Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer https://bit.ly/3h8dqb4

Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer Hi HN, My name is George, and I am helping build an office focused VR headset called the “Simula One”. It was discussed recently here: https://bit.ly/3vrpZHd . We have just opened our store for preorders ( https://bit.ly/36trtWJ ), so that we and our backers can help people replace their old PCs/laptops with more capable VR headsets. We call our headset a “VR Computer” (or a “VRC”) to distinguish it from gaming headsets. When Simula was founded, most people thought the future of VR was in games & entertainment. The truth is that VR offers a superior way for performing knowledge work, but until now there haven’t been dedicated VR computing devices available on the market. While existing headsets are optimized for gaming, ours is optimized for productivity: it features bleeding edge high-resolution displays, has a detachable compute pack with specs comparable to a premium office laptop (x86 architecture), and runs a VR specialized Linux distro optimized for clear text. VRCs offer several advantages over Laptops & PCs: they provide unlimited screens of any size, improve work focus & immersion, are usable outdoors (no laptop glare), improve privacy (no one around you can snoop your screen), and their compact design frees up desk space. They also promote better posture and freedom of movement: with a VR computer you can change positions, sit up, lean back, stand, lie down, or even walk while you compute. Our project started out as an open-source VR window manager ( https://bit.ly/3Hr3vIJ ), which you can try out today on the Valve Index or HTC Vive. It's built over Drew Devault's wlroots and the Godot game engine. Once our compositor became relatively stable, we ran into the issue of “no other manufacturer wanted to offer us Linux support” (thinking there was no market for something so niche, I imagine?). So we decided to build our own =] We are happy to answer any question (technical or otherwise) about our project. https://bit.ly/36trtWJ February 23, 2022 at 02:42PM

Show HN: Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks https://bit.ly/35nmaaY

Show HN: Elestio – Managed platform for over 150 open-source software stacks Hello Hacker News! We're Joseph, Kieran and David from elestio ( https://bit.ly/3s9pcse ). We've built a platform that offers open-source software as a managed service - we take care of the OS and app updates, security, SSL, networking, backups, the whole deal. In 2009, we started deploying open-source software for websites and web apps we built, many for SMB and enterprise customers. Our process was basically: spin up VM's from a hosting provider, install the software we needed, then update it manually / when it was needed / critical, etc. Once we hit > 100 servers/services needing updates, backups, capacity monitoring and alerting, etc. we saw that it was getting totally unmanageable… so we built what would eventually become elestio. We've put a lot, a lot, a lot of work into building something that allows us (and now you) to deploy a new service in just a few minutes, with zero ongoing maintenance / devops overhead. We basically turned open-source software into a SaaS experience. We update all the apps, respecting SemVer on the branch you select, issue and renew SSL certs automatically (even for your own domains, for free), automatically implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy, caching is handled and we put your service behind a configurable firewall and rate limiter with sane defaults. We have implemented Nebula to connect your services hosted in different datacenters across regions and providers as if they were on the same network and Borg backups to do deduplicated incremental backups in a remote datacenter. There were many challenges in building it… VM providers don't have homogenous or feature-complete APIs for provisioning servers, we tested 6 different mesh networking/VPN solutions to enable services running in different datacenters, regions, or providers to connect to each other securely, and we did a lot of work to create a sane templating system that covers setup, security, backups, upgrade, migrations and monitoring, lots of work to test the safest ways to update OS and apps without breaking things… but we got there and it works really well (we think)! Deployments are based on Docker, which helped a lot to standardize everything. We've been using it to deploy and maintain over 12,000 services for our own enterprise clients and we've spent the last year making it user-friendly (and even more bulletproof for end-user configs). Elestio can currently deploy any one of over 150 open-source software stacks like Postgres, MySQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Wordpress, NodeBB, Jitsi, Uptime-kuma, Plausible, GitLab,, Strapi, Ghost, or even PowerDns, Grafana, ClickHouse, etc. in about 3 minutes, flat. We currently support AWS Lightsail, Linode, Hetzner, Vultr and Digital Ocean, and BringYourOwnVM, if you want to run on your own provider account or even on-premise but have all the features of managed services. We are offering 1 BYOVM service per customer for free forever. Something we really wanted to do was make sure we were part of a healthy open-source ecosystem. To that end, elestio will donate part of all revenue to the open-source projects our customers are using. We will review this annually and if it's possible to increase it, we will. This is a win-win-win to us. Open-source developers and communities get more resources to improve their software while our customers, our staff and other stakeholders know that they are helping to support the open-source community. For this launch we made a partnership with DigitalOcean, they are offering $250 of free credits on Elestio if you go through this link: https://do.co/3sfx9w9 Alternatively you can also register here and get $20 of free credits but not limited to DO infrastructure: https://bit.ly/3JN26NZ All your questions and comments are welcome and if you want to share any devops horror stories, please do! We're giving out free credits for the best ones!! Joseph, Kieran and David February 23, 2022 at 02:00PM

