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qnkon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

This is a great idea. As someone originally from Latin America, I would definitely use it. Too bad I'm not in London to apply. Best of luck!

qnkon Ask HN: What are you doing this weekend?

Enabled email bounces for non-existing accounts on newsletterss.com. Server costs are increasing each month at rate higher than new users.

Around noon, once it gets a bit warmer, I'll go with the family on a hike to see the fall foliage.

qnkon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

I've been working on Newsletterss, a newsletter reader for web, iOS and Android. I'm making about $2k/m with about 30% of that going to ads and infrastructure costs.

You can check it out at https://newsletterss.com

qnkon Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?

The Pragmatic Engineer is a very good blog/newsletter I've came across recently, highly recommended. https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/

qnkon Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?

I just came back from 2 months in Colombia with my wife and a 3 year old. You can definitely live off 1k USD in an intermediate city (not Bogota) with a very high living standards compared to the average colombian.

Medellin would be my recommendation, very safe, unbeatable weather, access to high speed internet, a trendy startup culture and decent level of English-speaking people, non-stop daily flights to major US cities and same time zone as the US.

qnkon TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)

Honest question, how is lobbying different from bribery? Lobbyists go to Washington, spend fortunes on taking lawmakers to fancy dinners and then get away with what they want. Maybe I don't understand the process and am oversimplifying it, but that's how I see it.

qnkon Ask HN: What are you working on?

I'm building https://newsletterss.com a newsletters reader that started as a tool that I wanted to build for my own and I felt like turning it into a side project.

qnkon Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

For me the most important aspect of this acquisition is that Automattic is a fully remote company. Tumblr's office space in New York City must be very expensive, I wonder if they're getting rid of it and transition everyone to remote.

qnkon First .dev Domains Go Live

Oh, interesting, yes this is "mauritius" in Spanish a not so common name. I didn't know this, thank you for pointing it out. I guess that list is recent as mauricio.com and mauricio.co belongs to regular people and are currently working.

Do you happen to have a link to said list? A quick googling returned nothing relevant for me.

qnkon First .dev Domains Go Live

Nah, it says "Unavailable" on Gandi. It seems that somebody paid full price, although it is not operative => mauricio.dev

qnkon First .dev Domains Go Live

Mine is not available either and I doubt someone paid $11,500 for an Italian name with the dev extension. How come? My guess is some providers are "reserving" them.

qnkon Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

This is my most disliked feature as well and it causes the opposite, inconvenient effect for me: I add to my playlist a movie or show that I want to watch in the future, days later, I go back to my list and it takes me an unnecessary extra amount of cognitive effort to find the same item because it had a different thumbnail back when I first added it. So irritating.

qnkon AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises

Where can I find the full list of products being released during AWS re:Invent? I haven't been able to find it, if there is such thing.

qnkon Y Combinator is accepting applications for S18

  4. If we invest in you, your group is expected to move to
  the Bay Area for June–August 2018.

  6. Y Combinator doesn’t supply office space. We have space
  you can use if you need to, but we expect you to work out
  of wherever you find to live.

Why is it so important to be in the Bay Area? I get that for some interactions it'd be ideal to be there, but I don't see the need for a team to actually move there.

qnkon Driving a Car in Manhattan Could Cost $11 Under Congestion Plan

   "drivers would not have to pay if they entered Manhattan
   by all but two of the city-owned East River bridges,
   which are now free to cross, as long as they bypassed
   the congestion zone."

I don't think I understand this part. Why would you have to pay if you "bypass the congestion zone"? no matter where you're coming from. Now, if what this means is that you don't have to pay the $11.52 fee after having already paid the $15 (if you pay cash) for the toll fee coming from New Jersey, makes sense.

qnkon Artwork Personalization at Netflix

My thoughts exactly as how much confusion this causes. It has happened to me several times that I'm scanning the catalog for a movie that my graphic memory had previously located, just to end up frustrated at first for not being able to find it and angry after realizing Netflix simply decides to A/B test the artwork.

