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Show HN: UptimeFunk, Because the World Needs Another Uptime Monitoring Service
A few months ago, i was looking for a simple uptime monitor service to monitor my websites, but i wanted some extra features that i couldn't find anywhere.

These aren't wild features, but oddly enough couldn't find a service that was easy to setup, cheap, and that could do simple uptime mointoring for databases (sql & mongodb), docker containers, rabbitmq queues and os memory/cpu.

It's only when i was almost done that i realized uptime monitoring services had become something of mania in the indiehacker/solopreneur world. Anyways, hoping it can provide value to some of you.

https://uptimefunk.com

Would love some Feedback!
Would be great to have a detailed analysis of why it happened. Like this one: https://youtu.be/tLdRBsuvVKc?si=nyXOfoQ2ZPYvljV_
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Parents taking responsibility for what their kids do online, and taking their protection into their own hands? Blasphemy. That's what we have the government for.
> I feel bad for the commenter

yeah the post where you don't even directly address him, its just teeming with compassion.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, whose goal is to capture the consensus state of knowledge at a particular point in time. An encyclopedia that only captures "the truth" is an impossibility. No one has direct access to the truth. So I'm not sure what you're proposing as an alternative.
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Yeah so this is why I said "no way for the typical consumer to have a product experience like this" because what you're saying is true, but not something an individual can rely on.

Typical consumers have no way of ensuring their UI is, in fact, encrypting the data and not farming it out. They cannot verify the source code themselves, because they don't have the technical skill set they'd need to do so (nor, frankly, the time). They're reliant on the goodwill of whoever packaged and installed the offering for them not doing anything to that offering.

Technical power users can circumvent this because they can build/install from source, verify keychains, read the source, etc. Non-technical users can't do this, and need someone to help them. That someone will most likely be in the form of a third party organization that does this in exchange for money. They're placing their trust in that third party.

The point I'm getting at is that, eventually, a consumer has to trust a third party who may have incentives that don't align with their own. They're just playing a game of which vendor to place that trust in. This is why centralization is still the predominant architecture choice for the overwhelming majority of products, even in a world where myriad decentralized solutions exist for almost everything. It turns out that having bespoke third parties run decentralized solutions for customers is often not a better product experience, and still has the same root problem even if it manifests in different ways.
They can report them as viewers, which does have an effect on their bottom line. I can't say how much, maybe not enough for them to care.
Angular v17
Nice way of saying your proposed transportation system doesn’t work without forcing people to live in cities.
It is very good that the internal and political inner dynamics or wikipedia or pointed out. People should be aware of them. However, judging wikipedia´s place in the internet or the internet in general is an normative judgement that has nothing to do with Wikipedia´s internal dynamics.
> That's true, though I kind of don't care. Many people of course do care. My risk tolerance is higher than most.

It shouldn't be - common smartphone malware attacks now steal banking info, personal info, and even look for sexting pics that are used as blackmail.

> I suspect companies like The Google hold security over people's heads in order to effectively inject code and encourage buying new phones

The former is nonsense but the latter is kinda true. Or rather, manufacturers bake the cost of updates into phones, which are already low margin devices. This encourages shorter lifespans, which is actually a problem for Google.

> there's no reason to believe there's any vulnerability

There's always going to be vulnerabilities. And, they'll likely come via web views, not through attacks directly on the app.

All it takes is a service you use that embeds a webview (tons of them), to get SCA'd or injection attacked, and you've got a huge problem.
I remember a time when everyone was a dog, using their humans internet while they were away at work.

Now we're all viral marketing AI chat bots.
Here an example of a theory that current practitioners will just plainly call pseudo-science (and is very likely wrong):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics

If anything, my criticism of this article is that the first few paragraphs don't explain how fringe it is. (And I'm firmly on the opinion that working on it is important, because it's the only path out of the almost disproved box that we have.)
Declaration of Independence
#10 should be near the top. hugely important
Lots of discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38068635
Oh no the 3 line ai wrapper apps are panicking because they actually don't know to write any code.
> everyone from every major newspaper more or less went to the same schools, has a similar world view, lives in the same metro and fraternizes with the same crowds

This may be true in the US, I wouldn't know, but I work in media, and that hasn't been my experience at all.
yep. the RatGDO project will handily MITM their wired signal and completely circumvent this nonsense with no cloud needed at all.

https://github.com/PaulWieland/ratgdo
It's like storing actual knowledge of systems and tools in your head has value.
It sounds like a prime industry for disruption. Anyone want to start a garage door company?
> In the US, it'd be considered déclassé in most sit-down restaurants for the customer to run their own card.

