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Authorization via Gmail and Apple ID Banned in Russia

The Russian State Duma adopted a bill in its second and third readings that introduces administrative fines for violating user authorization rules on local internet resources. The use of foreign services is now strictly restricted. Ixbt.com reports .Under the new requirements, user registration must be carried out exclusively via a Russian phone number, the "Gosuslugi" portal, the Unified...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:48AM (#47307338)
Working on Fairvisor — a tool for API governance and usage control.

The problem: one buggy integration, scraper, or infinite retry loop can suddenly explode your API costs or overload infrastructure before anyone notices.

Fairvisor acts as a guardrail in front of your API:

per-tenant and per-route rate limits

request budgets and soft/hard caps

anomaly alerts for sudden spikes

The edge component is open source (OpenResty / Nginx + Lua) and the SaaS part provides policy management and audit.

Still early, validating whether teams would use something like this instead of building internal scripts.

https://github.com/fairvisor/edge

Re:We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:51AM (#46614192)
I am terribly sorry for self-advertising, but:

I am just now busy building a solution: self-hosted sophisticated rate-limiting.

More complex than nginx, more private than cloudfare. Please joint the waitlist if you want to morally support me ;)

https://getfairvisor.com/

That's why I am building a Rate Limiter as a service. Seems that it has its niche.
Re:XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis on Saturday April 13, 2024 @02:48AM (#40021093)
Sorry if I trigger anyone's paranoia, but 1. who told you that it's not a state-backed attack? 2. and if 1 is true, who told it, it's not Russia staying behind it?

and if 2 is true, the KGB university alumni Kaspersky definitely is related to it.

Re:You do need a technical co-founder on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:02AM (#38484335)
>does he get penalized if part of the dev team gets hired by another company, which makes it harder for him to hit the milestones?

Of course yes. The part of executive responsibility is to maintain the team and calculate the riscs .

Is it only me who sees BDSM logo here?
Re:Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @12:56PM (#37498881)
Also interesting that a new “bad guy” from the Caucasus might be the actual attacker.
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:35AM (#33262849)
The window is not closed.

I am 42, my wife is 41. Our youngest child is 8 month old.

Compared with German, it's complicated. German has only "Past Perfect" and "Past simple" tenses.

English has at least 4.

>I am not a Russian

What will you do with 15 roubles earned by writing this comment then?

Re:Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:28PM (#24357748)
>They aren't idiots Petrov and Boshirov with very similar travel documents and a lot of different evidences aren't idiots?
Re:Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:26PM (#24357725)
B. Also it's named "Lahta" by the region where their office is .
>Just because you worked for the Stasi automatically makes you a bad fit for a certain job.

I am sorry, I am from Russia initially, the KGB-land. No, it's not an over-generalization.

Re:Ask HN: Best iOS apps for speechless child? on Sunday May 31, 2020 @07:06PM (#23373791)
Thanks!

I am probably not clear enough: he already uses some kind of this app, thank god it's covered by medical insurance in our country.

What I am searching for is something with chars to teach him literacy. I want him to type "I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M" instead of choosing "icecream" pictogram and make ipad pronounce it.

Ask HN: Best iOS apps for speechless child?

I am the father of a speechless son, 9yo, he was diagnosed autism several years ago.He can communicate with pictograms, showing "I want ice cream" or "I want to drive a bicycle".I imagine that there should be a simple application, where a child constructs a sentence and then presses the "play" button, and the application pronounces it. I think that this will help a speechless child to learn...

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Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:55AM (#22492529)
Have seen it right after the posting ;)
Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:59PM (#22488026)
Somehow yes, btw. Success will be a great success story of crowdsourcing.

Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing?

I have a silly question to discuss: is there any chance that a Coronavirus vaccine can be found by brute force?The world already has a pretty good infrastructure (Seti@Home) for that, and media all over the world already informed everyone about the threat. Participation in saving the world from the plague could be a very good motivation to join distributed calculations.Or it makes no sense at...

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