Hacker News: matteocontrini

New comment by matteocontrini in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

matteocontrini — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:52:56 +0000

Because they also offer free DNS and email. There are no ads.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

matteocontrini — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:07:51 +0000

They're working on a new manager UI that should solve most pain points:

https://x.com/i/status/2002765582073274826

https://x.com/i/status/2015829450764513753

New comment by matteocontrini in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

matteocontrini — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:38:42 +0000

Someone that worked at Vimeo until last month tweeted:

> Reviving this account to say: Almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off yesterday, including the entire video team. If you're looking for talented engineers, there are a few on the market.

https://x.com/daemon404/status/2013988239829303624

New comment by matteocontrini in "Netflix Open Content"

matteocontrini — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:43:27 +0000

Finally? This content has been up since 2018.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

matteocontrini — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:03:27 +0000

Did you miss Thunderbird Pro?

https://www.tb.pro

New comment by matteocontrini in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

matteocontrini — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:34:46 +0000

The status page was updated 6 minutes after the first internal alert was triggered (8:50 -> 8:56:26 UTC), I wouldn't say this is too long.

New comment by matteocontrini in "HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs"

matteocontrini — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:42:55 +0000

VP9 and AV1 are less affected not because they're free and open source, but because they're backed by large-enough companies (Google) and a consortium that promised they won't claim royalties for the patents used in the formats. Companies outside Google or the consortium can still claim royalties, and indeed they do. See the Sisvel VP9/AV1 patent pool for an example of patent holders claiming royalties for technologies used in VP9 and AV1.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

matteocontrini — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:39:18 +0000

It would still fail if you were unluckily on the new proxy (it's not very clear why if the feature was not enabled, indeed):

> Unrelated to this incident, we were and are currently migrating our customer traffic to a new version of our proxy service, internally known as FL2. Both versions were affected by the issue, although the impact observed was different.

> Customers deployed on the new FL2 proxy engine, observed HTTP 5xx errors. Customers on our old proxy engine, known as FL, did not see errors, but bot scores were not generated correctly, resulting in all traffic receiving a bot score of zero. Customers that had rules deployed to block bots would have seen large numbers of false positives. Customers who were not using our bot score in their rules did not see any impact.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

matteocontrini — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:20:06 +0000

This was not about DDoS defense but the Bot Management feature, which is a paid Enterprise-only feature not enabled by default to block automated requests regardless of whether an attack is going on.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/get-started/bot-manag...

New comment by matteocontrini in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

matteocontrini — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:09:45 +0000

What the article says is true, but Firefox mobile doesn't get the basics right. From weird decisions like the new tab page not actually being a tab like in every other browser on Earth, to consistent bugs and lack of polish in basics functions like scroll direction locking or scrolling to hide the top bar.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

matteocontrini — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:45:19 +0000

I'm referring to outbound email being silently dropped, not inbound email being rejected or put into Junk.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

matteocontrini — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:28:29 +0000

Another thing is that they appear to have some spam scanning on outbound emails and when they detect something suspicious they simply drop the email silently, and nobody will ever know about it.

New comment by matteocontrini in "EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud"

matteocontrini — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:47:08 +0000

It got better though, especially with the new 3-AZ regions.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]"

matteocontrini — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:27:16 +0000

Apparently ai.google.com currently redirects to ai.google, which is different from ai.google.dev where the Gemini stuff actually is.

New comment by matteocontrini in "The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died"

matteocontrini — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:14:57 +0000

ifconfig.me is not behind Cloudflare, at least currently.

New comment by matteocontrini in "Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control"

matteocontrini — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:30:43 +0000

What do you mean? Videos on that page are served by CloudFront. If you're seeing issues it may be that videos are not encoded for web playback (faststart, etc.) but I haven't checked.

You can now build an entire SvelteKit app into a single `.html` file

matteocontrini — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:53:11 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/svelte.dev/post/3ldvxzrjfz22p

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42487923

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by matteocontrini in "ChatGPT Pro"

matteocontrini — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:40:52 +0000

It seems that ChatGPT Enterprise already has many of these:

https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy/

Hetzner Object Storage

matteocontrini — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:34:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42303797

Points: 11

# Comments: 7

New comment by matteocontrini in "DMARCbis is around the corner: what's changing"

matteocontrini — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:31:00 +0000

Both the "require DKIM" and the mailing lists problem were discussed at length by the working group, with many having opposite strong opinions, so in the end the only consensus that was reached is a trade-off that left everyone unsatisfied.

There's hope that the mailing list problem will be solved by DKIM2 [1], since ARC has the problem of trusting the intermediaries.

On `pct`, you're right in theory, but it seems that implementers didn't get the message. From the mailing list [2]:

> That's how we intended it when we wrote that, and that's how early implementations did it. But maybe this is the lesson: People have inferred lots of different things from that rather straightforward definition, so maybe it's more ambiguous than we realized all those years ago.

And the draft says [3]:

> Operational experience showed that the pct tag was usually not accurately applied, unless the value specified was either 0 or 100 (the default), and the inaccuracies with other values varied widely from one implementation to another.

I agree that replacing it with another tag is such a confusing and unnecessary change, though.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gondwana-dkim2-motiva...

[2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dmarc/Sk6JnDlXH_MkM4xm...

[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dmarc-dmarc...