Oh, I see. The US are so 1980s ;)

In Europe all card payments are chip-and-pin so they have to hand the card machine to you for you to type your pin.
And this is why local models are the future.
I increased my sugar intake by 1/2 tbsp brown sugar in the morning and about a fifth of a pint (300kcal) of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream every night, I eat 3 meals a day up from 2, and also lost 20 lbs in 4 months!

At the end of the day, it’s all about the numbers — my intake is 1600kcal, and estimated expenditure is 2240kcal – and whatever makes it easy to stick to the plan. For me it’s ice cream.
Big boomer energy here: it's called work for a reason.

You don't have to enjoy every minute on the job. It's not likely that you're going to be working on passion projects every day. You're not even going to be intellectually stimulated by the vast majority of tasks you will be given. You need to get used to the fact that almost every job as a programmer is probably going to be working on a system that retains eyeballs on screens, counts something, or shuffles around forms.

When you do this for twenty or more years it gets pretty boring. Where are all of the data structures, type systems, formalizations, optimizations, etc? Taken. There are a few people who get lucky enough to have jobs where they can work on things that interest them, where they get to work on hard problems that get them out of bed and plague them while they're in the shower. But they don't leave those jobs and there aren't exactly a ton of new ones being created either. Unless you're lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to get into one of these jobs, you're more likely to be sitting in meetings and filing JIRA tickets.

Cherish the times when you do get to work on a project that piques your interest. It can happen. But it's rare for it to last for most people. You have to sustain your interest and curiosity in other ways. And it's totally fine if it's anything to do with not-programming.

Meanwhile, on the job? Do your best, show up, be nice and professional. You'll do fine. You're here to clock in your time for money so that you can do other things that you actually like: reading books, spending time with family, doom scrolling, etc.
Oh, that. I'm actually wondering if they are making this hard on purpose.

The obvious way to implement this would be to have a front-and-center filter for cloud/local, so that one could use it to check which brands to consider before buying new connected hardware. It's a use case people have been asking for years. It's the only reason one would want to access a searchable list through their own page (as opposed to googling "${brand name} home assistant").

What's the blocker here?
Wasn’t there but I find it hard to believe that webmasters were kicking off people with views they found toxic. That Forms don’t have ban wars. There’s nothing about the internet or social media in regards to “cancel culture” or anything like it. Humanity has been doing it since we formed communities.
I compare my solid core romex 11-2 rated for 15A to my sexy T3 cable rated to 5A, and my instincts are not reassured.
You don't have a choice...all of the major garage doors are supplied by one company (Chamberlin Group)
A beginner's guide to LLM fine-tuning
I know I'm an old grouchy cranky so-and-so :), but the case for upgrade is really not compelling.

All the majors have followed Apple's lead and create crippled Flagship phones with no 3.5mm, no MicroSD card, and compromised usability. Meanwhile, they don't bring me anything I don't already have on my Samsung Note 8.

On the Apple side, my wife still uses iPhone XR. It's fine. It surfs, it banks, it calls, it messages.

Photography is the one area new phones excel at, but jeebus - For $1500+, I can (and will) get a nice real camera instead :).
And yet I still bought the 15 pro. Slightly faster and lighter with slightly better camera!
What? Sharing the binary vs. source is not the kind of line you get to draw unless you're the one paying for it to be developed.

I've worked on projects that are available on the market and I can't even point at it and suggest I had anything to do with it, or the companies involved with making it.
I think he's evil. That's an opinion. Did you expect a mathematical proof of his character? Did you want me to produce a documentary documenting everything he's done? Are you stupid? Can you read?

In my original comment I asserted he does plenty to inspire dislike without some media conspiracy to foment that disdain. And that I think he's evil/a white supremacist/nazi sympathizer based on his politics. Those are two separate statements you pea brained musk cultist.
Hyperbolic bull*it. Modern ICE cars regularly run for tens of thousands of miles with nothing more than an oil change.
I filed an FTC complaint, you should too. I don't need the resources to fight Chamberlain on this, I'm going to let the federal government do it.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
More likely OpenAI is using GCP or some other service that Bard is also using?
This point seems overrated. Service on a modern ICE car is pretty minimal, and I don't see it as something manufacturers really care about. Maybe dealerships, perhaps.
Came here to plug ratgdo as well - mine is supposed to arrive today! And he should definitely charge more.
The question posed is how does github make money off of OSS in a way that other similar services do not. Since they all host OSS software in one form or another, that observation isn't relevant.
I think there is plenty of evidence that companies can be successful and at the same time compliant in not giving strategic technological advances to oppressive regimes that will weaponise such tech.
Google got worse, try Kagi and you’ll realize the internet isn’t all complete garbage.
Give it 2 minutes, you won't be able to comment at all (since it just hit the front page)

... 2 minutes later, shadow-flagged (no longer in the top 600 posts, no [flagged], no [dead]) ...

