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Ask HN: Integrating with External Systems Without Ngrok: What Are My Options?
Hi Hacker News,

I'm working on integration projects that require communication between our internal systems and external platforms. I’ve been using ngrok to expose local servers, but my organization’s IT security team has denied its usage with the reason:

> "We will not allow any kind of services that will allow external traffic to hit local machines."

Without ngrok, the integration process has become time-consuming and error-prone due to the guesswork needed to understand external systems.

Current Development Cycle:

Currently, I point the webhooks to a site like webhook.site and manually copy the payload from there. While this works, it's extremely inefficient and increases the potential for errors during integration.

Potential Workaround:

I'm considering using a Docker container running in the cloud that allows me to live change the code as needed. This setup would operate behind our IT security measures, potentially bypassing the restrictions on direct external traffic to local machines.

What I'm Looking For:

- Alternative Tools: Secure alternatives to ngrok for exposing local or cloud-based services.

- Cloud-Based Solutions: Insights on using Docker containers in the cloud for integrations, including best practices for live code updates.

- Best Practices: Strategies for integrating with external systems in highly secure environments.

- Community Insights: How others have navigated similar restrictions and any successful solutions they've implemented.

Any recommendations, experiences, or advice on this approach would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
This is a great point, it'll probably take the better part of the next decade for all this to shake out. It'll be interesting to see where it goes.
> These include poor diets — including diets high in ultra-processed foods — obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption and other lifestyle habits.

Glad they've narrowed down the cause so precisely
No, Brian Thompson is very much dead.
There are a number of companies offering direct indexing, but you'd need to research them individually to see how they supported transferring in assets in kind.

Ideally any direct indexing would be done in tax advantaged account so if you needed to liquidate your positions and start over from cash there are no tax implications. Otherwise, be prepared to eventually deal with hundreds of individual positions each composed of numerous tax lots.
Indeed! This sort of thing is a problem. It's the same with Internet protocols: you need at least two implementations to get to Standard.
Another reason to put as little as possible on the internet; if you gain any measure of credibility, you now need to safeguard your identity, urls, etc. FOREVER lest someone steal your identity and launder their reputation through it. What a world we've created.
That's possible. Maybe that such OS "unfairly" stacks custom options against its malloc implementation.

But I wouldn't be so sure to claim that such a pool, implemented in assembler on an OS that leaves everything to you, wouldn't outperform the os allocator you refer to. After all, there is fundamentally less information to manage.
txtai 8.1 released: Docling integration and Postgres/pgvector schema persistence
growth at a loss and ever increasing vc funding....

think it'll be difficult for them to be around 3 years from now (in their current form)
I understand why you would have that impression, but for what it's worth, my team has been helping other teams internally to use Devin, and we also did due diligence and experimented with OpenHands, as well as try rolling our own solution. While OpenHands is cool for what it is, neither it nor our homegrown solution came within a mile of doing what Devin could do.
I sell custom jewelry on Etsy and my Shopify website (lulimjewelry.com). I have a background in 3d printing and through that I realized that the sweet spot for 3d printed products is something that is small, high value, and custom. The jewelry industry fits this perfectly, and has already seen a large uptake in 3d printer adoption.

I built a pipeline using fabric.js, flask, and blender that lets me take my customer's customizations (fingerprints, signatures, other engravings) and place them on a ring. I ultimately generate a STL file that I send over to my casting house in LA. They 3d print the STL in wax, and then cast that wax mould with precious metals using the traditional casting process.

It's a fun side business as I get to tinker with new technologies (recently working on integrating a LLM into the ring design process). I have decent profits (enough to pay my mom and sister to help with customer support and shipping), so the workload I take on myself is relatively small.
Sounds to me like you'd prefer to read a different article entirely. So maybe go and find that, or write it yourself?

There is space on the internet for more than one article about Wikipedia.
I question how many people seriously worry about resale value. What I see (especially after listening to a podcast on color preferences in cars) is that there are a lot of color patterns that aren't exactly classically neutral but are neutral-ish with maybe a tint of something more colorful. My brother's newish house is mostly so neutral with the exception of some artwork. I probably overdid room-by-room color schemes when I moved into my house few decades ago but I certainly wouldn't have opted for basically pure-neutral throughout.
DNT was dead even when web browsers didn't enabled it by default. No regular user did check that setting, buried in a settings screen.
As long as they have the funding I'm sure they can get there.
>And in a society that strongly valued equality before the law, they wouldn’t dare treat the two cases so differently. Thus we can see that we don’t live in such a society.

