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gfs··on Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple
I stopped reading after I saw the bullet point stating Zig doesn't have undefined behavior.
gfs··on We Deleted Tokio from Our Payment System and Cut Cloud Costs by $127,000
> One database query took longer than expected. That blocked an async task. Which held up the executor.

This only happens if you're using blocking code in the event loop, right? This article seems like an admission of over-engineering from the get go.

gfs··on Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
I don't believe so. It is however shared on sourcehut.
gfs··on Cloudflare Is Not a CDN
> ...and it still results in cache-miss, even when the request comes from the same location and edge.

I'm sure they have multiple data centers in each location. Especially if it's a high traffic interconnect.

gfs··on Telo MT1
I'm failing to see how this could have as much or more utility than a Tacoma. I don't see any mention of towing or payload. Not to mention, the clearance will be limiting for anyone who wants to venture off road at all.
gfs··on GCP Outage
Appears to be a separate incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261064
gfs··on Feather: A Rust web framework that does not use async
So the caveat is you need to call `spawn_blocking` with synchronous functions. I see.
gfs··on Feather: A Rust web framework that does not use async
Reading the latest stable documentation [0], it appears that you have to use async?

[0]: https://rocket.rs/guide/v0.5/upgrading/#stable-and-async-sup...

gfs··on Amish have low cancer rate, but why?
I don't know much about what an Amish lifestyle entails but I have to imagine their limited or non-existent exposure to modern carcinogens helps as well. I think of all the awful things I've been around only to learn later it could adversely affect my health.
gfs··on Svelte 5 Released
Where would one even start learning more about front-end development in today's world? Ignoring the dizzying amount of frameworks, how could I become knowledgeable enough to connect my back-end experience to design the "full stack?"
gfs··on Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library
I would love to see a blog post or more detail about how this implementation works and why it can beat rayon in some cases.
gfs··on How America's universities became debt factories
I don't think $150 is out of the question over twenty years ago with roommates and a LCOL region.
gfs··on Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier
As far as I know, bucket names must be unique at other providers like AWS as well. [0]

I'm no expert but to try and protect my own domain, I use a transform rule to match a subdomain and append "/file/$MY_BUCKET_NAME" to each request. This should return a 404 for anybody who tries to inject their own bucket in the path. I could be wrong of course.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucket...

gfs··on Tell HN: HN is not HN anymore
I think it's more of a societal shift than just purely on HN. I know there's no way for me to read every link submitted here but I don't see nearly as many technical articles. I miss the days of companies openly blogging about tough problems they solved or new OSS. There is a seemingly endless amount of articles around cryptocurrency or AI. It's gotten to the point where I don't enjoy coming back to this site.
gfs··on A Tweet about Burnout
What an outlandish take. I can't imagine any athlete views injuries as a barometer for how far they pushed themselves. Mental health is not even in the same arena either.
gfs··on Amazon's top-selling video doorbells have no security
I believe Amazon acquired Ring.
gfs··on Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns
Credit reports are a racket. I've barely had any luck obtaining one of my reports from the site in the past few years. I'm at the point where I think I will freeze my credit.
gfs··on U.S. Internet leaked years of internal, customer emails
> “The feedback from my team was a issue with the Ansible playbook that controls the Nginx configuration for our IMAP servers,” Carter said, noting that this incorrect configuration was put in place by a former employee and never caught.

Even if this were true, that is a pathetic response.

gfs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
I looked at their site and they have a contact number with a 612 area code. That and seeing MSP in the description makes me think twin cities Minnesota.
gfs··on Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees
The book mentioned in this article (Paved Paradise) is eye-opening. I'm nearly done reading it and have a whole new perspective on the matter.
gfs··on AWS Libcrypto for Rust
> aws-lc-rs is a cryptographic library using AWS-LC for its cryptographic operations.

Why should I use AWS-LC over the myriad cryptography libraries out there already?

gfs··on Ask HN: Who is your favorite musician and what is their best song?
Rosetta - Monument

It’s such a powerful song that’s pushed me through many ups and downs.

gfs··on Update on Hiring Plans
> And at the end of the day, I think you’ll be proud to have helped Coinbase navigate this next part of its journey.

Who, me? Doubt it. Worst of luck to them!

gfs··on Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
I'd be curious to see if this is the case for other sites that use Cloudflare bot protection as well. There are a bunch of ways to tune the service so maybe they are just extra cautious?
gfs··on Yale University IT admin spent $40M college money on luxury cars, houses
Unreal. How is she out on bond? There are so many loose ends here too. I wouldn’t be surprised if others were involved.
gfs··on Apple and Major League Baseball to Offer “Friday Night Baseball”
Baseball is a very popular sport in many of these countries, especially Mexico, Japan, and Puerto Rico. I’d posit a guess that they continue to roll it out to other Latin American countries next.
gfs··on s2n-quic, a new open-source QUIC protocol implementation in Rust
Why should I use this library over quiche or Quinn?
gfs··on Fastmail Is Down
This makes me feel a little better knowing that there’s still an issue. I was supposed to get an email from Delta confirming my flight but it never went through. I asked customer service to send it again this morning and still haven’t got a single one. But some messages still come through oddly enough.
gfs··on Ask HN: It's a “Not Hire” after 10m of interview. What do I do?
It sounds like you need an interview before the bigger interview. If the questions aren’t too in-depth, I’d say have a timed shorter talk with the candidate to weed out any you don’t think would be a good fit. Think of it as a coding exercise before coming onsite. I imagine this will save you time in the long run.
gfs··on Tell HN: Cloudflare DNS doesn't resolve videolan.org
It resolves just fine for me on 1.1.1.1:

    nslookup videolan.org
    Server:  1.1.1.1
    Address: 1.1.1.1#53

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: videolan.org
    Address: 213.36.253.2
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