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Re:GCP Outage on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:18PM (#44260951)
having issues with cloudflare as well
Re: on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:18PM (#44260937)
Re:The type system is a programmer's best friend on Saturday November 05, 2022 @04:53PM (#33485590)
I bought a domain that forwards *@example.com to my personal email address. Easy to set up on google domains.

This ensures everything before the @ is opaque, i.e. [email protected] is now [email protected]

Services that block my domain are usually the ones that also block [email protected]

Re:Tape Deck on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:39PM (#33242694)
Awesome, I'd love this for VHS covers too
Re:Take Advantage of Git Rebase on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:42PM (#33116021)
Love rebasing, love merging, squash or no squash, it all depends on what I'm trying to communicate with my pushes.

Just discovered the --rebase-merges option, worth exploring if you want to edit a commit under a merge commit, but don't want to mess up the merge commits.

Re:Ask HN: Where are all the cool architecture diagrams? on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:49PM (#30681197)
I am on the hunt as well. This seems useful, not the prettiest but not the worst:

https://diagrams.mingrammer.com

Re:Exa: An alternative to Ls on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:17AM (#29022966)
it's all about the flags, e.g. readlink -f
Re: on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:16AM (#28743617)
Google Meet was a big problem for me until I cleaned out the dust.
Re: on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:39PM (#28734088)
These things usually fix performance issues for me:

- Open your macbook and clean out the dust. I do it yearly. It always helps.

- Keep macOS and apps (e.g. browser) up-to-date. coreaudiod high cpu was fixed for me in 11.6.

- Review login items, delete what you don't need.

- Reboot, with the occasional nvram, pram reset

- Review activity monitor, find apps that have background processes and delete the ones you don't need.

- Review installed applications, especially ones w/ kernel extensions (e.g. hamachi, vbox). Delete if you don't need them. Easy to re-install.

- Kill docker desktop when not using docker.

- Fine tune spotlight settings.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications? on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:16AM (#24676678)

  fzf
  nmap
  socat
  stow
Re:Ask HN: What are you using as an issue tracker in 2019? on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:21AM (#21245452)
airtable
I need this in my life. Great idea!
Re:WebGL Fluid Simulation on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:02AM (#19967493)
If you guys like this, you'll like Verve (fluid dynamics painting tool):

https://www.taron.de/verve/verve_download.html

Re:PipelineDB (YC W14) is Joining Confluent on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @01:52PM (#19799769)
Congrats guys!
Very cool project, thanks for making this!
Congrats dude!
Same here. I think it's because most of the time, I have to get up early to catch a flight and I don't get enough sleep.
Re:Ending Bitcoin Support on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:36PM (#16216781)
If you want to use it on your website:

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning-charge

Re:Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:17PM (#16163794)
They'd be mining an altcoin because those blocks would be rejected by the network.
Re:Building for the Blockchain on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @01:02PM (#16108190)
Bitcoin whitepaper url is broken.
Re:Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf] on Saturday December 09, 2017 @03:11AM (#15884839)
Fees are in sat/wu not $.
Re:Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be on Friday December 08, 2017 @06:39PM (#15883072)
Recent updates with video demos (looks great):

https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0...

Re:Square announces pilot program to accept Bitcoin on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:24PM (#15707968)
From the info I've seen, it looks like the app doesn't allow you to transfer btc right now. You can use it to buy, sell or hodl btc only.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017) on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @07:13PM (#15606360)
42technologies.com | Onsite | San Francisco | Engineer - Full Stack / Data | $80k - $120k + equity

We're a YC company building the data layer for retail. We're currently solving the problem of reporting, where retailers are crippled by old systems and bad data models. We give them a reporting dashboard that gives them any metric, over any timerange and dimension, instantly. So, instead of spending a bunch of time making reports, they can just focus on the analysis. Store managers to CEOs at large international retail brands are using our software every day to make real-time decisions based on facts and data. Adoption of our software is growing rapidly, so we're looking to expand our engineering team.

Our team is small, tight-knit and efficient. We're passionate about helping our customers, and building most loved tool in retail. As an engineer at 42, you can expect to work on many areas of the stack, and you'll have a high degree of autonomy. You'll also own your projects and talk directly to customers, blowing their minds with the stuff you'll release. You don't need to have retail experience but you should have 3+ years of professional engineering experience, and be very familiar with Python and/or Javascript, and SQL.

If you're interested, send your resume/portfolio/github/etc to [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Why do checkout pages still explain CVV numbers? on Monday October 30, 2017 @01:31AM (#15583265)
I wonder why they called it CVV and not something more obvious like SECRET (i.e. something self-explanatory).

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