15:[[48021228,{"by":"kamilmrzyglod","descendants":2,"id":48021228,"kids":[48022785],"score":2,"time":1777982066,"title":"Topaz vs. Azurite: what works locally and what doesn't","type":"story","url":"https://topaz.thecloudtheory.com/blog/topaz-vs-azurite/"}],[46897614,{"by":"ksec","descendants":2,"id":46897614,"kids":[46908124,46901042],"score":1,"time":1770283443,"title":"Ruby on Rails and Claude Code is a *crazy unlock","type":"story","url":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/2018368128108167344"}],[46062457,{"by":"mafiaa","descendants":15,"id":46062457,"kids":[46062703,46071042,46062548,46065114,46062740,46062902,46062622,46062878],"score":8,"text":"Wanted to learn/try something new with my next start-up venture and decided to use .NET for my backend and it has been amazing so far.

Very low learning curve, easy to separate functionality rather than relying on some mega AIO Next.js app, easy integration with cloud providers such as Azure, and it's already widely used in the industry (valuable experience to have).

So why aren't start-ups using it more often? It seems like the perfect framework to build with in almost every capacity (unless you really dislike Microsoft).","time":1764192058,"title":"Ask HN: Why aren't more startups using .NET?","type":"story"}],[45031007,{"by":"rubenvanwyk","descendants":15,"id":45031007,"kids":[45031952,45032254,45031432,45031615,45031343,45041011,45031601,45032394,45033246,45181897],"score":13,"text":"I’m discovering that C# is such a fantastic language in 2025 - has all the bells and whistles, great ecosystem and yet only associated with enterprise. Why aren’t we seeing more startups choosing C#?

Some interesting thoughts coming from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/1n0v8qq/ask_reddit_why_arent_more_startups_using_c/","time":1756236126,"title":"Ask HN: Why aren't more startups using C#?","type":"story"}],[44558490,{"by":"arresin","descendants":7,"id":44558490,"kids":[44559949,44558967],"score":3,"text":"I'm new to ruby and ruby on rails. Are there any devs here experience with both that could recommend a resource? A book, youtube series etc?

It would be really great if someone could recommend an overview of the language so I can get an idea of the syntax, and the syntax of your average rails app.

Finally I want to pair this with inertia.js. Has anyone done this in production? Does the combo work well?","time":1752489795,"title":"Ask HN: What's the best way to start with Ruby on rails?","type":"story"}],[40497833,{"by":"quintes","descendants":1,"id":40497833,"kids":[40501519],"score":1,"text":"Hi All,

I was looking at Laravel today, and I'm am going to choose between this and Django for an app. But looking at Laravel, \n1. do I need to install the Herd tooling, Valet, Sail.. all the other bits and bobs or can I do this with just brew? Reason is, when looking at Herd, some of the features are "Pro features" only and I don't really want the upsell. Must I use Sail? Must I use Herd? Must I just use Valet?

if it helps, this would be installed on my mac.

2. Then there's like a couple of additional choices that drop from there, such as Breeze and Blade.. or livelier.. or just Jetstream?

Is the Laravel ecosystem something that you need to just immerse yourself in? Do I have to go all in on all the tooling or should I stop procrastinating and just go with Django

Yes, open to learning, but don't want to get caught in lots of paid value adds. any tips, tricks or helpful guides welcome","time":1716876627,"title":"Ask HN: Laravel tooling (herd, valet, sail, starter kits)","type":"story"}],[40441098,{"by":"Difwif","descendants":5,"id":40441098,"kids":[40446723,40444146,40441869,40442719,40441789],"score":5,"text":"$16","time":1716386353,"title":"Ask HN: RAG as a Service?","type":"story"}],[39808626,{"by":"robiot","descendants":5,"id":39808626,"kids":[39808724,39808749,39808805,39808683,39817286],"score":5,"text":"$17","time":1711300995,"title":"Ask HN: My dream but fuck how to achieve anything?","type":"story"}],[39605113,{"by":"charliebwrites","descendants":6,"id":39605113,"kids":[39606649,39605201,39605936,39608350,39607043,39610584,39605986],"score":3,"text":"After a day's work I am often fried. I want nothing more than to plop on the couch and melt and watch dumb tv because my brain is too fried to do anything else.

This is a bummer because I have multiple app/script ideas I'd love to work on which have been sitting in the back of my brain for months at this point.

I could have a second cup of coffee to keep me going, but at a certain point I'm just wired and fried vs fried and not wired, and my sleep can be affected when I do this.