How would "equality before the law" as you described even work? If some celebrity got killed and people wanted to contribute their resources into finding their killer, is that suddenly bad now? If my son got killed and I'm trying to find his killer rather than doing the Right Thing™ by devoting my time equally among all unsolved murder cases, am I a bad person?
Yeah, that's another giant can of worms. Light with a wavelength of 600nm is orange, but there is a combination of red and yellow light that is indistinguishable from 600nm light to us. Worse, there is an infinite number of combinations of two or more different wavelengths that look indistinguishable from 600nm light to us. Yet any other species would disagree that they look the same. Or a human with slightly shifted sensitivity spectrums of their rods or cones.

One the one hand it's great because it makes full-color print and screens so easy. On the other hand there is so much information in light that is simplified away by our eyes
>> Fidelity has innovated a ton and they have this exact product, though I don’t know the fees.
>> Fidelity is very much into new fintech ideas and products..

Fidelity has a competitive product called Basket Portfolios and it is so buggy as to be almost unusable. The bugginess has existed for many months and they do not even seem to care.
Run DuckDB SQL Queries in Excel
Probably, I share a name with a product and I couldn't care less. It's wild that some would feel bad much less consider it lacking empathy.

I don't like first name product names for other reasons but not because they share a name with humans named the same
Hesitating to put this because it's not related to the topic at hand, but I find monospace font for blogs hard on my eyes. I think I'm getting old, but Arial (and other sans-serifs) are easier to read.
I'd love to do this - I have had so many ideas and just wanted to take a sabbatical to refocus after the corporate grind.

Unfortunately I need healthcare. An ACA plan cost me $1200/mo. over COVID when I was out of work for two months. It was a complete panic. Just mortgage, utilities, food, and healthcare was almost $3,500 a month. Throw in car insurance (because I'm American) and it was unsustainable. If there's one thing the ACA is - it's not affordable. A complete garbage program that has enabled health insurance companies to take our money by force.

I've realized there's no way I can do this. I missed my window when I was in college (because I was working - for healthcare). Now I'm condemned to suffer until I retire or die. A consummate worker drone shackled by literal bureaucratic bullshit.
Excellent and fascinating article. The only way this will end is intervention by federal law enforcement, perhaps by formally proscripting DNS servers to route visitors to a law enforcement site that reports that IP address as a criminal enterprise, and ideally, also providing a link to info on the particular legal hold that was placed on this fraudster so visitors will be informed and can investigate further if they desire.

I continue to be astonished at how disengaged federal law enforcement continues to be at today's myriad internet-based crimes. If we need more staff to investigate and prosecute the volume of net-based crime, then the FBI / FCC / FTC should hire more people dammit. What's the argument against doing this, I wonder?
I’d prefer to say we just go back in time the moment it collapses. How can you disagree with me? No proof of anything and we can all contrive untestable solutions.

No wait, it’s actually God who exists in the wave collapse, and His divine intervention does the computation.
Is this possible to move funds from a Roth IRA or 401k into these low cost ETF alternatives, without taking them out of the tax advantaged structure?
The reason it makes sense to compare them is there are problems that Claude 3.5 (or o1) can’t solve. Can Devin solve them? If yes, it’s easily worth the $500. If no, it’s a harder sell.
Dropping by in the comments to say many thanks for both of these books.

I have hardcopies of both and "Crafting" remains my all-time favorite programming book.

It's delightful, educational, and beautiful.
ah, another thread on the Carpenter Media Group. previous related discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42212650#42249985

this "carpenter group" have gone on a spree in 2024 of snatching up smaller news orgs, and cutting 50% of the staff. seems like a pretty big gamble on AI.

> Carpenter Media Group announced earlier this month it had acquired another group of newspapers, Pamplin Media Group, in Oregon. The company now owns and manages 180 newspapers in the United States and Canada.

> “We are committed to Everett, The Herald and all who have a stake in its success,” Chairman Todd Carpenter said. “We have deep sympathy for those affected by these changes and will work hard with each of them to see they are well-compensated through a transition period that helps them move forward in a positive way.

“Our responsibility to the community and our readers requires us to make difficult business decisions, and then invest in and organize our team to move forward to produce a product that continues to improve and serve. Our track record in this process is good."

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/this-breaks-my-heart-roughly-...
Even today, Russians distinguish light blue from dark blue as completely different colors (голубой vs синий). Culturally different color understanding is not rare at all. For me, personally, English-speakers are being weird when they distinguish pink and red as colors; they are obviously just lightness shades!
Has anyone heard opinions from the incoming administration on getting this changed?

