Hacker News: swq115

Implementing MikroTik's Binary API Protocol in Python from Scratch

swq115 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joekarlsson.com/blog/implementing-mikrotik-binary-api-protocol-in-python/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833052

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by swq115 in "Show HN: Pvm – A TUI to browse and run commands across multiple Python venvs"

swq115 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:56:31 +0000

Thanks. Aliases live in your shell config, but the commands you actually run are tied to the venv. Felt natural to attach them there.

Show HN: Pvm – A TUI to browse and run commands across multiple Python venvs

swq115 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Higangssh/pvm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815391

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

You can have an RSS dependent website in 2026

swq115 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:13:52 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815300

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by swq115 in "Show HN: Homebutler – Nightly restore drills for your homelab backups"

swq115 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:20:50 +0000

Previous Show HNs for this project focused on the CLI/MCP side; posting again because `backup drill` is the feature I think actually solves a real problem people pretend they don't have.

Repo: https://github.com/Higangssh/homebutler Happy to answer anything.

Show HN: Homebutler – Nightly restore drills for your homelab backups

swq115 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://homebutler.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47794477

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Ghostmeet – Self-hosted meeting transcription in a Chrome side panel

swq115 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:37:55 +0000

Article URL: https://ghostmeet.sshlab.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780614

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

MCP Roadmap

swq115 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:09:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-mcp-roadmap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779185

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Winclipshot – Ctrl+V screenshots as file paths in Windows terminals

swq115 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:36:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Higangssh/winclipshot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752632

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Sentinel-Based Code Tracing via Runtime Code Section Patching

swq115 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:51:57 +0000

Article URL: https://revers.engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749852

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

State of Homelab 2026

swq115 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:42:37 +0000

Article URL: https://mrlokans.work/posts/state-of-homelab-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746577

Points: 123

# Comments: 98

New comment by swq115 in "Show HN: Homebutler – Verify your backups restore, automatically"

swq115 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:10:24 +0000

Single Go binary (~15MB, zero deps) for homelab management. The backup drill feature creates an isolated container, restores your backup into it, and health-checks it. Your running services are never touched. Also handles Docker, WoL, network scanning, and multi-server SSH.

Show HN: Homebutler – Verify your backups restore, automatically

swq115 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Higangssh/homebutler

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739203

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Build nice terminal UI with Bubble Tea

swq115 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:09:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.prskavec.net/post/bubbletea/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737195

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How Wake-On-LAN works (2020)

swq115 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:03:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.xaner.dev/post/wake-on-lan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729507

Points: 92

# Comments: 33

Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol

swq115 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:39:01 +0000

Article URL: https://smlx.dev/posts/goodwe-sems-protocol-teardown/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713724

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by swq115 in "Show HN: Homebutler – I manage my homelab from chat. AI never gets raw shell"

swq115 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:12:32 +0000

I run a few homelab servers and got tired of SSH-ing into each one every time I needed to check something. Especially at 3am when an alert fires — I just didn't want to open my laptop anymore.

So I built homebutler. It's a single Go binary (~15MB), zero dependencies. Point it at your servers via SSH and you get: system status, Docker control, Wake-on-LAN, port scanning, network discovery, alerts, and backup/restore. There's also a web dashboard (homebutler serve) and a TUI (homebutler watch).

It has a built-in MCP server so you can plug it into Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, or whatever. But the AI only talks through structured JSON commands — it can restart a container but can't rm -rf anything. No raw shell access, ever.

GitHub: https://github.com/Higangssh/homebutler

Feedback welcome — especially on the security model and what commands you'd want added.