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Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard
Original EnglishI have tried to use Headscale with Tailscale clients and have been fairly successful in achieving a private P2P VPN.
inDinero (YC S10) launches Mint.com for Businesses
Original EnglishI have a business that has grown from 0 to 500,000 pageviews / month in a little under 6 months.
Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service
Original EnglishTwice we raised support tickets and once it took around 6 hours to resolve and the other time it took 3 hours to resolve.
Self-hosted Git Server
Original EnglishI noticed this guy hosts his own repos (I tried links to bugsplat.rb) and it did not load, but I assume there is not bug …
Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat
Original EnglishGCE's pricing model is harder to estimate your bill with, but I actually like the idea of not being "stuck" if I want to be …
Getting to No: The Key to Startup Selling
Original English80% of my job was selling to wealthy individuals our service of being a guide to better donations.
Disruptions: With No Revenue, an Illusion of Value
Original EnglishI just paid a 12.4% dividend on investments for the first quarter.
Gondor expands its Django hosting to any Python WSGI app
Original EnglishFWIW, I did spend about 3 days in my spare time and have a working model/scripts necessary to deploy Ubuntu/Postgresql/Nginx should the need arise....but I …
Developer inequality and the technical debt crisis
Original EnglishWe've built an economy and a society that is entirely based on crappy software, because the economy could not bear the cost of as much …