The Floppotron 3.0 4 years ago
But why?
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Where can I clone the youtube-dl repo, err.. for educational purposes?
FWD:Everyone 8 years ago
So basically have Twitter expand its character limit and ask everyone to replace their emails with Twitter? How cool is that? :)
SMS over IRC 8 years ago
I'd replace the whole thing with Slack :)
Why does "his.app" cost $499.99 for pre-registration, but "her.app" only costs $249.99? :)
Is this some built-in gender bias?
"Yup, that's why I was late to work this morning." :)
Would Calexit be a good thing? 9 years ago
He who controls the nukes, controls California's destiny.
Who is firing? (February 2017) 9 years ago
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016? 10 years ago
Sold a condo in California and bought two investment properties in Texas.
Massive Dyn DNS outage 10 years ago
Amazon DNS must be getting loads of new customers today :)
Elon Musk Wants to Put a Million People on Mars 10 years ago
And while traveling Mars seems like an exciting engineering challenge, I can't imagine why would people want to leave the comfort of Earth to go to the red planet?
Going to Mars isn't like discovering America...
The nice thing about shell scripts is that it's ubiquitous and have very little external dependency. Having a shell script depend on node.js seems a bit counter-intuitive?
LinkedIn password leak 10 years ago
And LinkedIn is now asking me to enter my phone number:
"Add an extra layer of security to your account. Add your phone number."
Leaking my email / password is bad enough; I'm not going to give them my phone number for more damages!
But ... Why? What's the point?
Steam hit by major security breach 11 years ago
Did Steam just go down? Maybe from the load that Hacker News is generating?
https://isitup.org/store.steampowered.com
store.steampowered.com seems to be down!
TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance [video] 11 years ago
Very impressive how John Rauser tied all the relevant RFCs together to make his point on why to increase the initial congestion window. I specially liked his appeal to humility towards the end of the talk.
[dead] 11 years ago
Works for me...
The Umano team has joined Dropbox 11 years ago
Bummer that they'll be shutting down a pretty useful service...
"Umano will continue running for the next 30 days until June 12, 2015. All annual Premium subscribers have those 30 days to request a refund for the remainder of their subscriptions here."