FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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Support Grows for a Seattle to Vancouver Bullet Train

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The idea that, if one makes X income, it doesn't matter if that was 30 or 50 or 70% of what we made ...

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Ask HN: How have you made "quick" money before?

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I just shipped the last two off yesterday, and after shipping costs and selling fees, I made just over $1,000.

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Ask HN: What kind of personal financial investment do you do?

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Yes, being in a tax-advantaged account diminishes the allure of munis, but some of those bonds are now paying in the 7.5%-8.5% range.

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Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024

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We deployed a major new system for ticket scanning in February last year.

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Ledger, a powerful CLI accounting tool

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We switched to Ledger-CLI simply because it was the only Free Software accounting tool that had the flexibility to handle the complex area of non-profit …

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Show HN: Construct 3 – Make games in the browser

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I can't justify paying $99 a year for how much I use the program.

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Ask HN: What do people use to prevent crawlers?

Original English

We've used Incapsula (cheap and works, but awful support and service) and Distil (expensive and works, great support but steep pricing).

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Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely

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We built Dashdive because none of the existing cloud cost dashboard products solves all three of these problems, which often requires sub-resource cost attribution.

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Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

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We started 5 months ago initially trying to make an AI natural language workflow builder that would be a simpler alternative to Zapier or Make.com.

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