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14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2011-04-07 · latest 2026-10-08

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  1. …to start selling them. Leading to all kinds of issues, the exact issues that they raised... https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/397 https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/433 https://danielbachhuber.com/switch-laravel-valet-from-dev-to.…
    comment by dijit · 2026-10-08 · in New gTLD Application for .lan
  2. …about a decade ago pow did something similar, but using the .test domain, and perhaps ruby specific https://github.com/basecamp/pow/tree/master
    comment by riffraff · 2026-05-01 · in I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
  3. https://github.com/basecamp/pow Pow used .dev and .test in the 2000s-2010s
    comment by my69thaccount · 2022-04-30 · in Doctree
  4. …same treatment as .onion: by explicitly reserving them (but this is another topic to discuss). [1]: https://github.com/basecamp/pow [2]: https://github.com/laravel/valet [3]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7686.html [4]:…
    comment by sirn · 2021-11-22 · in Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?
  5. …in response to google’s change. Official site: https://pow.cx Thread on change from .dev to .test https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/386
    comment by evolve2k · 2020-09-27 · in foo@bar.com
  6. Let's hope this issue gets some traction: https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/545 It's a bit unnerving that the project hasn't seen an update since 2014, and has 100 open issues.
    comment by spiralganglion · 2017-09-18 · in Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
  7. …pow` to `~/.powconfig` it should work[2]. I haven't tried this myself though. [1]: https://github.com/basecamp/pow/blob/master/lib/configuratio... [2]: http://pow.cx/docs/configuration.html
    comment by sirn · 2014-05-12 · in Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone
  8. …requests to 127.0.0.1 not to 10.0.1.whatever so project.10.0.0.5.xip.io fails. Filed an issue: https://github.com/37signals/pow/issues/293 Edit: a) I should RTF man page for ipfw, b) nevertheless my OS X behaved strangely. I rebooted and…
    comment by MartinMond · 2012-06-08 · in Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
  9. …things the easy way using curl, feel free to build Node yourself and install Pow with npm: https://github.com/37signals/pow/wiki/Installation#installin...
    comment by sstephenson · 2011-05-10 · in Pow 0.3.0 released (Zero-config Rack server for OS X)
  10. If you want https you can install from github: curl https://github.com/37signals/pow/raw/master/install.sh | sh
    comment by mcobrien · 2011-04-08 · in Introducing Pow, a zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X
  11. pow isn't written in ruby, but javascript. So it might be installable from npm soon. If you `git clone git://github.com/37signals/pow.git`, you can install it from source with `npm install -g` (requires npm 1.0)
    comment by joshpeek · 2011-04-07 · in Introducing Pow, a zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X