Explore a variety of personal data backup and sync strategies, from simple rsync scripts to advanced ZFS snapshots and encrypted cloud backups with tools like Restic, Borg, and Syncthing.
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An exploration of how to solve complex, persistent problems in both professional and personal life, with actionable strategies for tackling technical debt and navigating dating challenges.
Facing a bad manager with micromanagement and poor leadership? This discussion offers real-world advice on whether to leave, how to cope, and strategies for navigating the situation.
Explore why people write: to achieve mental clarity, organize complex lives, and effectively learn by inviting feedback – even if it means being proven wrong.
Explore Hacker News insights on self-hosted open-source observability stacks, comparing Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and hybrid approaches for logs, metrics, and traces.
Explore a collection of practical decision-making hacks and heuristics shared by a community, including the 1000-day rule, handling reversible choices, and simple defaults for everyday life.
An engineer at a failing startup weighs staying for short-term security against leaving immediately as colleagues depart. This analysis of a Hacker News discussion offers advice on job searching, workload management, and self-preservation.
Hacker News users discuss why they choose local NAS over cloud storage, detailing preferred use cases, hardware specs like silent operation and 10Gbps networking, and pain points like remote access security.
A parent seeks solutions for providing an 11-year-old with safe, controlled access to Wikipedia and LLMs. The discussion covers platform recommendations, DIY tools, and system prompt strategies, alongside a debate on the necessity of such controls.