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mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Another person mentioned this, so I will add this as soon as I can.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
I wanted to add this, but that data is almost never entered by sellers.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Oh, how I wish I had better access to the eBay data .. currently they limit you to 5k requests per day.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Sure, how about a keyword filter instead? That way you can filter by whatever instead of big filter lists cluttering the UI.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
No, just was inspired by diskprices, thought it's great UX. I will be adding more marketplaces, .de included.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Actually I did stick it behind Cloudflare..not sure why it would time out, since it's just an html page.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Is this for the CPU column? That's actually one I spent the least time on, since there was so much variation with how sellers entered processors. I'll take a look at it, thanks.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
eBay uses a 'best match' sort on the results, perhaps that's why it was missed. What did you search for when you found this one?
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Good call, I'll encode the state in the URL.

Did not come across a lot of Intel VPros in my searches. What's the use case for them?

mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
I prefer that too. Now to get data for all the listed CPUs!
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
I found that to happen sometimes, so I marked customizable listings. But I think I was able to parse most of them to show the specs for the selected variation, not the parent or the title.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Reviews aren't common due to many listings having 1 item in stock.

What would the requirements for your decoding be?

mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
That makes sense to me, thank you. I have changed links to open in a new tab.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Thank you, I have fixed the "OS" filter to be must include.

Chromeboxes don't come up much for the search I'm using. I think I could try a separate search for them.

Regarding shipping, I'm not sure how to include it, since it requires the user's location, which would take this over the API limits. I'm going to add more marketplaces, and maybe product locations. Which country are you shipping to?

mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
I tried to find this out myself. All I could find easily was the TDP of different processors. But I'm not sure if it's a good measure of how much power it will use.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Agreed, an N100 mini PC can be a great deal. They also tend to be smaller. I added a separate Intel filter that includes a lot of N100s. But it might be better to buy those new, not used.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
I did plan this, but upon getting the data, found it too difficult for the initial version. There's no standard for CPU (or most fields actually), so sellers write it in a variety of ways. But it could be done, after I compile a dataset of cpu > benchmarks.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Since there's hundreds/thousands of cpus and models, how about a keyword filter field?
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Thanks! I think it's a better practice to not open links in a new tab i.e users should have control over their experience. But it can be subjective.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
True, thought of this as a test run. Other locations should be added soon.
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
which eBay marketplace do you use?
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
Yes, should be easy. Would it work if it used the region's ebay marketplace to get results? The following could be added:

  EBAY_AT - Austria (ebay.at)
  EBAY_AU - Australia (ebay.com.au)
  EBAY_BE - Belgium (ebay.com.be)
  EBAY_CA - Canada (ebay.ca)
  EBAY_CH - Switzerland (ebay.ch)
  EBAY_DE - Germany (ebay.de)
  EBAY_ES - Spain (ebay.es)
  EBAY_FR - France (ebay.fr)
  EBAY_GB - Great Britain (ebay.co.uk)
  EBAY_HK - Hong Kong (ebay.com.hk)
  EBAY_IE - Ireland (ebay.ie)
  EBAY_IT - Italy (ebay.it)
  EBAY_NL - Netherlands (ebay.nl)
  EBAY_PL - Poland (ebay.pl)
  EBAY_SG - Singapore (ebay.sg)
mjcurl··on Low Cost Mini PCs
The coolest ones I found:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315406551868 https://www.ebay.com/itm/386903851995

I one I ended up getting: https://www.ebay.com/itm/296370169192?var=594356150752

mjcurl··on Show HN: Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps
Having not used Claude artifacts, maybe a better introduction to how the tool works/looks before signing up?
mjcurl··on Show HN: Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps
Very cool, love the community projects showcase and the ability to remix them.
mjcurl··on Show HN: Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread
FYI some of the GitHub links return 404.
mjcurl··on ChatGPT Is Down
Seems like a minor incident that should be resolved quickly.
mjcurl··on Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
I've been using dokku for years. Constant useful updates over time and the developer was super helpful with a niche case using old documentation.
mjcurl··on Show HN: Fix or Skip?
Also: how painful is it to do this task the current way?
mjcurl··on JavaScript dates are about to be fixed
You're right. But then tz updates would need a patch.
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