Hacker News: ic4l

New comment by ic4l in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

ic4l — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:04:44 +0000

The Backblaze Restore Application does not work reliably when restoring a large number of files. On an M4 Mac, it repeatedly crashed and ended up in a non-recoverable state, forcing me to recover the files another way.

Some restore options also do not let you move data to their cloud for direct download, which makes it feel like they do not actually want users to fully download and recover all of their files.

New comment by ic4l in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

ic4l — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:00:37 +0000

We tried this initially

  FROM mirror.gcr.io/{image_name}

We received

  failed to resolve source metadata for mirror.gcr.io/

So it looks like these services may not be true mirrors, and just functioning as a library proxy with a cache.

If you're image is not cached on one of these then you may be SOL.

New comment by ic4l in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

ic4l — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:36:00 +0000

This broke our builds since we rely on several public Docker images, and by default, Docker uses docker.io.

Thankfully, AWS provides a docker.io mirror for those who can't wait:

  FROM public.ecr.aws/docker/library/{image_name}

In the error logs, the issue was mostly related to the authentication endpoint:

▪ https://auth.docker.io → "No server is available to handle this request"

After switching to the AWS mirror, everything built successfully without any issues.

New comment by ic4l in "Mass Group Suspensions on Facebook due to bot spam"

ic4l — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:10:27 +0000

Thousands of large Facebook groups appear to have been taken down, with many admins reporting a wave of rapid content reports from a single account targeting the group's first post. This often triggers the group name to change to "Group title pending" just before the group is removed.

> https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/facebook-group-admins-comp...

Mass Group Suspensions on Facebook due to bot spam

ic4l — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:10:27 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1ljedkd/urgent_mass_group_suspensions_on_facebook_since/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372052

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by ic4l in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

ic4l — Tue, 06 May 2025 00:09:53 +0000

Yeah, thats one of the best ones I have seen, and it popped up a while ago.

New comment by ic4l in "Query GPT: Transform Natural Language into SQL"

ic4l — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:42:35 +0000

That was fast :o

New comment by ic4l in "GPT-4.5"

ic4l — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 01:09:28 +0000

Did they already disable it?

When using `gpt-4.5-preview` I am getting: > Invalid URL (POST /v1/chat/completions)

New comment by ic4l in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"

ic4l — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:22:20 +0000

`Especially in a database that doesn't allow wildcards`

New comment by ic4l in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"

ic4l — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:20:45 +0000

I agree with you. Knowing the exact column names can speed up an attack and, in some cases, make it more feasible.

Why don’t they just request disclosure of what’s actually stored and allow renaming of the columns? It seems odd that knowing the exact column names would be necessary if the goal is simply to understand what data is being stored and its intended purpose.

New comment by ic4l in "Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway"

ic4l — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:56:39 +0000

Great answer, thanks.

New comment by ic4l in "Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway"

ic4l — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:56:49 +0000

LXD seems like an unusual choice when Kubernetes already has cadvisor and strong monitoring integrations. Avoiding extra agents is nice, but does this really scale better than existing solutions like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry?

What’s the advantage here beyond keeping things lightweight? Feels like this could hit limitations as complexity grows.

New comment by ic4l in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

ic4l — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:31:40 +0000

For me the o models consistently make more mistakes for me than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

New comment by ic4l in "Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent"

ic4l — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:12:56 +0000

Most browsers won’t report anything higher than 8, even if your system has more memory.

I think its related to fingerprinting attacks.

New comment by ic4l in "Stimulation Clicker"

ic4l — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:50:06 +0000

In case you are wondering this actually beats the game:

    setInterval(() => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.main-btn, .upgrade-icon, .press-collect, .press-btn, .collect')).forEach(item => item.click()), 50);

After around level 40 things get very very slow.

New comment by ic4l in "Outage – Cursor Editor"

ic4l — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:08:21 +0000

HN stripped the query param for x/twitter.

https://x.com/search?q=%22%40cursor_ai%22&src=typed_query&f=...

New comment by ic4l in "Outage – Cursor Editor"

ic4l — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Account settings not accessible, which means any pro users cannot use pro features.

Outage – Cursor Editor

ic4l — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Article URL: https://x.com/search

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41330765

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by ic4l in "Major Outage: Open AI / GPT"

ic4l — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:31:38 +0000

Yeah I wasted 10 minutes on this, and even contacted support.

Their status page is misleading and the only way to see it is to look at the most recent tiny sliver of their chart.

Thats one of the worst CAPTCHAS I have ever had to deal with.

After passing it you end up getting a 503 ERROR against https://tcr9i.openai.com/fc/gfct/, and it shows no actual fail notification, and prevents you from logging in.

New comment by ic4l in "Major Outage: Open AI / GPT"

ic4l — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:30:56 +0000

Started around 40 minutes ago.

The API appears functional but any playground login, or mobile sessions seem to be invalidated without the ability to log back in.

Heres a twitter/reddit thread confirming multiple people having issues:

https://x.com/TheWebLifestyle/status/1826324989576184250

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1exx0vb/cant_log_in...