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Launch HN: Unthread (YC S22) – Customer support, entirely within Slack
Original EnglishWe started building Unthread to manage our own customers’ requests inside of Slack.
To Understand the Benefits of Tax Reform, Start by Understanding Apple's Taxes
Original EnglishBut that’s no free ride, those employees need to increase sales to cover their costs or the money is wasted.
Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
Original EnglishLooked great, much more readable, but we started losing sales.
Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS (2010)
Original Englishthe work went into features, and 90% of the work went into heading off all of the various possible failure modes. …
CloudFlare's New Dashboard
Original EnglishAkamai is not an awesome company to work with and the XML configuration format is a nightmare but the service is fast and we didn't …
Show HN: Anyma V, a hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument
Original EnglishAs we started with a wind instrument (Sylphyo), we also take special care to make support for this kind of MIDI controllers effortless.
Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000?
Original EnglishThings got delayed, years later I tried a kickstarter for the calendar but it failed miserably.
Cloudflare servers don't own IPs now, so how do they connect to the Internet?
Original EnglishI wanted to share more subtleties of the design, but maybe I failed.
The Rust programming language
Original Englishthe optimizers ken wrote for plan9 C, which are used in Go, is that they are much simpler and faster than normal optimizers but produce …