Best of 2020

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2020. 1,099 posts.

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Build versus Buy

A few years ago I was working on a contract negotiation with Splunk, and we kept running into what felt like a pretty unreasonable pricing structure. They wanted some number of millions of dollars for a three year license, which felt like a high price to pay for roughly thirty-two ascii characters in a particular…