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I've been using it behind Tailscale for months with no problems ever since I first got into homelabbing. Actually, moving from Google Photos to Immich after I hit my 100GB storage limit was the whole reason I got into self-hosting, and what a fun ride that has been! I can't believe self-hosted products of this caliber are free. Huge shout-out to HomeAssistan", "context": "homelabber", "use_case": "document management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Immich v3.0.0 Released"}, {"id": 755482176, "item_id": 47217636, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217636", "by": "dewey", "date": "2026-03-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "might be a nice rabbit hole for you", "excerpt": "https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx might be a nice rabbit hole for you, drop the files in there and it'll be OCR'ed and searchable. 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A bunch more, and I use them regularly, some more than others, but then adding a service without exposing it", "context": "", "use_case": "document management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 800257442, "item_id": 50016090, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016090", "by": "yonatan8070", "date": "2026-10-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "immich.lan, paperless.lan, etc.", "excerpt": "For example I use a PiHole with local DNS records for my services like immich.lan, paperless.lan, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "New gTLD Application for .lan"}, {"id": 781423152, "item_id": 48838947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838947", "by": "seb1204", "date": "2026-07-08", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Sounds similar to https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/", "excerpt": "Sounds similar to https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ Key difference I see is that you point it to a folder instead of uploading to a system.", "context": "", "use_case": "document management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"}, {"id": 780345172, "item_id": 48771573, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771573", "by": "slaye", "date": "2026-07-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Huge shout-out to HomeAssistant, PiHole, paperless-ngx, Dawarich, and countless others", "excerpt": "An incredible piece of software, on par with Google Photos. I've been using it behind Tailscale for months with no problems ever since I first got into homelabbing. Actually, moving from Google Photos to Immich after I hit my 100GB storage limit was the whole reason I got into self-hosting, and what a fun ride that has been! I can't believe self-hosted products of this caliber are free. Huge shout-out to HomeAssistan", "context": "homelabber", "use_case": "document management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Immich v3.0.0 Released"}, {"id": 766244659, "item_id": 47890291, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890291", "by": "4l3x4f1sh3r", "date": "2026-04-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Linux / Gnome, Firefox, Immich, Paperless NGX, GIMP", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are your top open source apps/software?"}, {"id": 763922640, "item_id": 47745165, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745165", "by": "mhrmsn", "date": "2026-04-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I recently started using Paperless to manage all my documents", "excerpt": "I recently started using Paperless to manage all my documents and wanted to include archive serial numbers (ASNs) for all physical documents that I scan, so I built a small tool to create and print archive serial number label sheets with QR/Barcodes: https://asnlabels.com It's free, no sign up or ads - feedback welcome :)", "context": "", "use_case": "Document management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? 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It's free, no sign up, no ads and just runs in the browser: https://asnlabels.com If you're also using Paperless-ngx with ASNs or use them for something else, feedback welcome :)", "context": "", "use_case": "Document archiving", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"}, {"id": 755482176, "item_id": 47217636, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217636", "by": "dewey", "date": "2026-03-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "might be a nice rabbit hole for you", "excerpt": "https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx might be a nice rabbit hole for you, drop the files in there and it'll be OCR'ed and searchable. 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It is quite difficult to beat SQLite if you do not have a very huge parallelism factor in writes. SQLite is an embedded database: no socket to open, you directly access to it via file system. If you do not plan to use BigData with high number of writers, you will have an hard time beating SQLite on modern hardware, on average use cases. I have written a s", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite"}]}