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Usuon First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)

I'd be interested in knowing how good it is at solving visual captchas, do we foresee a huge rise in automated bypasses?

Usuon Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)

This could be really interesting, we are currently using some custom bot detection techniques that also try to slow down / crash chrome headless and such, but it would be nice if we could just use this new Cloudflare service and stop worrying about maintaining it.

I have a few questions, though:

1. How does this work with mobile apps / single page applications APIs? I'm worried this would block legitimate users

2. Is it possible to enable/disable this feature on URLs patterns using page rules? I'm not seeing the option right now

3. Do blocked requests end up in the firewall logs? If so, how do we filter for it? Specific rule id?

4. Is there a way to enable it in log mode in order to evaluate the impact it would have?

Usuon German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist

Yes, my girlfriend and I routinely refer to it as "Molisn't" every time it pops up in a conversation.

Usuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)

We are a team of really smart people working in a very well funded startup trying to disrupt insurance in Italy by using technology as our main competitive advantage. We employ a micro service architecture (10s of them are in production atm), Docker and AWS.

Most of our micro services are written in Elixir, we also have some Ruby, Haskell, Python, Go and Rust in production besides a legacy Symfony 2 application, while on the front end side we are mainly using Elm.

We have a lot of automation in place, we run a pretty comprehensive test suite on Drone CI at every push and every developer can spin up QA environments that mirror our entire stack for a given feature branch (this is made possible by having all of our infrastructure managed through CloudFormation templates). All of this allows us to confidently deploy to production multiple times per day.

Our stack:

  AWS (a lot of services), CloudFlare
  OS: Amazon Linux
  EC2 instance number: from ~30 to ~100: we scale automatically a lot of times during the day and treat our infrastructure as immutable
  Infrastructure: CloudFormation + scripts
  CD: Drone CI, Docker (dev -> qa -> staging -> production)
  Container orchestration: AWS ECS
  DB: Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL, Redshift, ElastiCache Redis, DynamoDB
  Monitoring: ELK, DataDog, New Relic, CloudWatch
  Team organization: small cross functional agile teams (every team has at least one person for all of these roles: backend engineer, frontend engineer, web designer, qa engineer, devops engineer)
  Backend languages: Elixir, PHP (we're phasing it out long term), Haskell, Python, Rust, Ruby, Go
  Frontend languages: Elm, Javascript

Stuff that we like:

  Micro service oriented architecture
  Functional reactive programming
  Event sourcing (CQRS)
  Actor model
  Agile (Scrum)
  Domain-driven Design (DDD)

If you're interested or just want some more info feel free to drop me an email: andrea.usuelli@prima.it

Usuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

Most of our micro services are written in Elixir, we also have some Ruby, Haskell, Python and Rust in production besides a legacy Symfony 2 application, while on the front end side we are mainly using Elm.

Our stack:

  AWS (a lot of services), CloudFlare
  OS: Amazon Linux
  EC2 instance number: from ~30 to ~100: we scale automatically a lot of times during the day and treat our infrastructure as immutable
  Infrastructure: CloudFormation + scripts
  CD: Drone CI, Docker (dev -> qa -> staging -> production)
  Container orchestration: AWS ECS
  DB: Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL, Redshift, ElastiCache Redis, DynamoDB
  Monitoring: ELK, DataDog, New Relic, CloudWatch
  Team organization: small cross functional agile teams (every team has at least one person for all of these roles: backend engineer, frontend engineer, web designer, qa engineer, devops engineer)
  Backend languages: Elixir, PHP (we're phasing it out long term), Haskell, Python, Rust, Ruby
  Frontend languages: Elm, Javascript

If you're interested or just want some more info feel free to email me directly at andrea.usuelli@prima.it

Usuon [dead]

We're a team of really smart people working in a very well funded startup trying to disrupt insurance in Italy by using technology as our main competitive advantage.

We employ a micro service architecture (10s of them are in production atm), Docker and AWS.

Most of our micro services are written in Elixir (our language of choice for all the new stuff), we also have some Ruby, Haskell, Python and Rust in production besides a legacy Symfony 2 application.

On the front end side we're mainly using Elm.

All of this allows us to confidently deploy to production multiple times per day.

Our stack:

  AWS (a lot of services), CloudFlare
  OS: Amazon Linux
  EC2 instance number: from ~30 to ~100: we scale automatically a lot of times during the day and treat our infrastructure as immutable
  Infrastructure: CloudFormation + scripts
  CD: Drone CI, Docker (dev -> qa -> staging -> production)
  Container orchestration: AWS ECS
  DB: Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL, Redshift, ElastiCache Redis, DynamoDB
  Monitoring: ELK, DataDog, New Relic, CloudWatch
  Team organization: small cross functional agile teams (every team has at least one person for all of these roles: backend engineer, frontend engineer, web designer, qa engineer, devops engineer)
  Backend languages: Elixir, PHP (we're phasing it out long term), Haskell, Python, Rust, Ruby
  Frontend languages: Elm, Javascript

If you're interested or just want some more info feel free to email me directly at andrea.usuelli@prima.it

Usuon Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges: Newegg

This breach has reminded me of this pretty great article: https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...

Usuon Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

https://gitnotifier.io

I created it because I was annoyed with the lack of notifications provided by GitHub for some events like new people following you or starring/forking your projects. A lot of people are now using it and that makes me happy even though I'm losing money by keeping it online.

Usuon GitNotifier – Email notifications for selected GitHub repository/profile events

Hi, not at the moment, but since it's a frequently requested feature, it's on the roadmap.

