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This was already posted by the way! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278421
https://archive.is/pvY47 archive link for those who dont want to pay
I'm not endorsed by this, just thought it was interesting it got into YC...
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:45AM (#45335073)
Slack moved us off the free plan to the 5k plan, which is fair considering thousands of users; it costs money to host those servers.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:05PM (#45284762)
FYI Hack Club helps fiscally sponsor organizations that do not have the capacity to apply for nonprofit status (https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/). The 7% income covers dev fees for lawyers, engineers and a bunch of other stuff to help it kept running.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @10:48PM (#45284625)
Hack Club was on a grandfathered free nonprofit plan, but switched to a 5k/year on earlier this year under a special deal with Slack. Now the price is increased to 50k one time, and then 200k a year

Show HN: I Parsed Every Name from SSA Cards and Visualized the Data

https://nomen.sh

Hi HN!I’m Aram, a fourteen year old in Seattle. I recently found out that the social security administration (SSA) provides datasets of every name on a social security card (1880-2023)! So i made a tool for people to graph them, compare them with other names, view the most popular names of years, and even see how many people are alive with a name (using a rough actuary db also from the ssa). I...

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Re:g.co, Google's official URL shortcut, is compromised on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:55PM (#42810369)
What's even more interesting is there is no DNS records for important.g.co, which means they have found a way to create an Google Workspace without verifying the domain but still able to send emails like password resets.

It's definitely a glitch where you can send emails/transactional emails from an unverified Google Workspace. My guess is that their are protections for google.com and google domains but they forgot to add the g.co domain, which allows unverified sending to g.co and creation of workspaces.

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