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Support Grows for a Seattle to Vancouver Bullet Train
Original EnglishThe idea that, if one makes X income, it doesn't matter if that was 30 or 50 or 70% of what we made ...
Ask HN: How have you made "quick" money before?
Original EnglishI just shipped the last two off yesterday, and after shipping costs and selling fees, I made just over $1,000.
Ask HN: What kind of personal financial investment do you do?
Original EnglishYes, being in a tax-advantaged account diminishes the allure of munis, but some of those bonds are now paying in the 7.5%-8.5% range.
Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024
Original EnglishWe deployed a major new system for ticket scanning in February last year.
Ledger, a powerful CLI accounting tool
Original EnglishWe switched to Ledger-CLI simply because it was the only Free Software accounting tool that had the flexibility to handle the complex area of non-profit …
Show HN: Construct 3 – Make games in the browser
Original EnglishI can't justify paying $99 a year for how much I use the program.
Ask HN: What do people use to prevent crawlers?
Original EnglishWe've used Incapsula (cheap and works, but awful support and service) and Distil (expensive and works, great support but steep pricing).
Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely
Original EnglishWe built Dashdive because none of the existing cloud cost dashboard products solves all three of these problems, which often requires sub-resource cost attribution.
Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data
Original EnglishWe started 5 months ago initially trying to make an AI natural language workflow builder that would be a simpler alternative to Zapier or Make.com.