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  1. Ask HN: What are your favourite newsgroups?

    On the back of today's earlier discussion on the possibility of a Usenet revival/replacing Reddit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36153565), I went and created an account on Eternal September. I've lurked on…

    2 points 1
  2. Ask HN: What's the road to micropayments being a first-class citizen of the web?

    I've been going down a rabbit-hole these past few days investigating why there still does not exist a ubiquitous solution for micropayments on the web. What requirements must a micropayment solution fulfil to be…

    22 points 11
  3. Ask HN: Amazon stonewalling me after they closed my account – how to resolve?

    Morning all, I decided to cash-out $3k-worth of Rocketrip points (a workplace scheme which rewards reduced-cost business travel) on Amazon gift-cards to purchase some things to furnish my new home in the US (just moved…

    6 points 7
  4. Ask HN: What charitable efforts make good use of technical skills?

    A post I read a while back about an effort to equip an island with a working GSM network using open-source software (https://babyis60.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/the-island-phone-system-adventure/, similar effort…

    4 points 0
  5. Ask HN: Competitor lifted app concept and name and filed trademark

    We are based in UK and US - CA (not a registered company in either). Competitor looks to be based in CA also. A friend and I have been building an app as a little side project for a few years. With work and real-life…

    10 points 7
  6. Ask HN: How should we go about marketing our app?

    So I'm not looking to be spoon-fed an entire marketing strategy - we are doing lots of reading on the topic at the moment. Rather, after having worked on the app so long we've lost a certain sense of clarity, and would…

    16 points 16
  7. List of Hacker News-style aggregators for specific niches (github.com)
    1 points 1
  8. Ask HN: What interesting hardware startups are based in London?

    I'm looking for a graduate job at a hardware startup in London. It seems most lists I find only cover design agencies etc. Upverter supposedly has a map, but unfortunately it's down. There's also a Wired article with a…

    8 points 4
  9. Stopping blocking threads in Python using gevent (sort of) (mikeanthonywild.com)
    1 points 0
  10. Ask HN: Best practices for securing clustered services

    I'm currently setting up a scalable application and was wondering what the best security practices are for a multi-server setup. Currently I use SSH key authentication on each server - but how do I handle passwords for…

    1 points 0
  11. Ask HN: How do you validate your ideas?

    It seems like the easiest way is to get a landing page or similar that says 'Here's my product, here's what it does' and gather feedback from people (and some points of contact) which you take on board and use to shape…

    11 points 6
  12. Ask HN: Would anyone be willing to share an image of their workspace?

    I always find it inspirational seeing other people's work environments and would love to start a collection of images. If anyone is interested then I'd love to include your workspace! It doesn't have to be your dev…

    1 points 0
  13. Show HN: Audentifi – Identify the music used in YouTube videos (audentifi.com)
    4 points 11