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Re:Why We're Leaving Serverless on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @12:09PM (#45594719)
Have you done new benchmarks since Cloudflare announced their latest round of performance improvements for Workers?

Just curious if this workload also saw some of the same improvements (on a quick read it seems like you could have been hitting the routing problem CF mentions)

Re:Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @07:37PM (#45586288)
Speaking of `JSON` functions that can have drastic performance differences, V8 blog[0] recently had a post about improving `JSON.stringify` performance when you don't pass a `replacer` function. Some of the most used functions with performance pitfalls that are easy to trip into.

0: https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify

Re:Apple cider vinegar for weight management on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:29AM (#39688122)
My understanding the "three doses" is referring to the 5, 10, 15 mL amounts not 3 doses a day. Later on it says that the amount itself didn't seem to have as much of an effect as dose + time did.
Re:PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:31PM (#39620207)
Its interesting the contrast between HN and X [0] as far as the sentiment goes on this change. On HN seems mainly in favor of this change while on X everyone is mainly against it.

Personally, I'm glad I haven't built something on PS Hobby that I have to migrate but I do think its fair to charge for your product.

[0] https://twitter.com/PlanetScale/status/1765438197981708684

As a former student that competed in both National and State TSA events from 2006 to 2012 (and won multiple trophies across events including the "webmaster" competition) I'm not really surprised by this outcome. That doesn't mean that its the right outcome but just a result of how these competitions are run.

The judges are all volunteers that may or may not have a background in the actual event they are there to grade. So you get someone that just shows up, reads the rules for the event and then judges accordingly to those exact rules. Which in this case since the website is hosted by Github it automatically gets disqualified for not meeting the rules of the event. This is a pretty easy thing to fix which is either A) Just have a custom domain that hides the github hostname B) host it somewhere else. The students here seem to have taken the B approach and have it up on netlify now.

I certainly empathize with the students here putting hard work into a project only to get disqualified on a technicality, it is a hard lesson to learn and one around maximizing your results within the rules as long as you follow all the rules. Hopefully they will be successful in getting the rules updated moving forward to be more clear about the default github page templates vs just raw HTML hosting.

Re:Play Runescape Classic Again on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:30PM (#34703760)
It's funny to read this now given I was a mod on RuneLocus during what I would consider RSPS's heyday (2006-2012ish range). It felt like the scene died off a bit especially when Jagex finally brought back OSRS in 2013.

That said it doesn't surprise me that certain servers have continued to grow and thrive over the years.

Re:PlanetScale increases plans to include billions of reads on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:49PM (#30458595)
It was noteworthy change for me as I was considering PS for a new project but was a bit weary of the read limit and unwittingly hitting it. Now with the bigger numbers I feel that I have less to worry about and could just dive in.

And since as you mentioned from the post its a popular complaint so I figured others might be interested in this change as well.

Re:GitHub Issues-only project management on Saturday August 21, 2021 @05:00PM (#28260530)
Do you mean move an issue from one repository to another? Because that is totally possible now.

Shopify employees accessed customer databases without authorization

Got this email from Fangamer about Shopify earlier today. ---- Dear Fangamer customer,Shopify, the company whose software runs the Fangamer store (and more than a million others online), has informed us that an internal security event it has been investigating since late last year included Fangamer customer data. Information regarding customer financial accounts and payment cards was not...

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Any thoughts on a self hosted version? (I didn't look too closely at all the marketing stuff if this is already addressed)

Would be nice to put something like this up behind our own VPN auth etc

You can say "Hey Google" now which I find much easier to say. Would be nice if you could rename it though.
Perhaps changing offline files to offline data (files) as just "offline files" is pretty ambiguous of what is supported (and how I arrived at file system)
Reading the headline I clicked this thinking it might give you an API for your file system and I had thoughts of managing / viewing my files via an API.
Re:Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:47PM (#23878491)
Shopify went down so all of those storefronts were down.
Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:30PM (#23168602)
Crytek is living a second life as Amazon's Lumberyard (though they say they have revamped the vast majority of the code)
Re:Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:57PM (#21786381)
True, though given its relatively easy to support you could get some savings in the few cases that do use it.

Also if they own some/all of the SDK's that are used for hitting their API they could bake in brotli compression at that level.

Re:Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:39PM (#21785216)
You could also look into using brotli compression over gzip for some more savings of bytes over the wire.

Cloudflare Security Notice for Users of Workers KV

Cloudflare just sent out this email to customers:Dear Cloudflare Customer,We're reaching out to make you aware of a Workers KV vulnerability, and the details you'd need to determine if you were impacted. We do not have reason to believe any Workers KV customers were impacted by the vulnerability, but we wanted to disclose information in an abundance of caution. This only affected users of...

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Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:11PM (#20824571)
Something very similar that I've used in the past https://github.com/notwaldorf/tiny-care-terminal
Re:Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation on Monday July 31, 2017 @02:50PM (#14894837)
Well the are already phasing out custom subreddit CSS so I don't think it will be part of the new design.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/66q4is/the_web_red...

Seems like a few of these user recorders are popping up. Another alternative is FullStory https://fullstory.com/
Re:Google Shutting Down Wallet Card on Thursday March 31, 2016 @05:32PM (#11400711)
One of my favorite things about the Wallet Card was the design. Having a clean front that always surprised people that haven't seen one before. I'd always get comments on it and asked if I worked at Google haha

RIP YetAnotherGoogleService

Re:CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:47AM (#11246427)
Looks like this shows the last project you looked at before heading to the contact page. I refreshed the leaf repo and then refreshed the contact page and it mentioned the leaf project at the top.
Re:I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:30PM (#10943169)
HubSpot's CRM is made just for this use case. Plus its free! - http://www.hubspot.com/crm

Disclosure: I work at HubSpot

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