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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. …
Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget
Original EnglishLet's say I'm a bootstrapper, and have a startup that earns $3k monthly.
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 …
3 Rules of Database App Aging
Original EnglishI started we were roughly 3 years out of a migration from MS Access to SQL Server - all done without rewrites or restructuring, but …
Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS
Original EnglishI can spare $3, but I don't want to support subscription models.
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.
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages (2017) [pdf]
Original EnglishBut we pay that cost gladly because it’s marginally easier than sharing a Linux kernel between multiple processes.
Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context
Original EnglishI tried to remember specific examples, plugged them into Phind, and it seems to have improved since I used it last.