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James Ross's personal blog at jross.me covers web and security. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Open Source as We Know It Is Dead”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
7HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post on free personal image hosting with Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers, citing its Bandwidth Alliance traffic trick. Commenters cite it as a source and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Web security and performance enthusiast. CTO and Co-founder at Nodecraft.com

Most-linked posts?

  1. /free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-13
  2. Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. atYevP · 2020-02-13
    Yev from Backblaze here -> the Nodecraft folks did a great job with that project -> https://jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-...

    Comment linking /free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/

    on “Hard Drive Stats for 2019”
  2. vinhnx · 2026-10-06

    Submitted Open Source as We Know It Is Dead as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  3. oneweekwonder · 2020-08-20
    A while ago this[0] hosting solution of blackblaze b2 and cloudflare workers looked interesting. I believe it uses a aws s3 compatible api[1]. [0]: https://jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-... [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/backblaze-b2-and-the-s3-compatib...

    Comment linking /free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/

    on “Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go”
  4. MattIPv4 · 2026-10-05

    Submitted Open Source as We Know It Is Dead as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. grose · 2023-04-06
    Traffic is "free" through one crazy trick, the Bandwidth Alliance (B2 + Cloudflare). I stole the idea from this blog post: https://jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-...

    Comment linking /free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/

    on “I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music”
  6. CherryJimbo · 2025-08-05

    Submitted Run Node.js frameworks like Express.js natively on Cloudflare Workers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. CherryJimbo · 2019-10-27

    Submitted Lazy-Loading Disqus Comments with the Intersection Observer API as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. CherryJimbo · 2019-10-15

    Submitted Update your website favicon dynamically for dark mode as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. kmf · 2019-10-09

    Submitted Using Cloudflare Workers HTMLRewriter to Extend Ghost(Pro) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. CherryJimbo · 2019-10-09

    Submitted Using Cloudflare Workers HTMLRewriter to Extend Ghost(Pro) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. CherryJimbo · 2020-11-30

    Submitted Progressively delivering new image formats with CSS and Cloudflare Workers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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