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38 tools ranked by real comment mentions.
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#5 Docker
Containers
Sample comments (5)
…locate: Yes Technologies: React, Typescript / Javascript, Web Components, CSS, UI Design, Golang, C++, MySQL, Postgres, Docker, Linux Résumé/CV: https://sectionfourteen.com Email: anthony[at]sectionfourteen[dot]com --- Another post into the void! Due to the huge number of spam me…
— H1Supreme, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…Europe. Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Vue.js, Pinia, GrapesJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma ORM, Redis, Docker, Vitest, REST APIs, GitLab CI/CD. Personal projects and coursework: React, Next.js, Fastify, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, Turborepo, pnpm, observability too…
— LunrkDev, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…Remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, etc Résumé/CV: Available by email Email: andrew.swe.30@gmail.com Portfolio: https://portfolio-sweandrew.vercel.app/ GitHub: https:/…
— masterdev1030, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…ore, Hong Kong or Shanghai Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Node, React, Go, Rust, C++, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Redis, Docker, Linux, AWS; LLM agents, agent memory, RAG, MCP, real-time voice (streaming STT/TTS), WebSocket/SSE Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W5On84-VH…
— immutable_hash, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…hon, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source
#6 SQLite
Embedded database
Sample comments (5)
…ipt, TypeScript, Python, web technologies (HTML/CSS, frameworks, browser APIs), Bash, Zsh, Fish, Linux, FreeBSD, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, mathematics, the English language and Latex. Email: achenet@fastmail.com Website: https://arielche.net/ I am a softwar…
— achenet, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…s there as well if that's your thing) everything is persisted in simple local text files that you can actually read (or sqlite database if you don't care / have more data) ie there is no integration, k8s-style nonsense etc, you can just use it on project or on your system user le…
— mirekrusin, 2026-11-03 · Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology · source
…, mobile, React, Svelte, Next.js, Express, Rust, AI/ML models, LLMs, MCP, agentic workflows, CI/CD, IoT, SQL, Postgres, SQLite, Redis, Memcached, APIs, Linux, Docker Résumé/CV: https://www.nfriedly.com/Nathan-Friedly-Resume.pdf • https://www.nfriedly.com/portfolio • https://githu…
— nfriedly, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), OpenMP, Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (especially SQLite) Résumé/CV: Available upon request Email: https://www.andrewtrettel.com/hnjobs.png (to prevent spam, my email address is in the linked image) GitHub: htt…
— atrettel, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…KING WORK | Web dev | Gijon, Spain, UTC+2 | Remote | Ru / Eng Skills: TypeScript, Java, React, Vue, Three.js / WebGL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, + Design/UI/UX, CI/CD, OOP, TDD, AI / Claude Code Résumé/CV: https://konfrontend.github.io/ Email: konfrontend@gmail.com Github: https…
— gembag, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source
#7 PostgreSQL
Relational database
Sample comments (5)
…ling to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, Typescript / Javascript, Web Components, CSS, UI Design, Golang, C++, MySQL, Postgres, Docker, Linux Résumé/CV: https://sectionfourteen.com Email: anthony[at]sectionfourteen[dot]com --- Another post into the void! Due to the huge number…
— H1Supreme, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
I’ll be real, I use Postgres every day and I have no clue what you’re talking about…
— hmokiguess, 2026-11-04 · The Internals of PostgreSQL · source
…-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Enginee…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source
…-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Enginee…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…s required, and you must be based in the EU. Backend Stack: Ruby / Rails (8.x), StimulusJS / Hotwire / Turbo, AlpineJS, Postgres, Docker, DigitalOcean, OpenAPI, LLMs We are also seeking a Robotics Engineer to work from our robotics lab in Bremen, Germany. We are building a retail…
— AREO_Marius, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) · source
#11 Nix
Reproducible package manager
Sample comments (5)
Location: West coast USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: NixOS, Fedora, Go, Rust, Typescript, Proficient in Python/PHP/Most other things Resume/CV: Fortune 500 & YC Startups [ https://philippeterson.com/resume ] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-peter…
— ironmagma, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
Macbook Air mid-2012 here. 8GB. I use Nixos without a desktop env, this little machine refuses to die or become obsolete. I have a 3090 in a desktop for messing around with LLMs but that's headless.…
— exe34, 2026-11-02 · My Favourite Laptop · source
…e a master's degree in mathematics, and did some research in inverse reinforcement learning. I love things like: Emacs, NixOS, functional programming, category theory. I'm looking for a generalist, full-stack or applied AI role on a high-agency, low-bullshit team. If you're build…
— yewenjie, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
I use NixOS btw…
— dp-hackernews, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source
…r production (on my NAS it's mostly stable but has gone down a few times) So what's next? Centos is a rolling upgrade, nixos?…
— sersi, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source
#12 Neovim
Modern Vim
Sample comments (5)
…en you run something that crashes the terminal?) Possibly related: I use ctrl+shift+h (and somehow configured it to use neovim), which is a nice way to navigate the terminal history - useful when pilfering through thousands of lines of local server logs…
— nomilk, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source
Ubuntu is based of Debian testing. You can verify this by comparing the versions of neovim available on the repos. Debian[1]: > trixie (stable) (editors): heavily refactored vim fork > 0.10.4-8: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64el riscv64 s390x > forky (testing) (editors): heavi…
— worksonmine, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source
…appview is down. One musing: I did run into my first "issue" with federated Git hosting the other day while setting up Neovim on a new machine. One of the plugins I use is hosted on Tangled and I guess its backing Knot was down. This was awkward for two reasons: 1. It as unclear…
— stryan, 2026-10-30 · The federated code forge · source
…C, Python, Rust may not have. One last thing on the Vim emulation front: While I'm not a big fan of VSCode, the VSCode-Neovim extension[0] connects to an actual Neovim instance via Neovim's MessagePack-RPC API, allowing you to use real Neovim but native in VS Code. Pretty cool!…
