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doton Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

Wow, I've been looking for something like this. Can I bring my own esim?

doton Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory

More info here (there’s a great gif of it in action if you scroll down):

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/productivity/your-digital-...

doton Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?

zfilter, it was basically reddit of the early 2000s:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020802140849/http://www.zfilte...

Also, Metafilter and Fark. Both still exist to my surprise.

doton Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

I'm working on a data-centric site that tracks COVID-19 cases across the world. You won't find any ads, loading screens or slow maps and it's easy to navigate on mobile: https://coronanumbers.com

Next step is adding more data (testing rate, state/county specific numbers, etc.)

doton Yahoo to Reconsider Sale of Web Business Instead of Spinoff

Off topic but that leaning exlamation point made me feel a huge boost of nostalgia. Probably for the mid to late nineties when Yahoo was pretty awesome.

doton Write like you talk

I feel like us Swiss german people have a leg up here. We grow up writing anything personal in our dialect (a language that doesn't officially exist in written form), so we're used to writing like we talk. I wonder if it has an effect on our more formal, business-related writing.

doton System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance

How does a system know wether a font is sans-serif or not?

doton Amazon Sues Fake Reviewers on Fiverr

These people profited from damaging one of amazon's biggest competitive advantages. Amazon is going to go throw the book at them and rightly so.

doton Apple: Magic Accessories

yay, finally rechargeable!

i'm actually excited about the new trackpad. i have some kind of a weird sensation whenever i use a silver trackpad, a sort of tingle in my fingers. this doesn't happen on the magic mouse's white surface... anybody know what i'm talking about? my friends think i'm crazy.

doton The Law That Makes U.S. Expats Toxic

"Unfortunately, no single member of Congress represents these American constituents who together would rank, if a state, 12th in population size after New Jersey and before Virginia. By virtue of living abroad, they are second-class citizens, paying onerous tax burdens without representation."

Compare this to Switzerland that considers its citizens living abroad part of the "fifth Switzerland" (there are 4 official language regions in Switzerland). They can vote online (in some Kantons/States) and participate in government programs to keep in touch with or learn about their roots. All without taxation.

Of course, people here complain about citizens living abroad voting in local elections... Representation without taxation!

doton Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet

Can't wait for Gipfeli

doton A $14 “ergo” keyboard from surplus parts

$100 says we'll see this on Kickstarter within the month.

doton Show HN: Leonardo – playing cards based on da Vinci's work

I've been helping a friend get the word out about his little playing card project on Kickstarter. I found it a really interesting idea to turn work of da Vinci's in to something completely different...

doton Expedia Buys Orbitz for $1.6B in Cash

that is how kayak and tripadvisor make most of their money too. Ever notice how photo galleries for hotels on tripadvisor open new windows? they're making sure you have their cookie when you book it on hotels.com, expedia, booking.com, etc later.

doton Show HN: I made a deck of GLITCH playing cards

clickable link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/457846685/glitch-playin...

doton Ask HN: Is there a reddit equivalent to "Show HN"?

http://reddit.com/r/startups

doton Thoreau 2.0

if you're inspired by Thoreau, I recommend you check out Dick Proenneke's little film "Alone in the Wilderness".

First 10 minutes here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

doton Distributed Everything

> a suburb west of San Francisco

Hawaii? :)

doton Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign

The iPhone app is now live: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/our-malibu-beaches/id5656361...

doton Union Square gets 5,000% return on Tumblr

> Tumblr's employees will also do well. The company's first 10 employees will receive an average of $6.2 million in cash; the first 30 will receive an average of $3.3 million in cash, and the rest of the 178 employees will each receive $371,000.

Is it usual to announce these numbers for all employees with acquisitions like this?

doton Flickr, I'm disappointed. The truth about the free terabyte.

That's an old, cached message. There is no 300mb limit anymore.

doton Have coffee with Tim Cook – a charity auction

I think that just means that he had an automatic bid that was higher than someone else's.

doton Stripe partners with Parse to ease accepting payments in mobile apps

This is fantastic.

I hope Apple eventually adds an icon to the status bar that signifies a secure connection. I'm always a little nervous putting my cc number in to an app.

doton TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary

Equating piracy laws with state run human rights abuse is a bit of a stretch.

doton Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff

But you also charge more for the new stuff...

Craigslist is still the best way to sell popular items. You get cash right away, there are zero fees and you don't have to deal with packaging and shipping. Hard to compete with.

doton Kevin Mitnick

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Freekevin.jpg

Nostalgia.

doton NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn...

Thanks for posting the article. Really helped!

If you're still having trouble wrapping your mind around the shadowy part... Look at this image and imagine the light source coming from behind instead:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Saturn_HS...

doton SodaStream Economics

Some places sell the whole kit:

http://stores.kegconnection.com/Detail.bok?no=246

doton How to Choose Health Insurance – Startup Edition

These premiums actually look pretty good. I was under the impression that non-employer based plans were much more expensive... Is there a catch? Do they have to cover pre-existing conditions in CA already? Are there coverage caps? Thanks for putting together the article, very helpful!

doton iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon

well, we're talking about two different teams in a very big company...