... 2 minutes later, [flagged] and [dead]

Open for about 15 minutes, a bit longer than usual. Flagging-as-soon-as-it-hits-the-front-page a bit sluggish today.
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38186303
There is no "they". Wikipedia can be edited by anyone.
The meross garage door opener works perfectly, I highly recommend it. I have both the homekit and google version. I knew myq would pull this so I avoided those door openers.
>> are tribal entitlements necessary for the preservation of something worthwhile

> I mostly agree with your overall gist, but I will poke a little hole here just for completeness

So I guess, your comment was non sequitur? I mean I assumed since the grandparent comment was about entitlements, and the parent comment about entitlements, that your response poking a hole in their argument about entitlements was also about entitlements.

I mean if you’re just saying “diversity is good” we can agree with that. But this whole thread stems from the Maine’s constitution entitlement rights for Wabanaki having been removed from print.
I have never seen this kind of physics taught as THE TRUTH. Almost everything is an approximation, and there are almost always higher order terms smearing things around in a lab setting. This is part of why physics is taught with a lab component, to help build intuition for handling uncertainty and its sources.

The SG experiment is a great intro topic for an undergrad quantum class because the essence of it, that you measure two clusters, cannot be explained with classical mechanics. Complicating that headline further is pedagogicaly counterproductive. There is no grand conspiracy to deceive students.
Calorie restricting for a long time will let your body adapt to live with that.

I'm curious what the result would be if you add a cheatmeal every 3-4 days.

Note: This is regulated by leptin as far as I know - https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22446-leptin

> Leptin’s main function is to help regulate the long-term balance between your body’s food intake and energy use (expenditure). Leptin helps inhibit (prevent) hunger and regulate energy balance so that your body doesn’t trigger a hunger response when it doesn’t need energy (calories).

As far as I'm aware. Eating less for a longer time and you're body will reduce energy expenditure and etc..

PS. If you want to lose weight, you want your energy expenditure to be as high as possible ;)

PS2. Not an expert. Read a lot about it and this seemed to theory seemed to fit my practical experience with losing weight ( -25 kg. in about 6 months. | from > 100 kg to ~ 77kg )

I think I found the original source: https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/bodyweight-regulation...
You opened with “everything is arbitrary” and now the only thing you’ve said isn’t is that we should procreate?

> The sooner we reconcile our differences and realize that society is only possible through tethered connections biologically programmed into us, the better we will all be. The alternative is groups of people feuding over "moral truths" that are IMPOSSIBLE to reconcile because "moral truths" are inaccessible.

Moral truths are not impossible to reconcile and they are not inaccessible. You just aren’t yet equipped with the discernment to distinguish between accurate ones and arbitrary ones.

Biology is constraining when you rely on it to dictate the path forward.
Working for any organization comes with its downsides. Pretending like they don't exist and gaslighting someone who's come to peace with them for long-term job satisfaction comes off as pathetic to me.
As another person in the same boat, the problem is that people don't buy them. Like it or not, we're in the minority.
Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM
Exactly!

That, and it was obscure how it could be fully disabled.
> Can't work, no internet.

Don't most people just tether from their phones in this situation? Usually video isn't expected due to excessive bandwith requirements but the internet bill outweighs the daily salary (and you could probably get it expensed, or in my case my old company was already expensing my phone bill due to being used as a pager for on call)
I love writing software and building things that solve real problems, but it’s astonishingly rare to do this as employment. Yet, you still need income as children don’t eat for free. So for the other 90% of us you have to make a choice:

* Go to work knowing you are probably not productively writing software and just accept that reality for what it is: staring out the window while other people listen to the sound of their own voice out loud all day long. And, you often have to drive through lengthy traffic to relish in this experience.

* Write software outside of work at cost to your marriage, time with kids, personal finances, and everything else with work life balance.

* Go do something else.
In a company whose business is software-mediated (which is basically all businesses these days), there are a bunch of people who are excited to be part of the journey… and a bunch of tech people who have the power to actually do things because their hands are on the keyboard and they can make the business change.

I know which group I would rather be part of.

Given that being paid to do things is going to involve working for some sort of business, I’d rather be in software development for such a business than in marketing or sales or HR or operational support…
The problem isn't inflation. It's prices. What goes up may not come down
And why does that problem roll downhill to me? If Google can't convince me to upgrade they should be supporting devices longer.

