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New comment by xydac in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

xydac — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:12:18 +0000

classic, crowdsource it to other cities !!

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

xydac — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:25:24 +0000

its funny how us developers build varied UX, but nothing beats the simplicity of HN's default experience. quick and bloat free.

Show HN: BulkHead – iOS File Manager for SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, and S3

xydac — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:51:37 +0000

Hi HN – I’m Laxmi. I’ve been building an iOS file manager called BulkHead and wanted to share it here.

The short version: it connects to SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, and S3 servers from your iPhone or iPad. I kept reaching for my laptop just to check a file on my NAS or poke around an S3 bucket, and the built-in Files app really only handles iCloud and basic SMB. So I built the thing I wanted.

You can browse and manage files, preview images/PDFs/video/code, and edit markdown or code files right on the server (it saves back when you’re done). It also does SSH key management, shows up as a storage provider in the iOS Files app, and has this external display mode where you plug in via USB-C and your phone turns into a remote control for the big screen. Free tier gets you 3 connections with all four protocols, full browsing, preview, editing, favorites, biometric lock, SSH keys – no account needed. There’s a 7-day Pro trial on first install too. Pro is $6.99/year or $14.99 one-time. That gets you unlimited connections, a transfer queue for batch/background transfers, encrypted file cache, and external display controller mode.

On privacy – there are zero analytics, zero tracking, and no third-party SDKs in the app. Credentials live in iOS Keychain and never leave the device. The App Store privacy label says “Data Not Collected” and I intend to keep it that way.

Tech-wise it’s SwiftUI on iOS 17+. The networking layer uses Citadel for SSH/SFTP, SMBClient for SMB, and Soto for S3 – all open source.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bulkhead/id6759474201

Site: https://www.oddinks.com/bulkhead

Privacy: https://www.oddinks.com/bulkhead/privacy Would love feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428115

Points: 2

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New comment by xydac in "My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server"

xydac — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:13:34 +0000

Mine bailed out on a Baseband error due to which i am not even able to boot it anymore :(

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Online database diagram editor"

xydac — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 03:35:52 +0000

looks nice, wonder what would take to hook this to a database connection directly

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone"

xydac — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:51:31 +0000

This is cool, haven't run this yet but seems really promising. Am thinking how this can be a super useful to hook with internal corporate search engines and then get answers from that.

Good to see more of these non API key products being built (connected to local llms)

New comment by xydac in "What's that touchscreen in my room?"

xydac — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 02:13:08 +0000

this is first time i have read something completely in a long span of time !!

New comment by xydac in "Shoelace: A library of web components"

xydac — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:47:59 +0000

exactly, and pair that with css variables for customizations if needed for ad-hoc projects/prototypes or full products

New comment by xydac in "Shoelace: A library of web components"

xydac — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:53:37 +0000

have been following the development of this very closely for this library, and love the fact that we can script load individual web component in html as bare bones.

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)"

xydac — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 23:18:56 +0000

cool concept, love the idea. Might be fun to integrate with local llama to get most privacy

New comment by xydac in "Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses"

xydac — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:58:15 +0000

This is an amazing idea as well as execution providing best use of resources to end users.

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Twogether AI – Multi-Person Photo Generation API"

xydac — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:58:46 +0000

Soon Samsung would be like able to show moon and Saturn twogether in their photos

New comment by xydac in "Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context"

xydac — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:20:04 +0000

This is amazing, kudos to the team

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Sorbay – Open-source alternative to Loom"

xydac — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:38:20 +0000

This is why i love HN comments, Good luck for your product !

New comment by xydac in "New map reveals ships buried below San Francisco"

xydac — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:31:38 +0000

So wondering if one of the hilly roads on San Francisco might be on top of a buried ship..!!!

New comment by xydac in "It's 2017 and Apple still does this? [Image/Rant]"

xydac — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:07:33 +0000

It was a rant !! Am sure am not the only one who uses Chrome and get pissed when it shows that screen..

New comment by xydac in "Alternatives to Google services?"

xydac — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:37:07 +0000

I use NextCloud for personal cloud backup solution. Although it doesn't have mail server in it.

New comment by xydac in "Ask HN: File sharing for startup"

xydac — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:00:40 +0000

I would use Nextcloud, Its pretty neat and you can also use WebDAV

Edit : Just in case you were looking for something Selfhosted.

Why was CRLF/LF/CF to make developers life miserable

xydac — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:02:26 +0000

Why were so many End of line formats created for different operating system. Couldn't it have been simpler to adapt to a predetermined standard to at least end the line in same fashion.

Hacker News: xydac

New comment by xydac in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

Show HN: BulkHead – iOS File Manager for SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, and S3

New comment by xydac in "My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server"

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Online database diagram editor"

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone"

New comment by xydac in "What's that touchscreen in my room?"

New comment by xydac in "Shoelace: A library of web components"

New comment by xydac in "Shoelace: A library of web components"

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)"

New comment by xydac in "Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses"

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Twogether AI – Multi-Person Photo Generation API"

New comment by xydac in "Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context"

New comment by xydac in "Show HN: Sorbay – Open-source alternative to Loom"

New comment by xydac in "New map reveals ships buried below San Francisco"

New comment by xydac in "It's 2017 and Apple still does this? [Image/Rant]"

New comment by xydac in "Alternatives to Google services?"

New comment by xydac in "Ask HN: File sharing for startup"

Why was CRLF/LF/CF to make developers life miserable

New comment by xydac in "Ask HN: Why does Google 404 serve invalid HTML?"