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samspov.com 1mo ago

Show HN: I made samspov.com to easily track updates

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twitter.com 4mo ago

Polsia Leaking Customers Secrets

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Nanowar of Steel – HelloWorld.java (Source Code Video) – Napalm Records

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devblogs.microsoft.com 2y ago

.NET Framework 8 RC1

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devblogs.microsoft.com 5y ago

How to plug in your USB Type A connector correctly the first time

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twitter.com 6y ago

Notepad has an automatic logging feature

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www.ibm.com 6y ago

World’s First Quantum Computing Safe Tape Drive

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redbullracing.redbull.com 6y ago

Alex Albon to Join Max, Gasly to Toro Rosso

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Manchester United tell Panini Cheapskates to stop selling stickers

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www.tarynpivots.com 7y ago

Stack Overflow Upgraded from Windows Server 2012

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turnedyellow.com 7y ago

Turn Me Yellow

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maze.design 7y ago

Maze – Get Prototype Feedback

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Submitting Xkcd link crashes whatsapp

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github.com 8y ago

Front-End Checklist

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github.com 8y ago

Passmarked – a website validation tool with full source

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powervision.me 8y ago

PowerDolphin – a water drone

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www.snapwear.co 8y ago

Snapchat coded t-shirt

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transferwise.com 8y ago

TransfeWise Borderless multi-currency account

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www.producthunt.com 8y ago

Shades and Hues – a game of color gradients

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: App Landing Page Generator

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play.google.com 8y ago

Show HN: Published my first game; Shades and Hues – a game of color gradients

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

Facebook Watch

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pbb.nkcss.com 9y ago

Show HN: Paywall Buster Buster

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hackaday.com 9y ago

Dummies Guide to Reverse Engineering a Modem

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blog.elcomsoft.com 9y ago

ElcomSoft Extracts Deleted Safari Browsing History from iCloud

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news.nationalgeographic.com 9y ago

Skittles used as corn replacement for cattle

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www.flow-machines.com 9y ago

DeepBach: a steerable model for bach chorales generation

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: place to get 1:1 help with specific development issue?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Affordable 3-6 GB mobile internet for a week in France?

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www.transnoc.nl 10y ago

DNS of biggest .NL registar (TransIP) down

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Been trying to contact the creator/owner for 3 days. I have his github access token, seen supabase service_role tokens. Wordpress logins, logins for various API's, etc, etc.

His AI answers his emails, lies about what it can do and 3 days later, still nothing is fixed while user secrets keep spilling.

Very cool that you allow to set the initial params via querystring. Starting with more health/life is a nice addition to make it easier/harder

    ?level=1 &health=9 &time=59 &strength=100 &width=0

From waaaaay back, I remember CDRWin by Golden Hawk was the best piece of software out there to rip CD's, with their error recovery, options to re-read the same thing > 50x, alllowing the whole process to take hours but produce results. Not sure if you tried that one yet? Not what you are looking for, but probably the best off-the shelf solution that exists (though state of the art may have changed in the last decade)...

Same. Games like Crazy Taxi and Vanishing Point blew me away; I loved my Dreamcast and it felt years ahead of the competition.

It's something that works very well here in The Netherlands. Also, because it's directly linked to bank accounts and you have to identify yourself, etc. to set it all up, it really isn't a problem here. If people see they can pay with iDeal, people will trust it and it really has not been an issue that I know of.

Here in The Netherlands, everyone is charged sales tax (it's always included in all prices that's communicated to consumers, required by law).

Companies pay sales tax to the state and can deduct sales tax they paid to other companies.

There are rules for applying sales taxes to other EU countries and it get's complicated fast; once you do more than X amount in another EU country, you're supposed to register in that country and file taxes in that country. Thresholds here: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/r...

Here in The Netherlands, we have a platform called iDeal. All dutch banks are connected and all webshops accept it (it's hard to find a place to use your creditcard here). Transactions are instant and non-refundable. Costs are around 0.35 per transaction and NO % fees. Just a fixed amount per transaction. For big volumes, that per-transaction amount can be lower. It's amazing and I wished they'd just roll that out worldwide. No risk for merchants at all.

Good for you :)

My hourly rate is €85 currently, which is a lot for the small to medium size businesses I work for. Hiking up that rate would meen I would have to work for larger companies, which I don’t want to.

I work from my own office, and get to spend loads of time with my family; if I’d start to work for bigger companies, I’d have to work on-site and loose a lot of time in transit and make it a lot more difficult to dictate the working hours on a day to day basis.

Nah, but it's hard to launch a successfull product; if it wasn't, everyone would be doing it.

I'm doing contracting work for multiple different customers, long-term project, and I generate 100-200k of revenue on a yearly basis from that. That leaves me with slightly higher salary than if I'd work for a boss, but I have tonnes, and tonnes more freedom and time for my kids. It's just not possible to scale that past 300k/yr, because there's only so much time you can sell.

Once you have a product, you can scale it through the roof, since a digital product, if set up well, has negligible costs, will allow you to earn way more, but only if you find something that people want bad enough to pay for and a large enough group to pay for it. Loads and loads of people have the skills required to build a product, but not a lot have the right idea and marketing to go along with it to make it a success.

Well, Amazon is the place you bought them from, they are liable for your warrany, not the manufacturer, so it should not be your problem, Amazon will have to take care of it.

My experiences with Amazon have been amazing; I bought two 1TB 970 pro's when they just came out (hella expensive), and one of them was faulty. After explaining my troubleshoot, they were like: ok, sounds like you know what you are doing, we'll send you a new one, be sure to return the one that's faulty in the next few days. I was blown away, amazing experience for me and certainly a reason for me to look at Amazon first when I need something else.

Came here to recommend the same thing, and I think it's an even better solution, as it makes the light appear to come from further away and the diffusion prevents bright spots.