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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...
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”)...
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...
Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.
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...
I read about Corgi's latest funding round while debugging a database query at 11 PM, and I had to step back from my monitor. Not because the numbers were shocking, though a $4B valuation after eight weeks of consecutive raises is objectively wild, but because I recognized something...
I read an article last week that made me genuinely angry. It argued that smart developers intentionally let bugs fester so they can swoop in like heroes at 3 AM and prove their worth. The premise? That writing stable, maintainable code actually gets you fired because management c...
Last month, I watched one of my autonomous outbound agents send personalized emails to fifty people about a funding round that closed eighteen months ago. The agent had sounded confident, the message was perfectly crafted, the personalization tokens fired flawlessly, the tone was...
Last month, I spent three days debugging why a Python service was mysteriously losing messages in production. The root cause? A subtle difference in how Python's asyncio and our Node.js message queue were handling connection timeouts. I spent the evening thinking: if we could jus...
Last year, I built a tool that was supposed to be simple: scrape some public data, aggregate it, show it to users. It worked. Too well, actually. Within a week, people were using it in ways I hadn't anticipated, connecting dots between data points I'd never intended to link. That'...