— wilkystyle, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
I'm slowly getting into it. I only got into vim (neovim) a couple years ago (been computing as a kid since early 80s). But have been enjoying learning alot of emacs (oh god so much to learn :)) I'm not ready to make the jump (not sure I will jump at all, but...) I am gonna mess…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
#13 VS Code
Code editor
Sample comments (5)
…48GB, 18/20). I use those with ollama and hermes (and Obsidian, to an extent) 3. Hermes Agent, Claude CLI and Claude in VS Code 4. No 5. Hermes Agent I use a carefully curated selection of agents for my professional work. Agents to handle adversarial code review, planning, questi…
— gaoshan, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source
…r for Photoshop mockups on macOS and Windows. I've contributed PRs and patches to Darktable, Chromium, Three.js, Astro, VS Code, and Nuxt. I use AI coding tools extensively, while keeping responsibility for technical decisions, testing, and what ships. Looking for a remote softwa…
— arecsu, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…crazy to run third-party software (including package managers like npm) unrestricted. The overhead is significant, and VS Code UI is lagging heavily without a GPU.…
— codedokode, 2026-10-31 · Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth · source
VS Code extensions have always been terrible from a security perspective. This seems like it's a supply chain attack? Makes me think of Solar Winds from a few years ago. It doesn't appear that the Claude Code harness itself was compromised, was it? or Cursor if you use Anthropic…
— airhangerf15, 2026-10-30 · Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace · source
…t working with e.g. C, Python, Rust may not have. One last thing on the Vim emulation front: While I'm not a big fan of VSCode, the VSCode-Neovim extension[0] connects to an actual Neovim instance via Neovim's MessagePack-RPC API, allowing you to use real Neovim but native in VS…
— wilkystyle, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
#14 tmux
Terminal multiplexer
Sample comments (5)
I'm using Claude Code (Ultra) across a multitude of tmux sessions, over two or three laptops – largely so long running actions don't happen on the actual laptop I take with me (nothing worse than waiting around for an agent to finish before you can leave a café). To make it a lit…
— robgough, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source
Just wanted to say I really love your project! Using Vim and TMUX more than ever these days alongside the Claude Code terminal integration, so this is a great tool to become even more proficient with Vim movements.…
— wjgilmore, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands · source
I built my own web tmux type thing running on a beefy metal box (for rust builds) that I access over tailscale. I was using HAPI, but I wanted to simplify and use rust for the back end and my own elm-like front-end to improve performance. I haven't published it since it's pretty…
— rapind, 2026-11-02 · My Favourite Laptop · source
…out agents. I see the appeal of having first support for agents but I’d also like something I can use myself like I use tmux, without agents. If agents didn’t exist, would herdr provide a nice UX as a terminal multiplexer?…
— FacelessJim, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source
From someone who also used screen and tmux for 30 years: 3 reasons why I switched to herder. They may not be relevant to you and in that case tmux is just great. One: visual indication which agent is working and which is waiting for an input. Two: native support for remote herdr…
— mynegation, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source
#16 Hetzner
Cheap servers
Sample comments (5)
I have a Hetzner box that costs about 10$ a month - I use that as my always-on box. I use Pi as my harness and they run in herdr. I can then from my Mac (bottom of the line macbook air - next laptop will be a Neo) ssh to the box and control my agents. I can also ssh into the box…
— krzs9, 2026-10-28 · New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 · source
…ticles, fine tuned on my home 5090 in a few minutes on 500 articles tagged by gpt 6.1, works fantastically. Deployed on hetzner running on a cpu .…
— Aerialoo, 2026-10-27 · Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence · source
…rust infra projects, and have been using stalwart for a long time. Its been excellent for self hosting email on a small hetzner instance. Highly recommended, and happy to see the rare 1.x release in the rust ecosystem. Wrote a bit about my experiences here: https://lindfors.no/bl…
— Depurator, 2026-10-26 · Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet · source
…you could run those locally or in a data center. Or you just get hardware resources from your favorite cloud provider. Hetzner (one of the more affordable ones) GPU servers start at around 200 euro per month. I know some people that use that with open weight models. Works fine,…
— jillesvangurp, 2026-10-26 · IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem · source
…time ago, and their apps across all platforms look and work consistently. I only recently switched to Jellyfin because Hetzner blocks Plex, but otherwise I wouldn't have had a big reason to switch.…
— dewey, 2026-10-21 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source
#19 Tailscale
WireGuard mesh VPN
Sample comments (5)
I built my own web tmux type thing running on a beefy metal box (for rust builds) that I access over tailscale. I was using HAPI, but I wanted to simplify and use rust for the back end and my own elm-like front-end to improve performance. I haven't published it since it's pretty…
— rapind, 2026-11-02 · My Favourite Laptop · source
…ads, and a knowledge base. You can manage your fleet of bots across as many local machines as you want. I run this on a Tailscale network. Bots claim threads, split work into units, hand off what's left, tag each other for help, and build up project context that works like instit…
— sybhn, 2026-10-30 · Show HN: Bot_board – A message board for code harnesses collaboration · source
I use https://github.com/0cv/herdr-mobile-relay I use it only with tailscale.…
— wallst07, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source
…ds etc. And those processes can talk to each other and control each other too if u want! For a single person with herdr+tailscale, you can make your own evolving software thingamajig across all the possible computers u have access to (pls don't call it a factory, we didn't call y…
— 77ko, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source
…for me it is a step up from years using tmux. The new native Herdr app is yet another step up. I use multiple Macs with Tailscale connections and the Herdr app makes jumping around to different projects and different machines easier.…
— mark_l_watson, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source
#20 Vercel
Frontend hosting
Sample comments (5)
…netes, Argo CD, etc Résumé/CV: Available by email Email: andrew.swe.30@gmail.com Portfolio: https://portfolio-sweandrew.vercel.app/ GitHub: https://github.com/gitiikLocation: St. Louis, Missouri, USA Remote: Remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, TypeScript…
