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Re:What Is a Harness? on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:14AM (#49409482)
Pi's most popular extensions, by download count:

https://pi.dev/packages?type=extension

Re:Does Postgres Scale? on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:25PM (#47970696)
I like this strategy a lot, but the performance of read queries suffer if they span partitions, correct?

The issue I'm facing is a very large table, that is both write and read heavy, and the reads do not fall into a specific range of values for any particular column, so I don't think partitioning is an option.

Re:Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:18PM (#47616464)
In Bitcoin's case, public keys are only revealed during a transaction.

And every transaction completely spends the source keypairs' funds.

So the only attack vector a quantum computer could use is:

1. Observing newly broadcast/unconfirmed transactions

2. Deriving the private key(s) from the public key(s)

3. Creating and broadcasting its own transaction using the stolen keypairs before the original transaction confirms (presumably with a higher fee to win the confirmation race).

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: correction: every transaction completely spends any selected UTXO of an associated keypair, not all of the "source keypairs' funds". Thus the attack vector also includes being able to steal from any keypair that has ever made a transaction and also has UTXOs.

Re:Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:15PM (#47185717)
> I maintain Express.js and Lodash

Thank you!

> In 2025 I made $10 from open source

Slightly off-topic, but I wish more OSS projects and maintainers would advertise cryptocurrency donation addresses. It's probably the easiest way for end users to donate.

Is this the same collision theorized to have created the moon?
Re:How I Block All 26M of Your Curl Requests on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:21PM (#45466048)
I run independent websites and I'm not broke yet.
Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:30AM (#45450120)
The pg_ivm plugin adds incremental updates to Postgresql materialized views:

https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm

Though I don't know how well it works on a write-heavy production db.

Show HN: Monitor Aftermarket Domain Listings

https://domdb.com/tools/domain-watch

Domain Watch emails you when a domain name is listed for sale on an aftermarket or its price drops.It's like camelcamelcamel.com for domain names.Currently supports the following "Buy It Now" aftermarkets: Afternic, Sedo, Spaceship SellerHub, Atom, Namecheap Market, Porkbun Marketplace, Gname.You can watch up to 3 domains for 60 days with the free plan.Support for auctions is coming soon.Why I...

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Re:Show HN: I built a Bitcoin DCA bot – here's why on Sunday September 14, 2025 @10:31AM (#45240005)
Pretty neat.

How would the multiplier DCA act during a multi-month "crypto winter"?

> never understood why we don't have decentralized/globally neutral payments/transactions systems

BTCPay Server[0] seems to be the most popular way to accept crypto payments on self-hosted hardware with no third party processors.

[0] https://btcpayserver.org/

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:26PM (#44430011)
Is this essentially the same data CZDS [0] offers + ccTLDs zonefiles?

[0] https://czds.icann.org/home

EDIT: is your site a clone or resell of zonefiles.io? Even the favicon is the same

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @09:52AM (#43821542)
https://domdb.com - aftermarket domain name aggregator and search engine.

It has integrated BIN inventories from Afternic, Sedo, Namecheap, Porkbun, and Gname.

Currently working on custom price alerts and an API.

I'm honestly ignorant - what political statement is it making?

It seems that liberals dislike Teslas because they dislike Elon Musk.

And conservatives dislike Teslas because they dislike new and different things.

Source?
Re:Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @10:29AM (#41057471)
A solution I've used is to limit the number of table rows displayed to fit vertically within the browser viewport. This way the horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the table is always visible without having to scroll vertically.

This does require:

0. Pagination.

1. Each table row must have the same height.

2. Use of javascript to calculate the max number of rows that will fit vertically in the viewport (and don't forget to include the height of the table header and pagination buttons in the calculation).

3. Send ajax request with row limit to server to retrieve and render the data.

You can see an example here: https://wee.domains

The catch is that you must use Cloudflare's nameservers [0]:

  6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/

Show HN: Compare 259 paid proxy plans across 19 data points

https://proxycompare.com/

This project aims to aggregate data about available paid proxy plans to assist with comparing pricing and features. Nearly all of the displayed data is obtained automatically from the proxy providers (it scrapes the scrapers' websites/APIs every few hours).Eventually I would like to automate testing the proxies of each provider for things like IP reputation, blocks, speed, and uptime to see if...

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Re:Porkbun Registrar DNS outage on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @05:54AM (#32734969)
I was able to solve DNS issues with my domains at Porkbun by:

  1. Log in to Porkbun account, go to "Domain Management".
  2. Click "DNS" link under affected domain.
  3. Click the "Yes, please update my domain" button in the red box at the top, screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/Yfjlqit.png
Re:Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:49PM (#23620787)
Just a heads up - I tried this random query:

  select * from trips where pickup_latitude < -74 order by pickup_longitude desc limit 10;
Didn't get a result set. The little box in the upper right hand corner stated "Maximum number of pages (16) breached in MemoryPages"
Re:One-Word Domains on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:58AM (#23299601)
That filter hasn't been implemented yet, it's on the TODO list [0].

The best I can currently offer is the "Label is Word" column that identifies in which languages the label is considered a word or letter.

[0] https://github.com/timbowhite/wee.domains-tracker/issues/21

Re:One-Word Domains on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:50AM (#23299558)
Cheers!
Re:One-Word Domains on Sunday May 24, 2020 @07:36PM (#23295944)
You might take a look at wee.domains [0] - it's a big table of short available domains from the most popular TLDs. It has pricing from a variety of registrars too.

[0] https://wee.domains

Disclaimer: i made it.

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:52PM (#20689565)
No I don't think so. Thanks for pointing that out.

IIRC, I eventually removed nosnippet because it caused google to not display microdata in SERP (see the "$25.99 to $99.80" in the above screenshot) that were desirable for my traffic. I instead replaced nosnippet with:

``` <meta name="robots" content="noarchive"> ```

And this seemed to have the same effect as nosnippet, but with the added benefit of my microdata still being displayed in SERP.

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:59PM (#20689100)
I deliberately opted out of snippets for TLD List [0], a price comparison site I made for domain names.

I don't know if it's made any difference. Organic search traffic from them has slowly but steadily increased over the years.

Google now sometimes displays a snippet from my competitor's website for searches like "cheapest .io domain" [1]. The snippet seems pretty useless as it doesn't include any registrars' names/links (and my competitor's price info is quite outdated).

In these cases, since the snippet is the 1st thing users see in SERP, and doesn't provide enough info to fully answer the question, I'd wager that my competitor is ultimately receiving the majority of clicks from these snippets.

[0] https://tld-list.com

[1] https://i.imgur.com/aFoZbFw.png

Nice, looks polished. I remember it from 2017.

I still want to drop Disqus. But I'd need to get all of my exported comments from Disqus into Commento. Is this possible?

Re:Show HN: Cointabb on Saturday April 14, 2018 @06:52AM (#16836788)
Sorry to hijack - I launched a similar site last week. It has a few more data points:

https://cryptoli.st/

I like your site's "favorites" functionality. Maybe make the favorited coins persistent via a unique URL or user login?

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