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		saalweachter on Aug 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HBO Max pulls nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ episodes You're missing the obvious business model: ad-supported compiler. You're going to be staring at the compiler output anyway, potentially for minutes at a time waiting for the build/tests to fail. Throw some ads in the progress bar.

powerhour on Aug 21, 2022 | [–]

Some folks included ads in npm postinstall scripts, til they were outlawed.

ValentineC on Aug 21, 2022 | [–]

I remember that Caddy (web server) tried adding ads to their HTTP headers, and even that didn't go well with some non-paying users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741730

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