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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Tool picks

Ask HN: CS papers for software architecture and design?

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One story: When I was at FB, I happen to know that a team of size S conducted X experiments in 6 months (I can't …

Tool picks

Why Ruby on Rails still matters

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And it wasn't static: We because peoples connections were mostly so slow, we used a CGI that shelled out to ping to estimate connection speed, …

Business ideas

Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith

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but only 1 of which made me a tangible financial boost; in true startup fashion this last success has more than paid for the rest. …

Field notes

Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?

Original English

Pre-university, I worked in tech support at a dot-com startup.

Hard lessons

What I’ve learned from users

Original English

I know a person in Bay area car sales making $300k+.

Tool picks

Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?

Original English

I tried doing this a bunch of times and most of them ended up requiring a migration, most often to postgresql.

Tool picks

Building an iPod for 2022

Original English

Transfer/management is simple (I use rhythmbox with its usb device support).

Hard lessons

WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport

Original English

WebSocket.bufferedAmount exists, but as of 2019 I failed to use it to solve this problem and had to implement application-level backpressure.

Business ideas

Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it

Original English

Nobody was buying it at all, so I dropped it to $2.99 and quickly made my first few sales.

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