My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story(old.reddit.com)

94 points by bsmth 3 years ago | 64 comments

1M Users(blog.spacehey.com)

692 points by theneedful 2 years ago | 166 comments

Blog post by SpaceHey's creator announcing the MySpace-inspired social network reached 1 million registered users and describing recent improvements.

Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman(journa.host)

236 points by ta988 1 year ago | 94 comments

Reddit banned me for developing Geddit(buzl.uk)

207 points by kaangiray26 2 years ago | 134 comments

Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site(old.reddit.com)

1499 points by laubonghaudoi 2 years ago | 671 comments

A Reddit r/webdev post in which a user reports receiving a $104,500 Netlify bill for a simple static site.

The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam(mastodon.social)

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Raising money fucked me up(blog.yakkomajuri.com)

342 points by yakkomajuri 9 months ago | 127 comments

Personal blog post by a founder who left Doublepoint to start a company, reflecting on how raising venture money affected him and his motivations.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents(interconnects.ai)

344 points by vantareed 4 months ago | 197 comments

Nathan Lambert's Interconnects post arguing that the GLM-5.2 model marks a capability threshold for open-weight agentic AI.

Let me pay for Firefox(discourse.mozilla.org)

673 points by csmantle 1 year ago | 513 comments

A Mozilla Discourse community forum post by a longtime supporter arguing that Mozilla should let users pay for Firefox to fund its development.

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services(neilzone.co.uk)

905 points by speckx 7 months ago | 554 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author can think of few online services for which he would be willing to verify his identity or age, amid policy proposals for age checks.