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   by synack 9y ago

   I wrote a thing to pull the prices of all the hard drives on Amazon every 12 hours and sort them by price per GB. https://diskprices.com/
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   by synack 9y ago

   Games. The first computers kids will start to wonder about are the ones they're using to play games, be it a game console, tablet, or PC. Modding comes first, slightly tweaking the game to add a new item, map, or remove some annoying l
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   by synack 9y ago

   I've had a lot of fun messing with SiLabs EFM8 series chips recently. They've taken an 8051-compatible core and added a bunch of the peripherals you'd expect to find on a modern ARM SoC; SPI, I2C, USB, CAN, Watchdog, and the
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   Trying Tencent QCloud(synack.me)

   4 points by synack 9y ago|0 comments
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   Migrating from App Engine to Kubernetes(synack.me)

   5 points by synack 11y ago|0 comments
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   by synack 11y ago

   Would love to see a discussion of build systems for modern code. Trying to decide between autoconf/cmake/scons/ninja/gyp for new projects is like flipping a coin... They all have their advantages and disadvantages and th
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   by synack 12y ago

   Yes, but can it run Docker?
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   by synack 12y ago

   Calling recv one byte at a time is high performance? Nope.
9. 339.▲
   by synack 14y ago

   Name collision.
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    by synack 14y ago

    I imagine it'll end up costing them quite a bit more than $500k when the dust settles... Digg probably has quite a bit of debt racked up by now.
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    Deploying code with packages(synack.me)

    2 points by synack 14y ago|0 comments
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    Feed It Later: Automatically add RSS feed entries to Read It later(feeditlater.com)

    2 points by synack 15y ago|0 comments
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    by synack 15y ago

    YouTube's JavaScript API currently does not support HTML5. http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html#Re...
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    by synack 15y ago

    Steve's my drinking buddy... He shared some of the code with me, yes :-)
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    Show HN: Watch talks from hacker conferences like a TV channel(hackertalks.tv)

    32 points by synack 15y ago|12 comments
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    by synack 15y ago

    Just added LinkedIn export. They'll dump out a ton of data about your connections... http://export.synack.me/linkedin/
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    by synack 15y ago

    gaug.es is really nice for tracking social engagement and responding to traffic trends in realtime... It doesn't retain a ton of data for long-term analytics, so if you care about that sort of thing, it should probably be used in conjunctio
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    by synack 15y ago

    The exporting scripts are pretty trivial just using the APIs each of these services expose. The hardest part is setting up the OAuth bits, which require a web server to host a callback endpoint. This makes it non-trivial for the average per
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    by synack 15y ago

    The Google+ one was added by user request. Yes, you could use Google Takeout to get the data as well. I am not storing any of the data or even your OAuth tokens after the dump has been completed. As an implementation detail, your email addr
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    Show HN: Export your data from Twitter/Facebook/Gowalla/Google+ as JSON(export.synack.me)

    53 points by synack 15y ago|12 comments
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    by synack 15y ago

    All I really need to be happy is a comfy couch or hammock and a Macbook. The rest is superfluous.
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    by synack 16y ago

    We built a system for doing exactly this type of provisioning of physical hardware at Digg: http://clusto.org/
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    Dirty User Feedback, Done Dirt Cheap(shanleykane.wordpress.com)

    1 points by synack 16y ago|0 comments
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    A simple ORM for Python and Redis(blog.synack.me)

    2 points by synack 16y ago|1 comments
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    by synack 16y ago

    I wrote a Hacker News and Digg Gopher proxy. gopher://synack.me/
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    by synack 16y ago

    "Understanding Unix/Linux Programming: A Guide to Theory and Practice" by Bruce Molay does a wonderful job of diving into the workings of the Linux kernel without any prerequisite knowledge beyond an understanding of C. This book focuses on
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    by synack 16y ago

    Yes.
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    by synack 16y ago

    I read this, logged into the AWS console and grabbed a fresh snapshot of my EBS volumes. Problem solved.
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    by synack 16y ago

    Those visualizations were built by Stamen Design, a company that still creates really cool stuff today. http://stamen.com/
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    by synack 16y ago

    PagerDuty has been acting as my alarm clock for the last few weeks and has performed admirably. Good for them, bad for me and my servers.