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Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?
Original Englishwe use a percentage (of requests or customers) instead of a boolean to enable features so we can dial them up/down. …
Launch HN: Maitai (YC S24) – Self-Optimizing LLM Platform
Original EnglishThis check and correction adds about 250ms on average right now, and we're working on making it faster.
Apple’s risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon is paying off
Original EnglishIn mid-February I tried to compile a program with the release version of Android Studio, the project had NDK (C language) components.
PostgreSQL vs MySQL: an apples to oranges comparison
Original EnglishI worked around 2 years with Postgres as a developer and I loved it.
Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet
Original EnglishTo add some balance, I use them for my business and my family (3 domains, 6 users) and find it works perfectly.
Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth
Original EnglishI've never, in the past 20 years, had memory fail on me over time.
OpenSSL in Debian Unstable drops TLS 1.0/1.1 support
Original EnglishIn other words: if you set up Debian out of the box today, its default packages will talk to 99% of clients out there on …
The baseline for web development in 2022
Original EnglishI used Firefox for about 15 years mostly because of it's ad-blocking capabilities, even though it was generally a slower browser than IE.
Swift sucks at web serving or does it?
Original EnglishLike yes Node JS still dominates but we know other runtimes like Bun run much faster.