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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by sundarurfriend »

coffeefirst wrote: post #62
catsarebetter wrote: post #2

I have a blog that I write hshidara.com that I don't care about doing well. My mind tends to wander and I have a hard time articulating and forming abstract ideas verbally, usually I need to write it out in a journal, but this helps me get my thoughts even more in order because of the public nature of the content creating more social pressure to get it right. I have a tools section where I make small edge-case tools…

At this point I absolutely don't want my personal blog to "succeed." I don't want attention, or fame, or any of the shenanigans that come along with a large following. If it ever achieved these things I'd probably delete it. Building stuff just for yourself is underrated.

It would be ironic if you followed that comment with a link to the blog :D

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Post by ctxc »

leetrout wrote: post #329

I just started building a "terraform simulator" to teach fundamental concepts of terraform with no overhead of real services. Learn the tool behavior in a safe way very quickly. Thats my goal. I'll at least force it on my teammates for a small workshop.

Where do I sign up?

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Post by el_benhameen »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #338
el_benhameen wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have an audio version? I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for walks.

Yup! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zvt9QZWMUGsQ27NM8XuMd?si=6c7e... Podbean: https://professionaltechnicalintervieweewithtaylordorsett.po...

Oh man, this is an absolute jackpot—exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

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Post by raverbashing »

blunte wrote: post #163
FriedPickles wrote: post #141

When you plug a Macbook in with the included two-prong power adapter, sometimes it buzzes slightly when you stroke it gently (ground loop). Im working with a factory to make a grounded duckhead adapter to fix this. https://ibb.co/P4Bjstg

Wow. I had never experienced this until I moved from US to NL. It sometimes really bothers (scares?) me. If you have two Macbooks side by side, and you touch them both at the same time, you can get an even bigger sensation. Now since you're in this area of expertise, do you think it's possible that on rare occasions I could lightly stroke another human (let's say in a bed, on a waterbed (water filled rubber container…

> until I moved from US to NL

So, my guess is you're using the 2 pronged brick (US) plug with a US->EU plug adaptor.

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

FailMore wrote: post #394
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #70

I built a website to help me track my Apple Fitness+ workouts. Specifically, I needed several features that Apple doesn't offer today: - A chronological history of the workouts I've completed. - Notes and like/dislike tracking on the workouts I've completed. - Real search capabilities to let me find particular types of workouts (e.g. filter to yoga workouts and search for "pigeon") And, if people actually use it, the…

Hey, this looks really cool. Saved!

thanks!

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Post by dimitar »

There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud:

* The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier

* When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close.

* If you extract the link from your chrome history and visit it again on your computer it looks like a benign form, with terms of use and you need to click at least twice to subscribe.

Now these guys will actually return you the money if you bother to find them and ask it back. They will appear really legitimate as the fraud is difficult to reproduce, and the bet is that they steal a relatively small amount of money and it's possible not everyone notices it on time. Worse I'm sure many parents will blame their kids.

The awful thing is that this scheme wouldn't be possible without Google and the mobile carrier. I actually had DCB disabled because I knew the problem exists, but the carrier had reenabled it without my knowledge. I clicked a link by mistake when I was choosing a video for my kid and got charged.

My project is to research a possible way to reliably reproduce their fraud so I can report it to the authorities. I know for sure they don't have the means to properly investigate it..

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Post by purplebreak »

temporalparts wrote: post #355

I built a chrome extension that removes duplicate tabs silently and automagically. No complex interactions required. It's removed over 9000 tabs for me personally over the course of a year and a half. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singletab/hjohicao...

Speaking of duplicate removal:

An extension to remove duplicate snippets in GitHub Code Search results.

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