— masterdev1030, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…small personal blogs that post a few times a year but are worth reading when they do. Here's the website: findingfishes.vercel.app & One merged RSS feed (if you still use them (: ): findingfishes.vercel.app/feed.xml I'd love suggestions for any blogs I missed!…
— sert_121, 2026-11-03 · Finding Fishes: Hand-picked blogs on LLMs · source
…I, OpenAI API, n8n, Make, Google Apps Script, Google Sheets API (gspread), LINE / Slack bots Résumé/CV: https://kota-hp.vercel.app/en/portfolio/ Email: tamakou435@gmail.com Freelance AI/automation engineer. I build small, production-running systems that connect LLMs to the tools…
— tamakou435, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…ing love arrows at Frankenstein, witches, werewolves and worse. All levels in a single HTML file wrapped in Next.js for Vercel; playable on desktop and mobile. Feel free to leave a comment to let me know what you think of the difficulty curve :)…
— DrDizzle, 2026-10-29 · Love and Frankenstein – A Fun Little Halloween Arcade Game · source
…’s not looking positive for us to be able to compete, so I sure hope we can collaborate https://deep-time-machine-time.vercel.app/…
— intenex, 2026-10-22 · Claude Duet · source
#22 JetBrains IDEs
IDE family
Sample comments (5)
Switched to intellij http scratches ages ago. Then go curl. I remember a bunch of people using postman from a decade to a few years ago. It's been a while since I've seen anyone. Probably people who do it rarely but haven't taken the time to change tools.…
— Neikius, 2026-11-03 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source
…e what vim-lovers say) and sometimes do it better as they're semantics-aware ("go to function arguments" is possibly in intellij but not really in vim, and vim block selection doesn't work in indented languages like YAML or Python). Recording macros? Intellij has it. Editors don'…
— williamdclt, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands · source
…tween apps, swap and resize windows - all without lifting a finger from the home-row. I spent almost a decade living in IntelliJ. I had many direct conversations with Andy Vlasovskikh (he's the maintainer of IdeaVim then). Gary Bernhard (Destroy All Software, wat guy) once said:…
— iLemming, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
I assume the quote is referring to libghostty. In which case a lot of different tools like vs code, Emacs, Gvim, Intellij and other IDEs, even web consoles on stuff like Azure essentially use and reimplement the same core, the idea behind libghostty is to replace those with a com…
— B4uler5, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source
…but nowadays the thing I want more than anything is either a convergence of all their IDEs via plugins I've been using Intellij IDEA lately. I have pycharm, phpstorm, goland still installed and use them every now and then. I, however, spend a lot more time in claude code in the…
— rovr138, 2026-10-26 · JetBrains Thinkrail · source
#27 Podman
Daemonless containers
Sample comments (5)
…erl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via em…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source
…erl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via em…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…to relocate: No Technologies: End-to-end Devops/SRE -- general POSIX sysadmin stuff, modern systemd slash linux, Docker/Podman/Virtualization/etc, CI/CD (mostly Gitlab), managing different kinds of private software forges & repositories, DB clusters (Postgresql & co.), observabil…
— apt-get, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…how and what you're managing on it. VPS/VM? Debian is a great choice. Use it as base and run your software via systemd+podman if you want the most up to date stuff, Debian tends do lag a bit. It is very low maintenance. Bare metal? Fedora Atomic is awesome. It does require an up…
— rochacon, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source
This is the primary selling point of podman to me actually: If you run any non-standard firewall rules (in my case I use virt-manager to run a handful of VMs using a bridge so each VM can get an IP directly on my router's subnet), some stuff may suddenly break because Docker tak…
— freedomben, 2026-10-23 · Docker is weird · source
#28 htmx
HTML-driven interactivity
Sample comments (5)
…aftsmanship anyway. The end-user doesn't see any difference whether I use microservices or hexagonal design or react or htmx or how I structure the code or which language I use. All they see is the design and the stability. Since the average developer was terrible at design anywa…
— TonyStr, 2026-11-03 · Resisting Cognitive Surrender · source
…o Technologies: Python, Django (DRF, multi-DB routing), PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript, React, TanStack, shadcn/ui, Vue, HTMX, Docker, AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, SQS, EventBridge, CloudFront), Terraform, GitHub Actions, n8n, Claude Code Résumé/CV: https://mansan.dev (PDF on request) E…
— youboll, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
Anecdotally, sveltekit 2 was super quick to use for me. I tried building a somewhat interactive app with htmx and found the user experience was often incorrect on the Claude 4 family models. I switched to sveltekit 2 and it produced what wanted almost immediately. Features wer…
— smrtinsert, 2026-11-01 · The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks · source
…of RAM at peak (live speed dating events with emails and heavy Hotwire/Turbo Streams use). I converted it to Loco with HTMX and the app now uses about 60MB at peak and benchmarks show 30x the traffic possible on the same hardware. What more my CI/CD pipeline runs about 5 times f…
— xutopia, 2026-10-21 · Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era · source
…Open source versions of their apps are coming soon, as demos. The stack differs from things you're probably aware of: - HTMX - server owns logic and swaps fragments. Quark owns orchestration on the client, with the document as the only state. - Lit and other web component framewo…
— joe-excom, 2026-10-08 · Show HN: Nucleus- web apps where document is the state, driven by CSS-like rules · source
#35 Ghostty
Fast terminal emulator
Sample comments (5)
…of Windows Terminal, which fully supports Kitty protocols, but I'm still envious of people using Kitty directly or even Ghostty.…
— miroljub, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source
I've used kitty before and really liked it. I am considering switching back to it now on Linux. I've been using Ghostty on macOS and loving it there, but it's quite bad on Linux. It keeps segfaulting, takes a long time to actually start, I keep getting weird glitches whenever I h…
— quibono, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source
I really love Kitty, it took me only about 5 minutes to migrate from Ghostty. just wish the used this icon as default: https://github.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon…
— dagi3d, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source
