Self-Hosted stories
Self-hosting is a growing movement among developers who want control over their data and infrastructure. This page tracks homelab setups, self-hosted alternatives to SaaS products, and the trade-offs of running your own services.
HN discussions here are practical — hardware recommendations, backup strategies, and honest assessments of maintenance burden.
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RSS feed for Self-HostedP[drive failure]: how reliable is your NAS?
khz.ac · 22 points · 18 comments
STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST
medium.com · 92 points · 13 comments
Figranium – Open-source visual Playwright control plane (Docker, API)
figranium.dev · 2 points · 0 comments
Boarding China's Last Bus
asteriskmag.com · 5 points · 7 comments
Skytrace – Self-hosted 3D ADS-B viewer with receiver coverage domes
sky.luftaquila.io · 2 points · 0 comments
Homebutler – Homelab CLI that gives agents commands, not a shell
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Edgemetry – self-hosted web analytics on Cloudflare's free tier
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Dreeve, a self-hosted dashboard for your sports and fitness data
github.com · 17 points · 3 comments
Boeing still working with NASA to schedule next Starliner flight – SpaceNews
spacenews.com · 4 points · 0 comments
A unique social media platform that will replace X, Reddit, Discord:)
heahy.com · 2 points · 1 comments
MetrIQ – An AI fitness coach who supports you
metriq.fitness · 3 points · 8 comments
China's AI weather warning system Mazu expanding across Global South
scmp.com · 5 points · 0 comments
I built a free, self-hosted CMMS called Workshop Control Center (WCC)
github.com · 8 points · 0 comments
Beacon – an open-source platform for comparing NASA/JPL and ESA NEO data
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Orb – Self-hosted AI assistant that messages you first
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Ciaren – Visual data pipelines that export real Polars/Python
ciaren.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Self-hosted analytics that sends signups and sales to your Telegram
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted
github.com · 94 points · 32 comments
CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs
github.com · 138 points · 37 comments
Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network
github.com · 27 points · 14 comments
Apple's Robo-Repo
pluralistic.net · 4 points · 0 comments
Agentreg – DNS for AI agents (self-hosted, single Go binary)
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Evaluation of a pentapropellant upper stage (1970) [pdf]
ntrs.nasa.gov · 5 points · 1 comments
Children's books about scientists convey demotivating messages
pnas.org · 6 points · 1 comments
Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic
theregister.com · 4 points · 0 comments
PocketLens – free, self-hosted Mint alternative via Plaid
github.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Self-hosted multi-tenant agents built on Claude Code and Codex
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
CockroachCrawler–1 package for crawling,browsers,PDF,extraction,and MCP
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab
timharek.no · 24 points · 4 comments
Hetzner is working on LLM Inference
sliplane.io · 155 points · 86 comments