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Ask HN: How saturated is the market for offensive security/pentesting?
Original EnglishTheir business model boils down to, buy a bunch of tools for <$10,000, resell their usage on engagements for >$5,000 per week.
Moving product recommendations from Hadoop to Redshift saves us time and money
Original EnglishI was impressed with Parquet's query speed, but I had hard requirements preventing me from doing bulk loads.
Live record of being fired from Cloudflare during a redundancy plan [video]
Original EnglishWhen I worked at a large, multi-national telecom, I started in desktop support (waaaaay back in the day!).
Ask HN: What does a non-programmer bring to a 2-3 person startup team?
Original English- meaty customer pipeline including 2 customers pre-sold
SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution
Original Englishbut it feels unclean: logically, it isn't a business requirement of customers, it is just a little hack I use to make their lives easier, …
Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text
Original English1,500 paying customers later I still get emails from developers saying "I saw your site, looks like it took a lot of work, but come …
We just launched a new invoicing web app for under 10K. Check it out: Ballpark
Original Englishthe field), we're just pointing out that we managed to create a business by pulling a few extra hours a week over 6 months. …
New Dyno Types and Pricing Public Beta
Original EnglishI was looking again at AppEngine (I used to use it a lot years ago, then stopped) but a recent AppEngine deployment of a small …
Launch HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Automatically clean Jupyter notebooks using AI
Original EnglishI made another comment where i say i don't like their pricing model, this is a matter of principle because I don't believe in just …