Hacker News: richardwhiuk

New comment by richardwhiuk in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

richardwhiuk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:29:16 +0000

Small businesses are equally vulnerable, and it's possibly to perform cyber attacks at scale - Gen AI makes this easier

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

richardwhiuk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:39:10 +0000

I have a high revenue business opportunity.

If you give me $100, I will give you back $101, funded by equity raises.

Very high growth, very high revenue, huge customer satisfaction.

We hope to be profitable one day, already foresee a mechanism to double profitability per transaction and also double the number of transactions our customers perform.

Please let me know if you are keen to invest.

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"

richardwhiuk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:02:37 +0000

Steadily increasing for five years

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

richardwhiuk — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:11:00 +0000

https://www.tumblr.com/ourincrediblejourney

This is probably just an acquihire.

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

richardwhiuk — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:37:10 +0000

It’s not clear that’s true. States which don’t fear being attacked are more likely to attack other states

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop"

richardwhiuk — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:02:48 +0000

It’s easy to be better when you only implement the mainline of the API

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels"

richardwhiuk — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:40:49 +0000

I wonder how it compares to https://mirage.io/

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%"

richardwhiuk — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:10:39 +0000

In private companies, it's much more caveat emptor, than in the public markets.

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Exe.dev"

richardwhiuk — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:53:58 +0000

It's not actually a VM - it's a container, and they are fundamentally different. This feels like false advertising.

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Days since last GitHub incident"

richardwhiuk — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:28:32 +0000

Is the uptime any better?

New comment by richardwhiuk in "The Death of Arduino?"

richardwhiuk — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:55:34 +0000

You can’t sign the CLA if you are contributing code which you don’t have the right to relicense and isn’t appear under the CLA

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

richardwhiuk — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:32:29 +0000

You can’t buy an M3 chip on its own

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge"

richardwhiuk — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:01:24 +0000

It’s not realistically plausible to build bridges that won’t be brought down by that size of ship

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

richardwhiuk — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:11:04 +0000

Get a key from a map and forget to check the error.

New comment by richardwhiuk in "The Death of Arduino?"

richardwhiuk — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:10:29 +0000

CLA allows them to relicense your contributions under their own license - e.g. proprietary

A DCO would be the more friendly option.

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

richardwhiuk — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:27:59 +0000

Because Go silently gives you zero/null instead

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

richardwhiuk — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:03:26 +0000

They are aware. They don't want to pay the cost benefit tradeoff. Education won't help - this is a very heavily argued tradeoff in every large software company.

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor"

richardwhiuk — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:46:59 +0000

What hypervisior environments don't have this?

New comment by richardwhiuk in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

richardwhiuk — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:02:26 +0000

Move to the UK

New comment by richardwhiuk in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

richardwhiuk — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:08:53 +0000

Almost all cloud providers help here by having inter-region failures as well.

There are multiple AWS services which are "global" in the sense that they are entirely hosted out of AWS East 1