Hacker News: corvad

New comment by corvad in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

corvad — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:44:38 +0000

This seems very sketchy. Give us your laptop and we promise we won't keep it...

Website copyright is out of date by two years... And the website has been online since then. https://crt.sh/?q=colaptop.pages.dev

> Thank you for your interest. Please submit the form below and we'll get back to you within 2 working days.

> - Team @ CoLaptop.com

Also colaptop.com is not even registered anymore. If I had to guess the pages.dev site stayed up but the domain and email are nowhere.

New comment by corvad in "GitHub is once again down"

corvad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:59:13 +0000

Just wait until github comes up with an outage tuesday.

New comment by corvad in "GitHub is once again down"

corvad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:55:15 +0000

Yeah, I think especially Git mirrors can go a long too for maintaining availability and also for reducing load off main infra.

New comment by corvad in "GitHub is once again down"

corvad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:49:57 +0000

And this is why I self host a lot of my Git stack with Gerrit...

New comment by corvad in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

corvad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:45:29 +0000

Won't this just cause more issues with customer server agents. Like I would assume more people would be annoyed once they get an agent.

The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

corvad — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:00:29 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-most-seen-ui-on-the-internet-redesigning-turnstile-and-challenge-pages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186277

Points: 61

# Comments: 72

Alphabet (Googl) Plans Tech's First 100-Year Bond Since Dot-Com Era

corvad — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/alphabet-mandates-banks-for-rare-100-year-sterling-bond

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950003

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:48:06 +0000

I don't believe "Our team is using Matrix on Workers." The repo is in someone's personal Github and a pretty incomplete and insecure implementation.

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:41:07 +0000

Blog post now says: "* This post was updated at 11:15 a.m. Pacific time to clarify that the use case described here is a proof of concept. Some sections have been updated for clarity." But parts of it are still misleading.

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:45:09 +0000

Talking about Cursor not Cloudflare.

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:53:40 +0000

I wouldn't put it past them...

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:52:46 +0000

Wow this is definitely not a software engineer. Hmm I wonder if Git stores history...

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:50:25 +0000

Yeah deleting the TODOs like that is honestly a worse look.

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:48:39 +0000

That honestly makes everything so much worse.

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:22:11 +0000

I essentially just use them for this and domain DNS/Registrar as their pricing is pretty good for that.

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:19:43 +0000

They aren't really a multi-billion dollar corporation. A lot of it is them just pumping up their valuation. Stuff like this proves that in a lot of ways.

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:18:36 +0000

It didn't and it had some pretty weird commit history and emails. Overall not a super great sign...

New comment by corvad in "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:17:26 +0000

Cloudflare also works in Europe and has POPs there so I don't see why you couldn't use that. But there are also Hetzner VMs if you can configure sometime a bit less turnkey and don't necessarily need a CDN but just hosting mainly.

New comment by corvad in "Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:15:11 +0000

Continued Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516

New comment by corvad in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

corvad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:09:19 +0000

Honestly I like Cloudflare's CDN and DNS but beyond that I don't really trust much else from them. In the past though their blog has been one of the best in the space and the information has been pretty useful, almost being a gold standard for postmortems, but this seems especially bad. Definitely out of line compared to the rest of their posts. And with the recent Cursor debacle this doesn't help. I also don't really get their current obsession with porting every piece of software on Earth to Workers recently...