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hazelnut··on Tell HN: AWS Is Down
downdetector says something different: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

sad that you can rely on their health dashboard. doesn't add any value unfortunately.

hazelnut··on Emoji Kitchen
Pig + Monkey https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%B7+%F0%9F%90%B5=rt
hazelnut··on Emoji Kitchen
OMG, that's amazing!
hazelnut··on Facebook loses users for the first time
Sorry but Instagram is full of ads. So full that it bothers me and avoid looking at stories.

WhatsApp is not monetized yet. Though, I believe it can be easily exchanged with a different service (e.g Signal, Telegram, …) if they start throwing ads at the users.

hazelnut··on Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
Google/FB strategy to keep their employees quite is to throw money at them. It works for the majority.
hazelnut··on Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
"He signs agreements all the time, but doesn't know what's in them, and so he's not really responsible in any way for this."

That’s exactly the point why he needs to sign to get his written approval. Defending him that we didn’t tell him everything would be pretty concerning.

hazelnut··on YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute
Sling keeps the recordings even if you don’t have the channel anymore.

Though, quality of recordings is lower and we had some random losses over time.

hazelnut··on Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
He’s getting paid by the competitor. His comments are amusing but take it with a grain of salt. His opinion is paid.
hazelnut··on RSS is wonderful
Social media sites offer a simple way to share links with their circle which drives back more traffic than just one user consuming the content through RSS.

Driving more traffic means more money. It’s a self-made problem by the content creators.

hazelnut··on Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues
Seems like it's becoming an issue on a weekly basis. Stability is essential - if that is not prioritized it's going downhill in the long term.
hazelnut··on I made a simple geolocation service
I would assume the majority (99.9%) of the requests is actually API calls without delivering CSS.
hazelnut··on How I Make Yogurt (2019)
What Yoghurt do you use in Step 1?
hazelnut··on eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
They actually do KYC (but criminals can also fake it)
hazelnut··on I Am Switching to JavaScript
Great article!

What date is it again?

hazelnut··on Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
> various legal reasons

Care to elaborate on this or share a link?

hazelnut··on Personal information and ads on Twitter
Agree, I think that's the only good thing here.
hazelnut··on Personal information and ads on Twitter
Pretty sure there was a product manager who drove the project. This person needs to understand where the data is coming from and where it flows to. This person is also responsible for checking with legal to see that everything is in line.

Besides that, there're cycles of product reviews with directors and VP's.

hazelnut··on Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
Do you have multiple clients at the same time?

How many weeks do you have no client work? I guess you use it for networking/marketing, right?

hazelnut··on Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
“e-commerce” does not directly come to my mind when I hear WP. Different story with Salesforce.

So the question is - how does it fit together?

hazelnut··on Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
totally agree. and that guy is 17!
hazelnut··on Pinterest S-1
So many businesses failed before which relied on SEO. This one could go really bad if Google pulls the plug.
hazelnut··on Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0
second that
hazelnut··on Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
I was thinking the same thing but missing Apple
hazelnut··on Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
I see, thanks for the explanation
hazelnut··on Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
Meaning they’re installing PHP on all routers to support Nextcloud? Not the expert here but that doesn’t sound too secure to me.
hazelnut··on Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
they still have to support older clients. so it is not that easy to just change the protocol.
hazelnut··on EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Processor Adyen
Yes, that’s one of the reasons. With PayPal you also pay for the brand
hazelnut··on Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos
And they said the internet will be safer without Flash
hazelnut··on React 16
How does it compare to Marko? https://github.com/marko-js/marko
hazelnut··on Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking
The story telling and gifs are really outstanding. Congrats to Bloomberg. What's not so nice is ... it's completely not accessible. If you achieve that - hats off
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