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developer.apple.com 4y ago

Why is Control Center on Monterey taking up ports 5000 and 7000?

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medium.com 6y ago

Clever Folks register Joe30330 domains just minutes after the mishap occurs

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github.com 7y ago

Show HN: JSPen – I Forked URLPages so you can store and share pages via URLs

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designcrew.co 9y ago

Show HN: Graphic Design Bot

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m.me 10y ago

Facebook Bot to Design Your Social Media Assets

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github.com 10y ago

Show HN: Open-Source Sitebuilder CMS Project

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medium.com 10y ago

Recreating Facemash to kickoff a branding project

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medium.com 10y ago

Simulating Website Thumbnails Using Iframes

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medium.com 10y ago

A Gentle Introduction to Ember 2.0 (Tutorial)

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medium.com 10y ago

A Gentle Introduction to Ember 2.0 (Tutorial)

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www.forkstrap.com 10y ago

Show HN: Visually Create, Fork, and Share Bootstrap Themes (Critique My MVP)

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www.forkstrap.com 10y ago

Show HN: Visually Create, Fork, and Share Bootstrap Themes (MVP)

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www.mailthis.to 10y ago

Show HN: Turn form submissions into emails (without the spam)

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www.mailthis.to 10y ago

Free email API for your apps, sites, contact forms

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mailthis.to 10y ago

Show HN: Public email API for your apps, sites, contact forms

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i.imgur.com 10y ago

Medium's latest app store update

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kidgodzilla.github.io 10y ago

I built a JavaScript framework last night after work

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featurekit.co 10y ago

Show HN: Announce New Features to Your Users (now with Pirates and Astronauts)

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featurekit.co 10y ago

Show HN: Announce New Features to Your Users (with Pirates and Astronauts)

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featurekit.co 10y ago

Show HN: Announce New Features to Your Users (with pirates & astronauts)

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Beijing Should Be Another Silicon Valley, But….

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Same! I distinctly remember seeing portions of this wallpaper that led me to believe it's procedurally generated and not simply a collection of video files, and had to rewatch it to confirm. There are several points where the date and time match the system date and time down to the second.

I'm being pedantic but I liked your comment. Most TVs today are giant ARM computers, ~95% of TVs ship with ARM Cortex but only about 35% have some variant of Android.

Most LED backlights are wired in such a way that when one LED fails it bricks a significant portion of the panel backlight. You'll knock out entire rows or huge portions of neighbor backlight LEDs when one fails. Basically it's a cheap way to ensure a whole row of LEDs are the same brightness but the tradeoff is one LED fails and it looks like 5% of your screen went dark.

It seems like a good beginner-intermediate thing that'd be approachable to learn with a basic multimeter and beginner level soldering skills.

I Don't Have Spotify 11 months ago

Small UX thing: I would have loved to not had to inspect element to grab the placeholder text to test it out :)

X is so large that it can simultaneously be a giant dumpster fire, the most toxic social network ever to exist, and still have room for honest discussion and good communities.

Gives me some hope for Bluesky, etc. I don't think you need to be Twitter scale or have global network effects to work. Your community just has to choose a particular platform and show a preference for it. You get miniature network effects once your community adopts it.

So if your favorite community doesn't like a particular platform, I don't think they're stuck there, just because it's the one with global scale. They just have to organize an exit.

There's a lot of correct feedback about why this is not an amazing start for something starting as a marketplace for talent.

This could be a beautiful start for a Linkedin alternative focused on freelancers, entrepreneurs, etc. Maybe even people in specific industries whose Linkedin currently does more than get them their next job (sales comes to mind, but also folks who work at design agencies and need to get clients, and have a profile they attach somewhere in the about us section).

BunnyCDN has a great product offering, particularly if you've used Backblaze B2 as "ultra-cheap" object storage, the BunnyCDN product is very competitive pricing-wise, and the CDN configures seamlessly with it. And you can set up a cheap image transform proxy on any of your CDNs.

R2 is cheaper though if you storage cost is less than your bandwidth cost, and B2 has a feature to automatically expire items which depending on your design might make it more efficient.

This isn't new or unique. The model seems to be too focused on the task at hand, "cleaning up" unrelated code.

I basically have to branch, commit every time it makes any progress at all, and squash later. There are built-in checkpoints that basically do this.

I actually run this side-by-side with my preferred IDE, and GitHub Desktop (to visualize the diffs). So, prompt -> Claude makes a change -> I view the diff -> I make some edits -> Commit -> back to Cursor.

Every single other major jet manufacturer is already making air travel cheaper and more efficient every year. It's all airlines who buy from Boeing or Airbus care about. The underserved niche is premium and small, not scale. Commercial aircraft will get 1% more efficient every year with or without new companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#/medi...).

If we start in supersonic today, and innovate at the same pace for 20 years, you might match the efficiency boom from the "jet age" and make supersonic twice as efficient as today.

When people realized anyone with a sophisticated police scanner could listen in on cordless (and then early cellular) phone calls, it forced manufacturers to actually implement a bare-minimum level of security on those devices.

I hope this pushes more manufacturers to switch to rolling-code algorithms (like the key fob your car uses), in place of simpler, less secure codes that can be captured and replayed.

I've done a few of these. Basically, you need to quote them significantly more than you're currently comfortable asking, because it's basically going to suck up months of your time and you're going to have to re-tool your business to meet their requirements. Let's say $10k-$20k, assuming from your numbers they're 100x the size of a typical customer.

Quote them such a large amount that you expect them to say no, and then make your peace with them saying no. Don't accept a significant discount on what you quote them. Instead, let them go, and wait for another enterprise customer to come along.

Do a call to understand why they want to buy your product ("I wanted to know what you were having trouble with and how you think our product could help") and come up with requirements up front. Charge extra for things like enterprise sign-on if they haven't been built yet.

This customer could make or break your business. If you quote is too low you risk regretting the deal not only on your end, but the potential that your enterprise customer backs out as well when you inevitably hit some stumbling blocks.

Your first enterprise customer is like winning the lottery – it's okay to play, but don't bet everything on winning. Expect to lose, and set yourself up for a big payoff if you end up making it work. Plan to learn from your mistakes either way.

He also indicated that it's not even $3, people who pay for Apollo Premium/Ultra tend to use the app more, and their usage would be in the $5-$10 range. So basically he'd be losing a bunch of users who brought the average down, refunding those in the middle, and his entire business would be catering to the most expensive users. $15 would be more of a breakeven, and at that point, what the point of running a tiny app for free?

Facebook spends $500m annual on moderation. That's a top-down estimate of moderation costs for a large website.

You can try to do a bottom-up estimate, but how much do you think it costs to moderate the (8th?) largest domain on earth? More or less than that? More or less than what Reddit's current operating income is?

Ironically, Reddit doesn't have any interesting technology or a novel product design; it fails to compete as an ad-tech platform. They are just a community. Its value is the goodwill of the Reddit members, and that's it. Their revenue is Reddit awards and premium memberships.

Acting against the interests of their own users will make the platform less valuable in the long-term if moderators and users lose trust in the platform.