Hacker News: timwis

New comment by timwis in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

timwis — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:21:10 +0000

Really sad to see this. I had only recently learnt about this project, and was really impressed by it. I was planning to set it up this weekend (via autobase). I've also been under the impression that it's likely to be what powers the backups in RDS, Cloud SQL, etc., but I may have misunderstood.

New comment by timwis in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

timwis — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:47:50 +0000

I wondered the same! FWIW I'm currently migrating from managed postgres to self-managed on hetzner with [autobase](https://autobase.tech/). Though of course for high availability it requires more than one server.

New comment by timwis in "Claude Opus 4.7"

timwis — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:56:19 +0000

We've started calling it dopus at work :(

New comment by timwis in "Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI"

timwis — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:23:34 +0000

I'm not the OP but I came here to voice the same concern. I would love to use something like this. I also signed up for rewind.ai and Limitless and pre-ordered the pendant. But ultimately I cancelled it out of privacy concerns.

I wonder if it could be local storage and you could provide your own Open Router endpoint? That way it could be a local model or your own deployment of GPT/Claude in Azure/Bedrock/Vertex etc where you can control retention policies etc.

Basically, I want to know that you guys don't have access to view my stuff. I get that that limits your ability to improve the product and support issues, but when I'm sending everything it really starts to matter. Just thought I'd share what held me back from immediately signing up despite really wanting to use a product like this!

New comment by timwis in "My Homelab Setup"

timwis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:15:05 +0000

This is what I do. Works great! And my caddy setup uses the DNS mode to provision TLS certs (using my domain provider's caddy plugin).

New comment by timwis in "Show HN: Open-source time tracking using screenshots"

timwis — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:01:26 +0000

That's great news! Thanks, I'll check it out

New comment by timwis in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

timwis — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:54:31 +0000

Thanks, that's a helpful example to put it into context!

New comment by timwis in "Show HN: Open-source time tracking using screenshots"

timwis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:20:03 +0000

Just what I'm looking for, but I'm reluctant to trust a third party with full time screen recording of my device... Any chance of local processing (or even custom LLM endpoints) in the future?

New comment by timwis in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

timwis — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:38:30 +0000

I'm having a hard time understanding how this is different from a bastion server, where you're tunneling through an intermediary server that you've deployed in the target network.

I guess the difference is the fact that the intermediary server doesn't need a port open (as standard nat punching will work)? Or are there other big differences?

New comment by timwis in "How I use Obsidian (2023)"

timwis — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:41:09 +0000

Not the OP, but I've got a "Names to remember" evergreen note in my Reference folder. Within it, I have a few headings (e.g. neighbours, or locations), and a bullet point for each person, with context that will trigger the memory. That might sound like there's a lot of structure, but it's really the act of writing it down in the first place that helps me remember.

New comment by timwis in "I’m joining OpenAI"

timwis — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:28:31 +0000

From what I remember, the key differentiating features were:

- a heartbeat, so it was able to 'think'/work throughout the day, even if you weren't interacting with it - a clever and simple way to retain 'memory' across sessions (though maybe claude code has this now) - a 'soul' text file, which isn't necessarily innovative in itself, but the ability for the agent to edit its own configuration on the fly is pretty neat

Oh, and it's open source

New comment by timwis in "Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server"

timwis — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:10:42 +0000

Would this be any better than just pasting links to the appropriate documentation for the technology you want to use in your AGENTS.md file? I suppose it's better if it's a single giant text file so there are fewer agent iterations navigating links within the docs but then doc sites could just provide that, like https://docs.avohq.io/3.0/llm-support.html

New comment by timwis in "A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)"

timwis — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:27:15 +0000

This should work out of the box with Magic DNS (part of tailscale features). If machine A is named larrys-laptop and is running a service on :8080, then from sandras-laptop just navigate to http://larrys-laptop:8080 and it should work, provided both machines are on the same tailnet.

New comment by timwis in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

timwis — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:57:53 +0000

Hasn't cursor been doing this with it's Plan mode for a while? Or is this different?

New comment by timwis in "Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?"

timwis — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:40:42 +0000

Home Assistant have a fully local voice assistant experience that's very pluggable and customisable. I believe it uses a fast whisper model for STT and piper for TTS.

You can run it on a raspberry pi (or ideally an N100+), and for the microphone/speaker part, you can make your own or buy their off the shelf voice hardware, which works really well.

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

New comment by timwis in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

timwis — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:00:49 +0000

Great article! I think a paragraph on your backup strategy would make it even more complete and compelling, particularly given you put your passwords and photos in there.

New comment by timwis in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

timwis — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:59:48 +0000

You can self-host Pocket ID (or another OIDC auth service) on a tiny $1/mo box and use that as your identity provider for Tailscale. Here's a video explaining how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPUkAm7yDlU

New comment by timwis in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

timwis — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:31:57 +0000

I've been looking for a solution like this for years. I briefly had an iOS shortcut on my Apple Watch working, but an OS update broke it. Now I'm on Android and I don't even know what I'd use for it. And it's exactly for these random thoughts and reminders that otherwise nag me or I forget them. David Allen (GTD) will love this too.

My only wish is that I hope it preserves the audio file, in case the transcription is wrong, so you don't lose the thought. Google Keep does this well and it's a life saver sometimes, when the transcription comes through as "Eat the cat" or something ridiculous.

New comment by timwis in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

timwis — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:00:35 +0000

Really compelling article! What do folks use instead in 2025?

New comment by timwis in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

timwis — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:33:51 +0000

Don't storage templates handle this out of the box? I haven't actually checked my instance but that was my impression from reading the docs!