Obviously I know they won't, because they want me to stay on the upgrade treadmill to generate profits. And realistically, even if it's only a small chance, any security issues could potentially cause unauthorized access to my banks accounts or whatever, so the short term pain of upgrading is probably worth it.

But on principal, this should not be allowed. We desperately need laws in place that any product that is not perishable needs security support for at least 10 years. We're digging ourselves a hole of e-waste for no reason other than shareholders demand it.
Sure it can be local - in the sense that all control and scrapping lives on your machine.

But in general, OK - some things are better done via an on-line service. But it's the minority of cases - almost none of IoT devices have a legitimate reason to route control and diagnostics through the cloud.
If Apple with get their act together on an AI agent that lives on the IPhone and gives you privacy but can really do stuff - but that capacity would only work on new hardware - everyone would upgrade and Apple would be work 4 Trillion
> common smartphone malware attacks now steal banking info, personal info, and even look for sexting pics that are used as blackmail.

> All it takes is a service you use that embeds a webview (tons of them), to get SCA'd or injection attacked, and you've got a huge problem.

Can you provide some evidence of these attacks actually being used in the wild?
I love Wikipedia. It's my favourite website of all time.

However, to say that "fringe" editors were largely driven out is false. In many places, "fringe" editors co-operate to win edit wars and form secret voting blocks in community decisions in an attempt to push their misshapen ideas into the mainstream.
No, of course – Galicia famously doesn’t, but they still have tall buildings and courtyards to shelter from the unspeakable wind.
furthermore, on any app, don't disable a button when an action isn't available. you can still mark it as disabled via color, but if someone clicks on it, you should show them a message WHY that action isn't available. "Sorry, you haven't filled in your phone number", etc.
Individual action directed toward the problem itself is what you do to feel like you're making a change, often at cost far in excess of the benefit of that change (which is part of why this mechanism often fails, even when a large majority want that change). There's nothing wrong with it, but at a society level, you can't count on it to get much done.

Individual action directed toward affecting policy in organizations that can overcome coordination problems (largely government) is where you focus if you want to have a big effect, but maybe not get as much immediate satisfaction.

It's still individual action.
To be honest, i do not think the internet invented that. There are parts of the world, were lynch mobs still are considered justice.
Were face is more important than facts.
To generate a healthy eco-system, for a unhealthy human species.. thats quite the challenge.
Except our distaste for flats has plummeted us into one of the worst housing crises of the entire world. Literally grinding our entire society to a halt, from students to young couples to prisoners to elders to cured long-term patients, everyone is trapped.
> I often find myself at totally random moments thinking about problems related to work. It is often at times that I have been away from the laptop, that solutions pop-up in my mind, for a nasty problem. Often it is form of attacking a problem from a different direction.

I get this too, all the time, but I don’t see it as a problem. This is what the mind likes to do: chew on problems. It’s not realistic be expect to be able to prevent your mind from trying to solve problems. All you can really do is to not pay it too much attention and it eventually dies out.

If a solution to a work problem pops into my mind, I just write down a few key words on my phone and continue with my day. Then I revisit the notes on my next work day.
> But a lot of people don’t want to be measured on results, don’t want to deal with learning new stuff on the job, having responsibility for something complex that might break at any time quite often for reasons totally not in their control.

See the blog's paragraph on incompetent colleagues. :D :D
I had great results with Phind. Their newest fine tune model (V7) has been a pleasant experience and better than most open source models out there.

Nit: your link has a trailing "s" which makes it 404 :)
A lot of companies deem the knowledge obsolete. There's no real reason to read 35 year old, 500-page hardware documentation books, or ancient assembly code from 25 year old tapes and floppies... if they even still exist! Much cheaper and easier to re-create the game.
Hah, I have roll-down windows! Bummed about the outage. I was hoping I'd be able to take the new features for a spin today.
I was using a Oneplus 3T that was a handmedown, about a year ago I upgraded to a iPhone XSMax which was another handmedown. I intend on using it at least another another 2-3 years until my next handmedown will be a iPhone Max Pro 13. One thing I have noticed, if you buy a top of the line phone, it will typically last 5 plus years with no problems and incredibly little difference from the newer models. I have no idea how they can innovate the physical phone anymore, everything they do now is mostly cosmetic and the software side gets more attention, the camera does improve but not enough to warrant an upgrade every year. Perhaps this is it for the phone market?
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I live in Finland in a modern apartment building. Walls have good sound insulation, and triple pane windows insulate for both heat and sound. I am next to a busy road, but can not hear it inside, unless I open some windows.