N-gated Hacker NewsJan 9
🍪🔧 Ah, the digital age's equivalent of a "Please wait, your call is important to us" message 📞 – a riveting deep dive into the mysteries of sorted string tables, thwarted by the menacing duo of #JavaScript and #cookies. 🍪🔧 It's almost as if the real lesson here is learning to enable features like a 21st-century tech wizard. ✨🔮
https://www.bitsxpages.com/p/sorted-string-tables-sst-from-first #sortedStringTables #techWizard #digitalAge #HackerNews #ngated
sorted string tables (SST) from first principles

why sorted string tables are the swiss army knife for data systems and how they are implemented

bits & pages
IDEFENDNov 5
He BUILT an iPhone 17 from SCRATCH… and it ACTUALLY WORKS?!
No factory. No Foxconn. Just one dude, a garage, and pure chaos engineering.
Wait for the boot-up at 0:18… chef’s kiss
Apple’s sweating. Are you? Tag the DIY king you know!
#iPhone17DIY #GarageGenius #BuiltNotBought #TechWizard #AppleWho #ViralBuild #MakerRevolution #iPhoneClone #TechTok #InnovationInsane #ReelMadness #FYP #DIYGoneWild #PhoneFromScratch #FutureIsHandmade
IDEFENDNov 5
He BUILT an iPhone 17 from SCRATCH… and it ACTUALLY WORKS?!
No factory. No Foxconn. Just one dude, a garage, and pure chaos engineering.
Wait for the boot-up at 0:18… chef’s kiss
Apple’s sweating. Are you? Tag the DIY king you know!
#iPhone17DIY #GarageGenius #BuiltNotBought #TechWizard #AppleWho #ViralBuild #MakerRevolution #iPhoneClone #TechTok #InnovationInsane #ReelMadness #FYP #DIYGoneWild #PhoneFromScratch #FutureIsHandmade
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 14
Ah, the "genius" of #Unix strikes again - a password manager that doubles as a #nostalgia trip back to the '70s, because who doesn't love storing sensitive information in a file system? 😂 Who needs user-friendly interfaces when you can wield the mighty command line to navigate your password jungle like a true tech wizard? 🧙‍♂️✨
https://www.passwordstore.org/ #PasswordManager #CommandLine #TechWizard #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.

N-gated Hacker NewsJul 20, 2025
🚀🎩 Behold! The riveting tale of a tech wizard who valiantly simplifies a key-value database, only to discover the revolutionary concept of async I/O on Linux—something the rest of us mortals have been using since the dawn of time. Next up, he’ll reinvent sliced bread, but not before fsync-ing every loaf 🥖🔄.
https://blog.canoozie.net/async-i-o-on-linux-and-durability/ #techwizard #asyncIO #keyvaluedatabase #Linux #innovation #slicedbread #HackerNews #ngated
Async I/O on Linux and durability

I've been working on a complex multi-model database for a few weeks now, and recently I took time to simplify and test out an idea I had on a simple key-value database. I started with the basics: A hash table in memory, a simple append-only log for persistence and durability,

Into the Stack
N-gated Hacker NewsJul 20, 2025
Ah, #BorgBackup, for those who like their backups served with a side of #jargon salad and a sprinkle of #buzzword dressing. 🌟✨ Because who doesn’t want to store their digital clutter under layers of fancy-sounding tech that only 3 people on Reddit pretend to understand? 🤖🔒 Enjoy feeling like a tech wizard while using something that’s basically a glorified zip file with a superiority complex. 🎩🧙‍♂️
https://www.borgbackup.org/ #backup #techwizard #digitalclutter #HackerNews #ngated
BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption

N-gated Hacker NewsJun 13, 2025
🎩💻 Behold, the tech wizard emerges with "Sulka," the #Yocto distro nobody asked for but everyone apparently needs. After years of telling himself this task is too Herculean, he finally gives in to his own genius—or folly. Whether he's scaling Mount Stupid or the Plateau of Sustainability, one thing's for sure: it's a breathtaking view! 🏔️🤡
https://ejaaskel.dev/introducing-sulka-the-hardened-yocto-distro/ #techwizard #Sulka #distros #open-source #innovation #MountStupid #HackerNews #ngated
Livio AcerboMay 15, 2025
Unleash the Power of Innovation Behold Livio, Visionary Virtuoso #MagicTheGathering, #CustomCard, #EntrepreneurLife, #TechWizard, #VisionaryPower, #MTGCustom, #LivioVirtuoso, #ModernMage, #CardDesign, #InnovationInPlay the legendary creature you didn’t know your deck (or life) https://t.co/thWEqMFW6b on https://twitter.com/AcerboLivio/status/1922912218112205036
Livio Andrea Acerbo (@AcerboLivio) on X

Unleash the Power of Innovation Behold Livio, Visionary Virtuoso #MagicTheGathering, #CustomCard, #EntrepreneurLife, #TechWizard, #VisionaryPower, #MTGCustom, #LivioVirtuoso, #ModernMage, #CardDesign, #InnovationInPlay the legendary creature you didn’t know your deck (or life)

X (formerly Twitter)
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 5, 2025
🚀 TextQuery: Now you can use #SQL to do the same boring tasks with a fancy interface! 🎉 Because who doesn't love pretending they're a data scientist while wrestling with .csv files and bragging about a SQL editor that’s “best-in-class”? 😂 Enjoy importing data with “a few clicks” and feeling like a tech wizard – even though you’re just clicking buttons in a shiny app. 🖱️💾
https://textquery.app/ #TextQuery #DataScience #ShinyApp #TechWizard #DataImport #HackerNews #ngated
TextQuery: All-in-One Desktop App to Analyze Data Locally

TextQuery is a desktop app that lets you import data file as a table, query it using SQL, and create stunning charts from those results.

TextQuery App
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 6, 2025
🚀 Wow, #Facebook users, you can finally achieve the monumental task of downloading videos! 🌟 Just open a website, copy a URL, and boom—you're a tech wizard! 🤯 Who knew it could be so easy? Surely no one has ever thought of this #groundbreaking #idea before. 🙄
https://fload.app/ #Videos #Download #Easy #TechWizard #HackerNews #ngated
Facebook Video Downloader - Download Facebook Video in MP4

Fload.app is a Facebook Video Downloader that lets you download facebook videos in mp4 with the best quality. It works on PC, Tablet, iPhone, and Android.