I sleep well, I run in the mornings, sometimes lift weights later in the day, eat well, and have a decent enough social life. I'm not depressed by any measure, just exhausted from the work day.

How do I summon the mental clarity and energy to pursue my hobbies after a long day of work?","time":1709654115,"title":"Ask HN: How do you find the energy to work on hobbies/projects after work?","type":"story"}],[39278145,{"by":"YoucefHamdad","descendants":1,"id":39278145,"kids":[39290042],"score":3,"text":"I've been looking through the internet about AI development resources and how to get a solid foundation on AI and the development process to get into the field.

Can anyone help with any recourses about, how the architecture in coding and programming of Machine learning and AI works and gets developed","time":1707243439,"title":"Introduction to AI Development","type":"story"}],[39161530,{"by":"andrea81","descendants":9,"id":39161530,"kids":[39167722,39161650,39162337,39161950,39161923,39162051,39161961],"score":2,"text":"Context: idea validation/prototype.

Could I just use htmx to do my prototype?

I want to code as less as possible and avoid no-code.","time":1706404191,"title":"Ask HN: Do you need a web framework for a startup landing page?","type":"story"}],[38459960,{"by":"poushkar","descendants":33,"id":38459960,"kids":[38460458,38489014,38471023,38463973,38466017,38461974,38465502,38464393,38468816,38465508,38473104,38484327,38476473,38466051,38471097,38464503,38488088,38467115,38464387,38479685,38467798,38460139,38466164,38469184,38463687,38478635],"score":27,"text":"What tech stack would you choose for building SaaS side projects as a single developer if these were your priorities:

- build it once, deploy and forget for months or years;

- adding new features is easy (once it's needed once a year or even less frequently). "Easy" here means little time spent reminding yourself how the app works and where to add new features;

- deploying is simple and can be done with little to no setup;

- language/platform/dependencies updates are infrequent, easy to do, unlikely to break the app;

- open source and developed by a community, no dependency on an enterprise.","time":1701269266,"title":"Ask HN: Tech stack for small SaaS side projects as a solo developer?","type":"story"}],[38361519,{"by":"capl","descendants":44,"id":38361519,"kids":[38361728,38361719,38388916,38361615,38362570,38361726,38365170,38370198,38364808,38370057,38364264,38388541,38362282,38371029,38369521,38362255,38364765,38369469],"score":15,"text":"If you were to build a startup or a solo side project, what web stack would you use and why? Web stack meaning backend and frontend. To make a more specific use case if that's easier, say you need:

  1) Auth (local accounts + OAuth)\n  2) Simple user dashboard with some live updates (Websockets, SignalR, etc)\n  3) Blog (simple db read/write)\n

\nThe goal is to bring the user a good experience, but use the least time developing since it's a side project. What do you reach for? Django + React? Laravel + Livewire? ASP.NET + Blazor? Next.js + Prisma?","time":1700559907,"title":"Ask HN: What web stack would you use for startup, and why?","type":"story"}],[37854075,{"by":"jsamse","descendants":14,"id":37854075,"kids":[37854169,37858465,37855665,37858711,37859016],"score":15,"text":"I'm 38 and started my developer career 15 years ago. 10 years ago I switched from .NET to Golang. And for the past 5 years I have primarily worked with mobile apps (Kotlin/KMP) and transitioned more into a manager role.

Now I'm looking to focus more on the coding and I'm interviewing for a senior .NET backend position tomorrow. I'm hoping that my experience in the field will make up for most of the .NET-specific things I have missed or forgotten about. Do you have any advice on what I should prioritize to read up on before the interview?

I will very much appreciate any suggestions, thank you!","time":1697092196,"title":"Ask HN: How do I get back into .NET development?","type":"story"}],[37330200,{"by":"bananaeng819","descendants":13,"id":37330200,"kids":[37330476,37331240,37331509,37330638,37338208,37330628,37330522,37330437,37331950],"score":3,"text":"I'm a Software Engineer at a fairly small technology company and I handed in my resignation today. Due to the small team size and ambitious goals of the management team I've recently been on a series of high stress projects. It has caused my depression and anxiety to worsen and I think I'm possibly burned out. I was assigned yet another high stress project where I can expect management to be pressuring me on unreasonable deadlines. I ended up quitting and had a meeting with my manager who said I lacked courage and took the easy way out when things became hard. I personally think I quit out of self respect but I wanted to get opinions from anyone who's been in the same spot before. Did I quit for the right reasons or did I lack courage?","time":1693435969,"title":"Ask HN: Did I quit for the right reasons?","type":"story"}],[37288964,{"by":"thookipodu","descendants":20,"id":37288964,"kids":[37289138,37292320,37289102,37295691,37292908,37323425,37296648,37306040,37290715,37302857,37291862,37290236,37289115],"score":11,"text":"Hello HN,

I have a budding idea to build a website in edtech space. my daughter will be the first user. If it works, I want to make it public. I have these questions

1) Should I have the website running in cloud from day one ? If yes, any thoughts/recommendations ? If no, what I can do now, make that change (which I think is eventual) seamless?