I use multiple terminals. I like Ghostty and Kitty. I the past I tried multiple others like Guake, Allacritty, xterm, Gnome Terminal, ITerm (when I was forced to use a Mac), Windows Terminal (I am now forced to work on Windows). And of all terminals I still prefer Kitty. There is…
— ivolimmen, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source
I've been using Rex for the past week, almost entirely through the macOS client and it's been great. Replaced ghostty+herdr (the TUI) for me. I have its local server and an instance of the alpha linux server on my cloud based dev box, hooked up via my tailnet. I've played around…
— CrompyBlompers, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source
#36 Magit
Git porcelain in Emacs
Sample comments (5)
…s, joshblais, protesilaos, sacha chua, mickey peterson (and mastering emacs). God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates better). The…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
…uh, there's literally ongoing threads about built-in LLM support in emacs.devel, the latest one is not even a week old. Magit being slow is almost entirely git subprocess spawn and output-parsing overhead, which exists in any git porcelain, not something specific to Emacs or elis…
— iLemming, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
I love emacs and have been using it daily for about 5 years now. Many people have mentioned magit and org mode. I just want to give another shout out to consult.el which is a wonderful way to grep and search through text. Happy birthday emacs!…
— lukehandcool, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
…hat everything I was building in my vim configs to make it better was already default in emacs i.e dired, compile mode, magit, org mode, etc. If I wasn't able to multiplex with tmux I would have switched to emacs a long time ago.…
— lopotubez, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
…are really good. Emacs is maintained and developed actively and there are many external packages which are impressive. Magit and ghostel are good examples of packages that I use on a daily basis to get my work done. Recently, AI completely changed how I use Emacs, and in a very…
— jwr, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
#39 DuckDB
In-process analytics DB
Sample comments (5)
…eir work, by showing what tickets they opened, what improvements they land upstream. With this march across clickhouse, duckdb, now trino, I'd love to know what if any places the team worked with upstream, what improvements got tried. I'm pretty ok with the march across products…
— jauntywundrkind, 2026-11-02 · Moving our warehouse off DuckDB · source
Hi HN, I'm Isaac. This is Duckstring, an open source data engineering platform, using DuckDB as the engine. I've built it to address some of the main frustrations I've had in my years as a data engineer: modularising logic so that it can grow in complexity over time, methods for…
— isaac-harvey, 2026-11-01 · Show HN: Duckstring – Pull-orchestrated data pipelines on DuckDB · source
…often have to do work on multiple csv and excel files, joins and filters etc. I hate excel but am fine with SQL. With a duckdb session in dbeaver, I can literally select, project, and join the files on disk as if they were tables. It saves so much time and fuss For bigger integra…
— Nihilartikel, 2026-10-22 · DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” · source
> does duckdb support querying custom storage formats? No, this is still parquet being loaded in. The "trick" is running through sort order combinations which result in maximum packing in a Dremel style data format (like Parquet). Here's the trick explained in enough detail to un…
— gopalv, 2026-10-22 · DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” · source
…rm/infrastructure, not because it performs better. For instance people on Databricks can sometimes find it hard to use DuckDB on large machines, or they're just more familiar with Spark. For a new user who has flexibility over where to run their workloads, we'd always recommend…
— RobinL, 2026-10-21 · DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” · source
#43 Supabase
Postgres backend
Sample comments (5)
…s: TypeScript, Javascript, Node.js, Claude code, Salesforce, Apex, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, Splunk, SQL, Supabase Website: charliescholey.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliescholey/ Email: Please use my website - https://charliescholey.com/#cont…
— Chazifraz, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…echnologies: Claude Code, Codex, Google Antigravity, Python, FastAPI, Node/Fastify, JavaScript, React, Postgres/Prisma, Supabase, Redis/BullMQ, Playwright, Docker, Linux, Cloudflare, Moodle Résumé/CV: github.com/manuelleal (CV on request) Email: ddiddimmo@gmail.com I build deploy…
— christiam27, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…cover the whole world, not just Europe and the US, but I am still adding events on a weekly basis. Stack: React + Vite, Supabase, Vercel. I'd love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, and any dates or facts I got wrong. Cheers!…
— historytape, 2026-10-20 · [dead] · source
…for now, I'm hoping to add a paid tier at some point. Letterboxd was a big inspiration. Tech stack: Next.js on Vercel, Supabase. iOS app is almost finished, it's mostly a SwiftUI shell around server-rendered pages. This has been an adventure in seeing how far I can push LLM codi…
— aleshh, 2026-10-19 · Show HN: Flipper – an album-first library for music streaming · source
…orkers. HF spaces is a good option that I had found back then. Also, I recommend having a separate backend service like supabase with HF as if your server is inactive for 24-48 hours, the storage could get wiped out so backend should be seperated. One of the biggest things that I…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2026-10-15 · AWS Lambda Web Functions · source
#48 fzf
Fuzzy finder
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…he basics. It's extremely scriptable. One of favourite uses of it is its 'popup' feature. Combining the tmux popup with fzf creates a crazy opportunity of whats possible. Highly suggest learning these tools; literally just point an agent at my comment here and ask it what one cou…
— absoluteunit1, 2026-10-19 · Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling · source
…. It's totally fine to prefer NerdTree over the native netrw but it's not like you can't do file exploring. Hell, I use fzf most times (`:GFiles`). But what I don't like is when people confidently say "x can't do y" when it can. I'll give people a break if it requires plugins or…
— godelski, 2026-09-11 · Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE · source
…en using since forever: gi() { git branch --sort=-committerdate |\ grep -v '^\*' | cut -d' ' -f3 | fzf |\ xargs git checkout } fzf handles the TUI part…
— petesergeant, 2026-08-31 · Sort branches by last commit date · source
I love this little fzf bash function that I wrote a few years ago: https://gist.github.com/thomasaarholt/141df779f3f16b641701b4... It opens a fuzzy finder window showing the branches you have in the repo, sorted by recency. Also shows the latest committer and the date. Hit enter…
