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Ask HN: What's the coolest domain name you own?
3 points by varun_ch 4y ago|2 comments
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Self-Referential YouTube Video(varun.ch)
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by varun_ch 4y ago
Here's a short write up about doing this. https://varun.ch/video-id :) It works because there are two requests associated with creating a YouTube video. First, the metadata is sent (file size, video title, etc.) and it
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by varun_ch 4y ago
This looks really cool, I can't wait to try it out! From what I saw, it looks like it does a lot of stuff behind the scenes relating to domains and SSL.. does it work with the server behind Cloudflare (the dashboard and hosted sites),
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Available today: The Windows 11 2022 Update(blogs.windows.com)
52 points by varun_ch 4y ago|106 comments
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by varun_ch 4y ago
Google Search is actually a useful way to find sites on a TLD: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agle https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3
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by varun_ch 4y ago
It's not really the same, but Microsoft has https://www.microsoft/ as a redirect to their .com, which causes some weird side effects in Chrome's omnibox, because it automatically adds the www subdomain: https:&#x
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Copymarklets: Bookmarks for Copying Text(varun.ch)
2 points by varun_ch 4y ago|0 comments
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by varun_ch 4y ago
This is really exciting to see. Browser diversity is sorely needed, and is good for the web (assuming every browser can follow the spec correctly).
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This YouTube video contains its own ID(varun.ch)
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Google Answers (2006)(answers.google.com)
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by varun_ch 4y ago
Isn't it easier to unplug and plug the cable into a different computer rather than messing with Bluetooth settings until it connects? Edit: Never mind, it looks like the keyboard can connect to multiple devices at a time. That's r
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by varun_ch 4y ago
Most of the data you can collect with Plausible could just be collected server side instead, it's nothing like Google Analytics.
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by varun_ch 4y ago
My favourite personal domain by anyone is Matt Mullenweg's ma.tt, it's so short and really stands out. But for me, {firstname}.{country}, is enough because it's pretty cool to be the only {firstname} in {country} who decided
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Verlan(en.wikipedia.org)
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Superfish(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Million Dollar Homepage(en.wikipedia.org)
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by varun_ch 5y ago
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your comment. Best of luck to you!
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by varun_ch 5y ago
I think it's really cool! I like how the buttons are like more modern versions of old MacOS buttons! I wish modern design practices didn't make it so button-y buttons look out of place. We've really lost a lot of accessibilit
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by varun_ch 5y ago
https://varun.ch , having my fairly common first name (and the correct ccTLD) is pretty cool! It's just a static HTML website hosted with Vercel.
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Date and time inputs in macOS have a 1 second timeout(twitter.com)
3 points by varun_ch 5y ago|0 comments
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by varun_ch 5y ago
I didn't really know how to fit "The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse a
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WHATWG: 140 Characters Discourages Intelligent Discourse(html.spec.whatwg.org)
5 points by varun_ch 5y ago|5 comments
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by varun_ch 5y ago
This is actually really motivating. I'm 15 and building an edtech product with my friends, and we noticed 2 employees from a very big edtech company (direct competitor) signed up (with company email addresses) and tested some features
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by varun_ch 5y ago
Thank you! :)
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by varun_ch 5y ago
Ah that makes a lot more sense. I don't know how I missed that. Thanks.
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Exploring Google Hangouts' easter eggs(varun.ch)
123 points by varun_ch 5y ago|66 comments
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Exploring Google Hangouts' easter eggs(varun.ch)
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Using Natural Language Processing to Improve UX(quickz.org)
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by varun_ch 5y ago
Thanks. I can't reproduce the issue on Chrome or Firefox (98), but I've just pushed an update that changes "aspect-ratio: 1/1", to "aspect-ratio: 1 / 1". Perhaps I needed those spaces. Let me know if

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