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>The aggregated bandwidth of the clusters was around 50 Gbps, from which they used around 10 Gbps while at peak load.

Now that is a lot a porn.

Also, the illustrations look really good! How did you make them?

domainx.tld cannot set a cookie on ebay.com. Did they just iframe ebay (with affiliate ID) and get caught? Or did they use some other method?

The HN "basic" source code is available online[1] or if you're looking for something modern, try Telescope which is built in Node and the Meteor framework[2]. There is also a demo available[3] Or you could try forking the Reddit source code[4] and setting it up, but im not sure if you'll need multiple subreddits functionality.

[1]https://github.com/wting/hackernews

[2]http://telesc.pe/

[3]http://demo.telesc.pe/

[4]https://github.com/reddit/reddit

>We can teach coding to young people, but as of now we can't reliably increase IQ.

IQ is relative. If everybody's intelligence went up 10 points, they would all still have the same IQ

I use stripe and their API makes it just so easy to do everything already.

I wish I could have cannabis cultivation in the UK, but unfortunately it's illegal. I've been pondering whether I should start a basic kitchen garden type thing and your app just gave me a reason to!

I really like the design! Nice concept!

Care to explain why not? What stops someone who mined 10k bitcoins in 2007/8 from cashing out. If I remember correctly, there was a guy recently on #startups freenode who showed everyone a screenshot of his wallet at $800k[1] (one sec let me find it in my history) and claimed he mined them all really early.

[1]http://i.imgur.com/bfhtnuF.png

Nice idea! I'd love to see a follow-up post on how well it did and what you did to promote such a product.

Funny story from the Hosting company[1]:

"Before the break of dawn on a morning in April, a full SWAT team was sent to execute a search warrant on CyberBunker's property."

"It must not have occurred to the officers that the blast doors were designed to withstand a 20 megaton nuclear explosion from close range. When the SWAT team realized that the door was not being opened for them, they throw flashbangs and take other actions to draw attention."

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And from the NYT article:

“Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force,” the site said. “None of these attempts were successful.”

Haha, this is too funny.

More detailed article on NYT[2]

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[1]http://cyberbunker.com/web/swat.php

[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online...

That typography is beautiful! Looking at the source, they seemed to have created their own version of Cheltenham called "NYT Cheltenham".

  font-family: nyt-cheltenham, Georgia, serif;

Good stuff!

I really like the way you can just push your test app on the meteor servers and share it with a few friends, it is just so easy to build and deploy in it.

Here are some cool apps people have built with Meteor so far, there seem to be a lot of collaborative apps. Feel free to add your own: http://madewith.meteor.com/

Wow Homakov, other great write up! I'm really interested in what resources you used to learn all this stuff! Would you mind doing a "recommended books and blogs" post anytime soon?

$300 in revenue already? Nice job!

Please keep stuff like this limited to Reddit. If I wanted to see "TIL" I would browse /r/todayilearned not Hacker News.

I tried out Adbrite last year for an ad placement at footer of one of my websites because I couldn't put any more Adsense on the page, it wasn't too bad but it was nothing compared to how much Adsense generated. It was still better than Clicksor and Bidvertiser. The thing I didn't like with Adbrite was that they had too many "spammy" advertisements.

http://i.imgur.com/ZvN347V.png

I'm not sure if MegaConz is meant to be ironic or not.

One of the advertisement networks was loading an exploit kit.

17 year old here. Heard the term "startup" when I sold my first website at 14 and have been shipping products ever since.

How do you know that your PC was not compromised?

Some people might have dynamic ip addresses. Cookies can expire and get purged very easily. Same with local storage.

Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882821

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832967

The exploit has already made it to exploit packs: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/zero-day-java-exploit-deb...

>username: zakelfassi

>extension by Zakaria El Fassi

Why are you calling your own extension "spammy"?

Exploit in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBXvebXo-F4

It is currently being sold for $700 in various semi-public blackhat forums (hence widespread usage).

If you're interested in these new blogging services, check out Medium[1] which is built by the same guy who build Blogger, and Feathers[2] which is also in the "distraction free blogging" space. I like this trend of minimalism and clean layouts but I do not like the same idea being repeated over and over again without good execution (How do I view posts? Where is the post index? Where is the submit button? Where is the privacy policy and ToS? How will you attain user engagement with such an app? Who owns the content?). More importantly, what does your application offer that other applications in this space do not?

[1]http://medium.com/

[2]http://feathe.rs/

www.setu.ps

+ several 3 or 4 character .com/.net/.org domain names. E-mail is in profile if anybody is interested.

According to Google Trends the search term "jquery" will soon overtake "javascript" in terms of popularity[1][2]

[1]http://i.imgur.com/yqQ95.png

[2]http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=jquery,javascript

On my mobile right now so cannot use this just yet, does anybody know if this works in the UK? (with three mobile network)

Try out ec2 whilst keeping the desktop for a few weeks. If it goes well then you will earn some cash from the desktop sale along with learning how AWS works. In the long-term however, I'm not sure if it is the most economical option -- that really depends on how much power you need along with other factors.