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Re:A website that lists websites to submit your website to on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:40PM (#48591239)
>often I had to tell founders that their startup didn't qualify to be included

Could you share why?

Re:Stop Using JWTs on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:47PM (#48564740)
This is an interesting approach especially if you factor in that re-minting a key is usually a lightweight task compared to what most API calls have to interact with.

If the re-minting happens transparently with a user interaction then you spread out some of the request velocity that can come with that (if you're operating at a large enough scale for it to matter for this to be a concern).

Re:PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps) on Sunday June 07, 2026 @01:36AM (#48432141)
>MARKETING.NATIVE.OTA

Calendar Versioning (CalVer, YYYY.Release.Patch) fulfills the same need and you can see it in practice with Jetbrains (e.g. the latest version of IDEA is 2025.3.6).

The only difference is Jetbrains uses YYYY.R for marketing, see: "What's new In 2025.3"[1]

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/2025-3/

Re:Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:04PM (#48378405)
I do think it's possible for one to qualify/quantify the how and why they deemed their product "beautiful".
Re:From Rust to Ruby on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:02PM (#48289042)
>But before I did so I researched first. I asked a few instances to analyse the project in terms of gains of complexity, stability, testability, etc., and while (obviously) stability would drop (no types in Ruby) it’s not that awful (Sorbet has types in Ruby!).

Is it not a rage-bait argument to say that not having types implies less stability?

Re:Performance of Rust Language [pdf] on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:02AM (#48274832)
Ah, I was using GH's webui instead of downloading to view the PDF and it stopped loading at slide#47...rereading it now paints a much better picture. Thanks!
Re:Performance of Rust Language [pdf] on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:47PM (#48274030)
If I followed, Rust's memory safety guarantee means sacrificing roughly ~3% performance with some worst case paths being ~15% (compared to C++ performance)?
Re:HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:57PM (#47957524)
Is it too much to ask for a not-vibe-coded billing system? In my opinion, we need better systems to hold these companies accountable as I don't believe the $20/dispute they're paying means much given how common other customers are complaining about billing irregularities just in this thread alone.
Re:An experiment in UI density created with Svelte on Saturday July 27, 2024 @02:38PM (#41088443)
Would an accurate comparison be something like perspective? (https://perspective.finos.org/)

Is the focus on density around performance, visualization, or something else?

Re:A Boy Who Was King of Vanilla on Friday June 14, 2024 @01:51AM (#40677892)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEVrBLmF70

I was curious to see if there was a video of it being done and this seems to be it. Incredibly delicate is an understatement.

Re:Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool on Monday June 03, 2024 @02:33PM (#40565812)
OP's ask was: "Is this another one ... where open source is used more as a marketing gimmick"

My original comment wasn't intended to indicate that there is an obligation to provide support. The deliberate choice to: a) not offer paid support for open-source deployments, and b) sunsetting the Kubernetes deployments in favor of their cloud version, is a signal that shows PostHog doesn't /really/ want you to be running the software in a self-hosted manner.

Just look at the "Open-source hobby deploy" (from the README in git) which calls out that it "should scale to approximately 100k events per month" but their cloud offering gives you 1 million events per month for free. What is the point of the hobby "deploy"?

Back to OP -- my answer is yes, this is a source-available service that you can modify and play around with locally. The source and documentation behind the operations of PostHog aren't available.

Re:Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:42PM (#40564466)
Fairly accurate, you can only get support if you're using their cloud product.

"We no longer support paid, open-source deployments and it is no longer possible to buy licenses for self-hosted versions - we instead recommend migrating to PostHog Cloud." - from: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host

Re:Where in the World Is Static Shock for GBA? on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:47AM (#39625791)
What a wild story...it's crazy to think that we have 1080p emulator video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EufWGcflwjQ) without having the underlying rom ever ending up on the internet.
Re:Ask HN: Conferences you're looking forward to in 2024? on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:10AM (#39079730)
Relatedly, FOSDEM is happening Feb 3rd/4th in Brussels and THAT conference is happening Jan 29th-31st in Texas.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023) on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:37PM (#37744073)
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Ask HN: What's Going on with Google?

Posted by encodedrose on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Court documents [2], Twitter posts [1], HN posts[3]...?[1] ads team begging for worse search results so that the ads team can hit their goals this year - https://twitter.com/pdrmnvd/status/1707395736458207430/photo/1[2] https://ia804605.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.631.0.pdf[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37698473

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Re:Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor? on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:40PM (#36580269)
Is there a Group 4: Can tell the difference between 120Hz and 240Hz?

I use the 32" Odyssey G7 which is 2560x1440@240Hz.

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