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The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•50s ago•0 comments

I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
1•breadwithjam•3m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•4m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•7m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•7m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•7m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
2•vkelk•8m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
2•mmoogle•8m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•10m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•14m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•15m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•16m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•17m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•20m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•23m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•24m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
2•gmays•25m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
2•andsoitis•25m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
2•lysace•26m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
2•Malfunction92•29m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
2•carnevalem•29m ago•1 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•31m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
2•rcarmo•32m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•33m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•33m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
3•Brajeshwar•33m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•33m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•34m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you backup your Google account?

4•leros•1mo ago
My entire life is in Google: GMail, Google Drive, and Photos. I'm happy with it except for the fact that I'm terrified of getting locked out and losing everything.

Is there any simple solution for an always running backup that could backup to a local NAS or reLly anywhere? The simpler the better. Ideally, I want an appliance not a bunch of scripts hacked together.

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chistev•1mo ago
> My entire life is in Google: GMail, Google Drive, and Photos. I'm happy with it except for the fact that I'm terrified of getting locked out and losing everything.

This has been my fear lately. Especially after Facebook banned my account earlier this year for "account integrity" issues. An account I had since 2011. My appeals failed and my emails to them went unresponded to. I made a post about it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43420648

It made me realize I can't just leave personal data with an organization that can just ban me whenever they feel like.

I've thought about backing up everything to my OneDrive so that I have two backups, I mean, what are the odds that I get banned by Microsoft and Google at the same time before I can find another cloud provider?

I don't know, I'll follow this thread for better suggestions.

joistef•1mo ago
For Drive and Photos, Relica can do this. Full disclosure: I develop the software.

It uses restic under the hood (so you get deduplication, encryption, immutable snapshots) and rclone for cloud connectivity. Backs up to your NAS or multiple destinations, runs on a schedule, GUI instead of cron jobs and scripts. $5/month for the software, storage is yours.

Gmail is harder. It's not a filesystem so restic/rclone-based tools don't handle it. Your best bet there is probably Google Takeout on a schedule (annoying but works), or something like gmvault if you're comfortable with Python scripts.

The lockout fear is real. One option: backup Google Drive → your NAS → a second cloud provider that isn't Google (Or Relica Cloud for managed redundancy). Relica can chain those so you upload once and it replicates. Check relicabackup.com

leros•1mo ago
I'll check it out!

Fwiw, after spending a few minutes on your website, I see nothing that indicates your software works on Google Drive or Photos. It just looks like a Backblaze alternative. There might be some room to showcase your offering a bit more.

I am a Backblaze customer so I will definitely consider your software as an alternative.