Hacker News: j45

New comment by j45 in "Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier"

j45 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:33:06 +0000

Self-hosting is when you install and run something for yourself.

Whether you use the cloud, or a vps, or a dedicated bare metal server, or your own equipment at home is all self hosting.

New comment by j45 in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

j45 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:48:08 +0000

One step towards a $25K github replacement?

New comment by j45 in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

j45 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:32:34 +0000

I’m not implying Raid 5 on its own is a complete backup.

Within a storage array though it does provide redundancy at that level, and generally speaking most people don’t access a raid or NAS at a shell level only where they drop rm -fr’s

Separate and offsite backups are non negotiable, however running a raid 5 locally can greatly reduce storage rebuild/restore time, if a single drive fails the rest of the raid continues to work fine until replaced.

New comment by j45 in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

j45 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:12:04 +0000

both drives? Only 2 mirrored drives isn't really what a RAID can be.

Constructing a RAID5 with 4 drives provides failover and recovery if one of the drives dies.

New comment by j45 in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

j45 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:49:11 +0000

A raid is one layer and one copy in a backup.

Inherently to inner copy it provides some redundancy.

Backups need more than one copy.

New comment by j45 in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

j45 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:06:01 +0000

A great reason to limit “Smarthome” devices to a dedicated guest or iot wifi network.

New comment by j45 in "If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function"

j45 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:33:35 +0000

It’s like mixing two different hot sauces, ymmv.

New comment by j45 in "Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app"

j45 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:14:35 +0000

This is a new project and a great place to start.

So many fun rabbit holes from here with the different ways to get this working (and keeping displaying) on a chromecast, etc.

New comment by j45 in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

j45 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:12:49 +0000

It could be to incentivize people to not be lazy users of tokens.

New comment by j45 in "Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy"

j45 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:30:15 +0000

The public learning technology removes their agency from themselves to be competent in literate in the use of those technologies for themselves, and to recognize it being used against them.

This is what I meant. Is that what you are saying removes agency from the individual?

New comment by j45 in "Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy"

j45 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:57:51 +0000

When people don't learn to use tech, it's used against them by those seeking fun, power and profit.

New comment by j45 in "Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror"

j45 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:07:21 +0000

This is great, can't wait.

New comment by j45 in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

j45 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:43:09 +0000

On one hand I wonder if JetBrain could have done something like Cursor better with it's deep experience, and at the same time AI software driven can require a complete fresh perspective, and I do hope JetBrain can reimagine itself to meet software development where it's headed as supports will sorely be needed.

New comment by j45 in "The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?"

j45 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:33:08 +0000

New quality tools will have to be developed.

New comment by j45 in "AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment"

j45 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:27:11 +0000

I would argue too much EdTech is not actually edtech. Too often, it's just tech packaged slightly for Ed.

New comment by j45 in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

j45 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:33:36 +0000

Products are often timing the market and the need, maybe something like it today could land different.

New comment by j45 in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

j45 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:32:36 +0000

Except the part where it trains on your private of information by default.

New comment by j45 in "[dead]"

j45 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:03:59 +0000

Was just about to run it through

https://awnist.com/slop-cop

New comment by j45 in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

j45 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:00:06 +0000

I kind of hope someone does build it, just not exclusively dependant on Cloudflare.

Perhaps cloudflare thinks this is reasonably possible with LLM driven development, however, the devil on this is in the details to hit the production level footprint of something like github. especially if running from scratch.

New comment by j45 in "Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering"

j45 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:57:24 +0000

Software development evolves. Every decade. Or faster. Always has, and always will.