-install-local-backdoors

Hacker News: heidarb

New comment by heidarb in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

New comment by heidarb in "China Can't Win"

New comment by heidarb in "Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid"

New comment by heidarb in "Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid"

New comment by heidarb in "Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends"

New comment by heidarb in "Digital Services Playbook"

New comment by heidarb in "Why Ruby on Rails still matters"

New comment by heidarb in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"

Show HN: Sensible Purchase Framework

Children working as riders for food delivery apps – BBC investigation

Own your calendar and contacts with OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android

Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install local backdoors

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