Hacker News: ilkhan4

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Being privacy-conscious comes with some downsides"

ilkhan4 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:50:33 +0000

Pi-hole does have a feature where you can temporarily disable it for exceptional cases like that. You could have used that instead of uninstalling it altogether.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "What would a "permissions-first ORM" look like? Looking for spec feedback"

ilkhan4 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:26:11 +0000

I haven't read through the entire thing yet, but looks conceptually similar to Zenstack (https://zenstack.dev) with the auth plugin and auto-generated APIs, so I'd be interested in a comparison with that.

Fwiw, I went down the path of trying to do something similar with Drizzle and gave up since it was in such a state of flux (this was last year). There are (were) a ton of edge cases around trying to add automatic filters to queries to the point that it was hard to justify not just rolling my own ORM.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB"

ilkhan4 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:42:22 +0000

A few questions/comments after skimming the docs:

- How does authz work? Can I use Postgres RLS? If not, how would you address row or column-level permissions in a system that uses this? - If you're using logical replication to sync with PG, is there a limit to the number of clients you can have connected? I see there is a lot of work around de-duping live queries, but how well does that work in practice? - Any thought to making an extension for Postgres? My main hesitation right now is that I have to go through an NPM package to use this but a lot of our tooling expects a plain Postgres connection. - REALLY looking forward to seeing how the schema migration story looks.

Overall, it seems to address most of the use-cases where I'd reach for an ORM or API server so I'm really interested to see where this could go.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Jellyfin does hardware transcoding for free, and Plex wants $250 to match it"

ilkhan4 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:50:49 +0000

For an AppleTV app, Infuse has been good for me. It’s a paid app but worth it, imo.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

ilkhan4 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:11:05 +0000

Yep, I've had mine running for over a year now without issue. It idles at 34w with all 4 drives running. I ended up making a custom "case" for it: https://github.com/cbsmith402/storage-loaf

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Ask HN: How Do you undo or checkout changes from Codex CLI and others?"

ilkhan4 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:20:42 +0000

I haven't used Codex, but my process is the same with Claude Code as if I'm writing the code: branch off of main, tell it to write code. If I like it, commit the code. If I don't, revert the code, then tell it I reverted the code and it should do something different.

I commit on the branch about as often as I did when writing code manually: before I'm about to do something big or try something that might break other things.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)"

ilkhan4 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:53:40 +0000

Where else would you store them that's more secure?

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

ilkhan4 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:07:08 +0000

I'll push the metaphor a bit: I think the point is that if you have a fleet of vehicles you want to fuel, go ahead and get a fuel truck and bite off on that expense. However, if you only have 1 or 2, a couple of jerry cans you probably already have + a pickup truck is probably sufficient.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

ilkhan4 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:30:16 +0000

This argument is always kind of silly to me. You really think they'd use a weapon of mass destruction just to take out a few people they don't like? On their home soil? I mean, I find myself being surprised by Trump daily, but still... It's far more likely that they'd use more surgical means, like the ICE raids, to root out people they don't like. In that case, I'd say being armed would make at least somewhat of a difference, or at least give pause.

Some guys with AK-47s kept the world's most powerful military pretty busy for 20 years, so I wouldn't underestimate the value of a few rifles against authoritarianism.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Brand in 30 Seconds – Meet Brandolia.io"

ilkhan4 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:13:19 +0000

As someone who has been in the market for something like this, can I ask why it's a monthly subscription? I don't think I would be generating a new brand identity every month so it would make more sense to me to pay a one-time fee for x number of iterations. I have a little subscription fatigue so I'd actually pay a bit more to not have to remember to cancel it.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip"

ilkhan4 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:32:49 +0000

You can get a 1 -> 4 M.2 adapter for these as well which would give each one a 1x PCIe lane (same as all these other boards). If you still want spinning rust, these also have built-in power for those and SATA ports so you only need a 12-19v power supply. No idea why these aren't more popular as a basis for a NAS.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?"

ilkhan4 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:24:01 +0000

Well, it was going to be pilot but then I've been hanging out on /r/flying lately and it sounds pretty rough in that world right now.

I'd guess something else driving/piloting some kind of vehicle that isn't as saturated.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Ask HN: Would you use a platform that deploys Docker Compose apps?"

ilkhan4 — Sat, 31 May 2025 19:46:40 +0000

I’ve always wondered why something like this isn’t a thing. AWS ECS had a half-hearted feature to deploy docker compose setups but they discontinued it awhile back. We use compose to run our app locally so it would be nice to just deploy that.

Like the other response, my concern would be reliability on a new service, but I’d use it after it was around for a year or two.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Cybiko"

ilkhan4 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:53:32 +0000

This brings back memories. For some reason, my (at the time) girlfriend and I were gifted a pair these in my first year of college. I didn't have much use for them by then but they would have been pretty cool in middle/high school!

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

ilkhan4 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:51:23 +0000

I've thought of taking a similar path myself. Which school are you looking at?

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Ask HN: Why isn't an open source A/V receiver a thing?"

ilkhan4 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:42:20 +0000

I've wondered this too, and I even tried to build one a few years back, but I came to the conclusion that most people who care that much about audio don't really care about open source or hacking hardware. They like buying a big, expensive black box that just does the thing and are fine upgrading every few years. Everyone else buys sound bars and there's not much in between.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Outerbase: 10GB managed SQLite databases in early access"

ilkhan4 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:12:25 +0000

What's the process for getting access to this? I signed up for an account but it's prompting me to connect to an existing DB.

New comment by ilkhan4 in "Why we built Vade Studio in Clojure"

ilkhan4 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:26:35 +0000

Yeah, this has been my experience too. The mentality seems similar to "productivity hackers" who spend more time figuring out the quickest, most optimal way to do a thing than people who just do the thing.