This is like having a vinyl music collection made up of hundreds of items where the covers change randomly. Please Netflix, stop doing this.

qnkon Spam is back

This is very similar to what RoboKiller[1] does but with a lot more friction and less features.

[1] https://robokiller.com/

qnkon Ask HN: Which companies give programmers offices?

Stack Overflow has blogged about their private offices for developers many times before. This is a post from 2015, I'm not sure if that's still the case: https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/01/16/why-we-still-believe-i...

qnkon iPhone 7

  The high-gloss finish of the Jet Black iPhone 7 is
  achieved through a precision nine-step anodization and
  polishing process. Its surface is equally as hard as
  other anodized Apple products; however, its high shine
  may show fine micro-abrasions with use. If you are
  concerned about this, we suggest you use one of the many
  cases available to protect your iPhone.[1]

I think I'd go for the Black one instead.

[1]http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7

qnkon Show HN: ReactHN, a Hacker News Progressive Web App That Works Offline

Source code: https://github.com/insin/react-hn

qnkon GitHub Security Update: Reused Password Attack

My guess is that all affected accounts are those that had multiple successful and/or unsuccessful login attempts coming from the same source.

qnkon How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley

SPOILERS ALERT

The article contains several spoilers. You may want to hold off if you follow the show.

qnkon Stripe Atlas

We have already incorporated and has been a long and painfull process, but not as painfull as trying to open an account at Silicon Valley Bank. After some back and forth, they rejected our application saying:

    I’ve just received your info from client support and my
    apologies if no one replied to you sooner.
    Unfortunately we won’t be an appropriate banking fit as
    we don’t typically bank service providers. We maintain
    a focus on venture backed companies and typically teams
    that are local to our presence (based in Silicon
    Valley, SF Bay Area, NYC, Boston, London).

Just signed up for the beta, pretty excited about this!

qnkon Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic

It could be done at the airport level. If your last known departure was from point A, how did you get here with an aircraft that is not suited to fly such long distance. Not only that, you shouldn't have been allowed to depart from point A to begin with.

But again, I thought that something similar already existed. Today I learned, that it doesn't.

qnkon Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic

I would have thought that there existed some local or international entity regulating private airplanes and their itineraries. I would assume the same way you can't get on the highway with a bicycle or a scooter, these airplanes shouldn't be allowed to fly over the Atlantic.

qnkon Amazon Flex

  "Everybody has jobs"

Yes, even the delivery guys who have already been working all day and probably don't want to work past 5pm. There are several alternatives to get custom delivery schedules that work for you, like Amazon locker or Doorman.co.

qnkon Apple WWDC15 Keynote Live Broadcast

  New York: 1 p.m. EDT
  Chicago: 12 p.m. CDT
  Honolulu: 7 a.m. HST
  London: 6 p.m. BST
  Paris: 7 p.m. CEST
  Moscow: 9 p.m. MSK
  Mumbai: 10:30 p.m. IST
  Beijing: 1 a.m. CST
  Seoul: 2 a.m. KST
  Sydney: 3 a.m. AEST

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  New York: 1 p.m. EDT
  Chicago: 12 p.m. CDT
  Honolulu: 7 a.m. HST
  London: 6 p.m. BST
  Paris: 7 p.m. CEST
  Moscow: 9 p.m. MSK
  Mumbai: 10:30 p.m. IST
  Beijing: 1 a.m. CST
  Seoul: 2 a.m. KST
  Sydney: 3 a.m. AEST

qnkon Apple Watch Keynote Live Streaming

Thanks, fixed!

I had some hours off because of Daylight Saving Time this past weekend in The U.S.

qnkon Onewheel [video]

I'm glad to hear that. The route from my house to the train station has a couple of gentle hills and my weight is 155 pounds. Should I be concerned that it won't have enough power to climb those hills?