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Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG
Original EnglishThere's no video format that works with tiny dimensions (I tried to upload a 3x3 gif to Imgur and it failed because it couldn't convert …
Show HN: PgCat, Postgres pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover
Original EnglishAgain, probably has a ways to go, everything we've tried over the last 10 years has failed to live up to a replacement for pgbouncer.
Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups
Original EnglishI truly, truly hope BW succeeds, because I'd love to move away from my current setup.
Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code
Original EnglishObviously having actual backups and testing your code before applying it to production is good practice but I feel like doing system administration with root …
Launch HN: Danswer (YC W24) – Open-source AI search and chat over private data
Original EnglishAssuming nothing is wrong with the setup, it is most likely because of how we prompt the LLM.
I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
Original EnglishI lost the notebook and had to go back, which was probably a $20k mistake in travel costs + not working on other projects.
Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter
Original EnglishWe've built amazing things with Expo (now that you can run almost any native code you want in an Expo app) but support would be …
Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core
Original EnglishFurthermore their app requires a server to run, since its not a subscription-based app the server is 100% on their backs.
An open letter to Jeff Bezos: A contract worker’s take on Amazon.com
Original English5 years of controlling high-value but high-cost things left my department with a shredded staff.