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Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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I don't see why .dev domains would have tighter deadlines than .com.

Because if you don't launch today, people won't see that you were eager to spend as much money on the domain as possible (i.e. for Phase 1)...

If you run WHOIS on yc.dev you'll see that it was created prior to the beginning of the early access period yesterday. Also see: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

#62

I thought that the .dev extension had mandatory HTTPS due to HSTS preload. Yet, this loads as "Not Secure" HTTP for me.

According to https://get.dev/#benefits : >The .dev top-level domain is included on the HSTS preload list, making HTTPS required on all connections to .dev websites and pages without needing individual HSTS registration or configuration. What browser are you using that you are not redirected to https://yc.dev ? >Most major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 11 and Edge) also have HSTS preload lists based on…

A somewhat out-of-date Chromium (69). I should upgrade, but I'm surprised the change is that recent.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Is Paul Graham and Robert Morris's Arc language[a] being used for anything in production other than Y Combinator websites? [a] http://arclanguage.org/

I don't think so, although as the sibling says there is hobby activity. Interestingly enough, though, reddit was originally written in arc, but they later rewrote it in python. Make of that what you will.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Wow, it looks like they paid $11,500 for the yc.dev and ycombinator.dev domains [1]. (I guess that's a pretty small amount of money for YC.) I have my eye on some short .dev domains too, but I'm hoping to get one for $350. [2] https://domains.google/tld/dev/

Someone had mentioned that there was a limited brand/copyright phase before the $11k phase that was cheaper. Pretty sure they would fall into that. Hopefully someone who knows the details could chime in on that.

The relevant program here would be: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Is Paul Graham and Robert Morris's Arc language[a] being used for anything in production other than Y Combinator websites? [a] http://arclanguage.org/

I don't think so, although as the sibling says there is hobby activity. Interestingly enough, though, reddit was originally written in arc, but they later rewrote it in python. Make of that what you will.

Reddit was written in Common Lisp, not Arc.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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According to https://get.dev/#benefits : >The .dev top-level domain is included on the HSTS preload list, making HTTPS required on all connections to .dev websites and pages without needing individual HSTS registration or configuration. What browser are you using that you are not redirected to https://yc.dev ? >Most major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 11 and Edge) also have HSTS preload lists based on…

A somewhat out-of-date Chromium (69). I should upgrade, but I'm surprised the change is that recent.

In Chromium, the whole HSTS preload list is expired if it gets too out of date, as domains are both added to and removed from the list. So you're giving up real security by running an out-of-date browser. Not only are HSTS-preloaded TLDs not secured, but even, say, gmail.com or yourbank.com aren't. See: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/compon...

I think it'd be better to use an out-of-date list instead of nothing; I should go push for that again.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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I wonder how many of the YC companies use the other YC companies. And which are the most / least used. How much effort do you reckon is put in trying to "align" them and keep them aligned? As in there's a consistency in (e.g.) docs, APIs, etc.

I would bet Stripe is the most used.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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iOS Safari (and other iOS browsers) auto redirects to http://ycombinator.dev/

Can you confirm that it's not rewriting the URL to https://yc.dev first before issuing a request to the network? It's possible that Safari has suffered some kind of regression. This definitely used to work at some point. I can confirm here in Chrome and Firefox that the URL is rewritten internally to https://yc.dev (which then redirects to https://ycombinator.dev ), so no unencrypted traffic is ever sent over the net…

Unfortunately I’m not in a situation where I can test that. It’s very possible that that’s the case, but it then leaves the question of why the non-https ycombinator.dev is what we eventually end up on.

Re: Y Combinator Resources for Developers

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Yeah, have to update my local DNS routes. I had .dev pointed to 127.0.0.1

This has been the topic of HN for the past few days for anything .dev. You should be using .test or .localhost for any development domains: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-2

Until someone buys test.

Will a boycott .dev site movement take hold?

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