# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
#
# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
#
# twt range = 1 4817
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt&offset=917
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt&offset=1017
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt&offset=817
Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
Saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868 from a couple weeks ago and figured I'd share my own story.
3 weeks ago, I woke up to a pissed off customer telling me her payments were broken. My startup uses Stripe Connect to accept payments on behalf of our clients, and when I looked into it, I found that Stripe had decided to deactivate her account. Reason listed: 'Other'.
Great.
I contact Stripe via chat, and I learn no ... ⌘ Read more
Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch
I ported Quake 1 to the Apple Watch, building on top of existing ports for iOS and Mac.
Some features:
\\\\* uses Quake SW renderer + blitting to WatchKit surface (~60 fps, 640x480, larger res can run on lower framerate, tested up until 1024x768)
\\\\* touch + gyro + digital crown controls
\\\\* new AVFoundation audio backend (quake to Watchkit audio buffer copy logic), as Watchkit does not support CoreAudio
\\\\* high pass audio filter to remove clicking on Watch speaker for some of the lo ... ⌘ Read more~
Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc.
The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly.
This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: b ... ⌘ Read more
Pornpen.ai, AI-Generated Porn
Hey HN, I've been working on https://pornpen.ai, a site for generating adult images. Please only visit the site if you are 18+ and willing to look at NSFW images.
This site is an experiment using newer text-to-image models. I explicitly removed the ability to specify custom text to avoid harmful imagery from being generated. New tags will be added once the prompt-engineering algorithm is fine-tuned further. If the servers are overloaded, take a look at the feed and search pages to look through p ... ⌘ Read more
Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production.
Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.
Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.
All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.
Never use GCP for production.
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Edit: full st ... ⌘ Read more
Show HN: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
Hi HN,
During lockdown I took up the keyboard hobby but I couldn't find anything I liked the aesthetic of. So I set out to design my own keyboard from scratch that shunned the gamer look in favour of a more minimal, serious design.
I've built several prototypes but I would love to get some feedback from the HN community.
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32507172
Points: 508
\\ ... ⌘ Read more*
Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150**
I use my own domain to host a simple homepage. I also use it as a custom mail domain.
Initially, I bought the domain on godaddy.com when I was getting into the realms of software engineering.
I always found the user interface hard to get used to, but it never bothered me enough for me to transfer my domain.
Especially because I run the DNS through Cloudlfare and, therefore, I have fairly little contact with the interface of godaddy.
Today Proto ... ⌘ Read more
GraphQL kinda sucks
Graphql is great, but is totally over hyped. This is probably more of a rant or a frustrated dev outburst.
but beginner to mid level developers are lead down the path of USE GRAPHQL especially on youtube... and this is just unfair and wrong.
The good:
\\- It makes working with describing the data you want easy
\\- It can save you bandwidth. Get what you ask for and no more
\\- It makes documentation for data consumers easy
\\- It can make subscription easier for you to use
\\- Can let you federate AP ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is _not_ an option,
include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
As someone who is intellectually curious and has had great success finding articles on sites like Hacker News and blogs like kottke.org, I haven’t yet figured out where to find the most interesting content on YouTube. Let me know in the comments if you have found certain channels and creators to be particularly rewarding to follow, or if there are other ways you’ve found to consistently track down good content.
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Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item ... ⌘ [Read more](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220192)*