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  • Tarballs over FTP was better.
    by zoobab
  • I am working on a very similar mcp server which allows agents to communicate and share notes without race conditions, using git and s3 as the driver [0]. Funny how "inventions" like these pop up independently.

    [0]: slivingdoc.dev

    by baalimago
  • looks very similar to markbase.cloud
    by ksajadi
  • Is there a market for an actual GitHub competitor now that everyone is looking around and is very angry about stability?
    by gravypod
  • There are already several but it turns out that network effects dominate all else, so there is not and never will be a market. Just like Sourceforge, nothing will ever replace it until it actually dies.

    But if you weaken what you want there are several already.

    by inigyou
  • I'm confused by the usage of the word consensus in the explanation, to me it seems like a last-write-wins strategy, no consensus involved?
    by the_alchemist
  • the compare-and-swap prevents out-of-sync instances from stomping on the source of truth manifest
    by drifkin
  • The description came from an LLM. It's slop.
    by brunes
  • Please camouflage Claude use a little bit better, the README is so cringe it makes it actually hard to understand what the value proposition really is
    by fasdarasa2000
  • He’s goal isn’t to camouflage. Shopify is full AI maximalism, and Tobi’s goal as the CEO is to prove that he can change the world with AI and that his employees should follow.

    Up to the reader to believe it or not.

    by kimos
  • You can use GitSocial CLI to push git repositories straight to S3 without any dependencies: https://gitsocial.org/.

    The buckets then are actual remotes and double as static sites. GitSocial website itself is hosted on Cloudflare R2.

    by delf
  • Conditional Put (often called compare and swap) shipped 21 months ago, and it has just been absolutely wild the massive flocking towards disaggregated storage, towards object stores that has been going on since then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240678 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3...

    PicoMQ also showing up today, a Durable Streams implementation on object store (S3). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421806 https://picomq.com/

    Celld, a Durable Objects implementation, is also heavily heavily using conditional put, for all manners of coordination. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185430 https://celld.dev

    Longstanding SlateDB is built around it too! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41714858 https://slatedb.io/

    Yet another fine example here! Data comes in, we make sure we don't overwrite work, we write what we have.

    by jauntywundrkind
  • I immediately headed to a search engine to see if Terraform state (lock) on S3 is finally unshackled from a DynamoDB.

    And it has since Terraform v1.11

    by chanux
  • Fun thing Google cloud storage supported that for a long time now. Just AWS took its time.
    by merb
  • Just show us the prompt(s) ;)
    by ShinyLeftPad
  • How did this project get more than 1000 stars in just a few days? Are GitHub and Ycombinator (both company and chatbot-community) just fake and manipulative?
    by datastru
  • Even the README… ugh.

    > no state that matters

    by lloydatkinson
  • underlying idea of storing git repositories in object stores is identical to https://github.com/tigrisdata/objgit

    see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661938

    by 0123456789ABCDE
  • That one is upfront that it's vibecoded as an experiment. I can respect that.
    by inigyou
  • We've created Walinux, a Linux that runs as a durable object in S3, so it's diskless, serverless, transistorless, electricity-less, scales to zero and infinity simultaneously, and can be traded as an NFT ape. Mathematicians are dumbfounded.

    The thirty-five thousand other "S3-backed CLI tool for AI" projects are now obsolete.

    by themgt
  • What would be really cool would be to host apps in your own brain, that way we can harness the power of your own heart to run the stack.
    by pelagicAustral
  • This is going to be a meta comment, my apologies.

    But I now understand the growth in Github's activity that led to its instability recently. Folks just see a project (Cursor's Origin), open up a claude session with a couple harness, and just throw a lot of money, and external energy at generating what will most likely end up being garbage.

    But this garbage looks and feels good at the onset, and so a few iterations happen, more PRs, more commits until it dies down.

    In the end, almost nothing of value was created, it was just machine creating stuff for other machines, while humans were mostly spectators of an illusion.

    Rinse and repeat.

    by p-o
  • I don't really see a problem.

    Prior to this it would have been the millions of throw-away "hello world" intro projects, or "todo app" websites. Hell - think of how many people wrote "facebook clones" back in the day.

    The author is likely still gaining some skills & experience - although they're more likely project management & ops style skills than technical coding skills (ex - what does interaction with this look like, what's the desired cli surface, how do I configure/deploy it, etc).

    Intellectual property is pretty much always going to be a case where 99.999% of everything gets thrown away. Because the cost of duplication is zero, so the model trends very hard towards a "winner take all" popularity contest. A very small number of projects will see large success, everything else will likely be gone in a couple years.

    ---

    If anything, I quite like this new space. I no longer have to worry about trying to make software "big enough" for other people to use. Previously, it would take a large enough investment that simply scratching my own itch was prohibitively expensive - so I had to be picky about what I would pick up and work on.

    Now I can bang out all sorts of things designed just for me.

    I needed a way to limit screen time for kids, and existing apps are both expensive and junk. Cool - local llms wrote me a new home app for my android tvs in an hour. It does exactly what I want, and nothing else.

    I wanted to point my Home assistant audio satellites at unsloth studio instead of ollama. Cool - local ai in unsloth picked apart the ollama implementation and updated it to work with unsloth.

    Wanted a new ph monitor for my hydroponics setup, with an auto-doser (some super cheap peristalitic pumps), awesome, an old arduino plus an llm and it runs just fine.

    etc...

    I love it. It's simple to get relatively effective results on a scale of 1, for a scale of 1. I don't have to worry about trying to get community help or onboard people, or pitch it as a product, etc... It's mine, it'll last as long as I want. It is trash? Sure - to you (seriously, it'd be hard to run, is explicitly designed for my stuff, has no docs, etc... I'm under no illusions that it's not garbage in the broader context). But it's treasure to me.

    by horsawlarway
  • It's not actually safe to use https://x.com/kellabyte/status/2092105110381908458
    by depr
  • https://xcancel.com/kellabyte/status/2092105110381908458
    by inigyou
  • Sounds fixable.
    by infogulch
  • He forgot to add Make no mistakes in his prompt.
    by sreekanth850