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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 3 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. So he built a simple file sync tool for himself. That tool became Dropbox — now worth $8B. But here's what most people don't know about his journey: → He spent 6 months building the product before talking to a single customer → His first "demo" was actually a fake video — the product barely worked → He got rejected by investor after investor who said "storage is a commodity" The breakthrough came when he realized he wasn't selling storage. He was selling peace of mind. Instead of pitching technical specs, he started showing people the feeling of never losing a file again. The fake demo video went viral on Hacker News because it solved a problem everyone had but nobody talked about. Y Combinator accepted him in 2007. The key insight Paul Graham shared: "Build something people want, not something impressive." Houston took that literally. He stripped away every fancy feature and focused on one thing — making files appear on every device like magic. By launch, they had 75,000 people on the waitlist from that one video. The lesson: Sometimes the best validation isn't building the product. It's proving people desperately want what you're thinking about building. What's the simplest version of your idea that could test real demand?

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  daniela molloy (@diandrasdiandra) reported 5 minutes ago

  coachella taking down the stream right when i'm at the start of it... okay *******. can someone send me like a link? a dropbox, a mega file, a drive, something?

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  Josh Humble (@joshhumble) reported 5 minutes ago

  Syncing and backup services suck, both on-site and online. I've had to quit Dropbox, due to a barrage of terrible new policies for Mac years ago. iDrive is now taking days for simple backups of a few gigs, and my Lacie syncing service for my Lacie's started randomly deleting files on my HD last year. Why can't we just get GOOD software without the drama of software engineers??? Any suggestions for a real backup service that doesn't screw with their customers would be appreciated.

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  John Cartwright°͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ 🐈 🐈 🐈 (@bejiitas_wrath) reported 6 minutes ago

  Windows Defender, the built-in antivirus running on every Windows machine, has a working zero-day exploit with full source code sitting on GitHub. No patch, no CVE, and confirmed working on fully updated Windows 10 and 11. A researcher who says Microsoft went back on their word just handed every attacker paying attention a privilege escalation that takes any low-privileged account straight to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. On Windows Server, the result is different but still serious: a standard user ends up with elevated administrator access. The vulnerability is called BlueHammer. On April 2nd, the researcher posted the public disclosure on a personal blog, and on April 3rd, the full exploit source code went live on GitHub. Both were published under the alias Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare Eclipse, with a message to Microsoft's Security Response Centre that comes down to: I told you this would happen. In late March, the same researcher opened a blog with a single post explaining that they never wanted to come back to public research. Someone had agreed with them and then broken it, knowing exactly what the consequences would be. The post says it left the researcher without a home or anything. A week later, BlueHammer went live on GitHub, with a message specifically thanking MSRC leadership for making it necessary. That is not someone annoyed with a slow review process. That is someone with nothing left to lose. BlueHammer is not a traditional bug, and it does not need shellcode, memory corruption, or a kernel exploit to work. What it does is chain five completely legitimate Windows components together in a sequence that produces something their designers never intended. Those five components are Windows Defender, Volume Shadow Copy Service, the Cloud Files API, opportunistic locks, and Defender's internal RPC interface. One practical limitation worth knowing: the exploit needs a pending Defender signature update to be available at the time of the attack. Without one in the queue, the chain does not trigger. That makes it less reliable than a push-button exploit, but it does not make it safe to ignore. When Defender runs an antivirus definition update, part of that process involves creating a temporary Volume Shadow Copy, which is the same snapshot mechanism Windows uses for backup and restore. That shadow copy contains files that are normally completely locked during regular operation, including the SAM database, which stores the password hashes for every local account on the machine. BlueHammer registers itself as a Cloud Files sync provider, the same kind of thing that OneDrive or Dropbox uses to sync files. When Defender touches a specific file inside that folder, the exploit gets a callback and immediately places an opportunistic lock on that file. Defender stalls, blocked, waiting for a response that is never coming. The shadow copy it just created is still mounted. The window is open. With Defender frozen in place, the exploit reads the SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY registry hives directly from the snapshot. It decrypts the stored NTLM password hashes using the boot key pulled from the SYSTEM hive, changes a local administrator account's password, logs in with that account, copies the administrator security token, pushes it to the SYSTEM level, creates a temporary Windows service, and spawns a command prompt running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Then, to cover its tracks, it puts the original password hash back. The local account password looks completely unchanged. No crash, no alert, nothing. The Cloud Files provider name hardcoded in the exploit source code reads IHATEMICROSOFT. The administrator password used during the escalation is hardcoded as $PWNed666!!!WDFAIL. These are not bugs left by accident. They are messages, written directly into the code, and there is only one intended reader.

