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ElectronShak

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I'm a lone ranger, and a lost soul, on a lonely path, but my soul is free.

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timctrl.substack.com 1y ago

Why TikTok's Anti-Link Policy Makes It a Closed Platform

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twitter.com 4y ago

I helped negotiate the $22B sale to Facebook, Today, I regret it

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What made the 80s so pleasant?

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates

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blog.cloudflare.com 4y ago

How Cloudflare verifies the code WhatsApp Web serves to users

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twitter.com 4y ago

Today is Y Combinator's 17th birthday

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www.urbandictionary.com 4y ago

Urban Dictionary: Hacker News

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store.google.com 4y ago

Real Tone on Google Pixel

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Now more than ever, is there need to support alternative open platforms?

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

Take-Two Interactive to acquire social game developer Zynga for $12.7B

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

How Does This App Blow Out Candles? [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Tell HN: It Wouldn't hurt YouTube to not show ads on the rickrolling video

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Uber Adds Ride Booking via WhatsApp in India

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infosecwriteups.com 4y ago

Exploiting Redis Through SSRF Attack

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Facebook whistleblower claims

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9to5google.com 4y ago

Google Shoot View turns Google Maps into a first-person shooter (2011)

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twinstrangers.net 5y ago

Twin Strangers

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Channel 37

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Facebook Zero

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Anyone seen YouTube recommend more videos from more than 5 years ago?

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Live Q&A with Dan Bornstein, Creator of the Dalvik VM [Video]

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

How a sneaky loophole lost gambling companies millions [video]

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cei.org 5y ago

Foreign Aid Kills

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www.popularmechanics.com 5y ago

How YouTube Makes Sure Every Video Has Its Own Unique Link

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019)

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www.npmjs.com 6y ago

Is-odd (NPM) (500k weekly downloads)

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twitter.com 6y ago

Readability vs. Writability in programming language design

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github.com 6y ago

Show HN: AZLyrics Scrapper Written in Golang

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www.bbc.com 6y ago

Rockstar Games Founder Dan Houser Leaves Studio

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edition.cnn.com 6y ago

Don't abbreviate 2020. It's for your own good

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We received a large number of complaints about your account

I hope this system is smart enough to only consider complaints from accounts that this user has messaged recently, otherwise, a group of people could decide to maliciously report an account.

But how would they determine this if it is true that they do not store messages on their servers?

Case in point, there's a scene in a supermarket with a bunch of breakfast cereals from various pop franchises

Yep, Season 3 Episode 1. Also seems like everyone went to the mall to hangout :-)

You're seeing the past through a heavy filter

I agree. I guess it's what movies do. Unfortunately, or fortunately for me, its all I have as a reference, including a few books here and there. But I like that there seemed to be a clear cut distinction between life and technology, today, technology is so intertwined into our daily lives

Very interesting, and certainly hard to catch, even for technical users. Maybe it is things like this where google is justified for "forcing" 2FA on us. Lowers, although minimally, the effectiveness of auth credential attacks.

Whether it be setting up a LAMP stack on a server, securing nginx with Lets Encrypt, deploying a python ML model as a web service, you name it, DigitalOcean's tutorials just work. Thanks Digital Ocean!

PS: I love the Idea of calling a single server a "Droplet" in the "Digital Ocean". Nice one DO.

I greatly empathize with anyone who lost a loved one to Covid over the past two years. Sorry for your loss.

However, I do think that the reason we took lockdowns as a solution is because China did the same in the first place. But I don't think we should do that again.

I will speak for myself, and I have no epic reason, I am just tired of it all.

Damn! It's quite obvious what happened here. CEO is lying by using the term "unusual activity" b'se why would the unusual activity only apply to African startups?

But this is no surprise, for example, African startups are sometimes asked to move their headquarters / company registration to like Europe or US before receiving investment.

eh..this is too much info to reveal online...how bout say, a VPS (with your preferred cloud service provider), which if not logged into in say 40 days, sends an SMS or Email to your Wife or Next of Kin with your secrets, pins, passwords and locations to anything physical.

One of Cloudflare's strengths is taking dev issues really seriously. Couple weeks ago we had a post here about Cloudflare Images having lots of issues [1]. The post did outline a lot of valid issues. Someone from the team commented that they had forwarded the post to product manager and engineering lead for Cloudflare Images [2]. Issue 6 (Direct Creator Upload) on the list has been fixed, and the docs updated

1. https://blog.klungo.no/2021/12/07/cloudflare-images-has-a-lo...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474943

What Has Happened to Twitter?

Answer: They hired a "ruthless" product manager, who believes in things like "we should do things that are good for Twitter, but not necessarily good for the world", and probably wants to be remembered as the PM who took the route that no one was willing to take. (S)he has the data to backup these decisions, like some analytics dashboard that shows very many unauthenticated users browsing twitter. Also wears a tough face in meetings.

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I feel like if instagram were to be driven further in the monetisation direction, we would no-longer have instagram, so someone else could innovate around photos, and take the still photo market.

I feel like instagram is no longer an actual photo sharing app, just a place where high profile users promote stuff to their followers.