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Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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536 points helloguillecl | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jug ◴[20 Oct 25 21:39 UTC] No.45649741[source]▶
This could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app in your terminal tab. Boggles my mind how even this kind of app manages to bring in Electron and the cloud.

Edit: Ah, so here it is: https://posting.sh

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blahgeek ◴[21 Oct 25 01:58 UTC] No.45651626[source]▶
> could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app

Wow, in a world dominated by gigabytes of electron application, people thinks 10 MB is the optimal size for a simple utility TUI app.

As a reference, (from archlinux repo), vim’s install package is 2.3MB, curl is 1.2MB, lua (the complete language interpreter) is 362KB

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supportengineer ◴[21 Oct 25 07:12 UTC] No.45653264[source]▶
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
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fuzztester ◴[21 Oct 25 08:55 UTC] No.45653822{3}[source]▶
- Bill Gates.

And:

The world does not need more than 4 computers.

-Ken Olsen, or someone (in the mainframe days).

(Both are alleged / apocryphal quotes. :)

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1. nubinetwork ◴[21 Oct 25 10:07 UTC] No.45654180{4}[source]▶
I believe the Ken Olson quote was that nobody needed a computer in their house, but that was a time where businesses were using terminal servers... it would have been interesting to see where that would have went, but we might be heading that way again since we own nothing and everything is a only a temporary license.