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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
42•ca98am79•1h ago

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gnabgib•1h ago
Related: Friendster Relaunch (27 points, 3 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883307

Ask HN: How to make Friendster great? (98 points, 11 months ago, 141 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053119

dang•16m ago
(The one from 3 days ago never made the frontpage so we won't treat it as a dupe)
gnabgib•5m ago
Nor was it posted by this account, nor is it the same URL.. and no one said dupe (although it repetitious of the 11mo Ask from this account)
mmclar•9m ago
Can you please make it (and keep it) so that friendships are symmetrical? I.e., "friend" rather than "follow". IMO that's the enshittification inflection point of Facebook.
Ferdinandpferd•6m ago
Or at least use proper terminology for following someone with reciprocity: stalking.
hoppyhoppy2•2m ago
do you mean "without reciprocity"?
lwhi•2m ago
Why no android app?
addedGone•2m ago
We can't seem to be able to login from the website, it requires an Apple account? The UI might not be showing up properly.

DeepSeek drops input cache price to 1/10th

https://xcancel.com/deepseek_ai/status/2048440764368347611
1•alecco•3s ago•1 comments

The curious case of Sean Plankey's derailed CISA nomination

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4162801/the-curious-case-of-sean-plankeys-derailed-cisa-nominat...
1•WaitWaitWha•38s ago•0 comments

High energy sports drinks boost performance even if you spit them out

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/apr/15/high-energy-carbohydrate-drinks-performance-brain
1•bwoah•3m ago•0 comments

US Navy tests laser weapon that shoots down drones on the USS George H.W. Bush

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-navy-tests-laser-weapon-that-shoots-down-drones-on-...
1•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I read Replika's privacy policy and then built a competitor

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/friend-ai-private-chat/id6761649790
1•krunkworx•5m ago•0 comments

Distribution of Global Biomass

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Distribution_of_the_global_biomass.png
1•downboots•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: XMIT Files from VSCode

https://github.com/wizardofzos/xmi-generator/releases/tag/0.0.3
1•wizardofzos•10m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's xAI discussed partnership with Mistral to try and rival OpenAI

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/24/elon-musks-xai-discussed-partnership-with-mistral-to-try...
2•muxamilian•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Chunk – time-block your day from the macOS menu bar

https://www.chunkapp.net/en
1•dudleyspence•16m ago•0 comments

UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/26/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-...
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Askbetter.dev – a simple guide to asking better technical questions

https://askbetter.dev/
1•featurenotabug•21m ago•1 comments

Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-deep-antarctic-ice-cosmic-strange.html
1•rbanffy•22m ago•0 comments

Twenty Years, Twenty Lessons from Creating Magic the Gathering (2016)

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/twenty-years-twenty-lessons-part-1-2016-05-30
1•stared•22m ago•0 comments

Squish – a local memory runtime for AI agents

https://squishplugin.dev/
2•michieldoteth•22m ago•0 comments

8v: One CLI for you and your AI agent. Up to 66% fewer tokens

https://github.com/8Network/8v
2•soheeilalizadeh•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a 2010s microblogging site with SolidJS and .NET Core

https://bojan.social
1•arrgeeebee•29m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare Starter: React App on Workers with SSR D1 SQLite R2 Bucket

https://github.com/DialtoneApp/cloudflare-starter
4•fcpguru•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Polynya – Turn your Postgres into workspaces for AI

https://polynya.dev/
3•hasyimibhar•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Matrirc – run irssi in 2026, talk to people on Matrix

https://github.com/pawelb0/matrirc
4•pawelb0•39m ago•0 comments

AT&T Unix PC – What went wrong? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x3uxKfFI-0
3•naves•40m ago•0 comments

Ace Technical Preview: GitHub Next's Agentic Workspace – Maggie Appleton [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClWD8OEYgp8
2•chaoxu•41m ago•0 comments

ELI: Explain Like I'm for any ArXiv Paper

https://eli.voxos.ai/
2•Falimonda•45m ago•0 comments

Agentic AI Security

https://www.straiker.ai/
2•noashavit•46m ago•1 comments

Show HN: PatchWork extracts your full career history and writes resumes for you

https://usepatch.work/
2•mcohrs•46m ago•2 comments

U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/world/americas/us-mint-gold-drug-cartel-colombia.html
30•mikhael•49m ago•10 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-am...
41•1659447091•50m ago•4 comments

Security issues found within rust-coreutils

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/80773
3•birdculture•51m ago•1 comments

Kitty-graphics.el v0.5.0: tmux support for images inside terminal Emacs

https://cashmere.rs/blog/kitty-graphicsel-v050-tmux-support-sixel-performance-typst-support
1•cashmere1337•57m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant

2•venkatram-s•57m ago•0 comments

Humanoid Data

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/1135656/humanoid-data-robot-training-ai-artificial-in...
1•gnabgib•1h ago•0 comments