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MetaTrader 5 only runs on Windows. The official Python library only works on Windows. If you want programmatic access to market data and order management from a Linux box, your options are Wine (broken), VPS (expensive and annoying), or write MQL5 (a C++ knockoff from 2005 that makes you want to cry...

Hi HN, I was tired of managing Puppeteer instances crashing my Docker containers every time I needed to take a screenshot of a modern SPA. So I wrapped an optimized Chromium layer into AWS Lambda, added smart waiting for lazy-loading, and turned it into an API. Would love your feedback on the archit...

I built Syne because I was tired of AI assistants that forget everything after each conversation.<p>Syne is a self-hosted AI agent framework where memory is a first-class citizen — stored as semantic vectors in PostgreSQL, searchable across millions of entries, and persistent forever.<p>Key features...

Hi HN, I shared sql-tap here a few weeks ago — a transparent SQL proxy that captures every query and lets you inspect it in real-time. Thanks for the feedback last time.<p>The biggest addition: *a built-in Web UI*. Add `--http=:8080` and open your browser — queries stream in via SSE, you can click t...

Hi HN,<p>I build data platforms (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow) and kept seeing the same issue: starting a clean analytics stack is harder than it should be. Not because of tools — but because of patterns.<p>How do you structure raw vs staging vs analytics layers? How do you ingest without creating a mess...