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

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Business ideas

Ask HN: I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

Original English

As I mentioned, I can't say anything about Denmark, but I spent 5 years with this setup in France.

Business ideas

Why is selling software so weird?

Original English

For me, we started out mitigating risk by writing customized software others paid for.

Tool picks

AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux

Original English

I use SwayWM with a bunch of bespoke configuration.

Tool picks

Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)

Original English

That changed over time, and it was a painful migration because we had to build a lot along the way.

Tool picks

Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services

Original English

We're not in the business of charging hackers and students $5.

Business ideas

Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

Original English

It's still in its infancy, but we have a couple of paying customers and are trying to get feedback from as many people as we …

Hard lessons

How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud

Original English

Now, again, it seems that Cloud SQL Proxy is a better system overall, but it required fiddling with our server setup, upgrading our MySQL library …

Hard lessons

$15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean

Original English

I do recommend such setup (not necessarily on DO though), if you have a sufficiently complex stack and you want to be able to deploy …

Business ideas

Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running computer

Original English

Ideally, a PCI-based guard that forces it to only talk to the application's memory instead of rest of system.

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