Awesome List Updates on Jan 26, 2026

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1. Awesome Decentralized

Applications

• Ricochet (⭐335): Different approach to instant messaging that doesn’t trust anyone in protecting your privacy. It uses the Tor network.

2. Awesome Billing

Marketplace / Cloud Resources

• History of Spot Instances - From AWS's original auction-based market (2009-2017) to provider-managed pricing across all major clouds today. Documents how transparent bidding was replaced by opaque algorithms.

History / Cloud providers

• Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders - Invoicing of random fees with coded amounts were used as a hidden signal to bypass legal obligations. Maybe that's why you need a flexible billing system after all.

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