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Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
Original Englishthe site ended up bailing near the end, but I got a deposit out of them so I'm selling this site for cost. …
BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH
Original EnglishI've been using it for quite a while now both for my personal projects and paid work and have had a good experience with it.
Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links
Original EnglishI have a 90% finished "bit.ly but minimal" site that I started before this which has QR support and basic analytics but I ADHD'd into …
The WebSocket Handbook
Original EnglishI reduced some test automation in my personal application from 45 seconds to 7 seconds by fully converting from HTTP to web sockets for messaging.
The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Raise
Original EnglishUp until I left for a better paying job 6 months later I did everything I could to deliver the best for my team mates …
Happy Birthday, Libera Chat
Original EnglishEven back when I started certain people just couldn't handle the terminal clients so they used Xchat or Mirc.
WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft
Original EnglishI tried optimizing a physics library a few years ago by putting everything in typedarrays and it was weirdly slower than using raw javascript arrays.
Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
Original EnglishSo I paid for an enhanced subscription, supposedly with better quality.
Show HN: Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library
Original EnglishI used to work for a fintech startup and our sales team had a hard time finding customers for the product that we're building.