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takethisdownplz

besides performance for using something that is not often tested by devs working in performance, bad support for locale collating and open you for bugs such as indexing on email but allowing application to store both upper and lower case etc.
firecracker would be nice if it weren't an aws tool focused solely on performance in their particular environment.

support for qemu (non kvm) would allow to use it as a safety sandbox on random processes like qubes but lighter.

Tell HN: Bogus DMCA Requests Work

remember a while ago people were discussing how one company bogus claim to having discovered practical homomorphic encryption on stack exchange, and that company issued a DMCA request and took all discussions offline?well, they took down all caches and mirrors of that discussion too. Remember all that is new material discussing their public site and white paper. Nothing even copyrighted or...

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