How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
Report a link problem
Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order+1 For Amazon for kindly reimbursing the overage charge. -1 For Google for creating what is the biggest threat to content providers by enabling easy-to-use DDOS attacks across the entire interwebs. </hyperbole> Seriously, is this what we have to look forward to when Google Spreadsheets, and God knows what else, become ever-more popular? Think about all the additional onerus costs that would be incurred by content providers as more and more Google Spreadsheet users hotlink images, mp3s, videos... This has…
Previous discussion (763 points, 143 comments). For some reason this doesn't show up in the "past" search results but shows up if you search for the domain. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890328
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10268316
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 949
- Total comments
- 173
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-04-25 | How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth billFirst breakout · Best thread | Panos | 775 | 142 |
| 2015-09-23 | How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)Latest 20+ point return | aliakhtar | 168 | 30 |
| 2022-03-11 | The Google attack: How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets | graderjs | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-04-04 | I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) | downbad_ | 3 | 1 |