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Part 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1938/08/crash-i...

Does GDPR have anything to do with this? None of their PII is posted. GDPR doesn't let you force anyone to delete anything about you from their site.

Hello HN. I run AbuseIPDB, a free distributed IP threat analysis database that allows users to report abusive IPs (spammers, bruteforcers, etc) through an API, webform, or Fail2Ban…

Stuff has caught fire at McMurdo multiple times - if it's not exterior, stuff inside the building is certainly flammable. McMurdo actually has their own 6-person fire department sp…

Really interesting read - I just accepted a position with the US Antarctic Program as senior computer technician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station this upcoming summer seaso…

Google just started sending this around to publishers looking for feedback and suggestions. It works by allowing people to pay a monthly amount ($5, $10, etc) which is then used to…

I've been planning to get everything off the shared hosting accounts for awhile. Is Digital Ocean a better deal than, say, AWS for hosting dynamic websites?

This is a great idea - unfortunately, some of the servers I need to back up are feature-poor shared hosting accounts where it would be difficult or impossible to run a script that …

A particular pain point that I've had managing websites and services hosted over a hodgepodge of shared hosting accounts and VPSes is centralized and secure backup of web content a…

TickChek.com is a side-project I launched in collaboration with my university's wildlife laboratory to offer tick testing for Lyme and other diseases. We've grossed over $4k in out…

I built a pretty thorough tax calculator tool at http://www.tax-rates.org/income-tax-calculator . Building it was a great experience, and I monetize it with ads and affiliate links…

Seems like this would work great for a single server, but it's alot of work to set up a backup system like this for multiple servers (including shared hosting accounts with limited…

I manage a handful of web services spread across multiple shared hosting accounts and VPSes. I do manual backups on an occasional basis, but the process of backing up all of the we…

Most insurance companies don't cover tick testing, unfortunately. We've never had any problems sending ticks through the mail though. People usually send 'em in sandwich bags insid…

My dad got Lyme on the Appalachian Trail five years ago, and still has symptom flare-ups regularly. Lyme has a habit of converting anybody affected by it into an activist, which pr…