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Article URL: http://markalldritt.com/?p=1372

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110651

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npx goto-assistant - that's it. Browser opens, an AI chat assistant walks you through setup (pick provider, paste API key, configure MCP servers), and you're done.

I looked at OpenClaw's repo and was overwhelmed by the complexity. I just wanted a simple AI assistant I could understand end-to-end and run with one command. No framework, no build step for the frontend, no Docker, no always-on gateway.

What it does:

- Chat with Claude or OpenAI through a web UI - Memory across conversations (persistent knowledge graph via MCP) - File system access (read/write local files via MCP) - Task automation - create, schedule, and run tasks through chat using natural language. AI tasks get full MCP access - Extend with any MCP server - no marketplace, no registry. Just explicit config entries in a JSON file, so you know exactly what's running

Your data connects directly to the provider API using your own keys - both Anthropic and OpenAI confirm API data is not used for training by default. All local data (conversations, config, tasks, uploads) stays on your machine.

Demo videos in the README.

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Built this because we were tired of fighting the same Rust FFI issues over and over we wanted one rust exports model that can generate bindings for Swift Kotlin and WASM and also handle packaging without a bunch of manual glue. We are also adding more targets over time including Python C# Java and Ruby

The main thing we cared about was boundary overhead so BoltFFI uses a different approach than UniFFI and the bench numbers are much better in our case, also async exports map to native async patterns on the target side.

few numbers from the current benches vs UniFFI

echo_i32 BoltFFI <1 ns UniFFI 1,416 ns speedup >1000x counter_increment 1k calls BoltFFI 2,700 ns UniFFI 1,580,000 ns speedup 589x generate_locations 10k BoltFFI 62,542 ns UniFFI 12,817,000 ns speedup 205x

benchmarks and code are in the repo and we compare against UniFFI and wasm-bindgen there.

repo: https://github.com/boltffi/boltffi

docs: https://www.boltffi.dev/docs/overview

benchmarks: https://github.com/boltffi/boltffi/tree/main/benchmarks

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Article URL: https://www.moonbitlang.com/blog/fastcc-ai-driven-development

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Article URL: https://drpz.xyz/posts/reflections-on-dwm/

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Article URL: https://focusreactive.com/custom-ecommerce-chatgpt-apps-with-shopify/

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03154-8

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10097-9

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Article URL: https://lithub.com/the-work-behind-the-writing-on-writers-and-their-day-jobs/

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Article URL: https://garryslist.org/posts/half-the-ai-agent-market-is-one-category-the-rest-is-wide-open

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Article URL: https://github.com/atgreen/cl-kawa

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Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research/online-deception-in-social-media/

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Article URL: https://kb.porkbun.com/article/225-why-porkbun-id-verification

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Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17XDU9D7uRS1P7U0VRlI0Yogt3eiDG6QysYc7ROHwJoc/edit?usp=drivesdk

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Hi!

I want to share the latest important updates for my open source tool for scheduled database backups (with focus on PostgreSQL).

A quick recap:

- Supported databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB

- Many storage destinations: local storage, S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, SFTP, rclone and more

- Notifications: Slack, Discord, Telegram, email, webhook

GitHub - https://github.com/databasus/databasus

Website - https://databasus.com

In 2025 Databasus renamed from Postgresus when it became popular and support for other databases was added.

Primary audience for the project is developers, DevOps engineers and DBAs. Now project is the most GitHub starred repository for backups (surpassed even WAL-G and pgBackRest). There are ~240k pulls from Docker Hub (both of previous Postgresus and Databasus images).

New features:

1. GFS retention policy

GFS is an acronym for Grandfather-Father-Son. It allows to keep last N hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups.

This is needed to keep backups over wide period of time within reasonable storage space.

Before only X days or months were supported.

By default now is used:

- Keep 24 hourly backups

- Keep 7 daily backups

- Keep 4 weekly backups

- Keep 12 monthly backups

- Keep 3 yearly backups

Usually this strategy is used by enterprises which needs long period of backups retention.

2. Encrypted backups are stored along with their metadata to decrypt them without Databasus itself

Before, if server with Databasus is destroyed, you were not able to decrypt backups without Databasus itself. So you had to make backups of Databasus internal DB.

Now backups are stored in S3\Google Drive\other storages with meaningful names with their encryption metadata in format:

- {database-name}-{timestamp}-{backup-id}.dump

- {database-name}-{timestamp}-{backup-id}.dump.metadata

In case of server destruction, you need only `secret.key` to decrypt backups and restore via pg_dump, mysqlbackup, mongodump or other tools. It is important for me to not vendor-lock users on my tool (even despite the fast it's OSS)

Full guide - https://databasus.com/how-to-recover-without-databasus

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Article URL: https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/21/california-tried-to-protect-students-data-tech-companies-found-loopholes

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/882814/tumbler-ridge-school-shooting-chatgpt

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Article URL: https://hypha.pub/postgres-is-your-friend-orm-is-not

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Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Rust-1.95-Prep

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