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I heard the full story of the woman jailed for two years for a tweet(telegraph.co.uk)
25 points by y_gy 1y ago|14 comments
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by y_gy 2y ago
Hi! I'm working on https://UpdateMaker.com . UpdateMaker is a super-simple widget for delivering in-app updates and notifications to users. As a dev, I always want to tell users about our latest updates, but making front-end
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by y_gy 3y ago
Most likely. We see a large amount of abuse coming from the replit free tier. And that's pretty similar to what Heroku used to offer. If you're going to provide people with free compute online, there are just a lot of ways to expl
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by y_gy 3y ago
You're thinking about the wrong thing. It's not about salaries for staff. The fact that it's a non-profit means no corporate taxes. That's where the profits go into the pockets of management, practically.
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I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot(app.y.gy)
197 points by y_gy 3y ago|111 comments
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The Problem Was the Product: How the Modern Data Stack Got Lost(benn.substack.com)
2 points by y_gy 3y ago|0 comments
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by y_gy 3y ago
Ironic, isn't it! OpenAI started out "open," publishing research, and now "ClosedAI" would be a much better name.
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No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React (2023)(getwaitlist.com)
21 points by y_gy 3y ago|43 comments
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Show HN: A Python and JavaScript package of 100 link shorteners(github.com)
2 points by y_gy 3y ago|0 comments
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by y_gy 3y ago
I would guess that this is actually SBF acting through an accomplice. Of course everyone's going to look at SBF when asking where that final $400 million went. Right now he's on trial, in the courtroom, everyone sees him there --
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by y_gy 3y ago
As I mentioned in another comment -- no, their options will not be underwater, because the strike on their options is set by the 409A value, which will have been far less than 1.5B. It wouldn't be unusual to see a company that's g
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by y_gy 3y ago
Liq pref > 1 was extremely uncommon in the last 5 years. Employees who joined after the 1.5B valuation will have made money because the strike on their options is set by the 409A, which will have been far, far less than 1.5B. Preferred s
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by y_gy 3y ago
This comment misunderstands how liq pref works. Liq pref is about the amount of money invested ($175M), not about the valuation. At a $975M exit and a par-for-the-course liq pref of 1.0, it is very likely that all shareholders will have m
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by y_gy 3y ago
The "brain vs brawn" is one of the most misguiding stereotypes in our society, surely left over from an older time when training in one necessarily meant less in the other. In practice, today it's all about discipline. Lots o
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by y_gy 3y ago
did you try crisp.chat? we've been thinking about this as well
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The Waitlist Indie SaaS Startup Stack, 2023 Edition(getwaitlist.com)
4 points by y_gy 3y ago|3 comments