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I'm building a simple MVP API and want to put a credit card swipe in front of it to see if people will pay for it. I expect to need: * Developer portal -- self-serve subscription m…

A study published in JAMA in 2024 concluded that there is no evidence for that claim ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406 ): Question: Does acetaminophen use…

False, this is exactly as much as I wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work. Thank you! :)

I'm working on some social media analysis tools for Bluesky. It's unbelievable that there's an active social network for which you can see all the data.

I don’t disagree. But I also wonder if there even is an objective “right” answer in a lot of cases. If the goal is for computers to replace humans in a task, then the computer can …

I actually kind of like the "moonwalk"!

You don't have a monopoley on humor, you know.

Hey HN! I built Rapier, a code-generation companion library to Dagger that Dagger modules automatically from annotations to eliminate boilerplate code when pulling configuration da…

These open-source container images let you use Java 20 in AWS Lambda quickly and easily.

After a year, Amazon still hasn't released an officially-supported AWS Lambda Base Image or Runtime for Java 17. But I needed it, so I made one. You can find the images themselves …

This is the author. I didn't submit the article here, but I did happen to run across this posting from my GA. Thank you for the feedback. You're right. It's one thing to point out …

That book changed the way I look at programming. For me, it was the first book I found that actually answered questions that I didn't have the vocabulary to ask yet, rather than ju…

Author here. I actually use that exact Einstein quotation in the article, attributed to the big man himself. One of my favorites.