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rohugon Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger

Worth noting WhatsApp also provides link previews now. Although it is supposedly e2e communication, the link previews are likely generated by reaching out to a similar facebook unfurl service.

They can then have a single map of phone num -> links rendered between fb and whatsapp.

rohugon Show HN: Inlets 2.0 – expose your local endpoints to the Internet

Serveo is another good alternative to Inlets or ngrok that is completely free and pretty flexible: https://serveo.net/

rohugon Apple's service program for butterfly keyboard MacBooks, even out of warranty

In the list of eligible models:

"MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)"

I'm certain they previously would have specified that model with "Touchbar" rather than the number of thunderbolt ports...

RIP Touchbar!