https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-runs-into-its-next-big-obstac...

Google Cloud services down in UK; banks, public sector report issues

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/google-cloud-services-e...

Google Reports Cloud Disruptions in Europe Region

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/technology/google-cloud-d...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164628

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

In rewrite.lua something as simple as

   body = string.gsub(body, "\x1b","ESC")

I'm interested in highlighting repetition and "duplication" in HN submissions

I'm interested in when stories are first submitted, which users first submit them, if/when stories are resubmitted, who resubmits them and the points the stories receive

I'm more interested in stories than comments, unless the comments contain URLs. To put it another way, I'm more interested in the news than the commentary

There are many, many stories that I find interesting that have 0 comments

In fact, the majority of HN submissions have no comments

These interests are "intellectual curiosity", as referred to in the HN guidelines

Other HN users might only want to read and make comments

Intellectual curiosity can differ from person to person

(Following the HN /item?id= URL allows one to discover the submitter and access the HN /threads?id= URL)

Here, the submission relates to the "Anthropic Long Term Benefit Trust"

There are comments about Claude subscription price, Claude CLI versus GUI, other coding agents, etc.

There are comments about data center PR, SRTs being used to manage data center financing risks, proposed legislation on data center tax breaks, etc.

Not much discussion of the trust

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/market-selloff-risi...

"Synthetic Risk Transfers are financial instruments that allow banks to transfer the credit risk of some assets to third-party investors while retaining ownership of those assets. Investors typically agree to cover losses up to a certain threshold in exchange for a return, usually a premium or interest payment."

"SRT is not a new technology, with the first SRT instruments in Europe already in use as early as 1998. Europe has been the dominant market, accounting for more than two-thirds of the US$1.1 trillion of assets covered by an SRT since 2016, according to the IMF. However, SRT usage in the US has risen significantly since 2023."

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/FRBP/Assets/Economy/...

https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/wp/2025/engli...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-07/deutsche-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-30/socgen-ne...

https://cryptobriefing.com/lenders-challenges-financing-data...

Banks seek to offload risk to avoid choking on data centre debt

https://www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5ba...

https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/09/24/could-ai-data-c...

I only served a (custom) root.zone. It was tiny compared to today's root.zone filled with garbage TLDs and "security" theater. This file is soon to explode in size once again

Today I can serve com.zone. The computers I own have relatively modest specs

This lawsuit will settle, probably before discovery, but possibly we may learn a few things from the pleadings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151376

Points: 147

# Comments: 135

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/pdf/science.pdf

It's a "toolkit" that's useful for science

No Javascript, no cookies, no SNI

https://www.facebook.com/robots.txt (186 sitemap files listed, none are accessible to me)

Perhaps these require an "acceptable browser" and/or an account

Why sitemap URLs. Because I'm a sitemaps user; I use sitemap files every day

The /dev/null ones seem to be easily accessible. Unlike some other "social networks"

X.1 2024 2025 Change

% % (pct. pts.)

Southeast Asia 18% 12% -6

Latin America and the Caribbean 33% 28% -5

Australia-New Zealand 11% 7% -4

Sub-Saharan Africa 27% 24% -3

Northern America 4% 2% -2

European Union 7% 6% -1

Former Soviet States 13 12 -1

South Asia 7 7 0 <---- NO CHANGE

Middle East and North Africa 9% 9% 0 <---- NO CHANGE

East Asia 13% 15% 2 <---- INCREASE

https://dev-null.sh/sitemaps/commits-1.xml

For example, the current Commercial Terms use the heading "Licenses" whereas the updated ones refer to "Licenses and Rights"

Licenses can be revoked by the licensor (B)

Under Meta's "Terms", the license given to Meta ends when the content is deleted

https://www.facebook.com//business/terms

What if Meta wants to keep "scraping" in perpetuity

Does the express authorization in that sentence, which might be used as defense to a CFAA claim, for example, end when the content is deleted from Facebook

What if the express authorization to "scrape" is not part of a (revocable) license grant based on copryright (e.g., CFAA does not require copyright)

The Meta Terms and Commercial Terms have no termination provisions

There are no notice provisions

There is no negotiation

There is no reciprocity

For example, A is allowed under the Commercial Terms to use automation to access B, B is prohibited under the Terms from using automation to access A

