Hi asciimoo, seems like this is the second time Hister is hitting the HN front page in a month, so congrats on the success!

Question for you: For the less tech savvy of us on here, is there any chance Hister can be can hosted on something like Pikapods? https://www.pikapods.com/

Yes, that's something I'd like to support. The main missing piece for a user-friendly hosting option such as PikaPods is a configuration UI. At the moment, customizing Hister requires editing a configuration file, which isn't practical for this kind of hosted service.

Appreciate the response! I'll be eagerly following Hister's progress. For now, I've settled on a mix of Instapaper and using SingleFile uploads to Dropbox.

Just a heads up, you can have dark mode on every website on iOS Safari with Dark Reader: https://darkreader.org/

I use Dark Reader on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, but I've found Noir to be better on Safari.

Does summer holidays only apply to Europeans? I think most Americans are still largely in office for August

People take much more time off during the summer in the USA than during other times of year. It’s somewhat regional, but it’s been true in all the place I have lived. Probably July is the most common month though because in some regions schools start sometime in August. It’s not uncommon for people to take 1-2w off during that period. More than 2w often requires extra approvals, so is less common.

Exactly. Say on average people take 2 weeks / 16 week off in that period, thats 12% traffic right there.

And smarter people than me can probably find some extra-linear relationship between usage and required limits for uptime etc.

I think Ortho-K is meant for kids as a preventative solution. It would be too late for us adults.

I also have never actually met someone who has used it.

I got Ortho-K lenses last year, and I'm over the age of 40. Seeing all day long without contacts or glasses is incredible. They're actually better for dry eyes than dailies, as you wear them for less hours

Is this good for Kagi?

Does Kagi have a free developer api?

Not free, 2.5c per search:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/search.html

Their API doesn't provide the mixed Kagi metasearch results though. Only results from their smallweb Teclis index, Curlie, and I think Marginalia results are included. Probably also other sources I'm not aware of.

Marginalia has a free-ish API for non-commercial purposes if you go direct:

https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/

Kind of, but not really, the ublock origin app doesn't work on Orion. I tried both Kagi + uBlock versus Brave and their built-in ad-block and Brave had a much better performance.

True, none of the extensions I tried actually worked as intended.

Fwiw Orion uses the actual extensions, not the uBO Lite app (for Safari) that I think you're referring to.

Putin can and has bought soldiers (Wagner Group and North Koreans).

And apparently Kenyans.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23/kenyans-l...

And apparently Indians. Unfortunately the worldwide supply of poor and desperate young men is virtually infinite so Russia will be able to recruit more mercenaries as long as they have cash from fossil fuel exports.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251111-deceived-and-dep...

For those out of the loop, can you please explain your comment?

Netflix uses FFMPEG, will have to update

Have to? They don't have a kill switch in there, probably.

Yup, abandoned 5 years ago judging by the Github page.

Cool tool! Are you guys releasing Hyprnote for Windows this month?

probably end of this month or early next month. not 100% sure.