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Show HN: One hundred human-translated and spoken Irish ↔ English sentence pairs

https://www.speak.irish/

A few months ago I started learning Irish on Duolingo.Wanting to supplement my education there, and finding very few resources available online, I sought the help of some native Irish speakers to provide translations and voice recordings.I've now put together a very basic website with the resources created so far (with permission from the voice recorders!) to share with other learners for...

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Ask HN: How do you pay your affiliate marketers?

Curious as someone who is about to start their own affiliate programme (using custom built code).> What kind of KYC information do you get from people?> What payment/money transfer service do you use?> How long do you wait between taking a sale and paying the affiliate?Finally, what are some points/problems to be aware of?

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Thanks and good point! (it's not happening, but I can understand the concern). I'll think about open sourcing the code for people to self-host.

Show HN: Proxy.exposed – a simple tool for checking how anonymous a proxy is

https://proxy.exposed/

Free proxies are generally terrible, but occasionally good.It is still possible to find a fast, reliable, and perfectly located server for $0.A problem often faced, however, is that these (otherwise good) servers leak your IP address or other identifying information to the sites you access.Many free proxy lists even give misleading information regarding the anonymity levels of their servers.So...

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Re:Show HN: A self-updating list of the most current useragents on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:17PM (#34033302)
I filter out any user agents that are invalid, but there's no way to see which are real or faked. The access logs include the useragent of every single site visitor - not only errors/bad actors.
Re:Show HN: A self-updating list of the most current useragents on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:12PM (#34033267)
Hm! It could just be a parsing error. The useragent in question is like this: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/108.0.1462.41
Re:Show HN: A self-updating list of the most current useragents on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:07PM (#34033227)
Coming soon! I separate them out for now as most scraping tasks require either desktop or mobile useragents and not both together
Re:Show HN: A self-updating list of the most current useragents on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:24PM (#34032920)
Good point, thanks. I'll add that in
Re:Show HN: A self-updating list of the most current useragents on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:16PM (#34032852)
Yes, this too. It should just be a -passable- sample of what's popular and seen on the web
Re:Show HN: A self-updating list of the most current useragents on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:14PM (#34032835)
Thanks! And yep, fair comment, and I had noticed this as well even more so in last week's list. I have been thinking about how I could adjust the numbers in some way to counteract this or add another data source.

Show HN: A self-updating list of the most current useragents

https://www.useragents.me

Hi Hacker News!I made a site which displays the most common useragents found on the web.The site updates weekly with data sourced from the server access logs of another site I run in order to give an accurate picture of the devices and browsers being used on the web.I do a lot of web scraping in my work and it's this group of people who I had in mind when creating the site.The data is presented...

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