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Which one did you use? I am also interested to do that.
I am a self-taught web developer and between all the available technology stacks out there I still love LAMP. Linux, Apache, Mysql + PHP is like the Walmart of web technology. It isn't shiny or cool but does the job and you can create products people pay for.

PayPal and buymeacoffee help to fund Russian nullpro.ru selling pirated content

Paypal and buymeacoffee.com are happily doing business with a russian platform called https://www.nullpro.ru which sells pirated themes, design resources and source codes.The link to their buymeacoffee page is even implemented in the main menu: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nulledThe Paypal checkout is a bit hidden and only visible to signed in users who can buy points to download pirated...

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Ask HN: How to cope over missed Opportunities?

It is the summer of 2014 and after having heard about Bitcoin the year before I stumble upon the active ICO of a new coin called "Ethereum".I just finished high school and managed to save $10k, I am thinking "Hell, what if I invest $5k and hold for 5 years like one of those VCs who invest in companies?".I slept over the decision and the next day it seemed foolish so I dismissed the thought.Fast...

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Re:30 days ago I was an Apple employee on Saturday October 09, 2021 @02:34PM (#28812107)
The very first "scandal" she uncovered at Apple was her getting feedback on a presentation from another employee. She called it sexism and publicly shared private messages which basically proofed it was just that, professional feedback.

It looks a lot like this is a mental health issue rather than actual wrongdoings at Apple. What she is doing now might really harm her ability to ever get hired again by a company in SV.

Re:Rivian S-1 on Friday October 01, 2021 @06:49PM (#28724233)
I invested this week in $GGPI/Polestar, they are a swedish EV company that already delivered 20k cars. Valuation is $20b or 1/4th of Rivian: https://www.datocms-assets.com/11286/1632735805-210927-poles...
Re:U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:27AM (#28222534)
Reading the comments here makes me think nobody even bothered to read the article.

Right in the first half they mentioned that there was a physical representation of the illness in the brain tissue when they did a MRI scan.

This is NOT a shared paranoia, because you can't see them on a brain scan. This seems like a very real and frightening disease.

Imagine how many awesome businesses we could have, if not all of the computer.com insurance.com etc would be squatted.
100%, sadly this is exactly how it played out.
Thats sadly wrong, Chinas solar industry was heavily subsidized by the state to purposely crash the market prices of panels and ruin the solar industry of western countries. Once they succeeded they raised prices again to make profit.

Ask HN: How would you build a shopify or Airbnb today?

My question only targets the technical aspect, how would you build a MVP for a complex project like shopify or Airbnb today?Here you can see what they used 10 years ago: https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/e-commerce-at-scale-inside-shopifys-tech-stackhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/02/20/what-technology-stack-does-airbnb-use/#39ee8ca04025And keep in mind, the goal is to...

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Ask HN: Why is there no dashboard app for iOS?

Why is there no simple dashboard app for ios that takes my json/google sheets/stripe data and displays it in a nice and simple way allowing me to create widgets like subscriber count, MRR, hours tracked etc. with a nice graph and UI. I would easily pay $10 once or $4 per month for it if it looks nice and my data gets automatically updated each time I open the app.I know Numerics exists, which...

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TBH thats bollocks as well as the frequent platitude that 'Its already priced in..' or that the professional investors are so sophisticated that normal people don‘t have a chance so why bother

Ask HN: Is option trading as bad as gambling?

I guess many people here would have expected the Boeing stock to drop in value after the news emerged that a second one of their brand new plane models fell out of the sky.Would it have been an irresponsible financial decision to buy Put options on the day of the second crash with an expiry of 3 months hoping that at some point in the next 3 months the stock would drop a little to sell with a...

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Re:Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why? on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:01AM (#22403640)
https://transfershops.com a marketplace for ecommerce businesses and shops, I am currently trying to sell it. The problem is that with two sided marketplaces you have a chicken and egg problem. Without buyers nobody will take the time to create a sale listing and vice versa.

Ask HN: What are you using for quick mathematical modelling?

There exists an app which I use for mathematical modeling: http://tydligapp.comIt allows you to simply drag and drop dependent variables in multiple formulas to quickly translate real world problems into actual numbers. For example: If I buy amount x of y I can create z which can be sold for $a each. How much do I need to sell to make $b total?Is there anything like this for mac or linux?

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Ask HN: What would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2019 use in his dorm to build his site

I am your average self-taught web developer, I am using PHP and Mysql for the backend and HTML, CSS and Javascript for the frontend.How can I step up my technical skills? What would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2019 use in his dorm to build his social network? I guess the answer would be a lot different from the actual tech stack used in 2004.

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Re:Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:58AM (#19798355)
Most likely more would bankrupt the company and they would get $0.
That looks like an interesting side hustle, would you mind to elaborate a bit on it? How much does it make you in profit per month?
Re:Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away? on Saturday April 20, 2019 @04:55PM (#19708817)
How much are you looking for?
Yeah it is about a website that is about an API. To make it easier to read and comprehend I compressed the info in the title. Thanks for the clarification though!
There is a trivial way to just analyze the metadata of pictures and videos. If you take a picture and upload it, it has a lot of information that comes along with it vs. if you just download it from a random website and re-upload it. That would catch only the most obvious attempts, for more advanced filtering I would use machine learning.

You are correct that its a big task, but if one would take it step by step and start with pictures only I am pretty sure you could come up with a decent success rate.

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