10 interesting things surfaced from HN on 2026-10-16

“I've also been using Iroh lately, it's pretty neat. I use it to create a connection between my Mac and a pi that I shoved in a closet on an isolated network. The pi reads my house's electric and water meters with an rtl sdr device, and the Mac connects to it every 30 minutes or so to grab and record the latest readings. The pi doesn't have a stable ip (or, I didn't set it up with one), so the Mac uses an Iroh ticket to connect to the pi. It's much overengineered for what it's doing, and there are definitely less complicated ways to just connect to the pi, but half the fun is playing with new tech.”

nozzlegear · recommendation · first hand use

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“I highly recommend https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook for those interested in secure containerized self hosting. A tremendous number of services are supported non-root user execution, read-only, and cap-drop where possible”

spatterl1ght · recommendation

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“C also needs to implement proper arrays. D does it, and that one feature is worth its weight in gold:”

WalterBright · recommendation · author or maintainer

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“Mistral has a free moderation endpoint with ZDR. Can definitely recommend it!”

lemontheme · recommendation

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“I learned OpensCAD manually but it was so painful because you needed to take into account the most minimal and ridiculous thing using code, so I used Freecad in the end that is way more intuitive and fast with graphical tools.”

cladopa · recommendation · first hand use

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“I do home improvement projects (I've in wall built-in storage, benches and nooks) I am on a clock and i have very little room in which to work. The only tool I have relied on https://www.cutlistoptimizer.com/”

itissid · recommendation · first hand use

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“I’ve used MPD for years but recently switched to lyrion and for me, it’s a lot easier and suitable when you have many clients. It’s nice to have a single (nice) UX/UI for my music and all the “speakers” on the local network.”

disposition2 · recommendation · first hand use

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“I sat there for 5 minutes reading them and then I tried to type something, and realized I couldn't think of a single thing. Just a bad day. I love that you made this, though. It's inspiring.”

noduerme · recommendation · first hand use

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“I switched, about 7-8 years ago to a Protectli box running Coreboot and OPNSense and haven't looked back; I use Ubiquiti APs and switches. I'm not saying they're the best, but anything used in corporate/enterprise is going to have better support (if not better code quality).”

alias_neo · recommendation · first hand use

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“You really need to build things to learn and progress. Woodworking for Mere Mortals youtube channel is a good place to start. Start with hand tools and build some very basic things, see what you like doing and progress from there. The caution with all online content is the constant promotions, etc. for recommendations of tools or brands. Look for counter opinions. See if you can go use a tool somewhere before buying, maybe at a local store like Rockler or Woodcraft - they may have classes. What you won't see in online content is how long something really takes, they are probably editing 40 hours of video down into 30 minutes.”

mattbrewsbytes · recommendation

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