— tomtom1337, 2026-08-30 · Sort branches by last commit date · source
Not OP but, I regularly use : - yazi as a file explorer - lazygit for git - tmux/zellij as multiplexers - fzf left and right for a bunch of utils (terminal history, switching between projects in zellij/tmux when working in multi-project workspaces, etc) - neovim as a te…
— folkrav, 2026-08-22 · Stop Making TUIs · source
#52 Grafana
Dashboards & observability
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Location: Israel Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depends. Maybe. Technologies: Python, AI/LLM/MCP, Grafana, N8n, GitHub Workflows, Okta, Terraform, some Ruby and some Crystal Résumé/CV: https://hxii.github.io or https://0xff.nu Email: my HN username [at] 0xff.nu I made my way th…
— hxii, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
…ues. - CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions and Flux. - Monitoring, alerting, and tracing with tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. - DNS, TLS, and Cloudflare. Strong AWS networking knowledge, including VPC design, routing, privat…
— lucasrattz, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) · source
…ab), managing different kinds of private software forges & repositories, DB clusters (Postgresql & co.), observability (Grafana stack), everything k8s. Software Engineering -- Python, Web Stack (I enjoy both Vue & SvelteKit), Java (Spring and its ecosystem), Ruby + Clojure + Rust…
— apt-get, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source
I also self host some services: keycloak, forgejo, home assistant, immich, grafana/prometheus, jellyfin, pureftp (to store my surveillance cameras videos), and a vibecoded financial app, and soon hermes agent on a 2023 laptop. I chose to run most of them on Kubernetes since I am…
— bengalister, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source
…ow. I do not recommend due to spam waves. - headscale - Nextcloud, OnlyOffice, Kanboard: for productivity - Prometheus, grafana & monitorix: monitoring, plus netdata aggregating data from other nodes - Open Sondage, Framadate, I hate money: for friend groups - Vaultwarden: passwo…
— MayeulC, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source
#55 ripgrep
Fast recursive grep
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…l calls than grep. Grep is also absurdly fast, if you don't know how fast it is it's faster than you think. Here I use ripgrep to search every piece of code I have checked out, around 11GB of data (more or less) in 0.2s (regular gnu grep takes 4s, mostly because it doesn't excl…
— ltbarcly3, 2026-10-12 · Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage · source
…I might need it again. I also keep a local text index for grepping which is plenty fast even with years of history and ripgrep, and comes in handy often.…
— smilliken, 2026-09-18 · Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep · source
…nfig/set-up and applies all of these tips and tricks. For instance, it might detect that you currently use ag, install ripgrep, and offer a short tutorial on how users accustomed to ag should use it. Or it might look at the history of git commands you've run and offer tips on e…
— jawns, 2026-09-16 · Small programming tricks · source
…). I use these three tools which he maintains: Low level: memchr [1]; Medium level: Regex (Rust crate) [2]; High level: ripgrep [3]. Other names to look out for are the previously aforementioned Wojciech Muła, as well as Daniel Lemire (of simdjson [4][5]). Not SIMD-specific, but…
— Rendello, 2026-09-11 · Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm · source
…lanning on working with intrinsics). There were some good comments that post's thread [2], including from burntsushi of ripgrep. 1. http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274001…
— Rendello, 2026-09-11 · Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm · source
#58 iTerm2
macOS terminal
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I would love a mashup of iTerm2 (for tabbed quake terminal and configurability) with libghossty, would anyone want to tell Claude to marry them (and maintain it)? Or, just please finally enable tabs in the quick window, people are shouting about this for years, making forks, read…
— tomaskafka, 2026-10-28 · Ghostty 1.4 · source
Yup I switched to WezTerm from iTerm2 and being able to version control the settings is one of the biggest benefits (especially because WezTerm allows more complicated Lua scripts)…
— bbkane, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4.0 · source
Why should I use Ghostty over iTerm2? I don't care about fancy fonts, iTerm2 speed (for me) is plenty (just tested against 1.4 -- don't see noticeable difference on MBP M1) and I do like to tweak some options/settings (and was just mildly annoyed when hitting `cmd+,` opened my de…
— ktosobcy, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source
…ile I'm not a hard core terminal emulator expert or tweaker, it was a bit of a learning curve to get into Ghostty after iTerm2. I hope this latest release makes it easier to edit the splits, haven't tested yet. But the biggest thing that made me stay on Ghostty was that there's a…
— s4i, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source
WTH…? I use iTerm2 and wasn’t aware of this. What an incredibly bad call.…
— alex_suzuki, 2026-10-27 · I will no longer upload to NEW · source
#65 WezTerm
GPU terminal
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…-tui over ssh until it breaks or we get a tui surface. I love the current model, where I can use the tui in ghosttty or wezterm or iterm, or pop an ssh session, and if it makes sense there's a gui version for whatever device I'm using. It's like magic, I'm free to do whatever fro…
— threecheese, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source
…might keep an eye on it - hopefully they improve whatever they're doing with local echo. I should say - I currently use WezTerm for exactly the feature tty7 advertises about session support. Even remote sessions.…
— zeendo, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source
Yup I switched to WezTerm from iTerm2 and being able to version control the settings is one of the biggest benefits (especially because WezTerm allows more complicated Lua scripts)…
— bbkane, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4.0 · source
At this point, I'm really looking forward to Rex. I've been a laggard in switching to Ghostty because I used WezTerm and wrote a plugin to customize it to my liking. I switched to Ghostty just because I got tired of nothing happening in the WezTerm land and wanted to try somethin…
— selectnull, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source
…. My iTerm2 is configured to show activity, new-output and visual bell in the tab. On Linux I have an approximation for WezTerm. I have a bell command that I can use in a pipeline or sequence to produce the bell on events I'm interested in. Trivial case is when a program finishes…
— weinzierl, 2026-10-08 · A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) · source
#73 lazygit
Terminal UI for git
