Infrastructure, hosting & databases

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• Wish it existed

  standard for backups, one that makes it possible for a (potentially distributed) system to talk to a backup system and to save or restore a snapshot

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  There should be a standard for backups, one that makes it possible for a (potentially distributed) system to talk to a backup system and to save or restore a snapshot.

  Kinrany · Sep 17, 2026in “Backups Aren't Simple”

• Wish it existed

  public database of the best known designs and techniques for making long lasting items

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  There should be a public database of the best known designs and techniques for making long lasting items.

  sholladay · Sep 15, 2026in “Let's make quality the norm again”

• Wish it existed

  established way to build local first software with a robust syncing in the background, either P2P or to a server

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  I wish there was an established way to build local first software with a robust syncing in the background, either P2P or to a server.

  janandonly · Aug 2, 2026in “Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores”

• Wish it existed

  way to truly own my phone including the ability to perform perfect-fidelity backup and restore

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  I wish there were a way to truly own my phone including the ability to perform perfect-fidelity backup and restore.

  rkagerer · Jul 26, 2026in “GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices”

• Wish it existed

  standard format / specification for agent transcripts and logs (similar to ACP for runtime events)

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  Building this made it obvious that there should be a standard format / specification for agent transcripts and logs (similar to ACP for runtime events).

  luca-ctx · Jul 2, 2026in “Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine”

• Wish it existed

  third way - a platform that sandboxes users from the worse things that are possible and breaks reliance on cloud platforms

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  I believe there should be a third way - a platform that sandboxes users from the worse things that are possible and breaks reliance on cloud platforms.

  nl · May 25, 2026in “Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox”

• Someone should build

  app to offload all your data to a personal cloud before going to the airport and then reload it into the phone after going through customs

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  Someone should make an app to offload all your data to a personal cloud before going to the airport and then reload it into the phone after going through customs

  gonzalohm · May 24, 2026in “CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices”

• Wish it existed

  instant play button for some of the multiplayer games, the server browser interface is kind of obtuse

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  I wish there was an instant play button for some of the multiplayer games, the server browser interface is kind of obtuse.

  modeless · May 21, 2026in “DOS Zone”

• Looking for

  getting more up to date satellite images that can be used with other software, such as a tile server, vector map, or similar

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  Does anyone know of a good service for getting more up to date satellite images that can be used with other software, such as a tile server, vector map, or similar?

  rurp · May 18, 2026in “Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?”

• Would pay for

  Cloudflare Workers Paid ($5) in a heartbeat and currently use the free version of cloudflare for all my DNS / Hosting etc

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  I would pay for Cloudflare Workers Paid ($5) in a heartbeat and currently use the free version of cloudflare for all my DNS / Hosting etc.

  woodylondon · Apr 16, 2026in “Cloudflare Email Service”

• Wish it existed

  nixos like system where all my VMs are in one file I can verify between LLM making the change and deployment

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  I know proxmox can do this, but I wish there was a nixos like system where all my VMs are in one file I can verify between LLM making the change and deployment

  meitham · Mar 31, 2026in “From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab”

• Wish it existed

  plugin instead of having to have N databases

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  I wish there was a plugin instead of having to have N databases

  h1fra · Mar 10, 2026in “Optimizing Top K in Postgres”

• Wish it existed

  database of shibboleths such as this as it would really change how you look at anything written on the internet

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  I feel there should be a database of shibboleths such as this as it would really change how you look at anything written on the internet.

  GaryBluto · Jan 22, 2026in “Claude's new constitution”

• Wish it existed

  preferred way to handle this as these are clearly real issues that the database should help you to deal with

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  There should be a preferred way to handle this as these are clearly real issues that the database should help you to deal with.

  andy_ppp · Jan 21, 2026in “The challenges of soft delete”

• Looking for

  managing agents, and I want each agent to be its own process, in its own container

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  I want a tool for managing agents, and I want each agent to be its own process, in its own container.

  brendoncarroll · Jan 15, 2026in “Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files”

• Wish it existed

  standard protocol for consuming event logs, and that all the client side tooling for processing them didn't care what server was there

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  I wish there was a standard protocol for consuming event logs, and that all the client side tooling for processing them didn't care what server was there.

  dagss · Jan 13, 2026in “Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)”

• Wish it existed

  some kind of public database that allowed easy lookup of whether a given company is owned by a private equity firm

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  I wish there were some kind of public database that allowed easy lookup of whether a given company is owned by a private equity firm.

  ekropotin · Jan 11, 2026in “Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study”

• Wish it existed

  way to plug in Fedi hosting with a static site generator, but iirc the protocol currently doesn’t allow that

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  I wish there was a way to plug in Fedi hosting with a static site generator, but iirc the protocol currently doesn’t allow that

  pastel8739 · Jan 3, 2026in “Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere”

• Wish it existed

  standard „server app“ format similar to what Umbrel uses with a strong ecosystem and multiple solutions

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  I wish there was a standard „server app“ format similar to what Umbrel uses with a strong ecosystem and multiple solutions.

  solarkraft · Dec 16, 2025in “Umbrel – Personal Cloud”

• Wish it existed

  public database of corporate ASNs and IPs, so we wouldn't have to rely on Cloudflare or any third-party service to detect that an IP is not from a household

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  I wish there was a public database of corporate ASNs and IPs, so we wouldn't have to rely on Cloudflare or any third-party service to detect that an IP is not from a household.

  klaussilveira · Dec 12, 2025in “Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers”

• Wish it existed

  dedicated room in Cloudflare HQ with a full isolated model-scale deployment of their entire system

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  At Cloudflare's scale, there should be a dedicated room in Cloudflare HQ with a full isolated model-scale deployment of their entire system.

  uyzstvqs · Dec 5, 2025in “Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025”

• Someone should build

  open source system that lets you easily host containers so that if one fails, we can easily switchover across providers

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  Someone should make an open source system that lets you easily host containers so that if one fails, we can easily switchover across providers.

  chaidhat · Dec 5, 2025in “Cloudflare was down”

• Would pay for

  Youtube if it was a video hosting service straight and honest, connecting creators and viewers, and not an opinionated platform moderated into nannies

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  I would pay for Youtube if it was a video hosting service straight and honest, connecting creators and viewers, and not an opinionated platform moderated into nannies.

  yason · Nov 26, 2025in “What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription”