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While I'm sure many of you run your own telemetry inside of your apps, I'm wondering what everyone uses as their set it and forget it, easy to roll analytics solutions for new apps, blogs etc.

I've been looking for new roles recently and it seems everything in tech is a B2B SaaS product. How should I be widening my search or what sectors can I look at that still balances tech but with something that doesn't feel like one of seven clones of the same thing?

Looking for a solid solution for a back end for a game and mobile app server. We can't roll the usual Epic/Xbox PaaS as we need to a little more flexibility.

Are Rust or Elixir still the got to's for dependability or should Go get a look in. Bonus points for good web tooling outside of an API back end.

I know the old adage goes use what you know, but I'm about to build out a new project that needs to stand the test of time.

Running everything on PaaS or 'magic' backends feels a bit scary. Is Rust or Go still the king of the hill for long lasting performant processes or would Elixir be worth a look?

My use case is building a networking backend for a video game, but I'm wondering what people look to these days for bullet-proof performance and stability. The javascript world seems to change by the week.

Recently moved all of my domains away from Google to Porkbun. I know their DNS is probably rock solid, I was just wondering if anyone rolled their own DNS and what your stack was?

After listening to a podcast about AI face search engines I became increasingly worried about photos of family members/children/elderly that may not be up to speed or even able to access the search engines to prevent their face being shared online.

What is the best preventative measure for keeping oneself off these search engines? Is it purely running searches on yourself/family and removing whatever you can?

This is maybe more possible with local models than it is commercial ones. This question is in the context of image generation.

I was wondering if on any of the open LLM's there was a way of auditing the trail of data a model had processed ie what image was used to generate an image for a specific prompt.

With the advent of Sora it’s clear that AI can help with the creative process but I feel there’s still some big ethical questions around where the data for these creations is sourced from.

However for a creator that maybe wants to leverage AI without walking all over previous artists copyright are there any up and coming tools that could be used ethically to expand or enhance the creative process?

With the fall of Twitter and the fragmentation of where everyone has ended up I'm finding that I'm discovering less and less views/posts/articles that are out of my comfort zone.

I find without the stream of people I had curated for years to be pretty diverse in interest subject matter I tend to just frequent the same haunts every day.

What do you do to discover new things or stay on top of what's going on?

Disclaimer: I've been able to follow a few people to Mastodon but it seems some interest feeds have just dropped dead.

I usually find at the outset of a new project there seems to be a nest of spreadsheets for schema, photos of whiteboards for how everything clicks together and either wireframes or figma files for front end prototypes. Is there an all in one mapping tool for this kind of exercise or is the best way to either write it all down on paper or adhere to the above nest?

I used to use Dropbox as a portable home folder that I could use to kickstart each machine with but also useful documents that I need on every machine. A few years back I moved it to iCloud for convenience, but lets say reliability there hasn't been the best. What do you use as your cloud flash drive these days and why?

I was just curious what the thought-process for HNers would be to spin up an easily maintainable personal site right now.

Trying to err away from anything on a platform (Substack etc). Would you still reach for Wordpress or would a static site generator be the way to go?

For the past few years conventional wisdom would have said to spin up the the usual socials (Twitter for thought, Instagram for visuals, Short Video for younger audiences), but with the amount of turmoil in those spaces at the moment are they really the best places to start building an individual platform.

I've seen a movement back to personal blogs and newsletters but do they provide enough discovery to help people find you?

If you were starting from nothing today where would you put the focus for where your content lives and how you distribute it?