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Feel free to subscribe to https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff/issues/62 to get notified when Lazygit support is added. An extremely thorough comparison against difftastic is in the research/ directory. I don't recommend reading it, unless you are really into diffs. Even describ…
— FabCH, 2026-11-02 · Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust · source
…(and mastering emacs). God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates better). The other thing is - I feel like I'm walking on unstable…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source
…subscription. But I do love the idea of being able to use Pi or OpenCode. I am a heavy terminal user, and used Vim/Tmux/Lazygit-types of workflows before coding agents were in the terminal, so I do love customizability and portability. Right now there is just too much ground-shif…
— chrisvalleybay, 2026-10-28 · The Agent SDK · source
…e modal editing any day — and I don't even have RSI!) are magit and org-mode. I've never tried magit so I don't know if lazygit is a decent substitute. But for org-mode in Neovim, there's https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg. I'm sure it's only a partial, half-broken implementatio…
— rmunn, 2026-10-10 · I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again · source
…why I use most CLI tools. Neat that they could build this, though, because it suits their needs. I'm fine with K9s and lazygit key-driven interfaces. I guess one thing that's good about a clickable TUI is that maybe it's easier to approach for some, wihtout releasing yet another…
— taude, 2026-10-08 · Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) · source
#74 Excalidraw
Hand-drawn diagrams
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…man, who does it so. I tried his ways, and it worked great for me and been sticking with it for a decade. --- Apps like Excalidraw just does not cut it for me, as I have to switch my attention on which shape to use etc (it works ok for designining systems) but not for free thinki…
— yipinwong, 2026-10-17 · We still use paper · source
I use Excalidraw for this…
— hhh, 2026-09-27 · Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things · source
…ls, writing assistant in note taking. graph search across meetings, notes and chats. better browser control - try it on excalidraw by enabling Act on page - it just does wonders. auto suggest ideas when you configure local models, skills. its great value and my daily driver get w…
— earth2mars, 2026-08-15 · Show HN: AI Meeting Assistant in Browser · source
If you find out, let me know! I have been working on a port of Excalidraw to my ReMarkable Pro and it's opened my eyes to how much we take for granted in terms of UI interactions when we assume we have a 30+hz screen with no to minimal ghosting. Layout has to become as monotonic…
— jeffnash, 2026-08-09 · Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? · source
…ts built on iroh I feel like it could be possible to even extend this so that for example, we could share files over an excalidraw/lexidraw instance as well or just so many other opportunities in general as well that we can think of :)…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2026-07-27 · Lexidraw: Excalidraw fork with collaborative editing powered by iroh · source
#75 Postman
API platform
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I don't understand who would use Postman in 2026. There are open source alternatives like Bruno (my favourite app ever). And, if you need something advanced, just vibe-code it.…
— karel-3d, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source
just last week i was looking for a tui version of postman and found https://github.com/darrenburns/posting i've been using the beta since and am very happy. api checks are just yaml and can get stored in git to version and share and tui is nice and easy to drive via the keyboard…
— jonny2811, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source
Yep I’m finally switching off of postman today. I’ve wanted to for a while, but my team at work uses it, and all of our shared stuff is in there. I’ve been thinking of replacing postman with a clojure project, where you just send stuff to the REPL to call it. You could even set u…
— chamomeal, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source
Anybody that hasn’t switched to Bruno at this point, what still keeps you attached to Postman?…
— xyst, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source
Switched to intellij http scratches ages ago. Then go curl. I remember a bunch of people using postman from a decade to a few years ago. It's been a while since I've seen anyone. Probably people who do it rarely but haven't taken the time to change tools.…
— Neikius, 2026-11-03 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source
#79 Fly.io
App hosting
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…king in vulnerability research right now; a cross product of ludicrous talent and full-tilt AI work. Just before I left Fly.io a few months ago, we retained Calif for an annual pentest (we'd previously worked with Tetrel, Atredis, Doyen, and I think Include?). They were spooky go…
— tptacek, 2026-10-23 · Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone · source
…sors, storage arrays, network cores - to work, without fuss and with minimal maintenance. So while it’s super neat that Fly.io has shared this, and they absolutely have a relevant and beneficial use case for reinventing the proverbial wheel, it’s important to note they are the ed…
— stego-tech, 2026-10-22 · SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home · source
…horrible situation to not be able to cycle environment variables after such an event. I did an emergency migration to fly.io today with minimal disruption today. I’d recommend everyone to immediately migrate somewhere else ASAP so you can change environment variables. And of…
— disconnection, 2026-10-22 · Security Disclosure · source
I think fly.io sprites is the closest price wise, would love to see it on the comparison list…
— mmoustafa, 2026-10-13 · Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents · source
…y one decision maker you have to appeal to and that person really likes to try new stuff. That's why you can get a free fly.io and why we all use Tailscale. And it works too — if I was in charge and needed it, I would immediately go with Tailscale for a business; I know it and I…
— tomjen3, 2026-10-04 · We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything · source
#97 Sentry
Error monitoring
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….at/postico2/ is doing, but I thought meah, people will still the code and hack the licence stuff. Then I thought about Sentry, because I'm actually kinda like them now. A bit smaller though, yet. And I decided to go the following way: make everything open source and free, as lon…
— arnaudambro, 2026-09-19 · Vibe coding did not kill making money out of engineering, open source and SaaS · source
> What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools […] github didn’t start with those things. Those things came with adoption. Its like all those people who bemoan their favourite software not existing on Linux as a reason not t…
