Dobase – Your workspace, your server
Your data, your rules. Dobase runs on your server. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party data sharing. One Rails app, one SQLite database, one Docker container. That is the entire stack. Self-hosted on any VPS Fully open source Real-time collaboration built in Install only the tools you need
What came after the 486?
CPUs didn’t have brand names, besides the manufacturer, until the 1990s. They had part numbers and clock speeds. Frequently we shortened the part numbers. The 486’s full part number was 80486. The courts wouldn’t let Intel trademark a number, so the 486 was the last CPU of its kind, raising the question: What came after […]
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Scarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal. GitHub has had a rough month so far. On February 9, Actions, pull requests, notifications, and Copilot all experienced issues. The Microsoft tentacle admitted it was […]
I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
My brother is a luxury mechanic shop owner, and he’s losing thousands of dollars per month because he misses hundreds of calls per week. He’s under the hood all day. The phone rings, he can’t answer, the customer hangs up and calls someone else. That’s a lost job — sometimes a $450 brake service, sometimes […]
Migrating to the EU
Posted on 2026-03-22 Introduction For various reasons, I have decided to move as many services and subscriptions as possible from non-EU countries to the EU or to switch to European service providers. The reasons for this are the current global political situation and improved data protection. I don’t want to go into the first point […]
Digs: Offline-first iOS app to browse your Discogs vinyl collection
2026-03-22 I’ve been collecting vinyl for years and Discogs is where I catalog everything. But browsing my collection on the go never really worked for me. The official app is quite full of features, but some basics were missing for me: folder navigation, offline mode. I wanted something simpler, fast and offline to dig through […]
Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2]
Genome Rearrangement Genome rearrangement analysis (Hannenhalli-Pevzner framework) Game Theory Game theory × I Ching mapping Four Minds Leibniz, von Neumann, Shannon, Petoukhov: independent convergence on binary × hexagram structures Coupled System Individual vs. institutional paradox engine Coupled Cycles Coupled cycle dynamics (early version) Shang Timeline Shang Dynasty 600-year timeline correlation
White-Collar AI Apocalypse Narrative Is Just Another Bullshit
Here is an exercise in critical thinking. According to Dario, “two years ago AI was at the level of a smart high school student, now it’s at the level of a smart college student“1. Customer Support market must be obliterated by now? Except it is bouncing back since the middle of 2025 and is now […]
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers
About Us GoGoGrandparent is a digital caregiving platform helping older and disabled adults stay independent, safe, and supported at home. We adapt on-demand APIs (Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, etc.) into a concierge-style experience tailored for people with cognitive, mobility, or vision challenges. We’re a profitable, fast-growing, YC-backed startup (S16) with a deeply mission-driven team. Everything […]
QRV Operating System: QNX on RISC-V
QRV v0.16: Working Shell, Working IPC v0.16 boots to a working shell prompt on QEMU. pwd prints the working directory, echo works, ls lists the root filesystem, and non-existent commands report ”No such file or directory”. The first dynamically-linked user-space program spawns, runs, and exits through the full QNX-style IPC stack. The patches (and the […]