Hacker News: Onavo

New comment by Onavo in "GetX author's account was possibly hacked"

Onavo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:21:58 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1sl2iuj/getx_on...

GetX author's account was possibly hacked

Onavo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:21:14 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@yurinovicow/flutter-the-getx-package-was-deleted-from-github-422b7edabd1d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798208

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Onavo in "Cloudflare Email Service"

Onavo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:09:05 +0000

> Cloudflare's cloud offerings are usually much cheaper, and I've saved plenty of money by migrating from AWS S3 to Cloudflare's R2. This new offering is 3x the AWS price, though. Weird. Anyway, most small companies don't send enough email for it to matter.

For certain types of marketing and transactional emails, it's cheaper I think. AWS SES pricing doesn't include attachments. If you assume a maxed out 25MB email attachment body, I think the price comes out to be mostly similar, amortized at least.

But if you are sending basic text/mostly text transactional emails for stuff like password resets, then SES comes out ahead for sure.

New comment by Onavo in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

Onavo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:46:31 +0000

It's slow. It almost always trails Safari and Chrome on most benchmarks.

See e.g.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ljns9o/freshly_re...

New comment by Onavo in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

Onavo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:08:30 +0000

Or easiest is to require KYC for all the buyers (tie ticket to person instead of allowing bulk purchases) and limit ability to resale at scale. This would easily allow them to blacklist scalpers. It's not like they don't know who you are from the payment information, and tickets are often verified against driver licenses at entry.

New comment by Onavo in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

Onavo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:01:38 +0000

Legally, they have to disclose all their probabilities (under most regulatory regimes).

New comment by Onavo in "Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness"

Onavo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:46:59 +0000

> Some things are so cheap you can't mess it up.

A good example would be modern safety razors. I was looking at alternatives to the King C Gillette and most of the generic branded ones performed similarly to the big three German brands.

New comment by Onavo in "Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals"

Onavo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:20:58 +0000

The type of sales at your company is the top down approach where you already have a solution. There's a lot of enterprise sales where the solution doesn't fully exist or requires extensive customization that it's the blue ocean demo that sells the product, the product doesn't exist until the deal is signed.

New comment by Onavo in "A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust"

Onavo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:12:11 +0000

There's also https://github.com/mongodb/kingfisher

New comment by Onavo in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

Onavo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:41:49 +0000

Because it absolves them of liability of anything goes wrong. They can point to the email say "we warned you". Having to filter and target the specific set of customers that a notice applies to carries risk and costs to them and they wanna pass it to you.

New comment by Onavo in "BYD's luxury EV with 5-min fast charging and 500 miles range is headed overseas"

Onavo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:44:26 +0000

You forgot the biggest reason: Winter. What works for benchmarking under nice Cali weather condition doesn't work for IRL. Current generation lithium ion estimates are ~30-50% halving of range in winter (it's especially bad if you don't have your own garage with charging and pre warming the battery can easily reduce the availability battery capacity by another few percent in exchange for better en route efficiency).

New comment by Onavo in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Onavo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:12:41 +0000

Oil is a mostly liquid (pun intended) market.

New comment by Onavo in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

Onavo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:07:33 +0000

You don't really need AI to do this, it can be done just fine with traditional techniques, just labor intensive. Hell you can probably find a dude on fiverr to do it right now for a couple hundred, YMMV.

New comment by Onavo in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

Onavo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:00:21 +0000

Well, you are mostly increasing liquidity and cutting out the middleman that is the wholesale purchasers and bidders. Price discovery is more accurate now for personal users as many tend to be physically closer to the location.

New comment by Onavo in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

Onavo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:38:53 +0000

*blank

New comment by Onavo in "Solod – A Subset of Go That Translates to C"

Onavo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:38:35 +0000

Does it work with the preprocessor?

New comment by Onavo in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

Onavo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:35:26 +0000

I mean if you wanna leapfrog china just throw more money into switched mode inverters and rectifiers. You don't have to use transformers. As long as you have a black cheque, there are plenty of options.

New comment by Onavo in "Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI"

Onavo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:14:50 +0000

What about businesses like roame.travel (YC company)? I think this toolkit just replaced services like that entirely

New comment by Onavo in "DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems"

Onavo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:52:47 +0000

The short answer is that a lot of states now require KYC by service providers under the guise of adult content prohibition, "protecting the children", or mass surveillance. So the service providers like Facebook are trying to foist off the responsibility to the operating system. The pesky details of storing and managing PII becomes Somebody Else's Problem, and if the operating system implements an easily bypassed KYC e.g. a simple check box and then the kid get radicalized or get exposed to problematic content, the service provider can just shrug and point the finger at the OS. In other words it shifts the responsibility to the lowest level instead of the platform companies.

New comment by Onavo in "Nginx – Open-Sourced Session Persistence, Multipath TCP and More"

Onavo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:55:33 +0000

I wish NGINX marketed and documented their NGINX Unit server more. They go their lunch completely eaten by Caddy and the other kubernetes native Golang app servers and reverse proxies.