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Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite
Original EnglishSo far, I have been using file copies and GFS backup scheme based solutions like Borg, which also does deltas in chunks, compression, and encryption.
Show HN: Velvet – Store OpenAI requests in your own DB
Original EnglishWe’ve built the proxy on Cloudflare Workers, and latency is nominal.
Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?
Original EnglishI bet we're going to see a massive cost reduction, but we'll see.
Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover
Original EnglishBut oddly enough, they always gave us more licenses than we paid for.
Ask HN: Has anyone gone from software to physical engineering?
Original EnglishThere is nothing wrong with that, and there is plenty of interesting work in the support activities (I made a career of doing those activities)
AI converts between hundreds of programming languages
Original EnglishWe saved our client probably $1000 in just one usage of this tool.
Long-term laptop use: repairability is part of the value
A long-term Framework user values serviceability, upgrades, and compatibility with their Linux setup.
Include maintenance in how you evaluate hardware.
Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
Original EnglishSo I paid, and felt good about doing so.
Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
Original EnglishI bought a VPS from them ($20/mo again) to use a development server/sandbox. …