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A New Future for Icanhazip

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980 points nkcmr | 2 comments | 06 Jun 21 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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superasn ◴[06 Jun 21 20:49 UTC] No.27416196[source]▶
Wow so this person has been running this site for so many years, paying bills, answering god knows how many idiots and even getting close to trouble with 3 letter agencies and senators for absolutely nothing.. hats off to you sir, any other person would have thrown in the towel a long time ago.

Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of it whether the site was designed to make money or not. It would have been a wonderful end to the story if you got something back for all the years of hardwork you put into running it. You do have my appreciation if that means anything though.

P.S. this story is very similar to rawgit which was a wonderful site but also fell prey to malware aholes.

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jedberg ◴[06 Jun 21 21:57 UTC] No.27416729[source]▶
> Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of I

Most likely it got them a much higher paying job than they would have otherwise gotten. Walking in and saying you single handedly run a site with billions of requests per day and petabytes of traffic will get you noticed.

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rajishx ◴[06 Jun 21 22:07 UTC] No.27416807[source]▶
Major didn't need icanhazip.com to get a good paying and quality job, this man is legend (at RAX when working with him)
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mjcarden ◴[06 Jun 21 23:50 UTC] No.27417478[source]▶
He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/
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1. kreelman ◴[07 Jun 21 00:32 UTC] No.27417698[source]▶
Such a fun resume.

I'd love to set one up like that.

Since I have mostly Windows Experience, it would probably need to be a .chm file :)

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2. badsectoracula ◴[07 Jun 21 06:05 UTC] No.27419508[source]▶
Make sure you do that floating effect (where part of the text 'rises' from the text) IE4 and some other early CHM files had when you opened it to show off that there was a browser engine underneath with full javascript and all :-)