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Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

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282 points bundie | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 18:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.236s | source
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yodon ◴[25 Jun 25 22:32 UTC] No.44382371[source]▶
Pretty sure auth is not something I want a self-taught dev (or even most CS-graduate devs) writing.

Oauth2, JWT's, hashes, timestamps, validations, and such, are all totally simple until they're not. The black hats have way more experience and way more time invested in this space than most any normal dev.

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slashdev ◴[26 Jun 25 01:52 UTC] No.44383532[source]▶
I don’t know about you, but most everything I know on those subjects is self taught. University is overrated for computer science.
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1. joshdavham ◴[26 Jun 25 02:51 UTC] No.44383819[source]▶
> University is overrated for computer science.

It's mostly overrated, but not entirely so.

The vast majority of software development that I've learned has been outside of school, but there are a couple of core CS (and data science) concepts that I never would've learned if not for uni.

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