Link rot and 'back it up' as a founder-side habit

"If you love a website, back it up" got agreement from people watching their bookmarks decay. One lamented that buthowdoitknow.com, a visual CPU emulator, went offline. Another said they used wget over the summer to save favorite blogs. The Hacker Times project (an NYT-style HN front page) sparked the adjacent wish for a daily or weekly curated paper, and a commenter noted that because it depends on ChatGPT it is blocked in places like Hong Kong.

The pattern: people are realizing the web they relied on is not durable, and that building on a third-party service (a domain, an API, a model) inherits that fragility. The Hacker Times reachability note shows it concretely: your dependency's geography becomes your product's geography.

This is a small thread, but it echoes bigger infrastructure worries in the wider stream, like Docker pulls failing in Spain during La Liga matches because of Cloudflare blocks.