2) What is the recommended tech stack ? I am looking for an option that I can stick with (mostly) and not make and future drastic changes

Context

I am not trying to learn any new technology/framework. I am quite comfortable with Python/Java/Clojure/Javascript stack

If you have read so far, thank you !

EDIT (1)

Below are considerations in decreasing order

1. Running cost of the setup

2. My time - I want to spend time on value creation.","time":1693189570,"title":"Ask HN: Tech stack advice for a new website","type":"story"}],[37226681,{"by":"rchaves","descendants":4,"id":37226681,"kids":[37229102,37237654,37237613,37237417],"score":2,"text":"$18","time":1692728627,"title":"Ask HN: BlitzJS, RedwoodJS, RefineJS or something else for fullstack JavaScript?","type":"story"}],[36283618,{"by":"skwee357","descendants":10,"id":36283618,"kids":[36285787,36285649,36285684,36286128,36298454,36295582,36285625,36284001,36283814],"score":7,"text":"Hey!

I’m building a one man SaaS (and sharing the journey in my LinkedIn/Blog - check the bio for more info).

I’m more of a backend guy, and know NodeJS well enough, so my backend stack is chosen.

I however despise frontend, and never liked working with it. What is a good frontend stack for fast iteration, for a non dynamically heavy website? Is it server site rendering with a template engine like ejs? Is it Next.js? Something else?

I have experience with Next, Astro, react and tailwind - if that helps.

Thanks!","time":1686505498,"title":"Ask HN: Proven front end stack for fast iteration","type":"story"}],[35376844,{"by":"tosh","descendants":1,"id":35376844,"kids":[35388955],"score":2,"time":1680199968,"title":"Is ChatGPT the next big bootstrapper opportunity?","type":"story","url":"https://justinjackson.ca/chatgpt-business"}],[35193205,{"by":"byte_0","descendants":5,"id":35193205,"kids":[35200923,35193239,35197937],"score":2,"text":"About a year ago, I got laid off from my ten year old job, which was my first full-time job. I worked as webmaster (mostly HTML and CSS), but also did tech support and learned many other things aside from programming. When I was in college, I learned the C programming language, VB.NET, and C# and my approach to programming always was clear to me (my train of thought).

Back to my present situation, I found a job as a junior web developer around 6 months ago, where I have been able to get the rust off my dormant programming skills, but the programming approaches and technologies they use are around 20 years old. I really want to get experience to later on get a job with modern technologies. I've been reading about Typescript, node.js and Angular.

For those with experience on the field, which of these (or other) technologies would you recommend learning for someone like me? Would there be a particular order? Thanks in advance.","time":1679028034,"title":"Advice for a Junior Web Developer","type":"story"}],[35079183,{"by":"boffinism","descendants":39,"id":35079183,"kids":[35079324,35079427,35079393,35079380,35079466,35080007,35079445,35080024,35079585,35083620,35100161,35079463,35079932,35079502,35085509,35082131],"score":46,"time":1678348688,"title":"I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing","type":"story","url":"https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1633359031875039234"}],[34836195,{"by":"RcouF1uZ4gsC","descendants":6,"id":34836195,"kids":[34836758,34836351,34836655,34836289,34836436],"score":4,"text":"There is a post on the front page about why Rust is not a great language to build a startup in. All things being equal (not familiar with one language over another), what language would you choose to build a startup in?","time":1676649614,"title":"Ask HN: What language/framework would you choose to build a startup in?","type":"story"}],[34799072,{"by":"weakfish","descendants":74,"id":34799072,"kids":[34799673,34799470,34799739,34799568,34799867,34800817,34799664,34799843,34799716,34799504,34799684,34833068,34799524,34799688,34799898,34799537,34799792,34800734,34799774,34799864,34799531,34799508,34801182,34799657,34799705,34799286,34839465,34799809,34799772,34799938,34850723,34799735,34805789,34799717,34799991,34799787,34799654,34799885],"score":42,"text":"Hey HN,

I'm a backend/systems programmer by trade who has always wanted to build a full stack app, but gets frustrated / overwhelmed by 'modern' web dev. I’m incredibly wary of overcomplicating and don’t want to throw in the entire kitchen, if YAGNI. I want to build a somewhat complicated UI (think Notion level) and not completely bend over backwards making the front-end work through 10000 layers of abstraction.

