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I don’t do alarms, just timers, but my site does it like this: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/ One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you se…

Still no ipv6 for S3?

The Greatest Good Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think I could find it? http://www.theatlan…

Back when I was running a disposable email service called dodgeit.com I settled on a similar approach. I would just have postfix drop the mail in Maildir style files, then had a pe…

Quartz: What critics agree are the best books of 2015 http://qz.com/566945/what-critics-agree-are-the-best-books-o...

Not a letter: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/

Saw this recently: https://medium.com/why-not/how-we-re-doing-stats-at-howdy-29...

Lots of companies already trust AWS and host various services there. Many of those companies might not trust your git servers to be up and running 24/7 with Amazon-like SLAs.

That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.

"When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sen…

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine. Pay attention and you will see this book come up time and time again on HN. I have reread multiple times.

>More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to 1 Wired Broadband Provider And those who have more than 1 are served by an oligopoly who overcharge for mediocre (at best) service. Are…

I love the http://nextdraft.com/ daily email. Short paragraph summaries of the day's news, funny, and with links if you want to read more.

I'm beta testing a new web stats product and am looking for sites that have just launched or are about to launch. Would you like to swap beta testing? I'd be happy to try your new …

A stats service for new websites that notifies you when interesting things happen on your website.

Cool! would be nice if I could select a photo I have already taken from inside the app. http://www.sipsnapp.com/ has this feature and I use it.

Have I missed something or is there no way to get notified when an object gets deleted?

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...

Search Amazon for penguin mints. I used them to wean off coffee as an experiment (now I drink coffee again these days). It takes about 3 penguin mints to equal one cola beverage.

Yep - you are emphasizing my point. The default seems to be USD. Pick a sensible default - if you get more business from the US just show dollars. Or do some simple A/B testing and…

On Stamplay pricing: whenever I see pricing in pounds not dollars on a service like this, I think they are not quite ready for my business. My IP address (pretty) clearly identifie…

http://feltron.com/

I think the tabbed navigation on: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/ is going to confuse some users. Some people will never see the SMS pricing even though they are looking for it. Ban…

If you are the type to have remorse when a new model is introduced just after you buy, you may want to wait a week or so. The MacBook Pro is due for an upgrade pretty much any day …

Great way to celebrate is to give this another listen: Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn I haven't heard it myself for years b…