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blog.pushover.net 4y ago

Pushover Turns 10

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awesomekling.github.io 5y ago

I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles

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www.theverge.com 14y ago

Apple's Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2 causing problems for some Macs

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paulrouget.com 14y ago

Boot2Gecko demo & quick hack

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www.eff.org 14y ago

Frequently Asked Questions About the Lieberman-Collins Cyber Security Act

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blog.plataformatec.com.br 14y ago

Active Record `attribute?` method

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littlebigdetails.com 14y ago

Google MapsGL shadows are relative to the current position of the sun

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www.chicagotribune.com 14y ago

FINRA's interest in Groupon: Investigation or standard practice?

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news.cnet.com 14y ago

Plaxo shuts back door spammers used to access Google accounts

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blog.steventroughtonsmith.com 14y ago

2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner

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undeadly.org 14y ago

OpenBSD 5.1 Released

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www.links.org 14y ago

Using Capsicum For Sandboxing

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arstechnica.com 14y ago

VMware confirms source code leak, LulzSec-affiliated hacker claims credit

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www.theverge.com 14y ago

This was the original 'Google Phone' presented in 2006

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ddos.arbornetworks.com 14y ago

DDoS Attacks on SSL: Something Old, Something New

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

IKEA announces UPPLEVA: an integrated smart TV and entertainment center

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bsdly.blogspot.com 14y ago

Why Not Use Port Knocking?

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jstenback.wordpress.com 14y ago

History of Mozilla’s DOM bindings

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www.theverge.com 14y ago

Telenav 'Scout for Apps' offers free, HTML5-based voice navigation to developers

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www.reddit.com 14y ago

Mozilla's Boot To Gecko Running on Nexus S

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www.eff.org 14y ago

EFF Raises Concerns About the New AOL Instant Messenger

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www.theverge.com 14y ago

Killed email device Peek resurrected with open source app framework

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www.theverge.com 14y ago

US easing restrictions on providing software to Iran to promote free information

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www.techworld.com.au 14y ago

Replicant developer interview: Building a truly free Android

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leaf.dragonflybsd.org 14y ago

Sometimes the bug isn't in your code, it's in the CPU

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blog.astithas.com 14y ago

Firefox nightlies now have a new JavaScript debugger

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mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com 14y ago

Continuations in C++ with fork

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www.shopify.com 14y ago

How to Design an Online Store Logo

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highscalability.com 14y ago

Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter

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.plan 5 years ago

The non-user-generated content is returned in Catalan if your browser's language is set to it.

You can encrypt notifications that go through Google's FCM and Apple's APNS push notification servers. This is how Pushover works - each notification is encrypted with a device-specific key, sent through the notification servers as an encrypted blob, then the app on the device is woken up and receives the blob, decrypts it, and posts it as a normal notification.

I'd love it if a moderator would post something when they change a title so it's clear what happened and who did it, but it would probably generate a lot of useless meta threads debating the change (and of course, it would actually reveal who the moderators are).

The new ASUS Zenbook Prime (UX21A 11"/UX31A 13") models that were announced last month have similar specs to the new MBA (Ivy Bridge, up to 256Gb SSD, etc.) but are both available with 1920x1080 IPS screens. I had the original UX21 and sold it because the keyboard was not so great, but from the reviews of the new models, they have improved the keyboard and trackpad.

I don't really have much experience in the way of sales and marketing, but my integration efforts so far have just been to setup Pushover applications with icons ahead of time and then e-mail admins with the API key and some explanation so they don't have to do much work. I did the Github integration and Adium plugin myself to increase visibility.

I went with $3.99 because Prowl is $2.99 and Notify My Android is $3.99. I'm not convinced that a yearly service is worth the overhead and I personally wouldn't pay to use a notification app that had a yearly fee.

The bandwidth and server overhead for running such a service are pretty low and iOS/Android push notifications are free, so I'm not really worried about monthly costs for normal users outweighing the revenue the app brings in. Right now Pushover is running on one of my servers that does other things, so it's not even really costing anything tangible. If costs start to go up, I can always increase the price of the apps to slow growth (or increase revenue if it doesn't slow growth).

Most are sending alerts to themselves. While I've integrated it into Github and my Fitbit notifier to try to pick up users that just want to receive alerts, most are using it to generate their own alerts from network monitors, BitTorrent clients, IRC clients, etc.

I pinged the ifttt.com guys to ask about integration but haven't heard back yet. I'd like to do more integration with services that currently do e-mail notifications like http://hnnotify.com (I've already contacted them) to pick up more end-users.

It's hard to work out accurate numbers because users can have such drastically different usage patterns. Some users have signed up with one device and have only received a few notifications, others have many devices registered and receive dozens of notifications daily from chat plugins.

The API is free, though applications are limited to a reasonable number of messages per month. That was put into place out of fear that a large company would use the app/service as a dirt-cheap platform to send large amounts of messages every day to its employees (like routing/dispatching directions, etc.) and burden the service. And rightly so, since shortly after launching, I got an e-mail from a large US company looking to use it in such a way (they ultimately decided not to use it). If such customers do come along, their API fees will cover them being on segmented servers.

I created a push notification service called Pushover (https://pushover.net/) and wrote its iOS and Android apps. I started the project in January and launched it in March (https://jcs.org/pushover).

In contrast to some competing free apps/services, the Pushover mobile apps are $3.99 which pays for the monthly hosting costs to keep the service running. Both apps are highly rated on both app stores and so far the app sales have paid for the domain name and other tangible development costs and are continuing to generate profit. I just purchased a Blackberry phone for development and plan to create a Blackberry app for the service.

I sometimes do that even for articles that aren't "Show HN". The oldest article on the newest page is currently 31 minutes, so if your submission doesn't get at least a few upvotes within 31 minutes, it will never be seen.

I've previously said that there should be some kind of algorithm for that page other than "here are the latest entries", such as "here are the randomized latest entries over the past few hours without enough upvotes to reach the front page, removing the entries that are on the front page, removing most-likely-spam entries that have at least one flag and were submitted by a new account, and (maybe) giving weight to submitters with higher account ages or karma scores."

The IPv6 Challenge 14 years ago

It requires that your baseband support IPv6 and that you have the T-Mobile APN in Android configured to IPv6-only (it will tunnel IPv4 over IPv6).

Back That Gmail Up 14 years ago

Shit happens, but with nearly every other provider, you can at least talk to someone to find out what happened and get your service restored, or at least get your data.

Back That Gmail Up 14 years ago

It's also the backdoor to nearly every online account you have, by way of 'reset password' links.