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New comment by jedberg in "Cloudflare Email Service"

jedberg — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:39:20 +0000

Maintaining the reputation of an IP address is the issue here. If one bad actor sends just a few emails that get marked as spam, the entire IP gets marked as bad. That's basically what you're paying for.

Also, the person who just wants to send a few 100 emails a month is actually far more likely to be a spammer. So it's also a way for them to eliminate those folks.

And lastly, the support burden can be high.

AWS has basically said they only want serious customers, let the other guys worry about the small senders.

New comment by jedberg in "Cloudflare Email Service"

jedberg — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:04:21 +0000

The reason AWS does that is because there is a lot of base level work to verify you as "not a spammer" and to keep verifying you. So this is their way of making sure you pay the base cost.

They could price per use, but it would have to start with a base fee that is about the same at 10,000 emails.

New comment by jedberg in "Claude Opus 4.7"

jedberg — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:54:48 +0000

That's not really how datacenter power works. It's usually a bulk buy with a 95th percentile usage.

New comment by jedberg in "Stop Flock"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:37:35 +0000

That’s exactly what I’m saying. :)

New comment by jedberg in "Stop Flock"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:22:28 +0000

Yes for sure. Only homes are exempt. Which is why I originally said it should be treated as though it’s still in your home.

New comment by jedberg in "Stop Flock"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:44:41 +0000

Not in your home. They can’t sneak in and search your home and not tell you.

New comment by jedberg in "Stop Flock"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:32:07 +0000

> This would be excluding gag orders correct?

Much like you can't gag a search warrant on a home, you wouldn't be able to gag these orders either.

> And regular orders currently notify the service provider, but they don't necessarily notify the target, they just don't have a prohibition on the service provider notifying the target.

True, but my proposal would require that they notify you.

> Finally, recordings of public areas actually aren't be impacted by warrants at all, right?

No, but I'm saying this should apply to any time a 3rd party releases information to anyone, including law enforcement. In this case the Flock cameras feed into a private database. They should disclose when someone looks something up.

> And how exactly would I be notified?

Presumably if they can identify you then there would be a way to notify you. But those details could be left to the author of the bill.

My main point is that your data, when housed with a 3rd party, should be considered an extension of your home and offer the same guarentees and protections as the items actually in your home.

New comment by jedberg in "Stop Flock"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:26:25 +0000

Specifically, I believe that if information that is held by a private 3rd party I accessed by anyone, law enforcement or otherwise, that third party should be required to tell you that it was requested and by whom. Just like they can't put a gag order on a search warrant to your home, this hypothetical search would be exempt from gag orders.

New comment by jedberg in "Stop Flock"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:29:13 +0000

I know, that's why I said "including law enforcement" :)

New comment by jedberg in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:15:47 +0000

I think it's code for "the government will have to bail them out".

New comment by jedberg in "Stop Flock"

jedberg — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:14:44 +0000

We need a law that says if you hold any data about a person, they must be notified when anyone accesses it, including law enforcement.

I used to work in criminal investigations. I understand how this might make investigation of real crime more difficult. But so does the fact that you need a warrant to enter someone's home, and yet we manage to investigate crime anyway.

Your data should be an extension of your home, even if it's held by another company. It should require a warrant and notification. You could even make the notification be 24 hours after the fact. But it should be required.

New comment by jedberg in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

jedberg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:45 +0000

We also (I worked there at the time) had software that basically said, "Joe watches all of his disks every weekend and drops them in the mail on Tuesdays, let's just assume he's going to do that and ship his new disks Monday morning". And other such predictions.

If you had a very regular viewing behavior you could have your new disks the same day as you shipped your old ones. To the customer, it was magical.

New comment by jedberg in "One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot"

jedberg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:59:52 +0000

> And why does your comment say you're a 30-person company but the title says 60?

AI hallucination? :)

New comment by jedberg in "One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot"

jedberg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:58:58 +0000

Reading through it, I didn't see any mention of write access. It looks like the agent is strictly read-only with access controls.

New comment by jedberg in "One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot"

jedberg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:57:56 +0000

The thing that AI is best at is summarizing vast quantities of information. That means the most natural thing for an AI to do is be "the one tool to rule them all".

The more information it has access to, the more useful the answer can be. But that also means that it can answer all the questions.

New comment by jedberg in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jedberg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:38:51 +0000

I had not, thanks! Interestingly, using FFT for this has been around for a long time, but combining it with transformers could have interesting new results.

New comment by jedberg in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jedberg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:29:03 +0000

When we do it as humans, that's basically how we do it. We may have an overall idea for a theme across the song, but usually you're zoomed into a few seconds of music and adding light effects to it.

New comment by jedberg in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jedberg — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:30:46 +0000

It takes about 10 hours per minute of song to make a sequence like that. Imagine if AI could help speed that up!

New comment by jedberg in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

jedberg — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:10:33 +0000

You're totally right, it's a Switch 2.

New comment by jedberg in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jedberg — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:29:11 +0000

I make holiday light shows with an open source program called XLights[0]. I'm sure you've seen the videos[1] of what people[2] can do. Usually the top comment is "man that is cool but I wouldn't want to be their neighbor!" followed by "my neighbors love my light shows".

Creating the sequences is time consuming, and lot of people end up buying them or sharing them, but those are rarely as good as the ones you make for yourself.

Some folks have dabbled with using AI to create the sequences. I think the biggest issues are lack of training data and it's a very visual art, so there needs to be a better feedback between the text representation and the visual manifestation.

So if you're into using AI to make physical world things better, that would be a good place to look!

[0] https://xlights.org

[1] https://youtu.be/enhhtPZMwCE?t=119

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5dfpe_-Lgg