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  Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported 9 minutes ago

  “Delete Your Dropbox.” Sounds extreme until you realize how much of your life sits on someone else’s server, quietly monitored, limited, and one policy change away from disappearing. This isn’t just a challenge. It’s a wake-up call. The idea is simple: 24 hours. Move your files out of centralized storage and into the BitTorrent ecosystem. No gatekeepers. No single point of failure. Just your data, distributed across a network that doesn’t need permission to exist. We turn it into a movement. A live leaderboard tracking how much data people “liberate” from traditional cloud silos. A real-time counter ticking upward gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes each number representing users taking back control. Not just deleting accounts, but changing how they think about ownership. Because that’s what this is really about. Centralized platforms trade convenience for control. They decide uptime, access, even what’s allowed to exist. The BitTorrent ecosystem flips that model. Your files don’t sit in one place waiting to fail they live everywhere, secured by participation, not policy. So yeah, delete your Dropbox or don’t. But understand the difference. One system rents you space. The other gives you sovereignty. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back. @BitTorrent @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  Maple 🍁 (@GhostofMapl) reported 9 minutes ago

  @LiliH65289916 @LukeDashjr In no way does Bitcoin become Dropbox. It's a terrible medium for storage. Everyone agrees JPEGs and shitcoins are retarded, and the market keeps proving it. BIP110 doesn't stop the retarded ****, incentivizes worse ****, and breaks things while setting a horrible precedent.

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  liv (@sophaaachi) reported 12 minutes ago

  @kasandraalexis_ I think the smallest, 128GB. I don't store much on their and don't use a lot of apps so I haven't ran into a problem except with photos, and that's just from the cloud in general. I have 3TB with Dropbox, so I don't get high storage devices lol.

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  Cornelius Mark (@corneliusmark) reported 15 minutes ago

  Many app developers try viral referrals because Dropbox succeeded with them. They add "invite friends for premium" and face low uptake and more users leaving. The issue is utility app users seek quiet tools, not social features. Use that time for content like workflow guides to gain trust and regular installs.

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  𝕲𝖎𝖌 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 (@Gig_Digger) reported 20 minutes ago

  @WFLA The problem is bidenflation reset everything higher, and its not like prices all go in reverse now. But thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 20 minutes ago

  1. The Y Combinator Idea Validator "You are a senior partner at Y Combinator who has evaluated 50,000+ startup applications and funded companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. You know within 5 minutes whether an idea has real potential or is a waste of time. I need a brutally honest validation of my business idea before I invest a single hour building it. Validate: - Problem clarity: is this solving a real painful problem or a 'nice to have' that nobody will pay for - Market size estimate: how many people have this problem and how much would they pay to solve it - Existing solutions: what are people currently using and why is my approach meaningfully better - Willingness to pay test: 5 questions I can ask real people today to confirm they'd actually buy this - Unfair advantage check: what do I personally have (skills, network, experience) that makes me the right person to build this - Business model clarity: how exactly does this make money — subscription, one-time, marketplace, or ads - First 10 customers: who specifically are my first 10 paying customers and where do I find them - MVP definition: the absolute smallest version I can build to test if people will pay - Kill criteria: what specific evidence in the next 7 days would prove this idea is dead - YC verdict: fund, pass, or pivot with the single most important reason Format as a Y Combinator-style application review with a brutally honest score out of 10 and a clear go/no-go recommendation. My idea: [DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS IDEA, WHO IT'S FOR, WHAT PROBLEM IT SOLVES, AND WHY YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD PAY]"

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  Cryptosailor (@robertdavid010) reported 20 minutes ago

  @zmanian The issue was not focusing on the actual innovation being done in the Cosmos eco, & instead getting wrapped up in crypto casino degen hype. Eg. @Jackal_Protocol delivers on a decentralized 'Dropbox' @gitopiaDAO delivers on decentralized 'GitHub' (all Cosmos project should use)

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  Marcos (@Marcos_Murano) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Dropbox @Dropbox I need support. I've lost two years of work due to sync problems. Please help.

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  Holly | UGC Creator | Influencer (@hqcrocker) reported 22 minutes ago

  Unpopular opinion….DropBox is sooo slow for uploads. 😳😵‍💫 #ugc

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  SHIRISH SHIROOR (@Shirish1004) reported 23 minutes ago

  @vfsglobalcare Filled DS 160. Filled Application for visa appointment and paid fees. We are eligible for interview waiver. After clicking dropbox button it goes to VFS global contact us page and then says 404 error. We want appointment for drop box at VFS global Pune India center. Plz guide us

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  Jim Jensen (@jensenje) reported 25 minutes ago

  @WindowsCentral ZeroDrive has always been buggy! Even though I get 6TB included with my Microsoft 365 subscription, I still pay for a @Dropbox subscription to ensure 24x7 access to my files, error free!