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Re:Bunny Database on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:11AM (#46871937)
Pricing Details:

  While in public preview, Bunny Database is free.

  When idle, Bunny Database only incurs storage costs. One primary region is charged continuously, while read replicas only add storage costs when serving traffic (metered by the hour).

  Reads - $0.30 per billion rows
  Writes - $0.30 per million rows
  Storage - $0.10 per GB per active region (monthly)
Re:Living Wage Calculator on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:29PM (#37067946)
Childcare would be the biggest difference here. I assume the other parent is taking care of the kids which reduces wages needed to cover that expense.
Re:Devtools for Mobile Browsers on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:39AM (#36481188)
I was able to get this working on mobile Safari (iOS 16.5) and it worked just fine.
Re:GitHub's User Content certificate has expired on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:06PM (#35295506)
It looks as though it's back for me now. Status page is now showing the problem: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Re:Cyberattacks Reported at US Airports on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:17PM (#33153242)
https://www.flychicago.com still appears to be down
Re:James Webb Space Telescope White House Briefing on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:26PM (#32062864)
Hard to see details of the image on the stream. You can see the image here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ma...
Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:31AM (#31505080)
Not exactly what you’re looking for but comes pretty close if you’re not familiar: http://www.loversinadangerousspacetime.com/

That being said I would love a more grown-up version of this with more than two players.

Re:AirPods don't “just work” on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:30PM (#30091323)
I just got Airpods for Christmas and I love them. Most of these annoyances revolve around the fact that you're using two devices at the same time. I do the same on a regular basis and run into some of these all the time. One that is not on this list:

Sometimes when I switch from my Mac to my iPhone, Spatialized Stereo does not kick in until I toggle the setting on my iPhone from off to on.

Re:New Colorways for Firefox 94 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @03:21PM (#29099120)
Their release notes (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/94.0/releasenotes/) mention this is available for a limited time only.

This articles also states:

> These Colorways are here for the next two product releases (they won’t go away if you’ve selected it). This is a limited-time release which is intended to embrace the “now moment.”

Unclear to me what this means exactly. Will they remove the feature entirely or just plan to change up the colorways available?

Re:Starship is still not understood on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:02AM (#29026916)
I have to agree with you here. Given NASA's position it has to wait and see how successful Starship will be. NASA cannot afford to lose ground financially, politically, or publicly if they bet on Starship only for there to be issues with it down the line. They're not the owners of this tech which gives them time and flexibility to wait for the right moment to capitalize on it.

I can only assume they are internally very excited at the prospect of what Starship can be to them in the future but that can't be fully expressed if something out of their control has not been fully proven. They will jump on this as soon as the risk is outweighed by the benefit which, as the author argues, is in the process of happening.

Check out pushover https://pushover.net. Slack API is also an option.

Both support simple http APIs to trigger push notifications to iOS as well as other platforms. Both options worked great for me when I needed them.

Re:Get better at Googling on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:58PM (#26916712)
While not nearly as discoverable or convenient there is some google UI built around a few of these.

1. Click the "Tools" link just under the search button and you get options for restricting your search to a specific time range and making it an exact match.

2. If a term isn't included in a result sometimes Google will show "Missing: <search term> ‎| Must include: <search term>" just under the entry

Re:GitHub Having Issues Again on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:23AM (#23846517)
Seeing delays here as well. Commits are showing up well after I've pushed them (10-15 min)
Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:39PM (#23558889)
The Chernobyl explosion was a steam explosion caused by superheated cooling water.

You may be thinking of Fukushima which was mainly due to the build up of hydrogen gas.

Re:Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @01:03PM (#8454407)
This article does a great job hitting on a lot of the pain points for developers in the MAS. While not all of these are experienced by every developer all of them hold some weight.

I've had a real tough time dealing with sandboxing especially. In my app HD Cleaner (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hd-cleaner/id836769549?mt=12), users need to "open" their user folder in order for the application to get the proper access to files. Unfortunately this is a large hurdle for some users because they have no idea WHY they have to choose their user folder. This has lead to confusion as well as some bad reviews. The app could be a lot more efficient and convenient if these rules weren't in place. Despite this I think it's great Apple is taking security seriously. I just wish there was a better way.

Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:54AM (#8108526)
I make an average of $70/day on my app in the Mac App Store called HD Cleaner. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hd-cleaner/id836769549?mt=12. I wish I had more time to invest in making more apps like this one. I've been really surprised by how well the app has done with little to no marketing.