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Re:Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation
on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @12:11PM (#43763750)
Discord has a fairly successful subscription product that is generating tens of millions in revenue. They most certainly have made more than 0 dollars. Profitable? Less likely.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:40AM (#34548069)
https://paymewith.xyz/
Made this to quickly share payment options across multiple apps such as Venmo, Cash, etc.
Some notes on 'asshat' (2018)
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully-managed PostgreSQL database service
Re:Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?
on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:11AM (#31192660)
This is beautifully written.
Re:Launch HN: PropelAuth (YC W22) – End-to-end auth service for B2B pr...
on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @01:48PM (#30701824)
This looks great and super approachable. WorkOS[0] seems to be tackling something similar but more enterprise focused.
[0]: https://workos.com/
Re:Google Domains is out of beta
on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @02:28PM (#30689028)
I've found Google domains to be considerably more expensive than Namecheap. Anyone have a good reason to use it over other registrars?
Re:Show HN: Hathora – Multiplayer Game Development Made Easy
on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @01:49PM (#30444726)
Thanks, looking forward to the benchmarks!
Re:Show HN: Hathora – Multiplayer Game Development Made Easy
on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @01:35PM (#30444580)
Looks interesting. We've evaluating multiplayer server frameworks at the moment and have decided on Nakama (https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama). Any thoughts on how Hathora compares? Particularly interested in the realtime multiplayer component, specifically around performance and scalability.
Re:Networking of a turn-based game
on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:11PM (#30354756)
A common scenario where this approach fails: applying physics in realtime cross platform games. The floating point math involved is pretty much impossible to guarantee same results for. Deterministic physics engines do exist but they generally only guarantee determinism on the same OS/platform.
A Neuroscientist Prepares for Death
Re:Women of the sea: Korea’s oldest free divers
on Sunday November 21, 2021 @05:11PM (#29300256)
Unrelated to the article itself, but the design of this page on mobile is a beautiful experience.
Re:Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA
on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:18PM (#28700100)
Hey Spencer, congrats on going public! I’ve been a happy Amplitude customer at several companies now. If you were starting a company today, what would you do differently from how you approached starting Amplitude?
Re:Google Cloud reported an operating loss of $5.6B in 2020
on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:08PM (#28031089)
It's worth noting that their margins have improved significantly this year and will presumably continue to do so over the following years.
For comparison, their loss in Q2 2021 was $591m compared to $1.42b for Q2 2020 (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/google-cloud-losses...).
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:56PM (#27488485)
Somewhat similar but much more focused on payments specifically.
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:11PM (#27486768)
I made https://paymewith.xyz to share my social payments faster. Got tired of the “do you have Venmo/Square Cash/Paypal” dance.
Re:Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for yo...
on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:01PM (#26041135)
Quick question regarding frontend integration. I see that you can embed a widget that requires an API key and the currently authenticated user's email. Does this mean that if I'm a malicious user, and I edited my local Javascript to swap the email with another user's email, I could view the other user's notifications?
Re:Taking PHP Seriously (2016)
on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:34PM (#25283289)
I hated PHP for the longest time (worked extensively with PHP5 and various homebrewed frameworks in the early 2010s), but I gotta admit, it's come a long way with PHP7+ and great frameworks like Laravel.
Re:Show HN: Podcast API
on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:57PM (#25140822)
Are the docs custom or are you using a third party product? Doesn’t look like Swagger UI or Slate.
Re:API design is stuck in the past
on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:49PM (#25086572)
OpenAPI is just the format for describing APIs for various use cases such as documentation, runtime validation, and yes, even code generation. Depending in the language you use, the support for code generation may vary though.
I’m certainly not against the flow you’re describing. Aside from having to wrangle JSON/YAML instead of a more concise DSL, it’s not too different from what you’d do with OpenAPI.
Re:API design is stuck in the past
on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:09PM (#25086123)
Surprised there is no mention of OpenAPI. A spec driven API development process solves most of the problems described without having to switch to schematized data serialization formats.
Re:Cloudflare Web Analytics
on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:22PM (#24630484)
So impressed by Cloudflare’s rate of new and improved product launches.
Re:Catch Breaking Changes by Diffing API Traffic
on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:00PM (#24562184)
This looks awesome, I like that it doesn't require having to proxy to generate the spec. Does this rely on code introspection or somehow listens for traffic without proxying?
Re:Ask HN: Favourite blogs?
on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:46AM (#24540206)
Lot of great mentions so far. Another one I'd throw in is https://brandur.org/
Beautiful design and excellent deep dives on technical topics that interest me personally (Postgres, web architecture, etc).
Re:Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:18PM (#24537044)
> For the last five years, Let’s Encrypt has had one root: the ISRG Root X1, which has a 4096-bit RSA key and is valid until 2035.
Somewhat tangential, but what happens to all active certificates when the root key expires?
Re:Pebble: A RocksDB Inspired Key-Value Store Written in Go
on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:46PM (#24485901)
They mention in the article that it's mostly due to familiarity with Go:
> CockroachDB is primarily a Go code base, and the Cockroach Labs engineers have developed broad expertise in Go.
Re:Stripe Checkout
on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:25PM (#24436231)
> drastically improve the quality of their docs.
This is surprising, I've always found their docs to be world class. Their API reference site is especially nice. What have you found lacking other than the Elixir library?
Did Goldman Sachs overstep in criminally charging its ex-programmer? (2013)
Re:Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease
on Sunday August 30, 2020 @02:37PM (#24324870)
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24312478