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Re:Rewriting Bun in Rust on Thursday July 09, 2026 @08:35AM (#48844911)
Huh? This approach makes sense for non-deterministic problems. Not engineering problems that have deterministic end results.
Re:Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, ... on Saturday June 06, 2026 @04:42PM (#48428824)
Every single one.
Re:Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:47PM (#46545539)
How is that working out?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:50AM (#44432554)
https://trueprospect.ai - in previous projects had tons of issues with junk sign ups (b2b). This looks to solve that.
Re:Ask HN: Validating a Tool to Help Founders Stay Focused and Build W... on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:32PM (#44196003)
Interesting idea. I've definitely felt this pain on several occasions. Somewhat ironic, but I think the hardest part of pulling this off is getting a founder to stay focused/continuously reach for such a tool (e.g. know when to ask for help).
Re:Mercury, the first commercial-scale diffusion language model on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:26AM (#43858126)
Related paper discussing diffusion models from 2 months ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09992
Re:ICC issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on Thursday November 21, 2024 @04:39PM (#42208950)
This does not belong on hacker news
Re:Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO; stock plunges 20% on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:34PM (#39543722)
Could very well just be about Slootman retiring. He is considered one of the most savvy and aggressive tech ceos out there and is arguably impossible to truly replace.

Ask HN: How does your SaaS deal with file uploads/management?

Posted by StriverGuy on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've found myself repeating code, and often relying on the same vendor every time (AWS S3) for file management. I have yet to find a good approach to file search or permissioning without a lot of boilerplate.I am curious what patterns other dev teams are using to manage files within their saas product to allow for multi-tenancy, permissioning, sharing, searchability etc.

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:18PM (#39146820)
Does Hamas have to adhere to an ICJ ordered ceasefire?

Ask HN: What are your favorite alternatives to Postman and Insomnia?

Posted by StriverGuy on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @07:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Looking for good alternatives to local API development tools like Postman and Insomnia.Postman has gotten bloated and slow, while Insomnia just rolled our the requirement of maintaining an account with the platform to use the tool.Ideally something light weight, no account needed, and can export/import OAPI specs.

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Re:AI Tool Directory – Curated AI Product Review Site on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:28AM (#37481868)
There have been a few attempts to keep up with the Cambrian explosion new AI products – most are littered with dead landing pages, fake reviews, and excessive ads.

My team and I have spent a lot of time curating a product list of tools that actually work, are still live, and worth using.

Our goal is to become a trusted review site where reviews are heavily moderated to reduce spam/fakes.

In the coming weeks/months we will be launching an RSS feed of top research papers and open source to cover the true bleeding edge of what is changing.

Cheers

Re:Homebuyers must ‘learn to live’ with near-7% mortgage rates says RE... on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:51PM (#36739339)
One thing I see being discussed is how high rates will reduce competition for homes (therefore lower prices). This isn't necessarily true for 2 reasons: 1) High rates mean higher finance rates for development/redevelopment projects, forcing new inventory to be priced higher to be viable 2) Owners with locked in rates (most homeowners) have little incentive to trade up, and more likely to trade down (increased competition for starter/smaller homes). Variable rate mortgages are a fraction of the mortgage market they used to be - this isn't 2008.

The only real solutions here are to radically rethink zoning at a city level, and potentially incentivize construction of affordable homes at a federal level through new lending programs.

Re:Ask HN: How does your company manage browser extension releases? on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:12AM (#32865047)
This is somewhat helpful, however it doesn't get past the main concern of rollbacks/deploy approvals.

We already use CI to build and prep the versions each time we go out to production, but if we miss anything in QA we are up a creek without a paddle.

Ask HN: How does your company manage browser extension releases?

Posted by StriverGuy on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Our team has been struggling with a good release process for our browser extensions. With Chrome Extensions, every build needs to be reviewed by the chrome team. This can sometimes take 5-6 days and has never taken less than 24 hours. If a version is published, there is no way to revert to an old version in the event of bugs/issues that make it through the testing cycle.True CI/CD is out of...

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Ask HN: How does your company manage browser extension releases?

Posted by StriverGuy on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Our team has been struggling with a good release process for our browser extensions.With Chrome Extensions, every build needs to be reviewed by the chrome team. This can sometimes take 5-6 days and has never taken less than 24 hours. If a version is published, there is no way to revert to an old version in the event of bugs/issues that make it through the testing cycle.True CI/CD is out of the...

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Re:Reddit's favorite products in one place on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:20AM (#32766874)
Wait until you find out how wirecutter makes money...
Re:If it isn't going to work, just shut it down on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:25PM (#31748103)
I am not by any means calling it an absolute. But the data points tilt in favor of working through the pain and difficulties instead of throwing in the towel at the slightest speed bump.
Re:If it isn't going to work, just shut it down on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:41PM (#31747836)
This was written by a VC who has no track record as an operator or founder.

The only consistent advice I have ever gotten from the most financially successful people I know (many worth >$100MM) has been to never give up. Some of them took decades to get to even moderate success.

The last decade has been an illusion of how quickly you can get rich starting a company. It can take years to see payoff and it is not always obvious.

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