Hacker News: localhostinger

New comment by localhostinger in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

localhostinger — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:03:23 +0000

I am running a niche SaaS with around 20 users per day on AWS.

I too was shocked when I saw the $1.7billion bill, instead of the usual $1.5billion.

New comment by localhostinger in "How I use HTMX with Go"

localhostinger — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:34:07 +0000

HTMX is great for a lot of things, but if you're working in a team, and your colleagues are not on board, it's tough. Lots of "this is not a serious technology" kind of arguments. All kinds of bugs simply initially blamed on the choice of using HTMX. Even if proven wrong afterwards, the damage is already done. And this was in the most excellent team I have worked in so far.

I'm happy that I got to experience this and I learned from it. Gotta choose your battles or something.

As for Go's html/template: I think it has one of the weirdest / most unnatural interfaces. I recently reread "A Philosophy of Software Design" and one of its key points is to keep interfaces simple and push complexity downwards, making it easier for others to use. Now why do I have to care about "cloning templates" every time I render some html template? Love the Go stdlib, but this thing feels unnecessary complex to me.

New comment by localhostinger in "Show HN: Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML"

localhostinger — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:23:51 +0000

Oh very interesting! I'm gonna give this a try for an upcoming PoC that I want to build as a PWA.

New comment by localhostinger in "OpenTrafficMap"

localhostinger — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:24:33 +0000

Happy to see this popping up here, I watched the Linux Tage talk last week. The demo just kept getting better and better, to a point where the audience just interruptively cheers and claps away. I know nothing about the contents, but this warmed my heart. True hacker project!

Heinz Zemanek and the Curious Story of the "Mailüfterl"

localhostinger — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/heinz-zemanek-and-the-curious-story-of-the-mailuefterl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543435

Points: 1

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New comment by localhostinger in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"

localhostinger — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:46:04 +0000

In IT school back in 2008 (with 14). I had absolutely no idea about the school or programming, I was just knowing my way around computers, so I signed up for it. We started with C and I remember the first couple of weeks and exercises just doing stuff with printf. Then reading user input with scanf. It clicked pretty early for me, and I loved it.

From there on I was always learning faster and more at home as a hobby, I was mostly ahead in school. A friend and classmate and I coded so many different projects during that time (2D terminal game, PHP forum, PHP CMS that was actually productive for a few years, thereby also learning how the internet worked).

It's just crazy how lucky I got to be interested in this thing at the right time. "Back then" I feel you got so much more time to learn something well, mostly because things weren't changing at crazy speed.

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

localhostinger — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:58:51 +0000

Great job!

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

localhostinger — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:43:39 +0000

I'm trying to make localhosting (https://thelocalhostinger.dev/localhosting) a thing. It's about finding ways to strip away unnecessary complexity of selfhosting in very specific edge use cases.

Right now I am tinkering with wails (https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) to build an app store.

New comment by localhostinger in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

localhostinger — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:50:24 +0000

I like to think of test coverage as a negative indicator, i.e. if coverage falls below some defined percentage, it's a bad sign. But it doesn't make sense to optimize for that metric, because, as you said, you can have 100% test coverage but every single test can be bad.

I've always wanted to spend some more time on mutation testing, which can be used to improve test quality instead of just focussing on quantity. But I found it to be completely irrelevant in the industry so far.

New comment by localhostinger in "Messing with scraper bots"

localhostinger — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:46:38 +0000

Interesting! It's nice to see people are experimenting with these, and I wonder if this kind of junk data generators will become its own product. Or maybe at least a feature/integration in existing software. I could see it going there.