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New comment by bedatadriven in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

bedatadriven — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:56:49 +0000

We switched from Wistia to their video streaming offer and literally decimated our video hosting costs. Exactly what we needed with none of the upselling B.S.

New comment by bedatadriven in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

bedatadriven — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:36:12 +0000

Uh yeah, the locale in the link is specifically an Indian locale. If you find it it disorienting you can change en_in to en_us:

https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/

New comment by bedatadriven in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

bedatadriven — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:04:22 +0000

Compliance with what requires KYC? Nothing in ISO-27001 requires you to collect any information about your customers. Unless there are laws that require you to. Knowing your vendors is another story.

New comment by bedatadriven in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

bedatadriven — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:53:30 +0000

The standards are very sensible. If you can't be bothered to provide even simple evidence that your employees are using basic harddrive encryption, use password managers, and your product has backup in place, I don't want to do business with you.

And Delve isn't an auditor. Though they were apparently in cohoots with equally criminal third party auditors. So I guess I'm going to be looking more closely at just exactly who exactly are auditing our vendors in the future...

New comment by bedatadriven in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

bedatadriven — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:07:28 +0000

Well, yes, but that's the point of many contracts, they are often designed to shift risk to parties that are better equipped to handle those risks. We run our app on GCP because as a 20 person company I don't want to be responsible for physical security and a million other risks.

With ISO27001 or SOC 2, I have more information about the other party's ability to manage those risks than just taking their word for it. I'm trusting a third party auditor to vouch for them.

Fraud undermines all kinds of relationships and yes LLMs make it worse. The last job we opened I got hundreds of perfect cover letters asserting the candidates met all of the criteria. Bah.

My perhaps naive hope is that a few of these companies involved will face criminal fraud charges and we will start to develop new reflexes as a society that just bc LLMs making lying very very easy, there are still consequences.

New comment by bedatadriven in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

bedatadriven — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:47:25 +0000

I don't want to work wherever you do your thing. Software as a service means you provide a service, and you should take your responsibility to protect your customer's data super seriously. Compliance frameworks are one useful tool among many to support this effort. It helps us identify gaps, identify risks, make improvements. It also give us a way to communicate what we do to our partners. The behavior described in the medium post is fraud, pure and simple.

I am a founder, and my ambition includes meeting the highest possible standards for my customers.

New comment by bedatadriven in "It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed"

bedatadriven — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:11:17 +0000

I can remember something like this a few years ago when a customer emailed our helpdesk with their own internal IT support desk in copy. Our helpdesk at the time sent a complete new email acknowledging the request, which the customer's desk ALSO acknowledged in a new thread...

I think it took us a good hour and a few hundred tickets to get the helpdesks to stop fighting with each other!

New comment by bedatadriven in "Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs"

bedatadriven — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:40:14 +0000

One thing that is real is companies using LLMs to fill roles they couldn't afford to spend on before. Like the tourist who uses Google Translate on a trip to Japan: in principle they are saving 10k on the cost of a professional interpreter. On the other hand they never would have had the resources for a professional interpreter.

New comment by bedatadriven in "Configuration files are user interfaces"

bedatadriven — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:00:18 +0000

Came across hocon recently and prefer over both yaml and kson. https://learnxinyminutes.com/hocon/

New comment by bedatadriven in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

bedatadriven — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:47:57 +0000

I've been looking at this a lot, for ourselves (multitenant saas app running on gcp) and for our customers, who are starting to be curious about something between fully self-managed (too costly) and centralized/multi-tenant/american cloud.

One thing that strikes me is the relationship with architecture. A monolithic, vertically scaled app can run ANYWHERE where I can rent a VM, whether in Norway with Upcloud or on a VPS in Kenya. It's only when you start stitching together managed DBs with autoscaled instance pools etc that vendor lock in begins.

All of these nice toys make our service highly available. But while the overall risk is lower, it is far more correlated between customers. If our service would go down because of a political event, it would go down for all our customers at once.

What about a control plane that manages a fleet of per-customer VMs across an array of cloud providers? Has anyone ever tried this?

Local Peer-to-Peer API Draft Community Group Report

bedatadriven — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://WICG.github.io/local-peer-to-peer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046266

Points: 28

# Comments: 11

New comment by bedatadriven in "Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131"

bedatadriven — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:39:00 +0000

This a very early draft I'm following: https://wicg.github.io/local-peer-to-peer/

New comment by bedatadriven in "The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from Leiden University"

bedatadriven — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:39:47 +0000

You are off by one f.

New comment by bedatadriven in "Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java"

bedatadriven — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:59:10 +0000

A record's fields are final, so records are immutable (though they can include immutable pointers to mutable objects)

New comment by bedatadriven in "How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite"

bedatadriven — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:40:34 +0000

This honestly sounds like a nightmare: multimegabyte wasm downloads, data corruption in production and byzantine hacks to coordinate writes between tabs. I am very grateful that we chose IndexedDB instead for our application!

New comment by bedatadriven in "Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC"

bedatadriven — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:05:57 +0000

I'd encourage you to take another look at the article because I don't think your criticisms are well founded.

The javascript version does exist! The fact that it's produced by a compiler doesn't undermine it's existence.

What's interesting here is not that it's slower than the equivalent running on the JVM but that it was _faster_ than a version compiled to wasm.

Well written and useful article if you would like to learn about what type of optimizations are effective in targeting the wasmgc runtime.

New comment by bedatadriven in "Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC"

bedatadriven — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:47:22 +0000

The primary point of the article is to compare two compilation targets for a single codebase: JS and WasmGC.

It's an extremely timely and interesting topic.

The performance of a third compilation target - JVM bytecode provides a useful baseline.

New comment by bedatadriven in "Cloudflare took down our website"

bedatadriven — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:32:26 +0000

Ok, I have to ask: are you a Random Number Generator (RNG) supplier, or a Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) supplier, or some other kind of supplier??

New comment by bedatadriven in "ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment"

bedatadriven — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:42:50 +0000

I just recently switched from Ubunto to ChromeOS Flex and my quality of life has gone way up. I had so many frustrations with Ubuntu when switching displays, unlocking, sharing screens... all gone with ChromeOS flex and I get to keep my linuxdev tools. So happy!!

New comment by bedatadriven in "Ask HN: Why are there no traditional language compilers that target the JVM?"

bedatadriven — Fri, 05 May 2023 21:19:21 +0000

I have written one (gcc-bridge). Fortran is actually a really good fit for JVM byte code. C/c++ is doable, but only with some unpleasant trade offs that others have mentioned here.