Usuon GitNotifier – Email notifications for selected GitHub repository/profile events

I'm the author, feel free to ask me any question, I'm currently in the (albeit very slow) process of rewriting the whole project in Elixir. I'm also planning a few new features like organization notifications and better stats.

Usuon GitNotifier – Email notifications for selected GitHub repository/profile events

Author here, the project was originally named GitHub Notifier, however shortly after launch the legal department of GitHub contacted me and was very helpful to guide me through resolving the issues with the naming, they even sent me a mug to compensate for the trouble of going through the name change even though I was clearly violating their terms.

Usuon Project Shield

Only to CloudFlare Project Galileo: https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/

Usuon Announcing Envoy: C++ L7 proxy and communication bus

This looks really neat! We are deploying a few new microservices every month now and I'm afraid that things will get out of hand networking wise (we are too using ELBs for both load balancing and service discovery), so I'm looking forward to try Envoy, thank you for open sourcing it guys.

Usuon Chrome extension to indicate background network activity per tab

I didn't know that, thank you for clarifying, I would be glad to pay for the fee for you, you may contact me using my twitter username @gmail.com

Usuon Chrome extension to indicate background network activity per tab

This looks really interesting, is there a reason why it hasn't been uploaded to the Chrome Store? It would be much easier to install and keep updated.

Usuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Prima.it | Milan, Italy | Full time | Onsite | Backend/Frontend/Fullstack

I'm the lead DevOps at Prima.it. We're a team of really smart people working in a very well funded startup trying to disrupt insurance in Italy by using technology as our main competitive advantage. We employ a micro service architecture (10s of them are in production atm), Docker and AWS. Most of our micro services are written in Elixir, our language of choice for all the new stuff, we also have some Ruby and a bit of Python in production besides a legacy Symfony 2 application. On the front end side we're using React/Redux. We have a lot of automation in place, we run a pretty comprehensive test suite on CircleCI and BrowserStack at every push and every developer can spin up QA environments that mirror our entire stack for a feature branch. All of this allows us to confidently deploy to production multiple times per day. If you're interested or just want some more info feel free to email me directly at andrea.usuelli@prima.it

Usuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

Prima.it | Milan, Italy | Full time | Onsite | Backend/Frontend/Fullstack

I'm the lead DevOps at Prima.it. We're a team of really smart people working in a very well funded startup trying to disrupt insurance in Italy by using technology as our main competitive advantage. We employ a micro service architecture (10s of them are in production atm), docker and AWS. Most of our micro services are written in Elixir, our language of choice for all the new stuff, we also have some Ruby and a bit of Python in production besides a legacy Symfony 2 application. On the front end side we're using React/Redux. We have a lot of automation in place, we run a pretty comprehensive test suite on CircleCI and BrowserStack at every push and every developer can spin up QA environments that mirror our entire stack for a feature branch. All of this allows us to confidently deploy to production multiple times per day. If you're interested or just want some more info feel free to email me directly at andrea.usuelli@prima.it

Usuon Show HN: GitHub Notifier

Author here, thank you for posting! I'll be around to answer any question :)

Usuon Is Dublin Airport tracking passenger phones without their permission?

Thank you, I didn't know that

Usuon Is Dublin Airport tracking passenger phones without their permission?

Apple is already doing it on iOS devices: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/8233/20140612/apple-implem...

Usuon Facebook was down

From: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901...

"A Facebook-wide issue means the Facebook Graph API is temporarily unavailable. We're working with our core infrastructure teams to identify the issue and will update you when we have more information."

I'm posting it here since it's loading intermittently.

Usuon Nginx 1.8.0 Stable released

nginx.org: nginx-1.8.0 stable version has been released, incorporating many new features from the 1.7.x mainline branch - including hash load balancing method, backend SSL certificate verification, experimental thread pools support, proxy_request_buffering and more.

Usuon German court issues nationwide ban on Uber driving services

I'm wondering whether the ban also applies to uber taxi, they had a big marketing campaign just last week in Berlin where you were able to take a ride for free for a couple of days [1]

[1] http://blog.uber.com/freeubertaxi_berlin_en

Usuon Apple iOS Hardware Assisted Screenlock Bruteforce

The article was posted a week ago, but there are no updates about iOS 8.2 as of today and since it shouldn't be too long to just upgrade iOS and see if after 10 attempts the device gets wiped I'm guessing that the fix for CVE-2014-4451 actually patched this but the news wasn't as interesting as it would've been "iOS 8.2 vulnerable too" to update the post with

Usuon Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your repos and new followers

Thank you for the feedback, I will put in Trello for possible future development.

You're right, atm you have to unselect all the notifications to stop receiving emails (however if you click unsubscribe from an email there's a button that does that without manually clicking).

Usuon Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your repos and new followers

Unfortunately I can't exclude organisation altogether, GitHub applications have access to organisation with the permissions that the user has allowed the app. However now GitHub Notifier only asks for read permissions :)

Usuon Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your repos and new followers

Thanks for the feedback! I fixed the too broad permissions issue, now the app only asks for read permissions :)

Usuon Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your repos and new followers

I fixed the issue :)

Usuon Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your repos and new followers

I check every minute.

Usuon Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your repos and new followers

You do have all this in your timeline, but mine is really cluttered with all the notifications from my main job's organisation and it's easy to lose interesting stuff happening on my repos. About the email frequency, you can choose to only receive a daily or weekly report.