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lutr.dev — Photobucket charged $5 to unlock my childhood - the bucket was empty
Jun 17, 2026 238 102

Photobucket charged $5 to unlock my childhood - the bucket was empty

A developer tried to recover old forum photos from Photobucket and paid a monthly subscription for an account with zero images. HN is split on rage vs.…

photobucket cloud-storage dark-patterns internet-history data-ownership
lutr.dev
gutenberg.org — Project Gutenberg is somehow still the best part of the internet
May 16, 2026 1.2k 286

Project Gutenberg is somehow still the best part of the internet

A 1971 hobby project is still the most quietly impressive thing on the web - and HN noticed it again, with 900+ upvotes.

public-domain open-access literature internet-history volunteer-projects
gutenberg.org

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