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OK, meta tag added!

The source code for this is in the public domain. If anyone wants to copy the behavior, there is no reason to consult me first.

I added some example screenshots to the README: https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com#readme

Happy to add this. Do you happen to know if this affects systems doing the scraping for social previews, which are already parsing meta tags?

As of right now, I have almost zero information about who is using it. It's currently running on Vercel as a hobby project, and I've already used my single free analytics add-on for another project.

(Will I run out of free Vercel function execution credits or whatever? Probably. We'll see, I guess.)

EDIT: Vercel gives me a realtime function log but it's pretty basic and has no statistics: https://cln.sh/WlXBSY

Sure thing! Also check out https://socialsharepreview.com/ which is great for larger social previews. I chose to go the more compact route for these previews because a giant orange "Y" logo for every link isn't very helpful.

Yes, that was me. I'm pretty random.

You had no reason to! It's about twelve hours old.

FYI, this uses the Hacker News API which I didn't know existed until researching this: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

I have also been a sneakemail user for probably 15 years and have accumulated over a thousand addresses. Two years ago I switched to using a catchall .com domain because the sneakemail domains are blocked so frequently. Domains from other services like 10minutemail.com and fakenamegenerator.com tend to be blocked, too. Plus addressing is also hit or miss — sometimes a system will let you sign up with a plus addressed email but other parts of the system will reject it (ahem, banks).

15 years ago, a catchall email domain was unthinkable since spammers would try dictionaries of words against a domain in hopes of finding legitimate email addresses. However, this no longer seems to be a trend.

I'm glad you found it useful!

Exactly the reason we started with First Republic! But yes, the new SVB experience (SVB Go) has been fantastic relative to when we used them a decade ago.

We didn't consider any. There are some local ones that we've used personally, like First Tech, but we were unimpressed by either their customer service for business clients or by their tech offerings.

That sounds like a lot of work. Why not just push my screenshots to good ol' NNTP?

What's wrong with Imgur:

Imgur started as a way to share images on Reddit. Imgur was even a great way browse all the images in a subreddit at once. Eventually Reddit implemented their own image uploading and hosting and added the new layout, which makes images bigger when browsing feeds. Imgur pivoted into being their own social network, and use cases like yours began to be ignored because they generated far more abuse than they do revenue.

Even if you once paid for Imgur, like I did, the non-social features are completely broken. I can't even view my own images using https://statico.imgur.com/all, and I can't get to my old albums of images.

I've been hoping for an Imgur replacement for simple, hosted image sharing.

I'm happy to pay $1/mo, but when I tried to upload https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43... I got this, which doesn't look like what I uploaded: https://cln.sh/4coS9T / https://imgz.org/i5qphFzd.gif

An example of that is the clock on this page: https://www.plover.com/~mjd/swatch.html

Linode is great. Wonderful options, reliable, excellent tools. Been using them for almost a decade.

It's hard to beat Netlify and Vercel for static content. They make it easy and you'll be up and running in seconds.

I know you said Clojure, but it's worth mentioning: if you do choose to make a JavaScript/TypeScript backend, Vercel + Next.js's API routes is a great option. With that combination you'll have a GitHub integrated CI/CD build (if you need it) and serverless functions behind a custom domain with SSL in minutes.

ShellJS was a delight to use when we had to build a cross platform Electron-based (sorry) desktop application for Mac and Windows. It replaced batch and shell scripts, async operations were easy thanks to NodeJS, and the scripts were maintainable. 8/10, would use again.

Ah, yes! I knew a shorter one: sm 0 a9f4 <enter> g 0 <enter>

There's a demo that works in the browser: http://dexp.in/nuklear-webdemo/

I wrote a comment on DisplayLink below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675013

It works, and it's the only option, but you won't like it.

I bought the StarTech dual 4K DisplayLink adapater after watching one of those videos. I use it to power a second 4K monitor with my M1 MacBook Air running lid-closed. I have a 1080p gaming monitor as my primary connected to a Elgato dock via DisplayPort.

DisplayLink is definitely suboptimial, but it's the only option. There is noticable input lag (my guess is around 100ms) that makes mouse and keyboard input feel sluggish. Showing a moving image on the screen pegs the DisplayLink Manager process to 100% of one core while it's playing. DisplayLink does not currently support rotation on Big Sur, though it probably will in the future. However, the image itself is pixel-perfect, so it's fine for secondary apps like chat or monitoring.

I made a shortener using nginx and a config file: https://statico.link

It uses a tab-delimited nginx map file as a config. To make changes, I wrote a tiny shell wrapper which opens the config in Vim, checks it in, and reloads nginx: https://statico.link/how

People frequently asked me for a list of all of the links, so I wrote a tiny server to serve them: https://github.com/statico/statico-link-list

More info: This isn't what the ride is normally like. This was an express train in April, 2019, probably 6pm or 7pm, going south from San Francisco.

Because it's an express the train gets up to some high speeds, and this lateral wobbling starts to really get uncomfortable in the long stretches after Hillsdale or so.

Also, this is the balcony, which amplifies the wobbling. The lower level are much more stable, and I switched to sitting in them shortly after taking this video despite the cramped leg room.

And this was probably the car closest to the engine, like the author of this article said to avoid. I usually sat up there because it was the least crowded.

I’m glad somebody tried to quantify this. Here’s the rocky ride when taking a late Caltrain bullet from north to south (somewhere before Palo Alto): https://imgur.com/gallery/L3LRcld

Thanks for this. I remember being at MacWorld and watching a movie play while holding down menu items. On Classic Mac, which I was used to, this would block the entire OS (almost). BeOS seemed space-age.

One of my favorite anecdotes about BeOS was that it had a CPU usage meter[1], and on the CPU meter there were on/off switches for each core. If you had two cores and turned one off, your computer would run at half speed. If you turned both off, your computer would crash. Someone once told me that this was filed as a bug against the OS and the response was "Works As Intended" and that it was the expected behavior.

(These are fuzzy memories from ~25 years ago. It would be nice if someone could confirm this story or tell me if it's just my imagination.)

[1]: http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/8way/8way-1.jpg