Hacker News: nafey

New comment by nafey in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

nafey — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:55:04 +0000

I hope ronan farrow doesn't mind his article being shared like this

New comment by nafey in "Show HN: PinSend – Share text between devices using a PIN(P2P, no login)"

nafey — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:22:29 +0000

This looks interesting. What I don't understand is: how was it implemented without a server relay. I am no expert in WebRTC (or P2P for that matter) but I always assumed that there needs to be a central location for users to exchange their addresses and only then a P2P connection can be established. This must be the case here as well right? Or am I mistaken?

New comment by nafey in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

nafey — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:51:30 +0000

I am working on a standalone CLI tool that can do analytics find it here: https://github.com/nafey/minimalytics

Motivation for the project:

> This project was born out of the need for a lightweight analytics tool to track internal services on a resource-constrained VPS. Most SaaS analytics products either lack the scalability or exceed their free tier limits when tracking millions of events per month. Minimalytics addresses this gap by offering a minimalist, high-performance solution for resource-constrained environments.

I recently did a Show HN which you can find on my profile.

New comment by nafey in "Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite"

nafey — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:49:39 +0000

Thank you! Copying and processing the sqlite is always an option but I agree something like CSV exports are a good feature to add.

New comment by nafey in "Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite"

nafey — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:36:48 +0000

Wow. It looks like the two of us were responding to the same underlying needs. Great to see your project.

New comment by nafey in "Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite"

nafey — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:30:17 +0000

This is an interesting use case. I can definitely see how a colored cell in a grid can serve as a visual indicator to monitor health of infrastructure. Thanks for sharing this.

New comment by nafey in "Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite"

nafey — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:09:55 +0000

Thank you! I already had experience working in React so I decided to use it for the first release.

I am thinking about switching to HTMX to further reduce size, simplify and improve performance.

New comment by nafey in "Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite"

nafey — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:40:18 +0000

Thank you that's a good suggestion. I'll do that.

Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite

nafey — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:33:30 +0000

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my analytics app with you.

This project came from requirements to track certain very frequent events. I found that the cost to do it on a regular analytics product was much more than i was willing to pay. Secondly, I also wanted to use as few resources as possible. So I thought it may be a good idea to create something that may be useful for myself (and hopefully others).

I have been able to track a great number of events with this using ~20 MB of storage and memory which is incredible. I have been really impressed by golang as a language and as an ecosystem and would love to work more in this language going forward.

Some Highlights: 1. No dependencies 2. CLI based management 3. Web based UI (and the server to serve it) included in the program. 4. 20 MB install size. 5. 20 MB memory use while running. 6. Minimal storage requirements because it aggregates events.

This can be a great fit for anyone who wants to have a lightweight minimal analytics for internal events.

I am looking forward to your comments and feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427850

Points: 74

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New comment by nafey in "Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon"

nafey — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:23:44 +0000

Just adding a static website with screenshots of the product will be a great upgrade for users who are interested to learn more before signing in.

New comment by nafey in "Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices"

nafey — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 03:55:39 +0000

They want more users, not more utilization. Utilization is the effect of users not its cause. They are happy to have utilization increase as long as they keep getting more users. If the utilization increases while number of users remain constant because people (like OP) are using CPU intensive programs then that is not in their interest.

Interpreting 'Suzanne Delage' as Dracula

nafey — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:34:38 +0000

Article URL: https://gwern.net/suzanne-delage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159559

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nafey in "JavaScript dates are about to be fixed"

nafey — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:06:24 +0000

Wow thanks for sharing this, this certainly is a use case not covered by the system I proposed. I imagine this will require versioning of the timezone so we can translate our America/Los_Angeles v1.0 timestamp to America/Los_Angeles v2.0.

New comment by nafey in "JavaScript dates are about to be fixed"

nafey — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:29:06 +0000

I have always wondered why breaking the timestamp (in UTC) and the timezone into two separate data points and storing both is not the accepted solution. It appears like the cleanest solution to me.

Mathematicians have shown the most efficient way yet of squaring the circle

nafey — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:00:41 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1491065395704647683

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41219287

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by nafey in "How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite"

nafey — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:58:50 +0000

I believe it's a missed opportunity not to bundle sqlite in major browsers. I understand that making SQLite part of the browser spec introduces all sorts of complications [1] down the line. But nevertheless, it would have proved to be quite a nifty tool.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

Ask HN: Are BigTech firms increasing their hiring?

nafey — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 23:22:56 +0000

I saw a comment online saying that Google is hiring back the employees it laid off recently. Has someone else seen this in other companies as well?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39331217

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by nafey in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

nafey — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:54:28 +0000

Also he was stupid, any other billionaire would have relocated to a country that does not have extradition treaty with the US.

New comment by nafey in "Archaeologists discover oldest wooden structure"

nafey — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:06:29 +0000

Well he also thinks that Egyptians used Sonic energy of their chants to build the pyramids.

New comment by nafey in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

nafey — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 07:10:07 +0000

Interac is not real time. UPI is completely real time and money gets debited from your account and deposited to the merchants account instantly.