Right now, I'm looking at Svelte(kit) and a Go (stdlib) or Rust (Axum) backend. I know Rust is a bit of a meme, but I find it very pleasant to write vs. Go in a lot of respects.

Is there something else out there that is worth trying? I have thought about trying Elm, but it seems to be niche / not future-proof.

Thanks.","time":1676426209,"title":"Ask HN: What is the most pleasant, uncomplicated full stack to start with?","type":"story"}],[34625224,{"by":"1nf_","descendants":2,"id":34625224,"kids":[34627739,34625586],"score":1,"text":"For context, I am about to turn 17 and have experience developing full stack web apps for fun, and for friends and family for around 6 years now.

I would like to start building some financial independence so I can afford to travel and go to festivals etc. with friends. The default thing to do at my age is get a minimum wage job at a pub/cafe and earn income that way, however I feel like I would rather work in something that complements my skills such as web/software development. The problem I am facing is I just have no idea to find some part time/freelance work at my age. Is it even worth chasing software work at 17 or should I just go for a waiter job and continue coding in my free time and developing skills while I am still in education?

Thanks","time":1675337942,"title":"Ask HN: How to earn some side income as a young developer?","type":"story"}],[34400961,{"by":"throwaway160123","descendants":74,"id":34400961,"kids":[34401180,34401163,34401382,34401566,34401160,34401047,34401198,34401205,34401233,34401220,34401168,34401379,34401175,34401266,34401718,34401285,34401172,34402434,34401542,34401483,34402056,34401397,34401448,34402234,34411542,34401871,34410214,34404608,34402017,34407420,34401240,34401365,34401189,34401182,34401136,34401288,34401265,34401324,34401420],"score":39,"text":"$19","time":1673879285,"title":"Ask HN: Should I quit my job?","type":"story"}],[34354576,{"by":"calind","descendants":6,"id":34354576,"kids":[34358016,34361513,34356274,34399837,34355033,34356439],"score":4,"text":"If you need to start developing a new web application tomorrow, what would be your choice for a db/backend/frontend web stack?

I've also created a Form to record answers at: https://forms.gle/27nxzrLMCe83uNzr7","time":1673536124,"title":"Ask HN: What's your choice for the classic web app stack?","type":"story"}],[34128954,{"by":"akras14","descendants":14,"id":34128954,"kids":[34132034,34129017,34133307,34129919,34134293,34135918,34135979],"score":19,"text":"Any advice on best way to learn RoR in 2022? Books, Courses etc","time":1671988754,"title":"Ask HN: Learning Ruby on Rails in 2022","type":"story"}],[34125935,{"by":"herodotusxviii","descendants":2,"id":34125935,"kids":[34128642,34126629],"score":2,"text":"Hello HN,

I've been out of the job market for about two years now due to taking care of family. Was formerly a .NET developer (mostly C# and JavaScript/HTML/CSS) at a medium/large company. I want to refresh my skills in the most efficient way possible before hitting the job market. Any advice is appreciated, thank you.

Misc:

32 years old, Male

Inland Empire, CA

6 years experience","time":1671964022,"title":"Ask HN: Unemployed for 2 years, refreshing .NET/JS skills","type":"story"}],[33570740,{"by":"dvrp","descendants":61,"id":33570740,"kids":[33571508,33571044,33571596,33570959,33570844,33570758,33572130,33571367,33571610,33571068,33571232,33571398,33571444,33571365,33571432,33571585,33571491,33571296,33571156,33571570,33571430,33571509,33571441,33573913,33581003,33571763,33571687,33574227,33571472,33616069,33576247,33571462,33586256],"score":40,"text":"$1a","time":1668236184,"title":"Ask HN: Where can one learn about boring web development?","type":"story"}],[33543592,{"by":"namrog84","descendants":2,"id":33543592,"kids":[33548476],"score":1,"text":"$1b","time":1668067630,"title":"Ask HN: Which technology stacks for my project?","type":"story"}]]

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