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  ṢƘĪÑlÖVẸ́R̃ṢX🇺🇲🌷 (@skinloversx) reported 1 minute ago

  Hey Daddy I'm down for FaceTime 💧 Dropbox and all kind of nasty content message me for menu 💦💦🍆 #dmvfreaks

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  Jordan (@GoodLordJord) reported 5 minutes ago

  @SmugFecundity @techsaleshackz One million paying customers narrows it down to only a handful of saas companies in the world. Something with that many customers is obviously mature and has a ton of smb business. Probably something like docusign or dropbox which I could totally see a 50 yo doing ok at.

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  Yaroslav (@yarslav) reported 7 minutes ago

  this post has been up for just about a day > 10+ leads for long-term packaging work > almost 200 new followers > impressions up across the whole account yet I declined every single lead I've never worked on a per-project basis, always valued long-term relationships but recently I decided to make it even more exclusive I keep the number of channels i work with deliberately VERY small so each one gets my full strategic attention but no matter how selective I am, this type of work has a ceiling I can only work with so many channels at once so I started building something bigger, that is beyond my time and solves a real problem all creators face youtube has become a real industry, with creators running teams of 5, 10, 15+ people but the tools haven't caught up everyone's still spreading their production across notion, slack, drive/dropbox, frame, and more tools just to run their channels because nothing was built specifically for youtube production until now. @feedzyio

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  Prajwal (@0xPrajwal_) reported 14 minutes ago

  The next time you say, "Python is too slow," remember: Netflix uses Python. Google uses Python. Anthropic uses Python. Meta uses Python. xAI uses Python. Perplexity uses Python. DeepSeek uses Python. Instagram uses Python. Spotify uses Python. Dropbox uses Python. Reddit uses Python. Pinterest uses Python. Uber uses Python. Airbnb uses Python. Quora uses Python. But yeah... it's apparently too slow for your todo app.

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  Wahinya Francis (@wahinyaf8) reported 14 minutes ago

  Dropbox solved a simple problem: How do you access your files from anywhere? Cloud storage became popular because people wanted their files available on every device. Convenience drives technology.

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  ぱんじろう(・ー・)？ (@CopenPanjiro) reported 14 minutes ago

  On Essentials plan. Ticket #26375062 top support evades the core issue by vaguely blaming my PC environment. I've already verified registry & OS. Stop dismissing verified technical logs and escalate this bug to the dev engineering team now. @DropboxSupport

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  quantzoid (@quantzoid) reported 15 minutes ago

  @gurishsharma sorry, you're in YC to take down dropbox but you didn't know how to approve a PR on github? what?

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  Peter Lake (“world’s anonymous singer songwriter”) (@PeterLakeSounds) reported 19 minutes ago

  @taobanker I might suggest another question: what should you avoid? In that context the multi-trillion dollar bet will have terrific returns. That also means that the money making machines of US won’t accumulate money and accrue value unless there is persuasive evidence that at least the big spenders on data center capex get their money back. Given this is unknown, I assume markets are skeptical. If the largest companies in S&P and all the rest don’t have excess free cash, and plausible they don’t go up a lot. That would yield maybe an on average flat market. The flip side is that models are open, massive parameter models getting quantized will be in windows machines. Silicon Valley and early adopters are doing fascinating things. But for the rest of us, I need nice and simple. And for the first time we’ll have good old home computers that can do the job and with that comes free use from heaven. Outside of specialized discussions people don’t know much about what to do with this. The jardon doesn’t help: context window? Quantized models? Nodes are not parameters, they are like neurons, and AI is so dangerous, but not it’s not…what a world! The really final blow is government intervention now makes it a sovereign requirement for companies to have their own AI. LASTLY! I’ve been thinking about the data holders. box. Dropbox etc. Absurdism and it’s comparables will become a bigger deal as people start to realize they the context “window” = the files and stuff you want it to analyze = can only handle so much Imagine of Box or Drop box had a button that converted all your stuff in MD files or the like? Then it’s show time. The companies that hold data may be more valuable than I realize. Conclusions based on the above speculation: 1) could this impact demand at the data centers? Sure it can. I know tech investors like to hold out their hands palms out and say…something vague and qualities. Yes, data centers are more sophisticated etc. Yet here I was doing some interesting work on a FREE local model, my “dark tokens” are someone else’s lost revenue! How does this math work? No clue. It is telling, however, that NVDA and AMD are committed to local machines. No large company wants model dependency anyway, due to data concerns. 2) Finally I have a great reason to buy a slick cool PC! The higher end stuff will not be throttled down in local because I’m seeing a bunch of them coming our way that will have decent “bandwidth” RAM in addition to high system ram. We’re going retro and this tech is moving so fast. Adoption will increase once you have super good local models on your laptop. …Im falling asleep, but the gist is that the data centers were already speculative, and now we a lineup of expensive but sweet computers running on windows that gives you infinite and faster foundational level stuff.

