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laurynas-s··on You will own nothing and be (un)happy
Everything comes full circle.

Companies own you - they pay a subscription (your salary) to rent you. Wouldn't it be great if they could pay a one-time fee to own you forever?

laurynas-s··on I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order
This is ranked by Bayesian Average: https://www.top-rated.online/countries/United+States/cities/...
laurynas-s··on I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order
https://www.top-rated.online/cities/Rome/place/p/10807332/Tr... here you go
laurynas-s··on I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order
It is quite time-consuming to go through the reviews due to this exact reason - 100s of low effort reviews and also fake reviews to hide negative reviews.

https://www.top-rated.online/ re-sorts the reviews (on individual place page) based on reactions and number of reviews user made. It makes it easier to see the full picture and avoid fake reviews.

laurynas-s··on Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
Chromecast Ultra also uses 20W in standby.

I was going through the all devices and found that a TV which is most of the time off, was using that much power. Now I keep it unplugged.

laurynas-s··on Gmail and Google Drive Outage
Gmail works but I can't send any emails - so frustrating.
laurynas-s··on Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
This is super helpful for mobile devices.

But it makes rather confusing on how to connect it on an e.g. laptop without having to scan the QR code with the mobile device first. If the password is 63-char length, typing it wouldn't be 'quick'.

laurynas-s··on Ask HN: Any “Git diff”-like service but for when terms of conditions changes?
I am the founder of https://pagecrawl.io and this is exactly what can you do with the service.

I have been considering releasing a product only for tracking ToS only but haven't managed to release it yet.

laurynas-s··on WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy for revenue
With the proposed 1$/yr/user it is going to take around 19 years to become profitable (with 1bn paid users). Facebook obviously wants a return earlier.

The founder did take those billions, so not sure what he was expecting to happen, ads looks like the only business model to turn profit quickly in this sort of business.

Besides, there are so many people using WhatsApp in developing countries that wouldn't pay if they can get something similar for free and competition in chat apps is big.

laurynas-s··on Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
There is a limit thought when I tried to export from web some time ago. It was 500-2000 photos or something.

I probably have over 30000 photos there so it's a long process to download them all.

laurynas-s··on Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
When Google will be shutting down Google Photos?

Of course, it is going to happen eventually.

However, I do have a dozen of photos there with no easy way to export hiqh quality photos in one go that worries me.

laurynas-s··on Launch HN: Cosmic JS (YC W19) - API-first drop-in replacement for WordPress
I was looking something like this when I wanted to add a blog for my React SPA apps. I didn't want WordPress, but I wanted a simple backend just for editing the blog posts.

However, I realised that it is going to be bad for SEO as I cannot do serverside rendering this way.

I cosidered adding a WordPress blog, but eventually just ended up with a simple markdown rendering from the files - 1 file - 1 post.

If you manage to find a easy way to support serverside rendering, the product is going to be good.

laurynas-s··on Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
I did some research, but did not found enough conclusive evidence whether it is legal or not.

So if I receive a claim from Google legal team, I will take the site down.

laurynas-s··on Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
By crawling Google Maps, extracted the publicly displayed review counts.
laurynas-s··on Show HN: Discover most reviewed places on Google Maps
Hi HN,

OP here

As a digital nomad I travel different cities a lot. However, it is difficult to find the best places and there were numerous of times where the the food in restaurants was just awful.

This is how the idea for this small project came. Although, the reviews and review count may not always show that the place is best, it helped me to find some great places without putting too much effort.

I also added feature to see "hidden gems", small places that have very high rating but not too many reviews. These I like most as the places are usually new, cheap and focus highly on quality.

laurynas-s··on Show HN: A tool to find related subreddits
This is really nice!
laurynas-s··on Tell HN: Udacity is deprioritizing its app and will eventually remove it
For non-programming subjects that do not require writing code I found the app really useful for watching the courses offline.

As that content is mostly free, I see why you decided to discontinue the app.

laurynas-s··on Google cans the Chromecast Audio
Google is getting worse and worse with each new news headline.

They have completely lost my trust of using their non-primary services.

However, the monopoly is so high that's it's difficult for other companies to compete.

laurynas-s··on Ask HN: What would your ideal issue tracker look like?
Moved away from Jira to GitLab and it is almost perfect.

Some features are missing, but I hope the GitLab team will add sooner or later.

In Jira, there was too much customisation which made it difficult to configure properly and as many times I tried to come up with perfect workflow, I have failed to do.

laurynas-s··on Explore ISS on Google Maps
Wow, never realised it existed. It moves fast!
laurynas-s··on BitPatron – A Bitcoin Censorship-Free Patreon Alternative
Great to see alternative built with cryptocurrencies.

Since biycoun doesn't have subscriptions, you'd need to topup your account X amount which then gets distributed over the months to bitpatreons?

laurynas-s··on Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
Nice!

Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate).

For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by not needing to contact each person about RSVP status.