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• The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2026
• A static site generator written in POSIX shell
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2026

  My company is building out a static site generator and we do basically this for our unit tests: https://github.com/accretional/statue/tree/main/test/hermeti...

  npm pack builds the file locally, then we expose it to the container filesystem where we do a build and check the outputs. You can move dependencies to bundledDependencies in npm to embed them in the image.

  However, this is assuming you're building your own static site generator that you want to test this way. If you just want to build a site using an existing static site generator, it's much easier provided that the site generator itself is easy to use (for example, ours has a one-liner to take you all the way from nothing to a local static site running on localhost, see https://statue.dev)

  If you aren't changing the SSG code itself between container runs you'd just mount the markdown to the container and pre-install the ssg in the Dockerfile itself. For statue.dev that would just be a Dockerfile almost exactly the same as the one we use already, except you'd use your own script, and RUN this in the Dockerfile itself: yes | npx sv create . --template minimal --types ts --no-add-ons --install npm && npm install statue-ssg && npx statue init && npm install

  In your script you'd just npm run build then do whatever it is you want to do to send the files somewhere.

• How uv got so fast
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2025

  Only a very, very small fraction of open source projects get to the point where they legitimately need committees and working groups and maintainer politics/drama.

  > quite a few people would consider "benevolent dictator for life" an outdated model for open source communities.

  I think what most people dislike are rugpulls and when commercial interests override what contributors/users/maintainers are trying to get out of a project.

  For example, we use forgejo at my company because it was not clear to us to what extent gitea would play nicely with us if we externalized a hosted version/deployment their open source software (which they somewhat recently formed a company around, and led to forgejo forking it under the GPL). I'm also not a fan of what minio did recently to that effect, and am skeptical but hopefuly that seaweedfs is not going to do something similar.

  But we ourselves are building out a community around our static site generator https://github.com/accretional/statue as FOSS with commercial backing. The difference is that we're open and transparent about it from the beginning, and static site generators/component libraries are probably some of the least painful to fork or take issue with their direction, vs critical infrastructure like distributed systems' storage layer.

  Bottom line is, BDFL works when 1. you aren't asking people to bet their business on you staying benevolent 2. you remain benevolent.

• Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2025

  This is exactly what we're trying to build with https://github.com/accretional/statue - you can email me or hit me up on Linkedin to get early access to our free static site hosting (which our new site for the project at https://statue.dev runs on, and which will Soon™ have a public-facing product doing exactly what you just asked for)

  Basically you'll be able to edit the markdown for your site in a souped up version of our lightly reskinned vscode IDE at https://brilliant.mplode.dev and instantly publish/preview the changes in the same browser tab in a pane. Brilliant comes with a full Linux environment running in a container on our cloud platform, and building a Statue static site is already a one-command operation. The little UI we're working on let's nontechnical people skip that and just edit files and click buttons to make changes and publish it, though.

• The Man Who Keeps Predicting the Web's Death
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2025
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