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by epoch_100 6y ago
Some CSS frameworks come prepackaged with all sorts of components that are convenient at first but quickly become limiting. Utility frameworks like Tailwind are awesome, but can be difficult start using on their own. a17t tries to get the b
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Show HN: a17t, a deeply customizable atomic design library that's pure CSS(github.com)
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American Tests(longreads.com)
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The most general reverse proxy(jamey.thesharps.us)
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Tiers of answers to half-baked questions(blog.plover.com)
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‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+(theguardian.com)
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by epoch_100 6y ago
While I use (and mostly like!) GitHub, this is yet another reminder that centralizing so much infrastructure—from package managers to CI pipelines to static websites and more—around one company is a very bad idea, and will likely bite us in
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Dvorak vs. Colemak (2010)(xahlee.info)
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The Maine Farmer Saving the World’s Rarest Heirloom Seeds(downeast.com)
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by epoch_100 7y ago
I've been spending a lot of my time learning about how to do RegEx at scale. It's a surprisingly fun problem! The impetus has been a media monitoring side project[0] that I've been trying to get off the ground. I should proba
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by epoch_100 7y ago
A silver lining: this is the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to attend RC but can’t pack up and move to NYC for three months.
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by epoch_100 7y ago
Yes, it's Bulma :)
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by epoch_100 7y ago
Data ingress is usually free, which really cuts down on costs when scraping. If you can do everything in-memory, it's surprisingly cheap. The important bit is being respectful of robots.txt files and not overloading small sites with to
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by epoch_100 7y ago
CommonCrawl is monthly, but they also release several news archives daily (and the news archives contain a surprising amount of content). Plus, there are lots and lots of RSS feed archives floating around.
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by epoch_100 7y ago
I run a similar service that's currently in private beta so I might be able to provide some insight. In short: closed platforms like Facebook are _generally_ out of reach for tools like these. (Reddit is a big exception because of its
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by epoch_100 7y ago
No Google queries, but also only very limited web crawling (i.e. _only_ to fill in gaps for Reddit and HN). There are a plethora of freely available archives of web content released almost hourly, so it's possible to scan a large slice
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by epoch_100 7y ago
Props to OP for launching, it looks like this tool has some real potential. I think low-cost web monitoring is a great idea and caters to what is otherwise an under-served market. ...which is why I've been building a similar tool [0] t
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by epoch_100 7y ago
I think the "web" here is used to refer to the World Wide Web, which I believe is limited to `text/html` [1] — i.e. excludes IRC, NNTP, etc., which would probably just be classified as "internet communication" (as y
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by epoch_100 7y ago
Strong agree. I think there's also something to be said for non-enterprise customers, though, and I think they're an underserved market. Take folks like indie authors, journalists, and small startups. They want media monitoring fo
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by epoch_100 7y ago
OP's tool looks great, and this is definitely _not_ a winner-takes-all kind of market. I agree that the lack of a free plan/trial makes it difficult to try out and assess. Plug: if you're tentative to buy in to try it, though
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by epoch_100 7y ago
Important note for those unfamiliar with Suzuki: this quote is usually understood to be praising the beginner's mind, which is full of possibilities and without prejudice,[0] and pointing out the weakness of the expert's mind. [0]
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by epoch_100 7y ago
According to the lead SRE at StackOverflow, "SQL is very, very angry. We're aware and working it."[0] This outage seems pretty bad. Everything, even their static pages (like ToS/Privacy Policy) seem to be unavailable. Be
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by epoch_100 7y ago
I can never really understand Facebook's approach to dealing with legal pressure surrounding its privacy practices. Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of tryin
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by epoch_100 7y ago
Paper: https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/papers/GPT_2_Report.pdf Code: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
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OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model(openai.com)
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by epoch_100 7y ago
Netlify is describing the outage as being the result of some kind of attack: "We’re currently suffering an attack that’s affecting our Free and Self-Serve CDN. Enterprise is currently unaffected. We are working on mitigating the effect
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by epoch_100 7y ago
"Further, GitLab will commit to not implementing telemetry in our products that sends usage data to a third-party product analytics service." That seems like a pretty solid indication that the plans are cancelled.
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by epoch_100 7y ago
There may be a monetary incentive for a polygraph manufacturer to push the site down.
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by epoch_100 7y ago
This looks really neat. I don't personally have a use case for it, but I can imagine this being really useful for (overworked) TV censors. Could also have applications in automatically censoring radio broadcasts, because stations can f
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by epoch_100 7y ago
You could just not use user-level analytics; I run the infrastructure for PrivacySpy.org, and using CloudFlare's aggregate analytics has served us perfectly well.

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