Arguably the only parts of this "agreement" that can be terminated are the licenses given to Meta and these end only when the content is deleted from Meta's systems

But that's not within B's control

It's up to Meta to ensure the content is "fully deleted"

What if Meta fails in that regard

Accepting Meta's terms is agreeing to limit Meta's maximum liability to $100

Not only that but Meta has a list of exclusions that allow deletion to be delayed or denied, including "technical limitations" (see below)

In sum, attempting to terminate licenses given to Meta may be a "nondeterministic" process (apologies for any errors in using nerd speak)

Was it Senator Hatch who told Zuckerberg something like, "Your terms suck"

Excerpt from "Terms"

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

3. Deleting Your Content: You can delete individual content you share, post, and upload at any time. In addition, all content posted to your personal account will be deleted if you delete your account. about how to delete your account. Account deletion does not automatically delete content that you post as an admin of a page or content that you create collectively with other users, such as photos in Shared Albums which may continue to be visible to other album members. It may take up to 90 days to delete content after we begin the account deletion process or receive a content deletion request. If you send content to trash, the deletion process will automatically begin in 30 days unless you chose to delete the content sooner. While the deletion process for such content is being undertaken, the content is no longer visible to other users. After the content is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery systems.

Content will not be deleted within 90 days of the account deletion or content deletion process beginning in the following situations:

...

where deletion within 90 days is not possible due to technical limitations of our systems, in which case, we will complete the deletion as soon as technically feasible; or

...

In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.

Current

https://www.facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms

Licenses: As described in The permissions you give us section in our Terms, you grant us a license to content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) you share, post, or upload on or in connection with our Meta Products.

For any access or use of the Meta Products, that license applies to content you or someone on your behalf (such as your agency that places an ad for you or your service provider that manages your Page content for you) makes available on or in connection with any Meta Product.

You also will ensure that you own or have secured all rights necessary to grant the licenses and rights you (or someone on your behalf) grant to us under the Commercial Terms and any applicable supplemental terms, including permission to display, distribute and deliver your content within the Meta Products. https://www.facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms_preview

New (Effective Oct 30, 2026)

https://www.facebook.com/legal/commercial_terms_preview

Licenses & Rights You Provide Meta: As described in "The permissions you give us" section in our Terms, you grant us a license to content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) you share, post, or upload on or in connection with our Meta Company Products ("Content").

That license applies to Content you or someone on your behalf (such as your agency that places an ad for you or your service provider that manages your Page content for you) makes available on or in connection with any Meta Company Products.

Without limiting anything in our Terms and for clarity, Meta may use such Content as described in our Terms, including to provide, develop, improve, research, and maintain Meta Company Products, services, and features provided under these Commercial Terms and any other applicable supplemental terms.

This includes business, commercial, and related services to help you create and deliver ads and other commercial content, provide users information about your products and services, and connect you with users who may be interested in your products and services.

You represent and warrant that you own or have secured all rights necessary to grant the licenses and rights you (or someone on your behalf) grant to us under the Commercial Terms and any applicable supplemental terms, including permission to display, distribute, create derivative works, and deliver your Content within the Meta Company Products, and that your Content will comply with all applicable policies for the Meta Company Products.

You authorize us (or any entity acting on our behalf) to use automated software (such as web scrapers, bots, robots, spiders, crawlers, and user agents) and create test credentials to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or URLs (and any content available through them) that are associated with your products or services, or that are made available through your or users' use of Meta Company Products and services, and to periodically pull updates from such domains, web pages, or URLs.

"I prefer running services natively when possible..."

"If the dependencies aren't overwhelming, native is better, faster, and more efficient."

"Related, I don't do Docker anymore."

49998685 Last rites for Gentoo''s Chromium package https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1097760/2be4d9e3eeb59039/

Published 8 hours ago

https://www.ft.com/content/678bcd31-6c2a-447b-a68c-ce6dec220...

Investors sell longer-dated AI debt amid Big Tech borrowing spree

Published July 10 2026

https://www.ft.com/content/28380abc-72f9-4287-8d36-2823c7335...