I guess the one area this tax law particularly affects are bootstrapped revenue-generating (non-VC funded) startups with high dev costs? i.e., actual running businesses not playing with monopoly money.... which maybe Elon doesn't care about....
andreesen's comments on JRE basically said this:

there was no way to sue because the banks were debanking anyone involved in crypto as a "politically exposed person". this was a regulation forced on the banks by the federal government. any bank not following this policy would then be caught under a million internal investigations by the feds, which is excruciatingly painful for them. as such, the banks weren't liable for following procedures, and the feds weren't "responsible" for it as they were very passive aggressive in writing and enforcing rules in such a way that didn't expose them. it wasn't said openly but it was deeply assumed with an undertone meant to circumvent the law. the politically exposed thing had been done prior with gun manufacturers and weed dispensaries so it had some kind of precedence

he described it as a puppet with no master above the strings

i completely agree that's it's 100% illegal, but there were a number of people who apparently had this same problem yet had no real legal recourse. i don't fully understand it but i assume a bunch of well off founders would have been able to figure it out. their only solution was to apparently support trump because it was so heavily tied to the left wing establishment.
What Hath AWS Wrought?
There isn't a hurdle here. These problems are fundamental to the technology.

If you told me 20 years ago that you could, by connecting a nuclear power plant to a virtually infinite number of GPUs, produce a machine capable of predicting the next token in a sequence, I'dve believed you, but also would have said that it would be an astoundingly huge waste of resources to use to get to that result.

People seem to ascribe some magic here that isn't happening, because they're surprised by the results.
How does this work without a virtual headset (don't you just end up looking off-screen)? Are you moving your head far less than the camera moves on the screen?
German speaker in Portugal. :-)

That's awesome. Just did one.
The "America, love it or leave it" tactic? It's intellectually dishonest and shortcuts any kind of debate or thoughtful discussion. Or is this more of the "you haven't left your wife beating husband so you must like it" tactic? That's also philosophically bereft and avoids anything substantive.

Suffice it to say, constructive criticism is vital for democratic improvement.
I want the ability to answer such questions with an accuracy slightly over 50%.
This looks like an amazing tool for businesses leveraging AI. How does it compare in cost-effectiveness to deploying single LLMs on custom infra?
FWIW it’s super hard to benchmark since it just doesn’t have many features. There’s no syscall for memory management for a start. So if you have an application that uses this you need to create your own memory routines in that app.

At some point your app that successfully runs on this is doing all the things your os would normally do. At which point the os is superfluous anyway and the biggest optimizations are likely the highly tailored app specific routines you wrote rather than the specific os optimizations.

In the end a fair benchmark on this very minimal os would be an app that makes no syscalls since this doesn’t really support much anyway. If you run an application with no syscalls on a modern Linux with context switching tuned (you can fine tune how the context switching runs other threads) the impact of an os vs this is simply the memory overhead alone.

You just can’t compare this fairly. There’s no reasonable ‘how fast does this handle a malloc syscall vs Linux’ when it doesn’t implement a malloc syscall at all.
I don’t think the intent was directly to embarrass anyone, but the standoffs and loosely stacked pcbs really did seem unfortunate. It was dropped, Mark repaired it and it was quite likely just as good as new minus the enclosure damage.

Audio equipment definitely has this issue of extreme pricing for questionable things. In all likelihood the amp on a chip is the best designed amp for the money. Sure discrete stuff might have a better noise floor and reduced noise. I’d argue few people could tell the difference.
The article seems to be pushing a Covid-causation narrative without any evidence. Covid was a global pandemic, the claim that it somehow dissproportionately affected the US requires evidence.
Well, TDD (or its immediate precursor, depending on where you draw the lines) escaped from the Smalltalk world circa 1997; but I think you can make a case for 1999 being when it really began to emerge. Most of the examples that I saw in the next 5 or so years were written in Java or Python.

Beck's book was 2003, with examples in Java and Python. David Astels wrote a book later that year, again primarily Java but also with short chapters discussing RubyUnit, NUnit, CppUnit.... Growing Object Oriented Software was 2009.

My guess is that "peak" is somewhere between 2009 and 2014 (the DHH rant); after that point there aren't a lot of new voices with new things to say ("clap louder" does not qualify as a new thing to say).

