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- Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto
Ghostty's creator is leaving GitHub due to persistent outages and degraded service, despite a deep 18-year emotional attachment to the platform.
- Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'
Vercel's CEO offered to pay Jmail's $46k hosting bill after it went viral hosting Epstein files, sparking debate over the platform's pricing versus cheaper alternatives.
- Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities
Prism.Tools offers a collection of free, privacy-focused developer utilities that run entirely client-side, though hosting on GitHub Pages draws scrutiny from commenters.
Takes
Why has Vercel become the default hosting platform for vibe coders? There are plenty of alternatives. What made Vercel win?
@araseb_
You get 20 TB of free bandwidth for $4.99/mo at @Hetzner_Online Way way way way more than enough for most websites! I'm not sponsored by them, I don't even get discounts or anything, just a great deal!
@levelsio
In light of all the heroku drama, here are 3 services I use or have used extensively over the past few years for hosting/deploy/server stuff.@Railway — This to me is the spiritual successor to Heroku. Arguably does the best job at distilling eye-gouging sysadmin stuff down into…
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