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Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?

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Ask HN: HarmonyOS Open Source Development

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Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff

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Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?

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Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal

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Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

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Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?

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Could the optimal vibe coder be fundamentally different from the optimal SWE?

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Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

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Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust

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Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?

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Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?

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Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?

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GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs

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Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?

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Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?

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Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?

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Ask HN: Do you have an exit plan for Slack?

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Ask HN: How do you use the "waiting time" while Claude (other LLMs) is working?

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Ask HN: Anybody here ever write apps for Windows Phone?

3•ge96•1d ago•2 comments

I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end

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SSH Tiny.christmas

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89•kmstout•16h ago
If you have fond memories of misspending entirely too much of your youth on web-based message boards, or you would like to misspend more of your nights and weekends on them now, Google has you covered. Simply add

  inurl:viewtopic.php
to any query, and most, if not all, of your results will be discussion threads on boards running atop phpBB. Similarly, using

  inurl:"index.php?topic="
seems to get Simple Machines fora, and

  inurl:showthread.php
will unearth vBulletin fora. You can also combine them, like so:

  croissant AND (inurl:viewtopic.php OR inurl:showthread.php OR inurl:"index.php?topic=")
Happy holidays, and good hunting.

Comments

davedx•16h ago
There must be a vbulletin version too!
FergusArgyll•16h ago
And if you do find an old php message board, absolutely do not add

  ?topic=../../../../etc/passwd
wheybags•14h ago
My first php script was a file upload server for a lan party. Luckily nobody tried to upload a file named ../index.php, because I realized afterwards that it would have worked :p
6510•14h ago
I've just tried it on mine but nothing fun happened. What is suppose to?
FergusArgyll•13h ago
Google / ask AI

Local file inclusion (LFI)

chistev•15h ago
I posted this 23 days ago -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511

I've been enjoying past discussion threads on HN, currently in 2012.

Interesting conversations about how Facebook would fail back then, lol, and about how Bitcoin would not be as valuable as it is today. Who would have known?

Great site, this.

stackghost•15h ago
HN is (in)famous for being bad at predicting success or failure, cf. Dropbox.

Lots of very intelligent people here but, no offense to anyone, this is the last place I'd come to get product advice.

thekevan•14h ago
That's selection bias. Most replies in the post were positive.

BrandonM's comment also wasn't that unreasonable in my opinion. Imagine telling someone many years ago that we'd use an app on our phones to get in stranger's car and pay a lot for the privilege as well. His reaction to Dropbox wasn't on point but wasn't tone deaf.

Drew from Dropbox responded to the post at the time and BrandonM responded positively, praising the product.

It was overall a mature and very fair way of saying it wasn't for him.

chistev•14h ago
Lol. It's not just a HN thing. Humans just suck at predicting the future when that future involves the actions of other humans. Too many variables.

If you had read old discussion threads you'd never know Facebook would be the behemoth it is today.

samyar•14h ago
Hn is the place where smart ppl give you feedback. I have benefited in many ways from hn.
lisbbb•10h ago
Except most of them are just book smart (if that) and have little real-world experience.
lisbbb•10h ago
It's because this site is inhabited by redditors who downvote comments such as yours for no other reason except to preserve the paper thin veneer of their superiority.
DetectDefect•14h ago
I would love to see an effort to amass these corpora of knowledge into zim files for offline consumption, similar to stackoverflow et al.

https://library.kiwix.org