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$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details
Original EnglishI just used digitalocean hosting for a minecraft server for my kid a few years ago, $5 a month. …
An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver
Original EnglishMost corporate data grabs bad news, but I'm ok with it when it comes to pricing insurance (outside of health).
Stop Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, Learn to Code Yourself
Original EnglishOf course, now non-technical "frat-boys" here are going to wave the "I tried and I failed" flag, but know that it's not hard for technical …
Generation JavaScript
Original EnglishI dislike big IDE's because I feel people and projects become dependent on them and they foster unnecessary bloat and complexity because they don't require …
Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s
Original Englishbefore revenue is generated) and maintenance (proportional costs over the same timespan as revenue), but I never thought of customer acquisition as something occupying the …
Running a software team at Google
Original EnglishI'd spent 2 years as an employee at a financial software startup and a year founding my own company (which failed, but the postmortem is …
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.
Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
Original EnglishI charged a fee for both deposit and withdrawl, but I paid interest too.