How hard was acquiring the domain twenty.com?
Readit Newsyahelc commented on Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date? · Posted by u/debanjan16
I know Meta pays a lot, but did you ever consider an alternate path where you didn't take that job and instead grew the service out further? $23k/month is good money.
I thought about it, but I hadn't originally built it to make money. It was a weekend hack project that I never expected to do that well, and suddenly the prospect of centering my life around a product I didn't really feel passionate about felt like a nightmare. I had a lot of anxiety about whether my external dependencies I'd built on top of would continue to work, and reached the point where a large payoff was worth it to de-risk myself from $23k/mo becoming $0/mo with no exit.
yahelc commented on Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date? · Posted by u/debanjan16
I built a social media analytics API. At its peak, it brought in about $23k/mo, with server costs at about $3k/mo. When I got a job at Instagram, they decided it was a conflict of interest and told me to sell it, which I did for a very healthy six figure sum.
It's also an example of the dharma of /newest – the rising and falling away of stories that get no attention:
HPE releases urgent fix to stop enterprise SSDs conking out at 40K hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706968 - March 2020 (0 comments)
HPE SSD flaw will brick hardware after 40k hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22697758 - March 2020 (0 comments)
Some HP Enterprise SSD will brick after 40000 hours without update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22697001 - March 2020 (1 comment)
HPE Warns of New Firmware Flaw That Bricks SSDs After 40k Hours of Use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692611 - March 2020 (0 comments)
HPE Warns of New Bug That Kills SSD Drives After 40k Hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680420 - March 2020 (0 comments)
(there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035934, but that was submitted today)
Easy to imagine why this didn’t capture peoples’ attention in late March 2020…
yahelc commented on Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS infoq.com/news/2020/07/do... · Posted by u/msolujic
This unnecessary condescension is made all the funnier by the fact that the quote the expression alludes to wasn't actually written by Mark Twain, but in all likelihood by a French writer named Nicolas Chamfort.
yahelc commented on The unattributable “db8151dd” data breach troyhunt.com/the-unattrib... · Posted by u/iDemonix
Firefox Monitor includes the db8151dd data: https://monitor.firefox.com/?breach=db8151dd
Probably because they include HIBP data https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...
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Here is another take on the bill...
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/452194-fa...
The author, Virgil Goode, is best remembered for this incident. It may help in understanding his motivations in opposing high-skilled immigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_...
What would the fix for this be? Enabling CORS only for `https://garage.vn.teslamotors.com`?
In addition to properly escaping inputs, Content Security Policy Headers to restrict the hosts that the browser executes JavaScript from (e.g., script-src). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
If the redirects were server side (setting the Location header), a blank referrer remains blank. Client side redirects will set the referral value.
From Twitter’s POV, there’s value in more fully conveying how much traffic they send to sites, even if it minorly inconveniences users.