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While I'm sure many of you run your own telemetry inside of your apps, I'm wondering what everyone uses as their set it and forget it, easy to roll analytics solutions for new apps…

I've been looking for new roles recently and it seems everything in tech is a B2B SaaS product. How should I be widening my search or what sectors can I look at that still balances…

Looking for a solid solution for a back end for a game and mobile app server. We can't roll the usual Epic/Xbox PaaS as we need to a little more flexibility. Are Rust or Elixir sti…

I know the old adage goes use what you know, but I'm about to build out a new project that needs to stand the test of time. Running everything on PaaS or 'magic' backends feels a b…

Recently moved all of my domains away from Google to Porkbun. I know their DNS is probably rock solid, I was just wondering if anyone rolled their own DNS and what your stack was?

After listening to a podcast about AI face search engines I became increasingly worried about photos of family members/children/elderly that may not be up to speed or even able to …

This is maybe more possible with local models than it is commercial ones. This question is in the context of image generation. I was wondering if on any of the open LLM's there was…

With the advent of Sora it’s clear that AI can help with the creative process but I feel there’s still some big ethical questions around where the data for these creations is sourc…

With the fall of Twitter and the fragmentation of where everyone has ended up I'm finding that I'm discovering less and less views/posts/articles that are out of my comfort zone. I…

I was a lot more jaded than I currently am. I recently switched jobs to a food eco calculation app [1], and while yes there are problems there's much better advice out there now fo…

I usually find at the outset of a new project there seems to be a nest of spreadsheets for schema, photos of whiteboards for how everything clicks together and either wireframes or…

I used to use Dropbox as a portable home folder that I could use to kickstart each machine with but also useful documents that I need on every machine. A few years back I moved it …

I was just curious what the thought-process for HNers would be to spin up an easily maintainable personal site right now. Trying to err away from anything on a platform (Substack e…

For the past few years conventional wisdom would have said to spin up the the usual socials (Twitter for thought, Instagram for visuals, Short Video for younger audiences), but wit…