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Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components
Original EnglishSome point to our competitors with no encoding costs, and some even point to Youtube as a reason why it should be cheaper.
Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla
Original EnglishFor iOS I wrote an SDK around PLCrashReporter because unwinding stacks on the client works out way better on iOS than dealing with a minidump.
Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20
Original EnglishI've run into many Linux driver bugs, usually for video drivers but sometimes for other components.
Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?
Original EnglishI'll skip the classic 'my files, my contacts, my email' because I had backups.
Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
Original Englishbut at some point along the line the means became the end and we started wondering why FOSS wasn't paying the bills like it was …
How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
Original EnglishProfit per unit is about the same between the two, but we can sell more ebooks because the cost to the customer is only a …
Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling cultivated meat
Original EnglishI’ve been building, testing, launching and analyzing the Delta IV, Atlas V, New Glenn and SLS rockets for the last 7 years.
Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?
Original EnglishAfter the closed beta I started out with about $140 / month in profits, which has grown to $330 / month over time.
Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
Original EnglishHowever, especially for smaller companies I work for, this software has saved them a few pennies.