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It's less common now, but for many years one of the more popular ways to DDOS someone was to trick a third party into sending them lots of data.
Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:59PM (#50097366)
What are you talking about, I use the bitwarden extension in chrome and chrome never asks me to store a passkey, bitwarden does.
Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:44PM (#50097224)
The overwhelming evidence is that this isn't true for the majority of users.
Re:Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:10PM (#50096872)
Just want to say thank you!! Screenhero was invaluable. Pop is pretty good, but open source is a game changer!
Russia has a permanent seat and an absolute veto on all UN Security Council actions.
I'm not sure I understand why? If you hosted plex on a vps, you'd still call it self-hosted. I don't see why using (a) fargate or (b) lambda or (c) cf workers changes the calculus here?
1984 is a tiny paperback that's very accessible and probably takes a couple hours to read?
What's rabl?
Re:The Tao of Backup on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:34AM (#49962176)
use cloudflare's r2, no egress fees
I guess the real question here is what happens if my service _does_ get attacked by a volumetric DDoS? Do you immediately stop advertising?
Re:Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:33PM (#49896078)
He runs a systemd-nspawnd container in a "small vm", so neither really?
Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:56PM (#49869695)
Are there any competitive fabs in the US now? My understanding was no.
Re:Go Concurrency Distilled on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:34AM (#49866980)
I feel like you can't describe something as m:n when it the m uses async/await and doesn't actually have a green thread?
Re:Go Concurrency Distilled on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:31AM (#49866955)
Can you explain how you think Java does it more elegantly? That's a very surprising statement. Java didn't even do m:n threading until "Project Loom".
Re:Google Takes the A.I. Data Center Race to Outer Space on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:27PM (#49838643)
This guy is obviously long SpaceX
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:30AM (#49681045)
Are you sure you have that right? Chrome and curl have probably been used in a _lot_ of crimes?
Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:29PM (#49649747)
What are ancient usb connections? Type A? B?
There are lots of companies that provide low end services for free to attract people who may now or in the future be decision makers at large companies.
Re:Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:24PM (#49455341)
Repo suggests that they're running their own (rate-limited) DERP servers.

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Which are probably tailscale's, as it's under tailscale/ github org?

Re:What Is a Syslog Server? on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:14PM (#49427563)
Database?
Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:12PM (#49378151)
I think maybe the right answer is to have a standardized, curated group of libraries pegged at some sort of LTS release that only backports security fixes. However, someone would need to pay for creating and maintaining this -- and then you wonder where the money would come from?
Re:A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:11PM (#49340793)
2GB is so tiny it's almost irrelevant when talking about analytics?
Re:The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:42AM (#49211227)
Here's the entirety of the Caddy config to reverse proxy something with managed tls certs. I feel like it's not that big a deal?

  photos.example.com {
          reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080 {
                  header_up X-Real-IP {remote_host}
          }
  }
Re:The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:38AM (#49211165)
I don't know what you're on about. Just run Caddy and it does it all for you.
Re:Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities on Thursday August 06, 2026 @08:04PM (#49204348)
I don't think there really _is_ an equivalent at Walmart?
You can install Linux on modern macs? That doesn't mean that driver info is available, but there's nothing stopping you from installing another os.
Re:Citizen of the Galaxy (full text) by Robert Heinlein on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:45PM (#49088940)
This is a copyrighted work, why are you publishing it on your website?
Re:Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:12PM (#49049425)
Because bandwidth between those sticks and the GPU isn't fast enough for fast inference.
Many thanks!
Any license for it? I think technically we can't even run it legally at the moment?

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