Hacker News: onel

New comment by onel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

onel — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:28:09 +0000

A fully open source operating system geared towards self-hosting: https://github.com/malmoos/malmo

There are some good options out there (umbrel, zima, etc) but none that are fully open source or that have the sinplicity that I am gunning for with this one.

The focus is making it one-click to run your own "life backup" (immich, nextcloud) and also host your own open source SaaS alternatives.

New comment by onel in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

onel — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:01:06 +0000

Your post title is misleading and false. They didn't archive overnight, they raised the money last year, the founder explains in comments.

New comment by onel in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

onel — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:25:14 +0000

I'm pretty sure this was an unintended consequences. They received the report from anthropic and just shared it with the government without thinking that it might cause this.

New comment by onel in "Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good"

onel — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:44:04 +0000

Yeah, I think you're right. It's not worth it. I'll update chrome and just setup pihole

New comment by onel in "Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good"

onel — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:28:24 +0000

My fix for this is really a bad idea: I'm on Ubuntu and I just pinned the Google Chrome version before they deprecated the API If a huge security bug is found, I might need to update

New comment by onel in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

onel — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:04:30 +0000

I think a full blown VPN might be an overkill. Something like tailscale is much easier to set up, even though technically it's the same thing.

New comment by onel in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

onel — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:03:20 +0000

That's a good setup. Tailscale, or wire guard like apps, are kindda the future. We're moving towards this more private internet where access is invite only.

New comment by onel in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

onel — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:53 +0000

I think moving it offline is part of the solution, but the main one is to actually find/fix the issues. So I guess this will require more involvement from us in open source.

New comment by onel in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

onel — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:45:11 +0000

This is exactly how I'm building an OS right now. I have a lot of things speced out, and for most of them also create an issue. And I have a friend that just points his claudr code at the repo and tells it to "find the next thing to work on and implement it" I then do the review, verification, etc, but a great way to used unused quota.

New comment by onel in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

onel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:44:36 +0000

That is a great video, but short is very subjective, the video is 24 minutes long :))

New comment by onel in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"

onel — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:59:20 +0000

Yes. These rules were introduced, because that's the purpose of pension funds. To invest in very long-term ideas and assets. That's their whole purpose. I'm not sure if we're debating here about the purpose of pension funds, or their strategy of investing in index funds. The first one doesn't change, the second one, maybe.

New comment by onel in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"

onel — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:05:36 +0000

That's not how pension funds work though. Pension funds are extremely conservative. They invest on horizons spanning decades. They can't just make decisions from one month to the next. The very short time frame of an index accepting Tesla is the problem. It's like telling a train "quick, make a right here"

New comment by onel in "The Cloud vs. Edge Debate Is Over"

onel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:47:35 +0000

The article focuses on sqlai (which is their product) but I think it hits the nail on the head with the idea that we're moving towards a world where we're gonna have the data closer to us. Not only from a privacy POV but also to control what the app does, and just to have your phone / web app closer to the data source. The people at self-hosting were right all along.

Microsoft's Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets

onel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:41:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/941830/microsoft-project-solara-os-ai-agent-gadgets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381474

Points: 3

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New comment by onel in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

onel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:51:37 +0000

That was the premise of halloapp. I think it was $5 a month and encrypted like WhatsApp, and you had a feed only from your contacts. It was founded by a guy who worked for WhatsApp for a long time. Apparently it went under in 2024. I think messaging is just a commoditized service. People will not pay for it

New comment by onel in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

onel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:31:49 +0000

Yeah that's a good point. With these side projects, the pleasure is in the tinkering, and just playing around with an idea

New comment by onel in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

onel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:28:14 +0000

Unfortunately, I think the solution will be invite only services, communities, etc. Someone needs to invite you to have access to it. If you host your own blog then that might be okay to have public access, you would want everyone and everything to read it. But if you're hosting your own photos, we might need tailscale like services to only allow certain people to access that.

New comment by onel in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

onel — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:53:12 +0000

He got done voted because that's an exaggerated claim. With no proof. Most of the articles on Wikipedia are just facts about nature, geography, history, etc and they don't need a newspaper as a source.

U.S. AI Data Center Awareness and Issue Map

onel — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:49:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279861

Points: 4

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New comment by onel in "Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?"

onel — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:30:33 +0000

Not really, no. I'm in Dublin and I help organize a couple of them. We have 3 for June alone from our org alone. In Dublin there's something happening every 2-3 days.