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You want microservices, but do you need them?
Before you default to microservices, weigh hidden costs and consider a modular monolith or SOA. Learn when Docker delivers consistency and scale—without sprawl.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 417 posts.
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PlanetScale for Postgres
PlanetScale now supports Postgres
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H1Bs will start costing $100k/yr
Trump imposed a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, raising costs for employers and reshaping U.S. hiring. Learn what it means for you.
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Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
Today, OpenAI for Government is announcing a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost.
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Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage
Saturday, Oct. 25 - 10 a.m. Pacific Time Alaska Airlines’ operations have returned to normal following a significant IT outage on Thursday, Oct. 23, that led to a systemwide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air-operated flights. As of Saturday morning, we have canceled nine flights related to the IT outage recovery…
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Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet
We raised over $1 million this year to directly support organizations on the front lines of the fight for online privacy and freedom.
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Happy 10k Day
Today, we sold the 10,000th comma 3X, our first product breaking 5 digits in sales.
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We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation
We have made the conscious choice not to continue paying for accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). We realize that this may raise questions among our customers, and we want to explain why we made this decision. For years, people have been told to look for BBB accredited businesses, and that it somehow re
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ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error
Executive Summary On 2 December 2025, an IPv4 block 23.150.164.0/24, correctly allocated to the Original Customer, was inadvertently removed and reissued to the …
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The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together
Automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding
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Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood
A company lost five senior engineers in 18 months. Exit interviews cited compensation. The real problem: information does not flow upward through organizational hierarchy. By the time problems reach executive level, they have metastasized into resignation decisions made months earlier.
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How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets
Riskvest is currently undergoing maintenance.
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Mistral Saba
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide
A new Oceana analysis reveals the global scale of China’s visible fishing fleet
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What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods
We take pride in personally connecting with all interested partners, collaborators and potential clients. Please email us with a brief description of how you would like to be connected with Galois and we will do our best to respond within one business day.
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Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
This post describes how we successfully migrated our serverless offering from AWS US-East to OVHCloud North America, reducing our monthly spend from...
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“You should never build a CMS”
Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed.
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Why email startups fail
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.
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Julia and JuliaHub: Advancing Innovation and Growth
Explore Julia and JuliaHub's remarkable growth: 494% rise in Discourse views, +412% GitHub stars, and new products like Dyad.
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From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?
Confused by LLMs, RAG, & AI Agents? We break down the spectrum of AI system design with a familiar resume-screening example to show the leap in capabilities (and complexity) at each level.
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Grok 4.1
Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as “Grok 4.1” in the model picker.
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Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?
The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"
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Rising young worker despair in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
For the first time since the Henley Passport Index was created 20 years ago, the United States is no longer ranked amongst the world’s Top 10 most powerful passports.
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Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)
I break down the logic behind the company's towering price tag and why I think the most valuable AI companies have yet to be built.
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Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft
Waymo is bringing the magic of our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to riders in Nashville, in partnership with Lyft in 2026. Riders will be able to hail via the Waymo app, and as our service grows, riders will also be able to use the Lyft app to match with a Waymo vehicle.