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alexdumitru··on Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
The first one took 61 seconds to load, while the second one took 121 seconds. It doesn't seem very practical.
alexdumitru··on Show HN: BobTheWebDev.xyz – AI Generated Web Dev Questions
This is really cool. Any plans on open sourcing it?
alexdumitru··on Nokia sold 4.4M smartphones in Q4 2017
Nokia doesn't make phones anymore. These are sold by HMD Global, which I'm pretty sure is a private company.
alexdumitru··on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
The core was supposed to land on the barge, but the video footage got disconnected and they said they don't know what happened to it yet.
alexdumitru··on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
I hope the main core landed successfully too.
alexdumitru··on 16 year old app developer: Plagiarist or Prodigy?
This is so true. I think my biggest achievement is that I evolved my ability to search. A few years ago it would take me days to find the solution to a problem, but now I find it much easier to formulate a question or Google query.
alexdumitru··on Tesla Semi
It's got a 500 mile range, which is pretty decent, compared to the rumored 300 mile range.
alexdumitru··on Tesla Semi
They probably use an IP database, like MaxMind.
alexdumitru··on Tesla Semi
Yep, you're right :)
alexdumitru··on Tesla Semi
Are you sure about that range? It seems really really bad.
alexdumitru··on Tesla Semi
Weird. This is what I'm getting: "formattedDeposit" : "$1,500", "hamsterDeposit" : "$7,000", "hamsterFullDeposit": "$50,000", "hamsterTotal1" : "$261,000", "hamsterTotal2" : "$326,000",
alexdumitru··on Tesla Semi
It seems like it will require a $5000 deposit (with a $50,000 "full deposit") and the truck will cost between $200,000 and $250,000, according to the page source.
alexdumitru··on Tesla Semi
I'm really curious if it comes with big differences compared to modern trucks (except for being all-electric).

I also wonder why they try to push multiple models and niches when they can't even build enough Model 3s as they had expected.

alexdumitru··on Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run
Back in the day I've had a website ranking in the top 3 of Google for "start using cgiproxy". Honestly, I never knew why people would search for such a complicated phrase, but I've found the keyword somewhere and optimized the website for it.

Do you mind telling me why where you searching for that phrase instead of something like "free proxy" or "cgi proxy"?

alexdumitru··on Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration
It looks like it's been written by a spam bot.
alexdumitru··on Cloud Spanner is now production-ready
It's not relevant at all. People just hate PHP because it's the trend.
alexdumitru··on Wikipedia founder launches Wikitribune, an attempt to combat fake news
It still sounds better. I feel that "fair and objective" media does that anyway.
alexdumitru··on How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)
I wouldn't worry if I were you. I live in a poor country where corruption is huge even in hospitals. But even here a girl diagnosed with Leukemia is being offered the best treatment and doctors care about these things, without expecting anything in return.
alexdumitru··on Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
I do, but I've always find it pretty hard to use them, because I forgot what exactly I bookmarked and in what folder.
alexdumitru··on Oh, you’re with them? (2016)
I agree. If it was for a man instead of her, it would've been nothing. And I'm sure this happens often for men too, they just don't think about it.
alexdumitru··on Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using Only Phone Numbers
Galaxy S7 asks you too. I remember now that you said it.
alexdumitru··on Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using Only Phone Numbers
That's one of the first things I setup on my Android phones. You can see that I have notifications, but not their content.
alexdumitru··on How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra
I convinced my friends to switch from Skype to Discord for this reason. I've had a few new groups every day and I would get calls all day long because if someone wanted to play they would call everyone.

I made a Discord group about a month ago and everyone I know is using it. If someone new wants to play, we add it to this group, so everyone is there.

Also we're not annoyed by calls anymore, as you only have to join the voice channel, instead of calling everyone.

alexdumitru··on Is your internet up to date?
In Romania we have monopolies in most of the cities, but the ISPs have the same price no matter the location.

The prices only differ in very remote locations, where you have to pay either ~$15 for 50Mb/s or ~$25 for 2Mb/s, depending on how remote it is.

alexdumitru··on Is your internet up to date?
The government didn't get involved at all in the infrastructure here. There were thousands of small ISPs about 10-15 years ago that got bought by the two big ones. Then the two big ISPs switched everything to fiber and increased speeds while decreasing prices.

My ISP was so small that it required me to lay my own cables and get a router.

alexdumitru··on Is your internet up to date?
Come to Romania. We have IPv6, 1Gbps for just ~6 pounds. And as a bonus I got two 3G SIM cards + usb modems with unlimited traffic entirely free.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/5951144497.png

alexdumitru··on How a Zara Coat Went from Design to Fifth Avenue in 25 Days
Easier workaround:

1. Click web under the title on the HN page.

2. Click the first Google result.

alexdumitru··on Show HN: H4ck 1t, multiplayer hacking game
Looks like HN hugged it too hard.
alexdumitru··on Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
It doesn't look that strong to me. There aren't any comments and I guess there aren't more than a few active users.
alexdumitru··on Show HN: TalkTalkTalk – An easy-to-install small chat room, with chat history
You should add some antispam, at least.

I was able to keep your server down by using only this:

> setInterval( function () { for(i=0;i<=9999; i++) { ws.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'message', username: $('#username').text(), message: 'seems like the ws server is fucked. stop spamming' })); } }, 1000);

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