Show HN: Turn your tweets/threads into a blog and RSS feed https://bit.ly/3JNK3XX

Show HN: Turn your tweets/threads into a blog and RSS feed https://bit.ly/3scOYvz February 23, 2022 at 02:42PM

Show HN: The most enjoyable desktop app for writing a thesis https://bit.ly/36zQa3X

Show HN: The most enjoyable desktop app for writing a thesis https://bit.ly/2QBlHI9 February 23, 2022 at 02:06PM

Show HN: Hide all mentions of Wordle in Hacker News feeds https://bit.ly/3seSgPe

Show HN: Hide all mentions of Wordle in Hacker News feeds https://bit.ly/3vakvQM February 23, 2022 at 02:01PM

Show HN: Pipy – A Programmable network proxy for cloud, edge, and IoT https://bit.ly/36AQzDe

Show HN: Pipy – A Programmable network proxy for cloud, edge, and IoT https://bit.ly/3IdsjFe February 23, 2022 at 12:28PM

Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing https://bit.ly/3pak84N

Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing https://bit.ly/3cyJNLN February 23, 2022 at 01:23PM

Show HN: I made an iOS app recording RGBD videos and a webapp playing them https://bit.ly/3JDUmOm

Show HN: I made an iOS app recording RGBD videos and a webapp playing them https://bit.ly/3IfIYrw February 23, 2022 at 04:31AM

Show HN: SeQR.site – serverless, privacy-focussed QR code generator https://bit.ly/3IaY9SW

Show HN: SeQR.site – serverless, privacy-focussed QR code generator https://bit.ly/3s80poh February 22, 2022 at 03:54AM

Show HN: Wachy – A UI for eBPF-based performance debugging https://bit.ly/3h6aSu8

Show HN: Wachy – A UI for eBPF-based performance debugging eBPF is an amazing technology that allows safely running user-supplied functions at pretty much arbitrary probe points in a kernel/user space context. Much has been written about how amazing this feature is for kernel observability. But as someone who writes user space code, what I find even more amazing is the support for tracing arbitrary user space programs, with no code changes and low overhead. However, doing in-depth analysis can get complicated and time-consuming. My goal with wachy was to make this debugging significantly easier/faster to use, by displaying traces in a TUI next to the source code and allowing for interactive drilldown analysis. If you get a chance, check out the start of the demo video since (AFAIK) it's quite unique and gives a much clearer idea than I can provide with just text. https://bit.ly/33DByiM February 22, 2022 at 01:13AM

Show HN: Mappable – raw text to API in 30min https://bit.ly/3sZNiom

Show HN: Mappable – raw text to API in 30min https://bit.ly/3s6GF4s February 22, 2022 at 02:35AM

Show HN: I rolled my own simple support / Helpdesk SaaS aimed at Indie Hackers https://bit.ly/3LT3ikE

Show HN: I rolled my own simple support / Helpdesk SaaS aimed at Indie Hackers https://bit.ly/3s7x4KR February 22, 2022 at 01:08AM

Show HN: Antique Playing Cards Collection https://bit.ly/3s9pVK8

Show HN: Antique Playing Cards Collection https://bit.ly/3sZWTf5 February 21, 2022 at 11:23PM

