[HN Gopher] Looking for Decent Conversation?
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Looking for Decent Conversation?
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Author : kmstout
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-12-24 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago)
| davedx wrote:
| There must be a vbulletin version too!
| FergusArgyll wrote:
| And if you do find an old php message board, absolutely _do not_
| add ?topic=../../../../etc/passwd
| wheybags wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I've just tried it on mine but nothing fun happened. What is
| suppose to?
| FergusArgyll wrote:
| Google / ask AI
|
| Local file inclusion (LFI)
| chistev wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Hn is the place where smart ppl give you feedback. I have
| benefited in many ways from hn.
| DetectDefect wrote:
| 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
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