Hacker News: quentindanjou

New comment by quentindanjou in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

quentindanjou — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000

Railway say the incident is resolved but many are still down (returning 502): on our side, we had to manually trigger a redeploy to fix it but I believe it should have been triggered automatically by Railway and I can't understand how they can mark this as resolved while many are still down.

In total, down for >11 hours on our side.

New comment by quentindanjou in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

quentindanjou — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:59:33 +0000

Comparing Europe to a teenager wanting to move out of their parents' (US) house is incredibly condescending.

Especially considering that the US is the actual young country being swinged in instability.

New comment by quentindanjou in "McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)"

quentindanjou — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:54:02 +0000

For me point 2 amplifies point 1. You could justify a higher price if the quality is better (and by quality, I mean both the health and type of ingredients used: not the type of product).

So not only they go more expensive but the quality stays low and actually got even lower).

New comment by quentindanjou in "Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold"

quentindanjou — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:07:51 +0000

I think you are right about the high temperature issues. But extremely cold temperatures also have their problems: the metal contained in electronic devices tends to contract and become more brittle.

New comment by quentindanjou in "Books are not too expensive"

quentindanjou — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:32:06 +0000

Hard disagree.

The article contradicts itself when you verify it.

Tolkien's Fellowship was $7 in 2000 using the given inflation calculator it would be $13 today (not more than $50 as mentioned in the article??? They probably set the date at over 50 years ago) todays edition of the book is $20 (not the $13 it should have been with inflation) and the hardcover version is at $30.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-...

> Don’t blame books for being too expensive. Everything else is more expensive, and that’s why you can’t afford books.

Books became more expensive as everything else.

New comment by quentindanjou in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

quentindanjou — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:11:48 +0000

Usually rotating a credential means that you invalidate the previous one. Never heard of rotating credentials that would only create new ones and keep the old ones active.

New comment by quentindanjou in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

quentindanjou — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:13:18 +0000

I wasn't expecting to find my favorite short-story on HN today! That's a pleasant surprise! This is how I started my journey in reading Isaac Asimov, I really recommend it!

New comment by quentindanjou in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

quentindanjou — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:17:42 +0000

Less budget = less tooling + less competant people

So actually, yes, it could have affected it. Did it really? We will never know.

Also NASA has less experience in this than SpaceX, hopefully it will be better next time!

New comment by quentindanjou in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

quentindanjou — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:02:02 +0000

This only works when the barrier of entry to sue is low enough to be done and when the law is applied impartially without corruption with sanctions meaningful enough , potentially company-ending, to discourage them.

At the moment you remove one of these factors, free market becomes dangerous for the people living in it.

New comment by quentindanjou in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

quentindanjou — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:37:05 +0000

Exactly, everything is in "technically" because, for example, to the best of my knowledge, JFK airport is located in the US.

There are plenty of articles that actually explain that the practice is illegal, but the gov doesn't really care about its legality + there is no organization able to fight it, and even if there were, the Supreme Court would likely be in favor of the US gov.

What is private life if it can be broken for no reason? What is freedom of speech if it doesn't apply to the people who don't agree with you?

New comment by quentindanjou in "Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026"

quentindanjou — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:42:10 +0000

The local grocer that isn't amazing and cost more and actually isn't really that local in the sense that none of the products sold are from local businesses/producers?

New comment by quentindanjou in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

quentindanjou — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:47:20 +0000

> Of all the issues with the US justice system, being compelled to disclose passwords isn't one of them.

This is not totally true. It is also a US issue: CBP has been asking for passwords (or to unlock the device) for phones and computers for more than a year now. Last year, multiple people got turned around because they disagreed with US policies and political views that differ from those of the US's current president.

New comment by quentindanjou in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

quentindanjou — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:00:52 +0000

[self redacted as the above comment was obviously a troll]

New comment by quentindanjou in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

quentindanjou — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:40:19 +0000

I still remember people asking, "why people in [China], don't protest more actively against it?" as if they would do much better, some others arguing that it was in their "culture" not to protest, as if it would be in the US, they would do anything different: we now have our answer.

New comment by quentindanjou in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

quentindanjou — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:54:49 +0000

It's in the source article (from Google Research group):

> DarkSword supports iOS versions 18.4 through 18.7

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...

The source exploits continued to be patched with all of them patched in iOS 26.3

New comment by quentindanjou in "AirPods Max 2"

quentindanjou — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:19:11 +0000

I recently bought 4 wooden chairs that costed me more than that but there is significantly more technology in a Macbook Neo

New comment by quentindanjou in "USDA is closing buildings, relocating staff, and downsizing-a lot"

quentindanjou — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:10:44 +0000

Time to become a GI doctor!

New comment by quentindanjou in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

quentindanjou — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:51:48 +0000

Thanks, I completely miss-read it thinking that it was about retail credit. facepalm. Time for coffee.

New comment by quentindanjou in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

quentindanjou — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:40:51 +0000

I always find it interesting to listen US citizen answer "What would it take for you to not consider your country a democracy?" and admire the wide range of answers and denials.

New comment by quentindanjou in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

quentindanjou — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:12:42 +0000

It would have been about Apple it probably would have said "Apple starts charging 20% fees on the AppStore"