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Re:OpenBenches – A map of 28,616 memorial benches on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:41AM (#36774290)
Also https://virtusaga.com, my hobby project since 2019. Maybe could merge these two.

Sorry for hijacking :)

Ask HN: Domain Registration Event Stream

IIRC there was a post on HN a few years ago about the initiative of Google (?) and a few registrars to provide a real-time stream of new domain registration events.Substantially a websocket that you can subscribe to using an API key, and then watch for new registration events. That was part of some initiative to fight scam and botnets that register nonsensical domain names by thousands.Does...

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Show HN: DIY Hardware Password Keeper

RaspberryPi Zero-based hardware password storage, with AES encrypted storage and RFID FOB key to keep the secret key secured.Case is printed on Prusa MK2S 3D Printer, firmware is written in Go, also have customized Linux kernel build via buildroot.https://passkeeper.jdevelop.com/

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Show HN: AWS EMR usage/cost insights

I am looking to validate a tool I built for companies / individuals with large AWS implementations.My solution will identify the individual cost of each map-reduce job/run in the cloud without any legwork like tagging jobs or working backwards from an invoice. At this time I am looking for feedback, please check it out @ https://www.clustercost.com Once you see the data my product provides,...

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Foursquare checkin data export ⇒ KML file

A small weekend solo hackaton to export the list of my checkins from Foursquare into a KML file, and import into google maps. Extended to REST service.Website: https://foursquarexport.info/Sources: https://github.com/jdevelop/foursquare-kml

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Re:Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD? on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @06:29PM (#8994296)
I used to use FreeBSD 4.3 ⇒ 9.0 on desktops/laptops since 2002, and on 2012 I gave up and installed Arch Linux. Now I don't care much of broken ports or some inconsistencies in my local make.conf, "make buildworld" is a forgotten nightmare - if comparing with an update of linux kernel, which just works fine through pacman.

The most of pain I've got from USB support - literally I have been fighting with getting my built-in SD cardreader actually reading cards - not pretending to do so, for months. And nobody from USB-team even bothered to reply something other than "try to experiment with some quirks".

The final decision to move to Linux was lack of Java support - OpenJDK isn't that cool as Oracle's twin-mate.

Its not a hate-speeh or a flamewar ignition, it's just my IMHO - FreeBSD is not a comfortable to have it on a laptop, especially with some proprietary drivers involved.