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New comment by yahelc in "Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains"

yahelc — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:53:06 +0000

The purpose is so that Twitter is seen as the source of the traffic. A lot of Twitter-sourced traffic comes from native apps, so when people click links from tweets, they usually don’t send referrer information.

If the redirects were server side (setting the Location header), a blank referrer remains blank. Client side redirects will set the referral value.

From Twitter’s POV, there’s value in more fully conveying how much traffic they send to sites, even if it minorly inconveniences users.

New comment by yahelc in "Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM"

yahelc — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:23:46 +0000

How hard was acquiring the domain twenty.com?

New comment by yahelc in "Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?"

yahelc — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:40:25 +0000

I thought about it, but I hadn't originally built it to make money. It was a weekend hack project that I never expected to do that well, and suddenly the prospect of centering my life around a product I didn't really feel passionate about felt like a nightmare. I had a lot of anxiety about whether my external dependencies I'd built on top of would continue to work, and reached the point where a large payoff was worth it to de-risk myself from $23k/mo becoming $0/mo with no exit.

New comment by yahelc in "Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?"

yahelc — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:26:08 +0000

I built a social media analytics API. At its peak, it brought in about $23k/mo, with server costs at about $3k/mo. When I got a job at Instagram, they decided it was a conflict of interest and told me to sell it, which I did for a very healthy six figure sum.

New comment by yahelc in "HN is up again"

yahelc — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:34:30 +0000

Easy to imagine why this didn’t capture peoples’ attention in late March 2020…

New comment by yahelc in "Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS"

yahelc — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:53:55 +0000

This unnecessary condescension is made all the funnier by the fact that the quote the expression alludes to wasn't actually written by Mark Twain, but in all likelihood by a French writer named Nicolas Chamfort.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/03/eat-frog/

New comment by yahelc in "The unattributable “db8151dd” data breach"

yahelc — Fri, 15 May 2020 19:50:18 +0000

Probably because they include HIBP data https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...

New comment by yahelc in "Immigration Bill Could Change How Silicon Valley Sources Foreign Talent"

yahelc — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:47:04 +0000

The author, Virgil Goode, is best remembered for this incident. It may help in understanding his motivations in opposing high-skilled immigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_...

New comment by yahelc in "Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program"

yahelc — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:19:12 +0000

In addition to properly escaping inputs, Content Security Policy Headers to restrict the hosts that the browser executes JavaScript from (e.g., script-src). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...

New comment by yahelc in "Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby"

yahelc — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 01:53:24 +0000

I’m well aware. But every other map handles this correctly except Google Maps. It’s not that hard.

New comment by yahelc in "Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby"

yahelc — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:45:44 +0000

Also a pain-point -- 2.6 million people live in Queens, NY, but Google Maps gets the city wrong for the vast majority of them, and it causes major headaches for residents (since so many services rely on Google Maps), and they have yet to fix it, and reject any edits that attempt to do so for them.

Picking a random example -- "1880 Willoughby" is in the neighborhood of Ridgewood in Queens. Either "Queens" or "Ridgewood" are acceptable as the city.

However, Google Maps calls it "Flushing", which is a totally different neighborhood 10 miles away. Apparently this has to do with the history of where the central post offices were located for given areas in Queens, but no other online map provider struggles with this distinction.

U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange

yahelc — Fri, 10 May 2019 19:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-siliconvalley/u-s-regulators-approve-new-silicon-valley-stock-exchange-idUSKCN1SG21K

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19881673

Points: 394

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New comment by yahelc in "Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo"

yahelc — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:18:42 +0000

The city doesn't run the subway, the state does.

New comment by yahelc in "Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch"

yahelc — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:08:20 +0000

I've done this a few times and have found it to be an extremely effective way to do simple pixel tracking (for custom emails and the like).

New comment by yahelc in "NYC Subway Trains Might Start Moving Faster"

yahelc — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:20:01 +0000

The piece explicitly credits them:

> Workers have also started to replace faulty signals that trigger a train’s emergency brakes at low speeds, a problem investigated by The New York Times and The Village Voice that has also led to slower service.

XKCD-Inspired Calendar Facts Generator

yahelc — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 23:13:32 +0000

Article URL: http://yahel.com/calendarfacts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956326

Points: 2

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New comment by yahelc in "The Absurdity of Nobel Prizes in Science"

yahelc — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:43:48 +0000

You're close.

The bank isn't "a" bank, it's a Central Bank.

And it's Swedish, not Swiss.

New comment by yahelc in "Show HN: One hostname to rule them all"

yahelc — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:53:23 +0000

No, cookies can be restricted to paths, it's just less commonly utilized.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/co...

New comment by yahelc in "Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain"

yahelc — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:34:21 +0000

Can't be this, since they don't have on-page ads.

New comment by yahelc in "ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification"

yahelc — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:12:42 +0000

Interesting that String padding made it in -- sort of jumps out as the simplest of these additions. I wonder how much of that had to do with negative PR for JS-land due to left-pad-gate.