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Wow, I wish I found HN when it launched. I can't begin to describe how much it has shaped my life, my outlook and my career in the few years I've been (mostly) lurking here. Thank …

It always worries me when I install a well-known or large package from npm and it ends up downloading dozens of dependencies maintained by disparate and unaccountable github users.…

> AWS . . . does not scale well GCP may have some advantages over AWS, but the reverse is also true and it's hard to take what you say seriously when you say something like that.

AWS needs to release a more affordable and simpler feature for inter region connectivity. Even MS Azure has a Vnet to Vnet connectivity option in which traffic flows through the Az…

Doesn't look good at Mumbai: 6 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms ix-xe-9-0-1-0.tcore2.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [180.87.39.57] 7 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms if-ae-2-2.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [180.87.38.1] …

I'm based in the Middle East and was really looking forward to this since announcement we use the Singapore region and currently get 105ms pings to our instances. Yet, how come I g…

Why is Microsoft being so awesome today?

Batteries for mobile devices that charge really fast and last really long.

I don't know the reason why, but I never talk business at family gatherings, but I see everyone doesn't do the same. How about you?

I wish there was a simpler answer, but a good way (which I've seen posted several times here) to get remote jobs is via referrals or word of mouth. My first job was to build a simp…