Show HN: Apptrail – SaaS audit trails as a Service https://bit.ly/3sUdII7

Show HN: Apptrail – SaaS audit trails as a Service Hi Hacker News! We're Samrose and Shaeq from Apptrail ( https://bit.ly/3s5vOb1 ). We let B2B SaaS companies easily add customer-facing audit trails to their products. It's currently too hard to build and consume SaaS audit logs. Organizations use audit logs to access and monitor the activity coming from their SaaS tools for security and compliance reasons. For example, a security admin at an enterprise company would use Slack audit logs to see messages sent and what devices and IP addresses they were sent from. Many SaaS companies don’t offer audit trails to their customers, which results in a lack of insight for the SaaS user (for example, they have to make a support ticket every time they need information). For SaaS companies, adding audit logs to their products is a daunting task that often gets delayed because audit logs are full of hidden complexity. Designing a multi-tenant audit trail solution involves careful consideration around scalability, availability, durability, verifiable immutability, configurable data retention, and guaranteed delivery, to name a few requirements. The audit logs need to be viewable through a UI, searchable & filterable, accessible programmatically via a REST API, and ideally support streaming delivery to consumers. SaaS companies are overwhelmed by the complexity, and often implement subpar solutions, which results in more work for their customers to actually consume the audit logs. As an example, SaaS companies are often unable to support extended data retention times (7-10 years is common for larger customers) because their systems aren’t designed for long-term storage. At AWS, we worked on the infrastructure that allows Amazon to easily bake audit logs into their services. Whether it’s S3 or Sagemaker, every AWS service needs to offer audit logs to all customers for it to launch. We realized that enterprise & security-conscious customers have the same needs when using SaaS tools, but SaaS companies are left entirely to figure out building customer-facing audit logs themselves. Apptrail is a fully managed service that enables any B2B SaaS company to easily add full-featured audit trails to their product and deliver audit logs to their end customers' destinations (data lakes, SIEM, etc.) in near real time. Check out a short demo here: https://bit.ly/3p3qWkC . The way it works is SaaS companies record user and API activity using our language native SDKs, and Apptrail takes care of everything else. Apptrail automatically aggregates and indexes audit data in the cloud and surfaces it to SaaS customers through a self-service portal UI and REST API that we host on your behalf. There's full support for analytical queries and fast data retrieval while keeping audit logs in S3 for durability and optimal scaling. Apptrail offers audit log delivery as a first-class feature using "trails", which allows audit log consumers to add rules to filter audit logs based on their content and configure streaming delivery to destinations like S3 or Splunk. We’re built entirely on AWS, using services like S3, SQS, Kinesis, and ECS on EC2 extensively, with good ol’ JVM powering the application logic. We’ve built Apptrail to scale horizontally, so it can ingest an unlimited number of audit logs. Apptrail is also completely replicated in independent cloud regions, so you can use our regional endpoints to keep audit log data in a specified region (currently we’re launching with US West - Oregon as our first region). We have a usage-based pricing model and charge for each audit log sent and delivered. Our extensive always free tier allows 100k events to be sent for free every month forever. You can sign up for and try Apptrail today. We offer a no credit card required free trial. We would love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building or your experiences with SaaS audit logs in general. Feel free to also reach out to us at founders@apptrail.com https://bit.ly/3s5vOb1 February 21, 2022 at 02:39PM

Show HN: A new daily word puzzle https://bit.ly/3v1JXI3

Show HN: A new daily word puzzle https://bit.ly/3I6GE61 February 21, 2022 at 01:21PM

Show HN: Smooth out breakpoint layout jumps with responsify https://bit.ly/3sSBcO4

Show HN: Smooth out breakpoint layout jumps with responsify https://bit.ly/3Haonn8 February 21, 2022 at 11:29AM

Show HN: Retro-Reddit https://bit.ly/3p4yG5X

Show HN: Retro-Reddit https://bit.ly/3LNd9sq February 21, 2022 at 10:28AM

Show HN: TopSpace – Scroll above the top line in Emacs https://bit.ly/3JFKPGu

Show HN: TopSpace – Scroll above the top line in Emacs This is an Emacs minor mode I made in my spare time this past year. It lets you scroll above the top line to vertically center top text in Emacs. I made it out of my own necessity for the feature and it is very useful when using Emacs in full-screen with tall/large monitors. As monitors have been getting larger for many years now, I'm actually amazed that this kind of feature isn't more available in text editors or other software like internet browsers etc. Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions! https://bit.ly/3oYUAaX February 21, 2022 at 12:56PM

Show HN: I made a Line graph maker https://bit.ly/3H13jPT

Show HN: I made a Line graph maker https://bit.ly/34WVOg3 February 21, 2022 at 01:17PM

Show HN: HyperSudoku – Play Sudoku live with your friends online https://bit.ly/3sNmE1S

Show HN: HyperSudoku – Play Sudoku live with your friends online Hi HN, I built a web-based Sudoku game to play with live with my friends or solo with a timer for practice. Get a game going in a few seconds. I'm excited to finally finish this project and putting it out there, after years of procrastination. Hope you like it! https://bit.ly/34NmYGh https://bit.ly/34NmYGh February 21, 2022 at 04:23AM