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  uncle ***** (@probinsyacore) reported 20 minutes ago

  nraas still down but a reddit user has saved most of their mods in a dropbox link oh my god sometimes i do love the internet

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 21 minutes ago

  The interviewer asked me to design Dropbox file sync. I froze for a minute because I jumped into architecture before I nailed requirements. So I restarted with questions: single user or teams? offline edits? conflict handling? max file size? latency vs battery? Windows/Mac/Linux? end to end encryption? I scoped to: multi-device per user, near-real-time, offline support, conflict resolution, and basic sharing later. Then I wrote the core objects and APIs. Data model: User, Device, File, FileVersion (content hash, size, chunk list), Folder, Cursor/Checkpoint, and an Event log (append-only). APIs: UploadChunk, CommitFile(version, parentVersion), ListChanges(cursor), Download(version), Ack(cursor). Everything is idempotent with content hashes and request IDs. Architecture: client watches filesystem, batches changes, chunks large files, uploads to blob storage keyed by hash, then commits metadata to a strongly consistent store. Server writes an event per commit. Clients long-poll or use a push channel to get change events, then pull missing blobs. Scaling: hot path is metadata and change feed. Partition event logs by user/team, cache cursors, and keep blobs on cheap object storage with CDN for downloads. Dedup by hash saves real money when the same installer shows up on 500 laptops. Background compaction for old versions and tombstones. Tradeoffs I called out: strong consistency on metadata avoids weird conflicts but costs latency on cross-region; eventual consistency makes sync feel faster but harder to reason about. Chunk size trades memory and upload overhead vs retry cost. Conflict policy can be last-writer-wins (simple, lossy) or keep both versions (messy, safer). Failure cases: client crashes mid-upload so you need resumable multipart and garbage collection for orphaned chunks; network ***** so commits must be idempotent; clock skew so ordering cannot trust timestamps; two devices edit offline so you fork versions and surface a conflict file; duplicate events so cursor ack must tolerate replays; permissions changes during sync so downloads need auth checks at read time, not just at commit time

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  Ricker (@0xRicker) reported 24 minutes ago

  Senior engineer just dropped a GPT-5.6 stress test after burning around $200K on API usage: 00:00 - $180K–$240K spent testing GPT-5.6 in Fast Mode 02:43 - The model using browsers, dashboards and settings like a remote operator 05:32 - 67 projects and 20+ hour autonomous sessions 07:07 - Lakebed, T3 Code and native app rewrites in 2–4 hours 15:08 - Rust compiler experiments, 18x speedup and a $91K Dropbox-style build 17:46 - GPT-5.6 fixing a broken Linux GRUB boot through KVM 22:56 - 3D games, weird assets and the remaining frontend taste problem It is a field test for agent loops The future edge is not the prompt It is the loop that can keep working after the prompt stops being useful

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  Mayank Vora (@aiwithmayank) reported 25 minutes ago

  In 2010, a developer decided your files should live on your computer, not Dropbox’s servers. So he built ownCloud. It gives you your own private cloud using a spare laptop, home server, or cheap VPS. His name is Frank Karlitschek. Install ownCloud on hardware you control, and you get file syncing, sharing, photo backup, calendars, and contacts through one dashboard. Your laptop and phone can access the same files just like Dropbox. The difference is where those files live. They stay on your server, under your rules. The project grew far beyond one developer’s experiment. CERN, universities, research institutions, and large organizations started using it to keep control of sensitive data. Then something unexpected happened. In 2016, Frank left the project he created and started Nextcloud with a new team. But ownCloud did not disappear. The project kept going, its source code remained public, and people continued running it on their own hardware. ownCloud has since gone through forks, an acquisition, and major rebuilds. Yet the original idea survived: Dropbox rents you space on its servers. ownCloud gives you the cloud itself.

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  Rashad Bayram (@bayrashad) reported 25 minutes ago

  Here's the stack I keep finding when I talk to tax firms: → Intake forms in JotForm or Google Forms → Signatures in DocuSign or PandaDoc → Reminders in Mailchimp, email, text messages → Document tracking in a Google Sheet, excel, crm → Client files scattered across email, Google Drive, dropbox, local hard drive Five tools, five logins, five places for something to fall through. None of them talk to each other, so the accountant becomes the integration. manually copying status from one to the next. It's not that any single tool is bad. It's that the seams between them are where the time goes. The fix isn't a sixth tool. It's removing four of them. How many tools are in your tax-season stack right now?

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  . (@Madame_Lucifur) reported 27 minutes ago

  There are some people who feel entitled to have my Dropbox and honestly I don't give a **** how you feel. If there's no transaction in my bank account which leaves your email address then that's not my problem.

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  Spencer Baggins (@bigaiguy) reported 28 minutes ago

  SOMEONE BUILT A GITHUB REPO THAT TURNS TELEGRAM INTO UNLIMITED CLOUD STORAGE. 100% free. It is called UnlimCloud. Self-hosted-ish desktop app. Open source. Uses Telegram as the storage layer. You log in with your Telegram ID. Upload files. Download files. Organize folders. Manage pictures and videos in a gallery. That is it. No Google Drive upgrade screen. No Dropbox “you are out of space.” No iCloud begging for $2.99/month. No random startup holding your files hostage. Your Telegram. Your files. Your storage. Here is the full feature set: ↳ Uses Telegram as the backend storage layer ↳ Secure login with your Telegram account ↳ Upload, download, and organize files ↳ Folder-based file management ↳ Gallery for photos and videos ↳ Clean desktop app interface ↳ Built with Tauri ↳ Windows release available ↳ macOS and Linux coming soon ↳ MIT licensed ↳ Open source 885 GitHub stars. 125 forks already. Here is why this matters: For years, cloud storage companies trained everyone to rent space for their own files forever. Photos? Pay. Backups? Pay. Large folders? Pay. Team storage? Pay more. UnlimCloud is the opposite idea. Take an app people already use every day. Telegram. And turn it into a private cloud drive with a clean file manager on top. No storage subscription. No SaaS dashboard. No “pro” plan. Just a weird, useful, open-source hack that feels like it should not work this well. Built in HTML + Rust. MIT License. 100% Open Source.