— dijit, 2026-08-19 · Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative · source
…, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, AI SDK, Codex (ChatGPT), Cursor, PostgreSQL, Zod, Vercel, Cloudflare, Supabase, Neon, Drizzle, Sentry, React Native/Expo, Express, Playwright, Axiom Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S6jhFtPGnuHTZ1FO5HBTHiNMYZ9... Email: cristinahnjobs@gmail.com…
— crisjs, 2026-08-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) · source
You can do either. If you don't want to migrate over fully, I'd recommend setting up an automation to fix Sentry/PostHog issues as they come in. You can get a good feel for the platform and how it fits into your workflows that way. We also have an MCP server that you can use to d…
— BenceRed, 2026-08-03 · Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents · source
#104 Datasette
Explore and publish data
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…o I switched to that instead. Here's me TIL write-up of getting Parseable running locally https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/datasette-parseable-...…
— simonw, 2026-10-06 · Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min · source
My automation is pretty simple. I use my https://llm.datasette.io tool where I have a template saved: llm "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" --save pelican When a model comes out I first make sure LLM can talk to it - usually by updating the relevant plugin, but i…
— simonw, 2026-09-04 · GPT-6 Astra · source
…way more than just adding custom apps to the interface surface and promoted it to its own top-level concept within the Datasette ecosystem.” For decades that sentence would have parsed without the word surface in it. What does it mean that's suddenly so – um – load-bearing?…
— Terretta, 2026-06-19 · Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette · source
…not the root cause in two different places? Isn't it better to style `textarea` once? Etc, etc. [0] https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/commit/a75a8b72...…
— bananaquant, 2026-06-12 · Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive · source
…CHECK constraints" I use my own sqlite-utils CLI/Python library to work around these limitations: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#...…
— simonw, 2026-05-29 · SQLite is all you need for durable workflows · source
#116 mise
Dev tool version manager
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This is a frustration for me as well. A few useful tricks, and some areas I'm looking to explore: - AntennaPod (Android: https://antennapod.org/about/) doesn't specifically block ads, but does make skipping them fairly painless. I'm not familiar with the iOS app space. - Seek…
— dredmorbius, 2026-07-12 · How to read more books · source
Homebrew and mise-en-place are the only must have apps for me (both of which are not .app applications). Everything else is pretty well context-dependant and/or built in. For Homebrew - having used Nix, Macports, and pkgsrc, I found Homebrew easier than everything else. I would…
— kdtsh, 2026-06-23 · Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser? · source
…se "asking Claude about it" meant making myself stop and think through the process, plan an approach and put together a mise-en-place rather than starting, realizing I needed a couple of tools, leaving things a mess and not coming back due to anxiety. Basically, it helps me avoid…
— tclancy, 2026-02-27 · Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults · source
…ssions so everyone can run the binary. You _can_ use a venv. I prefer a dedicated environment for this. I've been using Mise-en-place lately, it's great. > Will any random greeter program just naturally pick up the contents of /usr/share/xsessions, then? Yep. Your login manager w…
— stonecharioteer, 2025-11-21 · The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience · source
…brary, I share your concern. I use the Universal Blue Silverblue variant for it's integrated Nvidia support with either mise-en-place[0], or the native toolbx[1] utility for isolated environments. [0]https://mise.jdx.dev [1]https://containertoolbx.org…
— seemaze, 2025-08-06 · Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH · source
#117 Cloudflare Pages
Static hosting
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Why should I use something other than Cloudflare pages for a simple app landing page?…
— Cider9986, 2026-07-26 · Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers · source
Not really, not for 1¢/day. Most massive platforms that I use for free (Google Workspace, Cloudflare Pages, even Oracle Cloud always free tier) have outlived many low cost solutions I tried.…
— blfr, 2026-07-19 · Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day · source
…ells and whistles on a platter: Squarespace, Wix, etc. if you want to supply all the HTML/CSS yourself: Github Pages or Cloudflare Pages. (Later, if you want to host the above (except the "bells and whistles" tier) yourself: Hetzner, Digital Ocean, etc.)…
— daemonologist, 2026-06-28 · Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner · source
…letting you score your local DNA against gigabytes of weighted variants for all of the identified traits through cheap cloudflare R2 CDN byte range sipping (and hosted on cloudflare pages free tier!). The benefits of the architecture are pretty obvious as far as simplified hosti…
— techninja42, 2026-06-18 · Show HN: Asili – open-source, privacy-first in-browser DNA PGS scoring · source
…ct colors. I noticed that even some bigger websites have sometimes problems in this regard. - Everything is deployed to Cloudflare Pages (after working mostly with Python/Django, I am in love with Cloduflare staging/prod deployments and quick e2e testing) In the future I hope to…
— Zernat, 2026-04-15 · Show HN: Pufomi – Set of client based image tools with a simple UI for everyone · source
#120 Mermaid
Diagrams as code
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…alldocs.org, which focuses on making Markdown a highly expressive space for agents (think slides, spreadsheets, charts, mermaid diagrams, etc.). I have built a local library which lives in the browser but reflects your local file system - explainer here: https://smalldocs.org/con…
— FailMore, 2026-08-22 · Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team · source
Mermaider is a dotnet lib for generating Mermaid diagrams. I love it because it is self-contained and fully AOT. I recently submitted PRs to flush out the types it supports; v0.9.0 now supports all 24 major Mermaid diagram types.…
— cek, 2026-07-21 · Mermaider is a dotnet lib for generating Mermaid diagrams · source
…e right thing or meeting the right needs. For me the focus was introducing easily readable / digestible docs, including mermaid diagrams where they are useful, linking to other parts of the code / docs, etc. and then a layer on top is a basic "Q&A" feature (you could do the same…
— ghosts_, 2026-07-09 · Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code? · source
…r I wanted an editor that could handle everything a dev throws at it without feeling bloated. Supports Code blocks, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX. Custom components built-in, like Flashcards for studying. Fully customizable: tweak the fonts, sizing, spacing, and UI to y…
