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

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Launch HN: Firezone (YC W22) – Zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard

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I have tried to use Headscale with Tailscale clients and have been fairly successful in achieving a private P2P VPN.

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Why are you still deploying overnight?

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I worked somewhere that only deployed during business hours because it was all hands on deck.

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Write Dumb Code (2018)

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But then I remember that we have built all of this on impossibly tall ivory towers of complexity.

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No such thing as “real programming” (2015)

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I grew up programming and had my BASIC, Pascal, C++, Delphi and C# phases, I like web development (generally, the tooling sometimes sucks but as …

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Ask HN: How many of you are consciously downsizing your devices/going retro?

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I use it on Wifi only, and my life is improved by not always being connected to work.

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I recorded a screen capture of a task. Gemini generated code to replicate it

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We're building an AI Agent that can perform manual testing on feature branches [1].

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Slint: Native GUI Toolkit for Rust, C++ or JavaScript

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As a big company, I'd pay for "support" for both that aspect and for input into the direction of the product.

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Ask HN: SQLite in Production?

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By far the biggest performance improvement I found was turning on memory mapping for SQLite.

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Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?

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Both company Bs are a little over 10 years old, and still run the same software they started out with.

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