Hackernews posts about AOL
AOL is an American online service provider and media conglomerate that was once one of the most popular internet service providers in the United States, known for its dial-up access and proprietary software.
- A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage (ngrok.com)
- AOL was down (1996) (2026) (ngrok.com)
- AOL Owner to Go Public at over $18B Valuation (www.wsj.com)
- AOLs Instant Messenger was the unsung hero of the early-aughts (a.wholelottanothing.org)
- A Trusty Boot Key (Ventoy Alternative), for Bastille Day (codeberg.org)
- Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (www.reuters.com)
- 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech (theintercept.com)
- U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (www.semafor.com)
- Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (software.annas-archive.gl)
- Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) (www.beyondallreason.info)
- We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)
- RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers (rubyllm.com)
- Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev)
- OAuth for all (blog.cloudflare.com)
- Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)
- Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives (www.howtogeek.com)
- Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode (wren.wtf)
- I also filed the corners off my MacBook (www.brt.fyi)
- Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds (queue.acm.org)