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Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free

https://firestriker.org/blog/building-firestriker-why-im-making-civic-tech-free
30•noleary•1d ago

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dang•1d ago
URL doesn't seem to work?
noleary•1d ago
Seems to be changing the .org to a .com

https://firestriker.org/blog/building-firestriker-why-im-mak...

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related, author is a friend with a less active HN account https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blakeofwilliam

aaronbrethorst•1h ago
I have some experience in this space and I want to strongly encourage the author to reconsider their free as in beer model.

Yes, your target users don’t have a lot of money, but they also deserve a sense of whether or not you’re going to keep maintaining this project. Additionally, they are generally NOT technical and will not have the skills necessary to set up or maintain this platform.

Without a paid offering, they will have to run the software and will not have any clarity about your long term commitment to the project. Feel free to reach out to me. My email address is in my profile.

caesil•1h ago
Kind of sad to see AI water use as the first listed issue motivating this.

It is a completely fake concern. See here: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

PyPI package telnyx has been compromised in yet another supply chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/telnyx-pypi-compromised-teampcp-canisterworm
39•overflowy•1h ago•12 comments

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder
241•freedomben•4h ago•125 comments

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot

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141•8organicbits•5h ago•39 comments

Sand from Different Beaches in the World

https://magnifiedsand.com/
91•RAAx707•4d ago•23 comments

Desk for people who work at home with a cat

https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a...
218•zdw•3h ago•81 comments

Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free

https://firestriker.org/blog/building-firestriker-why-im-making-civic-tech-free
30•noleary•1d ago•4 comments

Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1064541/1a399d572a046fb9/
7•corbet•27m ago•1 comments

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-tru...
185•cptroot•2h ago•130 comments

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678
77•surprisetalk•4h ago•17 comments

How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY
162•jgwil2•4d ago•58 comments

Hold on to Your Hardware

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/
483•LucidLynx•9h ago•394 comments

Embracing Bayesian Methods in Clinical Trials

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2847011
24•nextos•3d ago•0 comments

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-...
276•breve•5h ago•256 comments

A Faster Alternative to Jq

https://micahkepe.com/blog/jsongrep/
332•pistolario•12h ago•205 comments

‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-bu...
110•vrganj•10h ago•111 comments

Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust

https://iev.ee/blog/gzip-decompression-in-250-lines-of-rust/
79•vismit2000•3d ago•30 comments

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/
606•bentocorp•22h ago•563 comments

Schedule tasks on the web

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-scheduled-tasks
259•iBelieve•14h ago•215 comments

Telnyx Python SDK: Supply Chain Security Notice

https://telnyx.com/resources/telnyx-python-sdk-supply-chain-security-notice-march-2026
6•KomoD•1h ago•1 comments

Can It Resolve Doom? Game Engine in 2k DNS Records

https://core-jmp.org/2026/03/can-it-resolve-doom-game-engine-in-2000-dns-records/
10•Einenlum•3d ago•0 comments

The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
463•robin_reala•6h ago•382 comments

Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI director's personal emails

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/iran-linked-hackers-fbi-director-patel
142•vrganj•2h ago•58 comments

Byte Magazine Archive 1975 to 1995

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm
8•oldnetguy•1h ago•2 comments

21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains

https://jacobfilipp.com/yu/
35•freediver•1d ago•58 comments

EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme

https://dfarq.homeip.net/emachines-never-obsolete-pcs-more-than-a-meme/
46•zdw•3d ago•25 comments

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/apple-says-no-one-using-lockdown-mode-has-been-hacked-with-spyw...
78•jbegley•3h ago•49 comments

Everything old is new again: memory optimization

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/03/everything-old-is-new-again-memory.html
142•ibobev•4d ago•105 comments

Should QA exist?

https://www.rubick.com/should-qa-exist/
51•PretzelFisch•8h ago•87 comments

Last gasps of the rent seeking class?

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/02/26/the-last-gasps-of-the-rent-seeking-class....
104•surprisetalk•4h ago•101 comments

The European AllSky7 fireball network

https://www.allsky7.net/#archive
108•marklit•12h ago•8 comments