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  1. Ask HN: How do I find why my AWS VPC is costing $34?

    This is for my personal lab. I am at my wits end trying to hunt down this cost. I do not have an EIP or public IP address or a NAT gateway. I do have ipv6 egress only gateway and EIPs for SQS, ECR and S3. I am mostly…

    2 points 12
  2. E-bike fire on TTC subway train (toronto.citynews.ca)
    2 points 0
  3. Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT to make yourself more effective in your work?

    I work in IT Architecture and I am trying to figure out how to make myself better at my job using ChatGPT. However, I do not see any way to get it to help with IT roadmaps, blueprints and architecture governance. I deal…

    2 points 3
  4. Lego to discontinue Mindstorms robot line after a 24-year run (arstechnica.com)
    2 points 0
  5. India’s ‘Mango Man’ Grew a Tree with 300 Flavors (atlasobscura.com)
    1 points 0
  6. Reddit Chat: WTF?

    Reddit really wants me to chat and is using up about 30% of my screen when I open reddit. What are they thinking ? I only see this if I login to Reddit. This doesn't show up for anonymous browing. I am using Chrome on…

    3 points 2
  7. Ask HN: What to do if my domain name is flagged as Adult by a Net Nanny service?

    I have owned a domain called managedvideocloud.com for several years. I don't have sever or a business behind it ; but I do use it to occasionally build and test my personal web application code that has been under…

    2 points 0
  8. How to Attract a Killer Tigress? Try a Man’s Cologne (nytimes.com)
    1 points 0
  9. The WTO Just Ruled Against India's Booming Solar Program (huffingtonpost.com)
    3 points 0
  10. Ask HN: How to outsource marketing for my bootstrapped 'lifestyle business'?

    I am bootstrapping my 'lifestyle business'. I have a good product in a mature market: traction will be slow to come and I am running low on my savings and I don't want to blow them on expensive adwords. SEO with long…

    7 points 7
  11. Ask HN: Anyone Using Google Managed VMs in Production?

    I am leaning towards Google VM over EC2 because Google offers sub-hour billing. Most of the tasks my code performs use upto 15 minutes, rendering them unsuitable for AWS Lambda and too wasteful for EC2. I need to use…

    1 points 0
  12. Ask HN: SEO/SEM advise for a niche startup in a mature market?

    I am launching a niche product in mature market on a bootstrapped budget. I have been reading up on SEO and SEM and also subscribed to Moz , Spyfu and WordTracker. My research tells me that all the possible keywords in…

    2 points 2
  13. Redbox is leaving Canada (redbox.ca)
    2 points 1
  14. Show HN: Video content and revenue sharing monetized with video classified ads (newzing.com)
    1 points 1
  15. Ask HN: Is HTML File Upload still needed for uploading files to server?

    I am working on an application for those in the media business; my users need to send files to my server for processing. I am wondering if I should support form file upload from local drive vs letting users use Google…

    1 points 2
  16. Do Brain Workouts Work? Science Isn’t Sure (nyti.ms)
    1 points 0
  17. Ask HN: Survival planning for the Urban Condo dweller?

    So when the power went out in Toronto, I found that I was woefully unprepared for life without electricity. My land phoneline , by Vonage ,was unusable. My neighbors’ phone lines , from Rogers and Bell Fibe were also…

    1 points 1
  18. Ask HN: Used Dell Poweredge C6100 servers + colo or AWS?

    I am a solo bootstrapper and I am trying to figure out whether I should get 4 x c6100 servers ( 2 x Intel Xeon L5639 + 96GB per + 250gb SSD - per node , 4 nodes per server) for about US$7k +approximately $4k for annual…

    1 points 8
  19. Ask HN: Share your experience using Elance/Odesk for Sales/ Marketing tasks?

    Have you used their freelancers for Sales/ Marketing tasks that helped you gain traction (not with the freelancer but your actual customers). How do you judge their performance and what milestones did you set for them ?…

    1 points 0
  20. India’s silent sentinels in space save million lives (goo.gl)
    1 points -1
  21. Ask HN: How to decide between ovh/hetzner and AWS?

    I am currently using AWS for my dev/QA but I hope to go live very soon. AWS makes everything almost effortless but I am not afraid of diving in when needed. I am wrestling with the idea of going with ovh as I get more…

    5 points 5
  22. Ask HN: What Marketplace Payment Systems are available for non U.S. start-ups?

    I am bootstrapping a marketplace for trading niche digital goods but I am based in Canada. I have found that commonly mentioned marketplace payment systems on HN -- Balanced, Braintree , Stripe , and Amazon FPS only…

    1 points 1
  23. Tell HN: Disenfranchising India's poor using digital television

    The Indian Government has ordered the shutdown of all analog broadcasts in major Indian cities by March 31 and it is strongly encouraging consumers to subscribe to cable services and use set-top boxes to receive digital…

    1 points 0
  24. Ask HN: Can you share startup's Market Positioning strategies?

    What strategies have you used to position your start-up in the market? How do you determine which position is the best going forward ? Or is positioning irrelevant for startups because of MVP and pivoting ?

    4 points 7
  25. Tell HN: Why I loathe PMPs

    PMPs get promoted to engineering management positions where they make critical decisions about issues that they have no idea about. Case in point, an email I received from my PMP PM in response to my request to be given…

    2 points 2