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Player Piano (Novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)
2•xqcgrek2•6m ago•0 comments

Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog

https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm
2•jedeusus•10m ago•0 comments

Monads to Machine Code

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/monads_machine_code/
1•piinbinary•11m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Anyone else lose interest right after proving an idea works?

1•grandimam•12m ago•0 comments

PromptJesus: Turns simple LLM prompts into optimized system instructions

https://www.promptjesus.com/
1•miles•14m ago•0 comments

Are the Colors in Astronomical Images 'Real'?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-the-colors-in-space-real/
1•bryanrasmussen•22m ago•1 comments

Tim Cook's Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-ceo-tim-cook-tariffs-ai-48049d0c
5•retskrad•25m ago•2 comments

TES Renewal Skywind – Progress update and gameplay demo [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wWpMR5mo-w
2•AntiqueFig•25m ago•0 comments

ARM PAN

https://blog.siguza.net/PAN/
1•luu•28m ago•0 comments

Gamers Are Making EA, Take-Two and CDPR Scared to Use AI

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/24/gamers-are-making-ea-take-two-and-cdpr-scared-to-use-ai/
2•healsdata•34m ago•0 comments

College Board keeps apologizing for screwing up digital SAT and AP tests

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/05/college-board-keeps-apologizing-for-screwing-up-digital-sat-and-ap-tests/
2•arittr•35m ago•0 comments

Does employee happiness create value for firm performance?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05024-2
2•thisislife2•35m ago•0 comments

The 3.5 percent remittance tax

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/the-3-5-percent-remittance-tax.html
1•paulpauper•38m ago•0 comments

You Can See the End of the Great Stagnation, but Productivity Statistics

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/you-can-see-the-end-of-the-great-stagnation-everywhere-but-in-the-productivity-statistics.html
1•paulpauper•38m ago•0 comments

Crypto Is a Threat to the U.S. Financial System

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/trump-crypto-stablecoin.html
2•paulpauper•39m ago•0 comments

Maybe: The personal finance app for everyone

https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe
2•saikatsg•42m ago•0 comments

News: the US Credit Downgrade

https://www.nominalnews.com/p/moody-us-credit-downgrade
1•MPLan•43m ago•1 comments

Chomsky on What ChatGPT Is Good For

https://chomsky.info/20230503-2/
47•mef•44m ago•32 comments

The Art of Independent Learning

https://afterhoursresearch.substack.com/p/the-art-of-independent-learning
1•snekcaseenjoyer•44m ago•0 comments

Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science

https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
10•saikatsg•45m ago•0 comments

Amazon has built a robot that can kill the coronavirus in warehouses and stores

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-builds-uv-light-robot-to-kill-coronavirus-on-surfaces-2020-5
3•01-_-•45m ago•1 comments

The Newark airport crisis is about to become everyone's problem

https://www.theverge.com/planes/673462/newark-airport-delay-air-traffic-control-tracon-radar
6•01-_-•47m ago•0 comments

Rive – a new way to design, build, and ship user interfaces

https://rive.app/
1•personality1•47m ago•0 comments

Windows was the problem all along [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q
2•Analemma_•49m ago•0 comments

Traditional Funnels Fail and How AI Is Changing That

https://getdecipher.com/blog/why-traditional-funnels-fail-and-how-ai-is-revolutionizing-user-behavior-analysis
2•mrosenfield•50m ago•0 comments

U.S. reports cases of new Covid variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-reports-cases-new-covid-variant-nb-1-8-1-behind-surge-china/
2•bookofjoe•50m ago•0 comments

Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013)

https://ephemeral.cx/2013/12/writing-a-self-mutating-x86_64-c-program/
9•kepler471•51m ago•0 comments

I Write

https://neoconomist.com/why-i-write
2•neoconomist•53m ago•0 comments

Whey Isolate vs. Concentrate: Which Is Better for You?

https://www.wheyindex.com/blog/whey-isolate-vs-concentrate-which-is-better-for-you
1•thewheyguy•54m ago•0 comments

Terence Tao on the importance of funding basic mathematical research

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114568996952809637
3•bertman•56m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Fast, Simple and Open Firebase Alternative: TrailBase

https://github.com/trailbaseio/trailbase/releases/tag/v0.12.0
49•trailbase-alt•4h ago

Comments

laveur•4h ago
This is pretty cool. Just needs clients for iOS and Android and it would be a rock solid replacement for a lot of large enterprises, or privacy minded companies.
aklemm•3h ago
How did you evaluate it so thoroughly?
oulipo•3h ago
Trying the online demo but it seems that it doesn't work properly, getting a lot of errors
sebnun•3h ago
Nice. I assume this was inspired by Pocketbase (Golang): https://pocketbase.io/
maxloh•1h ago
What is the difference between this project and Supabase?

Does this project have a different focus than Supabase regarding the features to be implemented?

Supabase: https://supabase.com/

evilduck•1h ago
Looks like they compare it: https://trailbase.io/comparison/supabase/
hahn-kev•1h ago
Honestly they spent more time comparing supabase to pocketbase
songtianlun1•1h ago
good! i will try it in my next project.
skrebbel•19m ago
I'm irked how "Firebase alternative" has come to mean "hosted database with an API layer". I mean, the key pitch of Firebase has always been that it's a realtime database. With both Supabase and Trailbase this seems a bit of a bonus aspect, kinda sorta half supported for a few things here and there. In Firebase meanwhile, as well as its successor Firestore, everything can be monitored in realtime. This is its key feature and all design choices derive from that. Notably all its weird limitations of the schema possibilities and query options derive from the goal to make a simple database that's 100% realtime-observable.

It's just super weird to me to see something presented as a "Firebase alternative" without a single realtime data sync example on the homepage. Trailbase has one deep, deep down the docs and nothing is explained about the "subscribe" limitations. That's not a Firebase alternative, it's just a hosted database. That's like calling a Chromebook an "iPhone alternative" because it lets you access WhatsApp and Twitter just like an iPhone would.

ps. I haven't followed Supabase a lot so maybe they got on top of this since, but it was pretty disappointing to me back when they launched to much fanfare. Like the only realtime thing they had was a counter or something like that.