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zhon TerraUSD creator Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years over $40B crypto collapse

All this is BS. He was doing the same scam many other projects (even MicroStrategy) is doing - praying on users FOMO - as long as there are new users, old ones will profit. The main reason Terra project have to be killed was that it was the only project providing non-USD stable coins, which was a direct attack on USD dominance. So they made an example of him to discourage other projects going in this direction (non-USD stable coins).

zhon LinkedIn Is Adding 'Stay-at-Home Mom' as a Job Title

This is sexist - should be "Stay-at-Home Parent"

zhon Ask HN: Is Signal still a good app to use for encrypted messaging?

What about https://status.im/ instead - OSS, e2e encrypted by default.

zhon GitHub, stackoverflow, Reddit down – 503 - Australia

github seems ok: https://www.githubstatus.com

zhon Ask HN: Anyone having issues with new repo creation on GitHub and fresh push?

When you have problems, take a look on GitHub status - https://status.github.com/ . As you can see they have some storage issues today.

zhon I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I do with them?

Create a bitcoin mining farm from EC2 instances ;)

zhon Ask HN: What payment gateways are best for Australian SAAS?

Take a look on https://pin.net.au/

zhon Getting the most out of HAProxy

NginX is very good WEB SERVER - so it shines in serving content - web pages, caching images etc. But in proxy mode, the load-balancing between backends is pretty basic. HAProxy is born to be very good LOAD BALANCER - you can have different balancing algorithms, not only round-robin. HAProxy have also TCP mode, so you can balance your MySQL backends, for example. Also for me, personally, HAProxy stats rock.

zhon Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech

At least in university I went, first 2 years was pretty much general engineering, with chemistry and biology etc. included. Even now, most of grantpas and grantmas around, I'm speaking with, if I tell them, that I'm engineer, they trying to ask me to fix their TV/computer/washing machine etc. In most cases, I'm trying...

zhon Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech

It's not like this any more. That's why recently there are so many "software engineers" - you write your Ruby code, install and configure NginX, Passenger etc., even support a cluster of machines (LB, DB, Apps), maybe with a little help for Chef.

zhon Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O

The previous time there were rumours about Google Storage, we've got AppEngine instead. Hm, what we've get how?...

zhon Ask HN: Real time PubSub-type notification API service?

http://developer.collecta.com/XmppApi/RealTime/

zhon Anyone using Javascript on server side?

http://appjet.com/

zhon Ramaze by Example

http://github.com/zh/turl/tree/master - tinyurl-like service in ramaze (just one file). even have an API ;) Have also a bigger project - http://github.com/zh/tamanegi/tree/master - rss/atom feeds aggregator.

zhon Are you a Linux sysadmin interested in trading time for bandwith?

zhesto @ gmail.com - interested.

zhon Ask YC: Reading from RSS, keeping track of conversations?

Maybe use http://friendfeed.com/ Aggregate all you activity - flickr, youtube, blog etc. and ask you friends to comment there. They'll keep all your entries, not only the onces currently in the RSS feed.