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Thanks for the heads-up! HN Replies is up and running though, and notified me of a test comment I just made. If anyone would like to troubleshoot their subscription, feel free to e…

The WH website switched from Drupal to WordPress in 2017.

"Show HN" posts announcing a new tech startup/tool are a core part of this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew I see nothing wrong with this post. They're sharing something …

Gmail is the only product you listed that Google started itself. Google Maps was built on the acquisitions of Where 2 Technologies, Keyhole and ZipDash. Chrome is based on WebKit, …

Almost all the things in this list were acquired from someone else that built them, rebranded, and then given away for free, taking much of the money out of the market that allowed…

From Reddit discussions, if they can be trusted, there is nobody who can remove Matt from any position. It's a private company and the investors were given non-voting shares.

I remember that fondly, that was the time period when I first got online and made my own GeoCities page. I first learned HTML from a page in the Athens neighborhood, on lot 2090. 3…

I'm surprised they're not just refunding all the purchases. I thought Amazon was still that kind of place. When they discontinued Amazon Cloud Cam in 2022, they sent out a replacem…

About 40% of lithium is "mined" from brine rather than hard rock sources, at least. Much less destructive and less carbon intensive.

A date picker widget I tossed on NPM 13 years ago gets 32,000 downloads per week. 510 a week is background activity, that's indexing bots or one org's CI system.

Confinity is the company that developed the PayPal website that survived that merger. Elon Musk was not on the Confinity side, he was trying to pivot his x.com bank into a PayPal c…