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Re:Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:07PM (#49777183)
That is pretty smart, torrent should have been used for more things, and this is a perfect usecase!
Re:Under the Hood of Codex Security on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @05:33AM (#49180511)
Interesting to read how Codex Security actually works, the readme of the project does not really explain the mechanics behind it. I learnt some.
Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format on Saturday May 16, 2026 @03:59AM (#48157891)
You could make it offline and with provided laptops only, just like with the competitive CS2 scene.
Re:Ask HN: How to Make a MVP Video? on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:00AM (#43076749)
They are using https://screen.studio/

It is pretty cool!

Not affiliated :)

My solution would be to simply ignore all cookies from any new website and only allow once a button has been pressed by the user in the address bar.

There is no reason why a website should be able to track from the first second that easily

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone used a DAO at work? on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:27PM (#38808413)
I have been thinking it was the best way to introduce people to Blockchain but having to deploy it on a layer 2 and having to teach people how to switch has discouraged me a bit for getting started.

I was thinking it could be for the social club or a charity project.

Re:Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @02:18PM (#38154582)
Yes, that is also what I meant :)

But with 10-25 developers I do not think they had what we both think are essential.

Re:Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:12AM (#38150459)
Yeah, but during the trial it was not even hinted at that the platform was the problem for the lost money.
Re:Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:07AM (#38150431)
I think it is also possible to build, but for a trading platform you have no room for mistake. Production being down and you could be liable for positions not be sold. Maybe that is were a lot of the money went.

But what would you calculate the risk for one of the 25 developers being extorted? The benefits would easily be millions of dollars.

Re:Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:05AM (#38150424)
I think you are right, but security teams is for when things does not go as expected.

Like Opensea had insider trading but they were not nearly as big as FTX, everyone knew FTX. Opensea is “just” a marketplace, not even near a live trading platform.

But there will probably be more information about it the next 10 years heh.

Re:Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:01AM (#38150394)
Yes, correctly, but that does not prevent extorting one of the developers and have that person help commit trading fraud or theft.

Of course it is possible to do extortion in every sector, but no sector has companies that valuable in such short time.

Ask HN: How did FTX not fail technically first?

A lot of articles mentions FTX development team consisting of 10-25 developers. In the Bloomberg documentary it says they all lived together. In court Gary Wang has also been showcased as one of the primary developers.How did the FTX platform not fail technically? How were they able to build a trading platform that people were happy with and could support all the transactions?In the court...

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Re:Google Cloud Sales/Startups completely unresponsive? on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:48AM (#35709731)
Google Support is not easy.

But I wonder if it is because Anthos is not right for your company, it is primarily from my understanding companies with big VMWare setups and the price for Anthos is heavy.

Why will you want to use Anthos? I was at the Google Cloud Next where it was announced and was also excited, but asked a lot about from my closer Google relations and it was not something for the public was my learnings. Very complicated, heavy and expensive.

Are you exposing full node or archive node? Because Archive node is several terabytes :)

Ask HN: What happend to making websites more like terminals?

Terminals are great, text input -> text output.Terminals are not so visual, and any advance input can be complicated to remember or even type (see input to ffmpeg).However I feel websites that are used heavily like for customer support teams, that continuously does the same actions, but a wide range of them, could benefit of being able to control more of a website with keyboards.I think the...

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Ask HN: How does Google Cloud keep so many timeseries/graphs quick?

I am using Google Cloud and others and I am amazed by how many graphs there are everywhere, showcasing you all kind of metrics. And the crazy part is that you can define any time periode and it is equally fast.Does somebody know how they designed that?It is not bigquery, because bigquery is fast but multiple seconds to respond to queries.It could be bigtable, but it just seems expensive and...

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Re:Zapier integration process more severe than big-techs. on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:41AM (#24083077)
I think there is a lot of people that want the integration just for the free promotion from Zapier and a seal of approval if your app supports Zapier. I think they have define these rules to weed out all the non-serious partners.

Like a lot of the integrations would work fine with the default Webhook integration they have and then your app's webhook.

Don't the Raspberry Pi 4 support 4kp60?
Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:21AM (#22191106)
You would have to trust a root certificates from your mitm attacker, so it is not a problem.
Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:19AM (#22191101)
The EFF is awesome with Let's Encrypt! It was really a dreadful task to buy and renew certificates, especially as out infrastructure back then wasn't that automated.

I think this article is a response to all those ads from VPN companies. They do try to scare people about public WiFi's.

Re:Ask HN: Do You Release on Fridays? on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:45PM (#21052131)
I release on Friday, it is not any different than any other day. Canary deployment is the way to go and quick rollbacks makes your life easy
Re:Predatory conference scammers are getting smarter on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:20PM (#20907651)
There is also a website about WASET which is a fake conference organizer, focusing on earning money and getting papers published.

https://wasetwatch.wordpress.com

I know the people behind https://www.electricitymap.org really care about climate change as many do :)

Also this video: "What can a javascript developer do to combat climate change? - Olivier Corradi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keOPXD-ojWY

There is upside and downsides to both choosing AWS or hosting it yourself.

You should choose AWS with Glacier if you and your company values agility. You will spend way less time securing, backing up and maintaining your data.

You should selfhost if you company values price, but are prepared to spend way much more time and effort in keeping it cheap at the cost of agility and innovation speed.

Re:HN: Why is GitHub's web interface not responsive yet? on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:54AM (#20224443)
Their website is so old that it was before one was thinking, mobile-first, and now to rewrite, they don't want to spend the effort combating legacy :)

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