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James O'Claire
Personal blog · jamesoclaire.com · on HN as ddxvsecurityaidata
James O'Claire's personal blog at jamesoclaire.com covers security, ai and data. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Choosing MinIO vs. Garage for a self hosted S3 in 2025”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog as a source on MinIO's changes to its community edition, such as its maintenance-only status and its AGPLv3 claims. The posts cover self-hosting MinIO.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Choosing MinIO vs. Garage for a self hosted S3 in 20253 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-05-27
- Pip 26.2: –only-deps solves 16 years of app deployment hacks – James O'Claire2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-23
What Hacker News says?
In May, they pretty much said they will not maintain the "community version" anymore. Exact quote: "it will remain as is, and will only receive security fixes if any” https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-ow... They've also tried to claim AGPLv3 will infect any networked client code too: "Combining MinIO software as part of a larger software stack triggers your GNU AGPL v3 obligations. The method…
Comment linking /2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-own-s3-in-2025/
on “MinIO stops distributing free Docker images”Submitted Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks as a story · 269 points
HN discussionWell, the real issues won't be on the open source version. They've more or less confirmed on their slack that the open source version is in maintenance-only mode: https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-ow...
Comment linking /2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-own-s3-in-2025/
on “MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans”Submitted The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity as a story · 111 points
HN discussionHey, sorry for the delay, but there's a screenshot in my recent blog post: https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-ow...
Comment linking /2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-own-s3-in-2025/
on “MinIO Guts Management Dashboard”Submitted Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent as a story · 107 points
HN discussionThey said it in Slack. There is a screenshot on my own blog post here: https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-ow...
Comment linking /2025/05/27/how-to-self-host-your-own-s3-in-2025/
on “MinIO Guts Management Dashboard”Submitted Contabo Security Defaults Encourage Using SSH Passwords as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttps://jamesoclaire.com - with a focus on mobile advertising and adtech https://appgoblin.info -AppGoblin: mobile SDK and aso marketing, mostly self hosted
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Choosing MinIO vs. Garage for a self hosted S3 in 2025 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionJust want to share my flow for seeing clear text the data coming in and out of TikTok on an android emulator. Instructions here: https://github.com/ddxv/mobile-network-traffic Article with some request/responses here: https://jamesoclaire.com/2024/02/02/what-data-does-tiktok-se... I would love any feedback people have, I've been wanting to look into this for a long time, and of course the data they are collecting th…
Comment linking /2024/02/02/what-data-does-tiktok-send-out-before-terms-of-service/
on “Before You Agree: What data does TikTok collect before Terms of Service?”Submitted Nearly 50% of Android Apps Use Mobile Trackers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWhen Yeeun Jo, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) contacted me in 2025 to ask about data tracking in app advertisements related to women's health and pregnancy I was a bit skeptical. I think I first told her along the lines that while such data collection was broad it was rarely so specific as the advertisers were unlikely to act on specific information like which week of pregnancy a woma…
Comment linking /2026/06/30/the-pregnancy-and-health-apps-still-leaking-data-in-2026/
on “The Pregnancy and Health Apps Still Leaking Data in 2026”Submitted The Personalization in ChatGPT Is Creepy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Are All the AI Generated Native Android and iOS Apps? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile Trackers Your Ad Blocker Doesn't Know About as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI can't solve novel problems yet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple App Store Dropped Support for Anti Ad Fraud Specs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Companies are raising crazy amounts of money so why not use their free tiers? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile SDK Showdown: Unveiling 2025's Most Popular Frameworks Powering 30K Apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before You Agree: What data does TikTok collect before Terms of Service? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pip 26.2: –only-deps solves 16 years of app deployment hacks – James O'Claire as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PSA/Reminder: AI apps access your clipboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which Apps Have Mobile Trackers on Your Android Phone? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quick peek at the Chinese SDKs in DeepSeek's Android app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Search Console Has Deindexed Nearly My Entire Site as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source and Paid Alternatives for EOL Firebase Dynamic Links as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Large File Storage Is Basically Paid Only as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pip 26.2: –only-deps solves 16 years of app deployment hacks – James O'Claire as a story · 1 points
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