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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 ab…

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 co…

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 …

Ironic, isn't it! OpenAI started out "open," publishing research, and now "ClosedAI" would be a much better name.

Hi HN! I run a link shortening service ( https://y.gy ), and I kept running into a problem where users were submitting spam links that were cloaked via other link shortening servic…

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 tr…

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…

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, …

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 o…

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 prac…

did you try crisp.chat? we've been thinking about this as well