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by superasn 5y ago
One of the biggest challenges I've faced in scraping data has always been that most websites are now blacklisting almost all datacentre IPs including Amazon, Azure, etc blocks and if you really need to have anything useful out of it th
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Well they have a team of 50+ people and spend god knows how much on marketing. They gotta make all that back and then some. It never made sense how they would offer this for free without having evil monetization techniques like this.
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by superasn 5y ago
For people looking for more, this sub-reddit(1) is just filled with such bad/evil UI components, though most of them are more bad than evil. https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/
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by superasn 5y ago
I think there should be at least an approximate pricing on the homepage. It would help people decide if this is something they can think seriously about using.
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This whole blog post reads like The phoenix project book. I actually chuckled at the part where the legal got involved for the client-side fix like it so used to happen in the book.
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Yeah but what's scary is Youtube's automatic copyright strikes. I was watching this video where a guy created a soundtrack using samples from a site like freesound (the whole video was actually about making your own Youtube tracks
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by superasn 5y ago
PHP is proof how little the core web technologies change over the years, even though so many new technologies have come after it. Looking at this page I beleive I can still make a pretty decent website backend using vanilla php (including a
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by superasn 5y ago
> Search quality at Google has been decaying over the past decade. This one line is echoed again and again on HN and yet in my experience all its competitors still pale in comparison. I hate Google now as much as the next HNer for its ev
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I use the "I don't care about cookies" chrome ext and it has made my life better. But I guess using that extension you are kinda accepting all cookies.
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There is always https://i.reddit.com , the only reason why I still use it once a month maybe. Props to them for keeping that endpoint alive. But I agree. I used to have the same respect for Reddit as I do for HN (I even donated t
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Site was not loading for me so here is an archived version to save you guys a click: https://web.archive.org/web/20210517182448if_/https://www.gr...
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by superasn 5y ago
I definitely agree with you, it's just not worth struggling with something you don't like. For me this was vim. After struggling for many years with this ancient and difficult text editor peddled as the holy grail of productivity
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Physicists achieve quantum entanglement in larger systems(bigthink.com)
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I wanted to easily deploy chrome's puppeteer scripts on AWS lambda. The goal was to alert me when a delivery slot was available on Bigbasket during peak covid. Now I use the same to check if my websites are running properly :) I call t
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Yes that is required to make the Google's text to speech work. There are instructions under the box on how to obtain it. I've also linked to a YouTube demo video (not mine) for getting the same in there too.
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I made this site to do exactly that: https://www.speakreader.com I've always found it a bit hard to keep focused while reading long text and books. So after trying a lot of things I noticed that this method works really wel
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That was super informative.. thanks! Only 2% is insane - I was thinking a lot lot more!
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Speaking as someone who has absolutely no knowledge of how Wikipedia is run.. what is the biggest expense? Is it the hosting, bandwidth, or maybe HR.. I mean the stuff that takes the lion's share of this $150M?
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Webhook.site – HTTP request tester / debugger(webhook.site)
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Yes I learned the same too yesterday from Hacker news. What a coincidence! There was also a bashquote function which you can put in your .bashrc file but this approach really beats everything!
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by superasn 5y ago
Oops sorry about that. Just found out about this wonderful program from this HN comment here(1). Should have been more careful to check it through algolia before posting though. (1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16085
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Covid-19 vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with India: Bill Gates(in.finance.yahoo.com)
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ShellCheck: Finds bugs in your shell scripts(shellcheck.net)
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Thanks! This bash string escape trick will be really useful for me(1). It is one of the biggest pain points in using cli especially with nested commands like su -c where the actual command is supposed to go inside quotes and becomes hell to
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The only lesson learned by most founders is it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Be it airbnb or reddit almost all companies have employed one shady tactic or another to grow and maybe once the site is pretty popular the
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No it will refuse to accept payments and even if you somehow pay for it, it will forever be stuck at customs. The trick some sellers are doing is routing packages via Kenya etc so it doesn't look it's coming from China.
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India, over security concerns and maybe to teach China a lesson over recent border disputes (1). I am not in favor or against it personally since I don't understand economics or politics, but god do i miss ordering random stuff from th
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Aliexpress is just a treasure trove for ordering so many different kind of useful and often useless novelty items. Unfortunately my country has now forever banned it and now I have to pay anywhere from 10 to 20 times for these same chinese
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Total ban: RBI restricts Amex, Diners Club from acquiring new customers(financialexpress.com)
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New iphone with packaging for just $50 extra (we don't give packaging anymore since its bad for the environment)

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