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New comment by glenpierce in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

glenpierce — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:52:33 +0000

The cloud services wrote the contract and the UI for their console. They then encourage young developers to try out their tools and encourage a market environment where those skills are needed to secure employment. Some kid goes and tries to build their first web app, they follow instructions and tutorials but miss that a single default selection on a menu three nested layers down is going to cost $2,000 per month. This isn’t disclosed on the page. Sure, it can be determined by reading several different documents, but the provider chose to not show estimates for costs in the setup.

How is that the kid’s fault?

New comment by glenpierce in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

glenpierce — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:36:55 +0000

Nuke the data. It’s gone forever if you didn’t back it up elsewhere. This should be a meaningful risk mitigation that I can employ to avoid having a catastrophic financial disaster.

This isn’t a limit I’m setting at some percentage above expected costs, it’s: “I don’t want to take out a HELOC if something goes wrong”

New comment by glenpierce in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

glenpierce — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:27:27 +0000

I would love to have a “if the bill for this hobby project becomes a threat to my ability to pay my mortgage, nuke it.” If I cared about the data enough. I’d have backed it up.

New comment by glenpierce in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

glenpierce — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:54:29 +0000

This is an issue that regulators need to address. Asking small businesses to forego the significant impact on their business of not implementing common features that users demand is not a good solution to public policy failures.

I don’t know what the exact revenue/growth difference is, but if my paycheque depended upon getting more users to sign up, I don’t think I could justify making it into a political stance when Google isn’t going to notice my tiny boycott.

New comment by glenpierce in "Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends"

glenpierce — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:24:15 +0000

That was such a great game!

New comment by glenpierce in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

glenpierce — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:31:34 +0000

As a parent, none of these are useful to me. Age is not a useful indicator of what’s appropriate for my kid. At best, this can avoid a small portion of some stuff they probably wouldn’t see anyway. The bad actors who I’m worried about actively try to circumvent any automated systems that block them. These age verification systems don’t help even if they worked as intended… or at least as advertised.

New comment by glenpierce in "Chrome DevTools MCP"

glenpierce — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:44:14 +0000

I am in awe of the confidence you have in your reflexes.

New comment by glenpierce in "“Design me a highly resilient database”"

glenpierce — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:43:44 +0000

Electricity goes in and phones come out, duh.

New comment by glenpierce in "State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID"

glenpierce — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:45:46 +0000

This gets complicated when you need to start giving your kids some degree of independence. I would also argue this could be implemented in a more accessibility-oriented approach.

Also, not all 13-year-olds are of equal level of maturity/content appropriate material. I find it very annoying that I can’t just set limits like: no drug-referencing but idgaf about my kid hearing swear words.

On other machines: I do not want certain content to ever be displayed on my work machine. I’d like to have the ability to set that. Someone who has specific background may not want to see things like: children in danger. This could even be applied to their Netflix algorithm. The website: does the dog die, does a good job of categorizing these kinds of content.

New comment by glenpierce in "Ask HN: Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?"

glenpierce — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:24:29 +0000

So what happens if I spend 2 hours on a ticket, but submit it 10 minutes after someone else? Do you have people "reserve" tickets? What happens when someone just keeps high-value tickets "reserved" and prevents others from working on them? What if I submit a better solution? What if you find a bug in my solution but I'm not available to work on it for another week? Do I get 1/2, 3/4?

New comment by glenpierce in "Unity Software Inc S-1"

glenpierce — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:48:44 +0000

I've only ever used Git with Unity and as long as we're disciplined in our process, it's not a problem. It's free, scales to any size team for free, and lets us open source our projects easily.

I would be willing to consider Perforce, but it seems very expensive.

What is the industry standard means of open sourcing a Perforce repository?

New comment by glenpierce in "Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?"

glenpierce — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:30:14 +0000

I should also point out that learning all of ASL isn't necessary for it to be helpful. "Yes", "No", and "Thank you" are pretty helpful on their own.

New comment by glenpierce in "Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?"

glenpierce — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:28:07 +0000

Sign language is a pretty good option. There will be times when access to the technology used to produce her voice might be inconvenient or even unavailable. American Sign Language (ASL) is also probably much faster than typing in a lot of cases. I grant, this probably won't be as helpful out in the world where most people won't understand it, but in the comfort of home, being able to converse at the dinner table without a keyboard at your side might be preferable. I suggest you don't ignore this as a supplimental tool.