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Is cookieless important to you or is it a nice to have?", "context": "", "use_case": "privacy-focused analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use for privacy focused analytics?"}, {"id": 783501249, "item_id": 48968828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968828", "by": "eleventen", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "clickhouse requires like 4 different containers and idles using 4+ GB", "excerpt": "My umami instance handles a modest 1-2K events per day but does so on 150MB of memory and approximately no cpu. I switched from plausible, which might have been fine except clickhouse requires like 4 different containers and idles using 4+ GB. 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Thanks!!", "context": "builds a browser-based KiCad", "use_case": "visitor analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: KiCad in the Browser"}, {"id": 756055318, "item_id": 47253457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253457", "by": "hudtaylor", "date": "2026-03-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Plausible + GA4", "excerpt": "I moved to a new neighborhood in San Diego and couldn't figure out my trash pickup day. I asked ChatGPT. It confidently told me Tuesday. It was wrong. Asked Claude. Also wrong. Googled it \u2014 the city's lookup tool is a Salesforce app behind reCAPTCHA that barely works on mobile. So I built trashalert.io \u2014 a free, community-powered trash schedule lookup covering San Diego and Austin (954K+ addresses across 79+ neighbor", "context": "", "use_case": "analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: TrashAlert \u2013 I asked AI when my trash gets picked up. 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So I built trashalert.io \u2014 a free, community-powered trash schedule lookup covering San Diego and Austin (954K+ addresses across 79+ neighbor", "context": "", "use_case": "analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "TrashAlert \u2013 I asked AI what day my trash gets picked up and it hallucinated"}, {"id": 742384848, "item_id": 46399053, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46399053", "by": "jiangplus", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Plausible for a couple years, it works great and is opensource", "excerpt": "I have been using Plausible for a couple years, it works great and is opensource https://plausible.io/", "context": "", "use_case": "web analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami"}, {"id": 740724548, "item_id": 46295284, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295284", "by": "yuppiemephisto", "date": "2025-12-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There\u2019s property testing with \u201cplausible\u201d as a nice 80/20 that can be upgraded to full proof at some point.", "excerpt": "I vibe code extremely extensively with Lean 4, enough to run out 2 claude code $200 accounts api limits every day for a week. I added LSP support for images to get better feedback loops and opus was able to debug https://github.com/alok/LeanPlot. The entire library was vibe coded by older ai. It also wrote https://github.com/alok/hexluthor (a hex color syntax highlighting extension that uses lean\u2019s metaprogramming an", "context": "", "use_case": "property testing in Lean", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"}]}