That said, if you're aware of the gap between decision and feedback, and managing that gap, I don't think it matters very much whether that feedback comes in the form of measurements of runtime behavior vs analysis of the source text itself. It might even make sense to use a mixed strategy (preferring the dynamic measurements when the design is unstable, but switching strategies in areas where changes are less frequent).
Crypto Insiders Turned 'Debanking' into a Political Storm
How do you reduce errors or hallucinations? I recently uploaded a very clear PDF to meta.ai and asked it a few, very simple questions. It completely made up quotes, including page numbers, section numbers etc.
> the vast majority of (non-native) react applications require a back-end, at the very least to deliver them to users

I mean, I guess if you consider me opening an index.html file in my browser requiring a backend in that my desktop operating system is the "backend server", then yes, but that's not what I was referring to. I don't think most folks would consider a CDN to serve static assets to mean "your React app requires a backend" in the traditional sense -- but that's a game of semantics.

> htmx-powered applications can be local-only via service workers

Do you have any examples of an HTMX app running completely client-side using service workers? Funny enough, the only example I found online ends up using Preact to render templates in the SW, but as a whole, this looks less ergonomic than simply using <insert JS library here> to build a SPA: https://joshi.monster/posts/serverless-htmx/

> there is a large overlap in practical applications that might be built with either, so it is good to know the strengths and weaknesses of both for comparison.

I could agree with this. I only care that people understand there are tradeoffs.
Non-paywalled

https://archive.li/nX82f#selection-687.0-687.61
As other commenters have already pointed out, SQLite does not take outside contributions.

We already have a fork, called libSQL. However, the goals of Limbo are far more ambitious and we cannot rewrite some parts step by step. We want to have DST ( Deterministic Simulation Testing), a testing methodology pioneered by Foundation DB and TigerBeetle. It is not easy to do that in an existing codebase
> How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy?

It can't. And the notion that it will be able to "in five years" is completely without any basis. It's possible, I suppose, but anyone who claims this with great certainty is not a serious person.
Very interesting, the insurance with the highest rejection rate where the medical spendings are twice the cost per capita compared to European average and the median age is younger, the insurance makes only %6?

What do you do so wrong? What is your mechanism of getting rid of those who provide you the healthcare at low efficiency and hight cost? In Europe we have elections and when those don't yield the desired results we storm the HQ and replace by force.

You can't be expecting that when too many people die the insurance company will lose customers and the shareholders will replace the top management, right?
Wow... happy to see portdroid :) Had used your app for debugging an android app that I built some 6-7 years ago
Dr. Pepper does make, in limited quantities, its own version[1] of the real sugar deal. It isn't stocked at major supermarkets - in fact, I've only ever bought it at a liquor store in Texas. It's fantastic!

[1] https://www.drpepper.com/s/products/dr-pepper-made-with-real...
Or graphically, this sounds like the spring paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg73j3QYRJc
I doubt it. In my experience those that block ads feel entitled to the content without payment of any kind. They see ads as an intrusion rather than a fair exchange. No, I don't see you turning it back on regardless of how things go.

The average user doesn't even recognize that running a website literally cost electricity that must be paid for. Who pays for it? Who will carry the boats?
The easy comparison for devs is quantum computing is like git branching.

The big question being the PR approval process.
You're not allowed to criticize the grindset.

You must twist the crank of the juicer. Extract all of the juice. Squeeze, grind, grift, lie, cheat, steal, extract.

Your life is meaningless. You are nothing but conduit through which money flows.
I think you are intentionally missing the gist of the post, but here goes anyways. DNT was a very clear signal by the user that nobody respected. So instead of accepting it being useless and throwing it away, just change how the browser behaves when the user enables the option by updating the browser in a way that will actually prevent tracking.
Any dailymail or pop news article that starts with "scientists say" can probably be safely ignored. Unfortunately there is not a lot of substance here.
in bagging area
Economists need to get their story straight on immigration
Anthropic and OpenAI have certainly been working on this behind the scenes, while they try to see how much better they can get models, they will let others pay for the current state until they find it valuable. The shift we are seeing now is already happening, and they are taking an even larger macroscopic approach by creating computer/tool use, along with the context protocol, so that when it's released it will work with almost any IDE and system...
> In fact, I find myself growing reliant on the AI to the extent that I no longer remember some of the R syntax, A sign of working at a higher level of abstraction : one of the promises of AI.

Polar opposite of what I want to happen to me.

There's joy in knowing one's tools.
> Remember how the Kardashian family originally became famous

Founding Movie Tunes?
I built the frontend for https://rigged.ai

We do statistical processing and breakdown of options sweep data, and generate realtime alerts that people can use to copy trade big Wall Street traders. We also have a strategy playground you can use to test different strategies that could be used for a trading bot.
I spent 20 minutes reading that man's posts.

According to him, it is.

Who are we to question our betters?

Work, fool.

Work until you die so that your heirs may destroy themselves fighting over the pile of shit you heaped up.
What’s valkey?