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Tech News Aug 3, 2026 • 4 min read

We're Measuring the Wrong Thing: Why DevEx Conversations Are Broken

I had a moment last month that stuck with me. Our team's build system was taking 8 minutes for a full rebuild—nothing catastrophic, but enough that developers stopped running tests locally and just pushed to CI. We were losing maybe 2-3 hours per developer per week to idle time....

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Tech News Aug 2, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Still See Developers Throwing Money at WordPress Problems That Don't Exist

I was at a local tech meetup in Islamabad last month when someone asked me to review their WordPress setup. They'd just paid $200 for a "premium performance suite" and were still frustrated with load times. Within ten minutes, I found the issue: they were uploading 8MB product ph...

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Tech News Aug 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Why VCs Raising Billions While We're Optimizing Bundle Sizes Feels Like a Different Game

I was debugging a production deployment last week when one of our backend engineers casually mentioned that Index Ventures just raised $2 billion. My first thought wasn't "wow, that's amazing for the VC ecosystem." It was: "They're making more from one exit than our entire compan...

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Tech News Jul 31, 2026 • 3 min read

About Manab Protim Hazarika

Manab Protim Hazarika didn't take the usual route into software. Growing up in Titabor, a small town in the Jorhat district of Assam, he completed his Higher Secondary in Science before enrolling in...

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Tech News Jul 30, 2026 • 10 min read

The Great Ubuntu Blackout: My 3-Hour Journey to Fix the Darkness

Introduction It was a perfectly normal day. I opened my laptop, ready to get some work done, and then... BAM. A black screen. Not a gentle fade to black, but more like my computer shoutin...

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Tech News Jul 29, 2026 • 6 min read

Happy Monoversary!

Dang! Its been a whole year. Doesn't even feel like it. About a year ago I was employed at Techinnover Analytics Ltd, where I had several firsts - but I refuse to mention them here. I was managing sof...

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Tech News Jul 28, 2026 • 5 min read

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

Hi HN! This is George, Lucas, and Jona from Rise Reforming (https://www.rise-reforming.com/). We’re developing a process to convert gas produced at landfills, farms, and wastewater plants (“biogas”)...

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Tech News Jul 27, 2026 • 6 min read

Amazon S3 Alternatives in 2026: A Self-Hosted, S3-Compatible Shortlist

Amazon S3 alternatives in 2026 split into two camps: S3-compatible cloud (Wasabi, Backblaze B2) that drops egress fees, and self-hosted engines (MinIO, RustFS, Ceph, SeaweedFS) that drop lock-in entir...

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Tech News Jul 26, 2026 • 1 min read

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

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Tech News Jul 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Your Username Isn't Anonymous—And That Should Scare You Into Better Practices

I got doxed once. Not severely, but enough that I woke up to a Slack message from a friend saying, "Hey, is this your address on the internet?" It was. Someone had connected my GitHub profile to a StackOverflow answer to a random forum post to a Zillow listing in about twenty min...

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