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If we repeal ACA, we'll need to force insurers to take on patients with preexisting conditions. We can't ice out 38% of Americans[0] from coverage. [0]: https://www.commonwealthfun…

Depending on the number of trips per day, this has the potential to greatly reduce summertime traffic from tristate region to Cape Cod / Nantucket / Martha's Vineyard / LI North Sh…

I grew up outside of one of the most violent cities in New York State[1]. My high school was right in the middle of Newburgh, NY, and being a teenager, I spent a lot of time drivin…

I wonder how much more effective this would be if the prompt wasn't "this was generated by AI." It would be really interesting if someone with a popular podcast injected an AI conv…

We’re (Harness Wealth) are always looking for developers with knowledge of US tax code hmu jake@harnesswealth.com

Great write up about a critical part of most interview processes without a chance to practice if you’ve never worked at an org that regularly implement complex systems.

Hello HN, I'm head of engineering at Harness Wealth. Yesterday we launched our suite of financial planning tools for startup employees. We set out to answer the question: "How will…

One of the first 300 users, SO was revolutionary when launched, I followed their development via Codinghorror and Joelonsoftware blogs (probably in an RSS feed). I've since moved i…

The expectation that Subscriptions/Billing would be free forever is silly. The product offering is significantly more complex than the base Stripe offering. Additionally, the propo…

Just kicked the tires on Optimizely for a site with less than a million MAU. They wanted $50K upfront for one year. No monthly or quarterly billing available. Went with Google Opti…

I was responsible for administrating an ADT security system for a Los Angeles-based startup (too many hats). Dealing with ADT was an absolute nightmare. Their support agents knew n…

was hoping John Graham-Cumming would be in here to give us the behind scenes :(

excellent andromeda strain reference

The Block Crypto, Inc. | Head of Frontend Engineering | REMOTE | $100k-$130k + SIZABLE equity. The Block ( https://www.theblockcrypto.com ) is a VC-funded news media organization f…

Just donated, and you should too! https://gnupg.org/cgi-bin/procdonate.cgi

I recently used iron.io to process around 750K images (generating pHashes for duplicate detection). The service is fantastic.

Anyone else having their office ISP connection totally destroyed by 100+ Dropbox clients attempting Monday morning sync? We have a balanced, 300Mbs connection for about 160 users, …

Post-social network it's no surprise that people fall into these traps. Don't invest in what you don't understand.

For anyone that hasn't experienced it first hand: "programmer" + "IT/computer guy" is a recipe for professional failure. The demands are so different and balancing them is impossib…