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>The by far nastiest part is CI. GitHub has done an excellent job luring people in with free macOS runners and infinite capacity for public repos.
This was my biggest blocker as well, as there weren't any managed CIs that supported Codeberg until recently.
NixCI[0] recently added support for Codeberg, and I've had a great experience with it. The catch is that you have to write your CI in Nix, though with LLMs, this is actually pretty easy. Most of my CI jobs are just bash scripts with some Nix wiring on top.[1] It also means you can reproduce all your CI jobs locally without changing any code.
[1] https://codeberg.org/mtlynch/little-moments/src/commit/d9856... - for example
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>Well, the first problem I had, in order to do something like that, was to find an archive with Hacker News comments. Luckily there was one with apparently everything posted on HN from the start to 2023, for a huge 10GB of total data.
This is actually super easy. The data is available in BigQuery.[0] It's up to date, too. I tried the following query, and the latest comment was from yesterday.
SELECT
id,
text,
`by` AS username,
FORMAT_TIMESTAMP('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(time)) AS timestamp
FROM
`bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE
type = 'comment'
AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(time)) = 2025
ORDER BY
time DESC
LIMIT
100