Potatoes in the Mail(facts.usps.com)

490 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 244 comments

A USPS Postal Facts page explaining that potatoes can be mailed without a box by writing addresses directly on the spud and paying postage.

Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.(taylor.town)

110 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 99 comments

E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper(buttondown.com)

97 points by rfarley04 1 year ago | 86 comments

Addressing the community about changes to our API(reddit.com)

215 points by kotaKat 3 years ago | 263 comments

M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy(bitfehler.srht.site)

159 points by cl3misch 2 years ago | 75 comments

Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME(posixcafe.org)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet(not-ship.com)

897 points by sighborg 12 days ago | 684 comments

A Not-Ship newsletter article examining how Amazon's marketplace policies drive up prices across other online retailers.

A website that lists websites to submit your website to(submission.directory)

391 points by azeemkafridi 4 months ago | 86 comments

A curated directory of sites where you can submit a website, startup, or product, such as launch platforms, startup directories, and backlink sources.

S3 is files, but not a filesystem(calpaterson.com)

535 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 400 comments

Cal Paterson's essay on why Amazon S3 stores files but isn't a filesystem, discussing deep modules, mismatched interfaces, and why SAP is painful.

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels(postalemployeenetwork.com)

272 points by ilamont 26 days ago | 161 comments

Postal Employee Network news article reporting that U.S. Postal Inspectors shut down a website selling millions of counterfeit postage labels.

All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS(aws.amazon.com)

33 points by acronpolis 19 days ago | 25 comments

AWS News Blog post presenting usage statistics for AWS services that powered Amazon Prime Day 2026.

Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)(aws.amazon.com)

500 points by Sirupsen 1 year ago | 146 comments

AWS announcement that Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes using ETags (put-if-match) to prevent concurrent overwrites of objects.