I still cant believe its 2026 and there is no good, cross platform, open source, UI toolkit.
These companies have enough resources and profit from these services to build teams dedicated for each platform
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I found this interesting talk in the comments https://youtu.be/AmrBpxAtPrI
Tech companies constantly claim they are "green" and sustainable. Yet they continue to ship inefficient software that consumes significantly more power. If these app consumes just 1Wh more per day across a billion users, that is 1,000,000 kWh of wasted electricity every single day.
True sustainability isn't just about recyclable packaging; it's about writing optimized code that doesn't force perfectly good hardware into a landfill prematurely.
thunderstruck commented on Ask HN: Cloud vs. Edge Computing–Why Choose a Local NAS? · Posted by u/thunderstruck
Cloud vs. Edge: Why choose a local NAS over iCloud, OneDrive, etc.? Cost, privacy, performance?
Cost, privacy, sometimes performance, mostly because I can run it the way I want it to, so control
Use Case: What tasks would your NAS handle? Jellyfin, Frigate, backups, AI/ML?
My current NAS does all of it, jellyfin, home assistant, backups, LLMs, all the docker apps, etc.
Performance: How key is CPU power, power efficiency, or upgradability (e.g., PCIe slots)? Your LAN speed (1, 2.5, 10, 25 Gbps)?
I have multiple minipcs, 7840HS, N150, etc. NAS is a 5825U. Don't care about pcie slots, can always get an egpu dock if I want later and the 780M is "good enough" for LLMs especially since vram is no longer the limiter with GTT (can do ~112GB VRAM on a 7840/8845HS w/ 128GB RAM if one wants to, but t/s is slow)
LAN speed is just gigabit. If I wanted to upgrade I could get a 2.5gbe managed switch but I just don't currently see the need to. Keeping it simple where I can.
Storage: Preferred drive bay count (2, 6, 8+)? NVMe cache for reads/writes? Ideal capacity (10 TB, 50 TB+)?
4-6
no nvme cache needed, but nvme storage pool used for current NAS.
capacity doesn't matter, can buy/shuck/get used enterprise drives myself.
OS: TrueNAS, Unraid, OpenMediaVault, Linux, or no preference? TrueNAS because ZFS. Or give me a ceph option.
Design: Appearance matter? Displayed or hidden? I don't like trashcan look, synology form factor is nice/aesthetic.
Budget: Ideal price (excluding drives)?
$300-500
Pain Points: What frustrates you about NAS or cloud solutions? Killer feature to switch?
NAS: coil whine, poor QC, no PCIe slot (or it costs way too much)
cloud: subscription hell
switch: already use self-hosted minipcs/NAS.
Your thoughts will build a better NAS. Would you back this on Kickstarter? Thanks!
No, for multiple reasons:
unless you have something unique to bring to the table that aoostar/ugreen/etc. have not brought to the table yet, and
don't do a kickstarter, it has historically been full of scams (such as storaxa if you look them up). Put it on a platform that guarantees a product for money such as a shopify storefront, etc.
Thanks for your feedback.
I will explore alternative to kickstarter as well.
thunderstruck commented on Ask HN: Cloud vs. Edge Computing–Why Choose a Local NAS? · Posted by u/thunderstruck
> But what are the real trade-offs of edge vs. cloud?
Maintenance - having to fix a networking issue when the kids want to watch their cartoons and you're halfway making dinner. Or when you're away for the weekend and your partner can't connect to the photo server.
When you pay for an online service you're also paying for someone to fix things for you.
True, when it breaks. It's annoying. Netflix has its own issues as well.
My small setup with 1gbps internet tunneled via cloudflare is super handy to be honest. Jellyfin, Frigate works with over 2 months of uptime without issue so far.
thunderstruck commented on Ask HN: Cloud vs. Edge Computing–Why Choose a Local NAS? · Posted by u/thunderstruck
Cloud vs. Edge: Cost and performance.
Use Case: Mainly storage but probably also jellyfin, and some ligher apps. Not really AI.
Performance: How key is CPU power, power efficiency, or upgradability (e.g., PCIe slots)?
For me power efficiency and noise would be important. Of course a better CPU is nice.
Your LAN speed (1, 2.5, 10, 25 Gbps)?
10Gbps at least.
Storage: Preferred drive bay count (2, 6, 8+)? NVMe cache for reads/writes? Ideal capacity (10 TB, 50 TB+)?
6 bays + nvme ofr cache.
OS: TrueNAS, Unraid, OpenMediaVault, Linux, or no preference?
Not sure
Design: Appearance matter? Displayed or hidden?
Doesnt matter that much but smaller better.
Budget: Ideal price (excluding drives)?
600 usd
Pain Points: What frustrates you about NAS or cloud solutions? Killer feature to switch?
Would be pretty cool to easily be able to expand bays. Lets say you got 4 bays. And you can then buy some case that connects to the main unit and lets you add additional storage.
Thank you for your answer.
Additional drives can be connected via USB. There are 4/5 bay case SATA to USB, some models come with RAID controller as well.
thunderstruck commented on Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network? · Posted by u/thunderstruck
> One challenge I'm anticipating is attracting celebrities and influencers who are already established on Instagram and TikTok.
I would rather like to see the solving the problem of not attracting any celebrities or influencers , or companies and just getting normal people for social connections, like Facebook was originally. This is the hard problem.
Money and fame usually destroys the platform in the end, as it aims for endless competition and rule breaking.
That’s an interesting perspective—thanks for sharing it! My thought was that having celebrities and influencers could help generate revenue in some way.
thunderstruck commented on Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network? · Posted by u/thunderstruck
I’ve built a social network that has an influencer -> audience model in order to not rely on advertiser revenue. Im trying to figure out the getting users but now.
I’d suggest that the answer is not how to attract celebrities but in the first instance how to attract any users. My platform is novel and interesting and even then it’s not easy.
Interesting. Please share the link to your network.
thunderstruck commented on Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network? · Posted by u/thunderstruck
What does privacy-first mean? Don't socials already have two modes: public-post and friend-post? Celebrities are public figures, why would they want a privacy in this scenario?
By privacy-first, I mean that I won’t segment users based on their behavior for any purpose. There will be no ads on the network.
I hadn’t yet thought through specifics like “friend-post” or “public-post” modes, or whether non-users would be able to view public posts without an account.