Hacker News: thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thekashifmalikHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:44:54 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"]]>I thought I was the only one dealing with this!

Made me consider that my magic keyboard was getting old or having bluetooth issues, but it does not happen on ANY other inputs.

]]>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:41:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249650thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249650https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249650<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Htmx 2.0.4 Released"]]>So happy every time I see HTMX.

I'm hoping there is more innovation in this space with React engineers rediscovering the benefits of server-side rendering and Backend-For-Frontend efforts.

I think the perfect stack involves all 3 paradigms (initial loads, hypermedia loads and data/AJAX loads) used in parts of the application as makes sense.

]]>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:15:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415036thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415036https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415036<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Restic: Backups done right"]]>That command works well and accomplishes some of what rincr what built to solve. For example, when I mention browse-ability, I mean on the backup host without any dependencies so I can use standard file tools and browsers.

I also needed both "pull" (backup remote files) and "push" (backup local files) backup features and if I'm not mistaken restic still only supports the "push" model.

EDIT: Added more details

]]>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:48:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830961thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830961https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830961<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Restic: Backups done right"]]>Big fan of restic! The only feature I found missing was the ability to browse historical snapshots like regular files.

I wrote and now use the rsync-based, browsable, incremental backup CLI: https://rincr.com/

]]>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:22:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830760thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830760https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830760<![CDATA[Show HN: rincr – CLI for push/pull incremental backups]]>Article URL: https://rincr.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900128

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:13:58 +0000https://rincr.com/thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900128https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900128<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Show HN: UI for SSHFS"]]>I haven't used mosh. It looks like it replaces either SSH or Bash, unclear to me.

The only dependency in SSHFSUI is SSHFS and if that can be configured to use mosh instead of SSH under-the-hood, support would be possible.

]]>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:57:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823157thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823157https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823157<![CDATA[Show HN: UI for SSHFS]]>This tray-based program can be used to manage SSHFS mounts for remote servers.

It was built out of a need to browse my self-hosted servers (and connected HDDs); managing the state for multiple SSHFS connections as well as avoiding system-hanging bugs on MacOS was becoming tedious.

This is early software still, please use at your own risk and share any feedback.

Github: https://github.com/thekashifmalik/sshfsui

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812593

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

]]>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:59:32 +0000http://sshfsui.com/thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812593https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812593<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Show HN: kbackup – No-config push/pull incremental backups built on top of rsync"]]>Since the project was renamed, this is the new homepage: https://rincr.com/

]]>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:28:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39425646thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39425646https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39425646<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Ask HN: How do you name software?"]]>This is pretty cool. I'll have to use it for my next project.

]]>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:32:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39337814thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39337814https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39337814<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Ask HN: How do you name software?"]]>Do you have link to the project?

]]>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:29:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329907thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329907https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329907<![CDATA[Ask HN: How do you name software?]]>I recently released some software and it took considerable effort to name. After the public announcement, I learned there was a preexisting project with the same name. Since my software isn't at v1, I'm back to the drawing board. It is a CLI so my criteria is:

- It has to be short enough to type comfortably.

- It has to have a domain available.

- I have to feel an affinity for it.

That last point is fuzziest. How do other people name software?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329614

Points: 3

# Comments: 8

]]>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 19:54:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329614thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329614https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329614<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Show HN: kbackup – No-config push/pull incremental backups built on top of rsync"]]>oof

Since I'm not at v1 yet, I would consider changing the name if that KDE project is actively maintained.

]]>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:52:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308247thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308247https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308247<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Show HN: kbackup – No-config push/pull incremental backups built on top of rsync"]]>Happy to hear any feedback!

Got pre-built binaries here: https://github.com/thekashifmalik/kbackup/releases and it should be pretty easy to install/build using Go too.

]]>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:02:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292744thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292744https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292744<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Show HN: kbackup – No-config push/pull incremental backups built on top of rsync"]]>A reimplementation of the ideas in rsnapshot built with the composibility and simplicity of rsync in-mind. It comes with sane defaults and I have been using this to compliment my rsync-style mirror backups for data that needs incremenetal backup.

Looking for feedback. I'm gearing up for a stable v1 release.

]]>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:02:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291856thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291856https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291856<![CDATA[Show HN: kbackup – No-config push/pull incremental backups built on top of rsync]]>Article URL: https://thekashifmalik.github.io/kbackup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291855

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

]]>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:02:00 +0000https://thekashifmalik.github.io/kbackup/thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291855https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291855<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Conditional Git Configuration"]]>This is just what I need.

]]>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:26:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38949347thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38949347https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38949347<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "I quit my job to work full time on my open source project"]]>Do you know any way to accomplish the same thing but keeping the history in plaintext? Would love to still be able to run SQL over it.

]]>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 04:15:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38936066thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38936066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38936066<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Generative AI for Beginners"]]>Ah interesting. I had assumed there were different methods, something like:

    gpt4.prompt(prompt)
    gpt4.data(email_data)
    response = gpt4.response()
If the interface is just text-in and text-out then Prompt injection seems like an incredibly large problem. Almost as large as SQL injection before ORMs and DB libraries became common.

]]>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 22:15:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38408980thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38408980https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38408980<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Generative AI for Beginners"]]>I'm trying to understand the vulnerability you are pointing out; in the example of an AI assistant w/ access to your email, is that AI assistant also reading it's instructions from your email?

]]>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:10:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407688thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407688https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407688<![CDATA[New comment by thekashifmalik in "Show HN: WireHole combines WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound with an easy UI"]]>It's okay but not ideal.

Otherwise anyone connected to WiFi can snoop on traffic.

Unfortunately my router, switches, AP and NAS don't support HTTPS either :'(

]]>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:31:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052680thekashifmalikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052680https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052680