<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>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:44:21 +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 "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was on a consultant-assignment at a company that got raided by the police in the EU. The police was extremely careful not to scan any data that where stored on US-servers. The company used Google for mail and file storage, so all computers had to be taken offline before they could scan them.<p>While I don't doubt they have a way of getting permission to access that data, I don't think they will put in the effort unless you're a relally big fish.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627001</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Identity verification on Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So I’ll just automate failed verifications for everyone I want to lock out?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619094</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Identity verification on Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it’s the biometrics they’re after.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619070</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> No downtime recorded on this day.<p>Neat. Didn't have a single request go through for 2 hours. Guess they need to improve their metrics before the IPO...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561013</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> - I can't pay with my credit/debit cards there so I need to get their alipay pay app. There is KYC required to upload my government ID.<p>It's not so odd that the Chinese choose to use their domestic payment system over a US one. You probably needed a government ID to get your credit/debit card too (at least when you opened your bank account).<p>I'm not saying the Chinese surveillance system isn't horrible, but the western ones are catching up quickly with the adoption of Flock cameras everywhere and Palantir analyzing every bit of digital footprint you leave. Is there anyone who think there isn't a non-negliable risk that people will walk around with a "jew star" marking in the US in the coming 5-10 years?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:36:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551409</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, Lettermint looks great if you need both transactional and marketing emails. But it's a bit weird that the OP selected Lettermint over Scaleway for just transactional emails when they use lots of other Scaleway services.<p><a href="https://www.scaleway.com/en/transactional-email-tem/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scaleway.com/en/transactional-email-tem/</a><p>[EDIT] Found the answer from the OP:<p>> To be honest I implemented Lettermint before I migrated to Scaleway, so I didn't even look at TEM</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:56:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125945</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polack in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here. I tried different EU providers before I migrated our servers off the US clouds and Hetzner demanded my passport and webcam live verification. Thats a HUGE red flag and we went with Scaleway instead. Happy I found out what a shitty company Hetzner are before I invested more time in them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:47:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125822</link><dc:creator>polack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125822</guid></item><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>
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