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Billy Chasen
Personal blog · billychasen.medium.combusinessprogramming
Billy Chasen's personal blog at billychasen.medium.com covers business and programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Twilio’s toll fraud problem”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Billy Chasen's Medium posts on Twilio's toll fraud problem and the history of the Turntable service, later Jukebox. Comments cite them as sources without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Twilio’s toll fraud problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, the "why" the URL changed is a pretty messy story. The original founders both wanted to start a new version of the original, and had a very public feud about ownership of the domain / name. I can't find any of it now so I'm assuming it was all removed as part of the settlement. Instead, they both posted this nearly identical statement. https://jperla.medium.com/turntable-resolution-c66c6662ad62 https://billych…
Comment linking /settlement-agreement-9d5a5366247d
on “Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing”Submitted Twilio’s toll fraud problem as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSeems they have multiple income streams from negative actors ... https://billychasen.medium.com/twilios-toll-fraud-problem-28...
Comment linking /twilios-toll-fraud-problem-28b3aef39243
on “Goodbye, Twilio”Submitted Why should I learn to code? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion