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Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
Original EnglishThe sunglasses are all $0 to the customer, but we charge for shipping, which is where the profit comes from.
DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
Original EnglishI will just say I hate how we use "bandwidth" to both mean "data transfer speed" and "monthly data transfer limit"...
Launch HN: Wolfia (YC S22) – A mobile app emulator you can share with a link
Original EnglishWe use WebSockets to make a two-way connection between the browser and the emulator through ADB (Android Debug Bridge).
Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
Original EnglishI used to be a bit anti JavaScript/typescript stacks at all costs but there is something to this.
My Android development income report
Original EnglishThe majority of the revenue comes from ads, but more and more paid apps revenue is higher!
Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker
Original EnglishInstead it directly ties retention to "how long can I last without losing or erasing my phone", which is not a useful proxy.
The uncanny valley of web scraping
Original EnglishAnd since we charge a monthly fee for it (I don't think most people realize that our server fees alone run nearly $2,000 a month …
How to Get PayPal to Freeze Your Account in Four Easy Steps
Original EnglishAs an aside, my non-profit's account was frozen once but I got it unfrozen in fairly short order, and at worst it was a minor …
Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April
Original English$15 a month is far below my care floor for making sure that my backups are working and that I do not get sued into …