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  1. Ask HN: Best practices for giving clients total cost estimates

    So a potential new client plops a big involved website project down in my lap and asks "how much?". I can give them my hourly rate, and I can make a wild guess at approximately how many hours it might take... provided…

    3 points 0
  2. LetsMonitor.org Alerts You When Your Certificates Need Renewal or Aren't Working (letsmonitor.org)
    1 points 0
  3. Harvard Scientist Engineers Bacterium That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy (forbes.com)
    4 points 0
  4. Ask HN: How is pinterest allowed on Google?

    Every single page indexed in Google displays a full page popup requiring registration (not initially, but the second you try to scroll or click on anything). I thought this kind of behavior was frowned upon by Google.…

    6 points 1
  5. Home Depot Canada Website Listing Drills Priced “Lowest First” (homedepot.ca)
    3 points 2
  6. Ask HN: What will IPV6 migration actually look like?

    And is this ever going to happen? I have been hearing "IPV6 is just on the horizon", "IPV4 is completely exhausted, it's only a matter of months", etc... for years now. IPV4 exhaustion scare-mongering has been so slow…

    43 points 47
  7. Ask HN: Why are SMS verification codes typically numeric?

    I am in the process of implementing an SMS verification process for an old website of mine and got to thinking about why most SMS verification codes (even those send by Google) typically consist of only numbers? Surely…

    4 points 5
  8. Ask HN: What countries is it impossible to accept payments from?

    PayPal does not currently work with the following list of 19 countries: Afghanistan Bangladesh Central African Republic North Korea Equatorial Guinea Ghana Haiti Iran Iraq Lebanon Liberia Libya Myanmar Pakistan South…

    3 points 3
  9. Ask HN: What were some of the more devastating PHP exploits?

    I am re-writing an old website of mine in PHP. I am curious what some of the worst PHP security exploits are that have been found in the recent past.

    2 points 2
  10. Whatever happened to MOSH? (github.com)
    4 points 1
  11. Ask HN: Does the Art of War really translate to business?

    I've read The Art of War[0] a few times now, and I'm not so sure how or if it truly translates into business terms. What lines did you like best in a business sense and why? Personally, my favorite line is: "That the…

    3 points 2
  12. Seattle windshield pitting epidemic (en.wikipedia.org)
    5 points 0
  13. Ask HN: Why does Costco not have an express lane at any of their stores?

    The CEO claims it's because: >"Costco’s ability to sell merchandise at incredibly low prices is based on adhering to various operating disciplines at every turn. Instead of having an express line—that often would be…

    9 points 20
  14. 'Idea guy' behind Tim Hortons saw others get rich while he went bankrupt (2009) (v1.theglobeandmail.com)
    2 points 0
  15. Where 3000MPG+ Cars Come to Compete: The Ecomarathon (hackaday.com)
    5 points 1
  16. Tesla plans to pay $25 an hour at Gigafactory (usatoday.com)
    7 points 0
  17. Who owns Route 66? (2010) (shoestringtheory.com)
    22 points 12
  18. Nintendo Updates Take Wii U Hostage Until You “Agree” to New Legal Terms (eff.org)
    4 points 0
  19. US researcher banned for mining Bitcoin using university supercomputers (pcworld.com)
    1 points 0
  20. Interview: Inventing the Unix “sudo” command (hackaday.com)
    3 points 0
  21. CloudFlare's Internet facing SSL cipher configuration (github.com)
    3 points 0
  22. Ticketmaster sues notorious ticket scraper Higs (scrapesentry.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Cryptanalys.is: HN Clone Focusing on Cryptocurrency, Cryptography and Privacy (cryptanalys.is)
    2 points 3
  24. The Glider (from Conway's Game of Life) (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 0
  25. How to make favicons into a sprite? (stackoverflow.com)
    1 points 0