<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: polack</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=polack</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:59:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=polack" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Anthropic bans orgs without warning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Anthropics defense they make sure that no company can rely on them by being down all the time... And LLMs have become a commodity these days, so you can seamlessly just fail over to another supplier WHEN they go down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:53:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903632</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Someone should add Sam’s face to the targeting training data as an Easter egg ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:46:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203810</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surly this post must have the opposite effect of what he intended. Even if you side with Cloudflare on the core issue this post is so cringy my butthole collapsed into itself.<p>Are Americans not embarrassed by the way these tech bros operate? As a European it’s obvious that the US gone from an allied to an enemy. I would feel like a traitor if I picked US tech these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:58:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563471</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s why you should only export anonymous information to external parties. There is no valid reason for OpenAI to export my personal information like this.<p>I will report OpenAI to the data protection agency in my country and I encourage others to do the same. They can not blame Mixpanel when they sprinkle others personal information around like this. NOT OK.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066141</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is not realistic? To do simple input validation on data that has the potential to break 20% of the internet? To not have a system in place to rollback to the latest known state when things crash?<p>Cloudflare builds a global scale system, not an iphone app. Please act like it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:59:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978525</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it's probably an overreaction.<p>But at the same time, what value do they add if they:<p>* Took down the the customers sites due to their bug.<p>* Never protected against an attack that our infra could not have handled by itself.<p>* Don't think that they will be able to handle the "next big ddos" attack.<p>It's just an extra layer of complexity for us. I'm sure there are attacks that could help our customers with, that's why we're using them in the first place. But until the customers are hit with multiple ddos attacks that we can not handle ourself then it's just not worth it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:43:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978406</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They failed on so many levels here.<p>How can you write the proxy without handling the config containing more than the maximum features limit you set yourself?<p>How can the database export query not have a limit set if there is a hard limit on number of features?<p>Why do they do non-critical changes in production before testing in a stage environment?<p>Why did they think this was a cyberattack and only after two hours realize it was the config file?<p>Why are they that afraid of a botnet? Does not leave me confident that they will handle the next Aisuru attack.<p>I'm migrating my customers off Cloudflare. I don't think they can swallow the next botnet attacks and everyone on Cloudflare go down with the ship, so it will be safer to not be behind Cloudflare when it hits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:47:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977683</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We do Thursday to Thursday and then you get Friday off after completed on-call.
Being on-call gives you no extra pay by itself, but if you get paged off hours and need to work you get paid 150 to 200% of your normal hourly wage depending on what time of day you need to work.<p>Best on-call I’ve had.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42219476</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42219476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42219476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ”we are identifying and reaching out to former employees who signed a standard exit agreement to make it clear that OpenAI has not and will not cancel their vested equity and releases them from nondisparagement obligations”<p>Looks like they’re doing that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 22:46:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447694</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Stealing OAuth tokens of Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a really simple vulnerability though. It comes of like you're not really on top of things when you cant reproduce or close it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:50:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37983133</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37983133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37983133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real question is why they do Module.function() and then function.() instead of .function()?<p>It makes no sense to have the dot at the end of an anonymous named function.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:44:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37126579</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37126579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37126579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Microsoft Azure Outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then they should have a "?" status that can be triggered by automated systems that acknowledge that it looks to be an issue but that they are manually investigating.<p>If it's a false positive they just resolve it without it affecting SLA and if it's a real problem then us customers wouldn't have to debug our own stack for 2 hours before Microsoft informs us that they are the problem.<p>EDIT:
Wonder how many man-years of extra debugging work their non-working status page have caused the customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:26:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34517041</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34517041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34517041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Tell HN: If You Are in Russia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Will the dead Ukrainians get their lives back? No one cares about your Gmail account mate. Have some respect for what’s going on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:00:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510586</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Ask HN: Armour and Helmet Recommendations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kevlar helmets and ceramic body armor is pretty standard.
Go for body armor that can take a hit from 7.62 rounds.
Body armor is heavy so most people prefer the ones that don’t have plates on the sides and over the shoulders as an compromise between weight and protection.<p>Isn’t it better that you give money to the Ukrainian military though, so they can get what they need? How will you even get the equipment into Ukraine now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:55:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510555</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The “but he did it too” spiel rarely works when talking to adults.
But you know what, if someone force me to switch dns provider when my government is killing innocent families with my tax money I’ll gladly do it without whining on the internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:53:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506956</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m truly sorry for all honest Russians that don’t support their government and what’s going on. But the world cannot let Putin go on and there is only two ways of doing that; military action that will result in full nuclear war or pushing the Russian population to step up and overthrow your government.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:49:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506913</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't see the hundred of thosands of people fleeing Russia at the moment. I do see them trying to get out of Ukraine though. Please stop trying to make yourself a victim. You're really not. You're just a troll.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505994</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You fund the attacks on Ukraine whether you want it or not. Nobody is targetting you specifically, but transfering a couple of domains as collateral damage isn't that much problems is it? And while you think of a response to that, keep in mind that your tax money is funding attacks on innocent civilians, as in bombing them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505956</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you really think all these sanctions against Russia won't have any effect? The more countries and companies that join in, the faster the results will come. The Russian masses cannot put a blind eye to what their government are doing any more.<p>I find it really distasteful that a couple of you cannot even be bothered to transfer some domains. You know what your taxes are funding right now don't you???</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:16:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505927</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Guess it got something to do with this:
 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/30/airbus-could-sue-following-allegations-germany-spied-on-them-for-the-us" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/30/airbus-coul...</a></p>
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