— SpyNinja, 2026-05-16 · Annota – A local-first, E2EE note app with BYOK AI · source
…browser based Markdown renderer for developers who use CLI-based agents and today at work had a great experience with a mermaid diagram [3] to explain some architecture. I didn't think the renderer I had to paste my diagram code in was that great (tried to upsell me), so this eve…
— FailMore, 2026-05-07 · Creating for a niche · source
#140 Warp
AI terminal
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I use Warp terminal for couple of years, and recently they embeeded AI into it. At first I was irritated, disabled it, but AI Agent is built in as an optional mode (Cmd-I to toggle). And I found myself using it more and more often for commands that I have no capacity or will to r…
— divan, 2025-10-23 · Scripts I wrote that I use all the time · source
I use the Warp terminal and I can ask it to run —-help and it figures it out…
— stevejb, 2025-08-22 · FFmpeg 8.0 · source
The Warp terminal[1] is excellent for this type of thing. In agent mode, you just describe what you want to have happen and it generates the proper command(s) (that you can approve before running). I use it a lot to convert videos and turn a folder of tiff files into pngs at 1/2…
— toddmorey, 2025-07-14 · Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser · source
…ft, your options expand dramatically. I think most people are using off the shelf paid solutions like cursor, windsurf, warp terminal, Claude code. I'd love to get a set up with a locally hosted full version of deepseek.…
— komali2, 2025-06-03 · My AI skeptic friends are all nuts · source
Try the Warp terminal app. That’s what I use and it does this. Its other main deal (to me) is that you can use the mouse and any other normal means to edit a command line. Really good for changing something on like line 1 of a 17-line curl command.…
— xp84, 2024-12-25 · CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops · source
#143 uv
Fast Python package manager
Sample comments (5)
Personally I can understand why these instructions were added. Back in the GPT-5 days I tried using that model for a uv/Python project but it consistently ran the wrong commands or used pip despite my instructions within AGENTS.md . This was because whatever uv features/behavior…
— JLO64, 2026-09-09 · Codex silently begs agents to make arbitrary web requests · source
…: cd .venv ls -l bin/python lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 myuser staff 85 Oct 29 13:13 bin/python -> /Users/myuser/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13 So, when you mount that virtual environment in a container, it won't find the path to the python bin…
— tecleandor, 2025-10-30 · Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade · source
> "uv add" One life-changing thing I've been using `uv` for: System python version is 3.12: $ python3 --version Python 3.12.3 A script that requires a library we don't have, and won't work on our local python: $ cat test.py #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys…
— danudey, 2025-08-13 · FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support · source
I love this feature of uv but getting linters/language servers to pick up the venv when editing the files is a bit of a pain. I currently have a script 'uv-edit' which I am using to run Neovim with the correct environment: #!/bin/bash SCRIPT="$1"; shift uv sync --quiet --sc…
— gkfasdfasdf, 2025-07-22 · Uv: Running a script with dependencies · source
So far I've only run into one minor ergonomic issue when using `uv run --script` with embedded metadata which is that sometimes I want to test changes to the script via the Python REPL, but that's a bit harder to do since you have to run something like: $ uv run --python=3.13 -…
— js2, 2025-06-24 · Fun with uv and PEP 723 · source
#149 Bun
JS runtime & toolkit
Sample comments (4)
…om server code. But it was really needed only when I use my framework with Vite. For example, if we use it with a clean bun setup, then I can do it with bun runtime plugins, which also allow me to modify code on the fly and do it really faster than vite. So I want to say that in…
— 1gr14, 2026-07-03 · Vite+ Beta · source
…hon but still feel insecure given the lack of static typing. I look at TypeScript as well, especially in the context of Bun runtime. I decided it may not be for me, not the language, but the ecosystem around it.…
— mrbonner, 2026-03-20 · Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost · source
…e. It seems pretty hard to tailor/sandbox the context and workflow of an agent to the extent that's needed. I think the Bun acquisition by Anthropic could shift things too. Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of code generated/requested by users of LLM's is JS/TS, and Anthropic…
— damslunk, 2025-12-04 · Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig · source
…example of a small microcut I faced (which might be fixed now) https://github.com/honojs/hono/issues/1216 In contrast, Bun had less cognitive overhead and just "worked" even though it didn't feel as clean as Deno. Some things aren't perfect with Bun either like the lack of a Bun…
— outlore, 2025-07-07 · Deno 2.4 · source
#150 Caddy
Web server with auto HTTPS
Sample comments (4)
Yup, I have a similar setup where I use a Wireguard VPN to tunnel traffic to a tiny public facing Caddy server, which proxies the traffic to the server under my own roof. No Cloudflare!…
— doawoo, 2026-07-18 · Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day · source
That's why I switched to Caddy for most of my needs. I create one Caddy server template, and then instantiate it as a new host with one line per server.…
— miroljub, 2025-04-15 · Simple Web Server · source
…t it wasn't even hobby project ready yet? Also yeah, I agree that Babashka is a delight. I've been using it to manage a Caddy server via Caddy's JSON API and it worked great, super flexible.…
— aquariusDue, 2025-02-24 · Why Clojure? · source
…uilding Docker containers using CI. I use Drone, but instead of using the Docker plugin I start a detached (background) Caddy server to work as a proxy to DOCKER_HOST. That lets me proxy to the local Docker socket to take advantage of caching, etc. while I'm iterating, but gives…
— ryan29, 2024-11-15 · Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF · source
#158 jq
JSON processor
Sample comments (1)
I love the idea of pushing JQ and other DSLs close to the database. I've written jq extensions for SQLite [0] and Postgres [1], but my approach involves basically embedding=pushing the jq compiler into the db. So you can do `select jq(json, jqprogram)` as an alternative to jsonpa…
— fforflo, 2024-10-06 · Sq.io: jq for databases and more · source
#159 Ruff
Fast Python linter
Sample comments (1)
…for me in Python, everyone who develops with me knows I won't shut up about it. Astral is a great team, they built the ruff linter and are currently working on a static type checker called red-knot: https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1884651482009477368…
— evanwpm, 2025-02-19 · A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate · source