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Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
1•ykdojo•2m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
1•dhruv3006•4m ago•0 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
1•mariuz•4m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
1•RyanMu•8m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•11m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
2•rcarmo•12m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•13m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•14m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•16m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•16m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•18m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•19m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•20m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•21m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•30m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•30m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
42•bookofjoe•30m ago•13 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•31m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•33m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•33m ago•0 comments
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Why Building Billing Systems Is So Painful (2024)

https://www.dmitry.ie/2024/why-building-billing-systems-is-so-painful
43•Rafsark•6mo ago

Comments

mjw_byrne•6mo ago
I've done a from-scratch billing system build. As well as the complexities in the article, some of the logic required can result in rather exotic SQL.

Answering questions like "what was the maximum number of concurrent sessions per account between these two dates" with a SQL query is interesting. Making it perform properly adds a layer of fun.

SoftTalker•6mo ago
This is just an ad for Stripe services.
postalrat•6mo ago
In my experience the reason they are so painful is because stuff keeps getting tacked on and nobody wants to clean it up because they are afraid they are going to mess up some crazy business logic that a small fraction of customers depend on.

Basically business logic isn't logical.

chistev•6mo ago
Isn't that what tests are for?
arethuza•6mo ago
Sounds a lot like payroll...
Noumenon72•6mo ago
"[insert the diagram]"
Esophagus4•6mo ago
Throw in for B2B: large enterprises can actually negotiate their prices with vendors, so the “enterprise plan” might vary in price and structure.
kbbgl87•6mo ago
[insert the diagram]
journal•6mo ago
Because if it was easy there wouldn't be bureaucratic friction for you to make money from.
nicbou•6mo ago
What is the recommended approach here? We are going to face this problem soon as we figure out how to pay sales commissions on our product. Basically, we get an arbitrary commission from an insurer, and split it between the broker, me, and possibly a referrer. The payment rules are different for us (one-off percentage plus monthly) and the referrer (fixed one-off). We need invoices for everything, and VAT in most cases.

I dread working on this.

yankcrime•6mo ago
Application error: a server-side exception has occurred while loading www.dmitry.ie (see the server logs for more information).

So is running a website apparently.

xtiansimon•6mo ago
> “Billing isn't just about sending an invoice to your customer. It's the lifeblood of your business.”

Oh. You don’t say?

Continues to say billing is “tough”, but this text seems aimed to wrap it all up in one blog post.

This reads like what you write to convince a small business to hire you as an independent contractor to do their website—sympathize to the emotional pain, then write a survey of challenges to convey knowledge and competence.

Something is still missing as a marketing piece. First, what’s the context—compared to what? Second, this reads like a rational discussion of complexity, but not of difficulty. So what is the author’s challenge? Write the whole code base? Integrate different solutions? What can’t be done with time and diligence?

Not for nothing, this is a timely topic for me. I was chatting with someone about outside service versus custom built solutions. This reads like someone I might be asked to consider to hire, but this isn’t the text that makes me interested to learn more.

porridgeraisin•6mo ago
It isn't just X, it's Y.

Is a classic LLM trope (probably picked up from leading-on twitter slop that go 1/n 2/n,...)

xtiansimon•6mo ago
> "...twitter slop that go 1/n 2/n,...)"

What's this fraction series represent--converging on n/n (assuming there actually is a definition of n)?

dragonwriter•6mo ago
Its short for "tweet k out of n" where k is known for each post but n is not known until the final post is completed.
fmajid•6mo ago
I worked on telco billing systems in my youth. One terrifying statistic is that fully 2/3 of such projects failed completely, which is why most telcos still ran on hoary mainframe BSS that were older than the programmers responsible for maintaining them.
zvr•6mo ago
Back in the era of landline phones, AT&T calculated that around 70% of their cost was due to billing.

People welcomed "unlimited calls with $X a month!" as a liberating innovation, but the truth was that the phone company was saving a ton of money -- and had priced them so that they were making even more by the vast majority of their customers.

97-109-107•5mo ago
Relevant reading [The 5 Pillars of PriceOps](https://priceops.org/)