Hacker News: talonx

New comment by talonx in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

talonx — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:50:22 +0000

AI slop-code has exacerbated the problem and GitHub is not able to keep up. If you look at the last 12 month's outage reports from GitHub's own status page, many of them mention capacity issues as an underlying cause.

Skyroot Aerospace launches India's first private orbital rocket

talonx — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:54:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/science/indias-skyroot-launches-vikram-1-first-private-orbital-rocket-mission-2026-07-18/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956320

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

talonx — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:16:17 +0000

Article URL: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770647

Points: 546

# Comments: 435

New comment by talonx in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

talonx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:37:11 +0000

They don't have straightforward status pages or APIs to detect outages - I think that's the reason they are not listed.

New comment by talonx in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

talonx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:35:31 +0000

Services like Cloudflare and Twilio have so many POPs globally that one or more always have an outage going on. Then there's the question of whether it's a major outage or a minor outage. Even though major status page providers like Atlassian and Incident.io have public status APIs (Cloudflare uses Atlassian), it takes more than just parsing them to determine what is "down" and at what granularity.

I run an outage detection service - and some of these issues, like parsing hundreds of - sometimes undocumented - status APIs, make for an interesting engineering problem.

European Commission confirms data breach after Europa.eu hack

talonx — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:52:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-commission-confirms-data-breach-after-europaeu-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572356

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

talonx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:00:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528956

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Back to textbooks: Denmark rolls back digital learning

talonx — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:46:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20260106-back-to-textbooks-denmark-rolls-back-digital-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097847

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

14 More Lessons from 14 years at Google

talonx — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:59:48 +0000

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/14-more-lessons/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012015

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

The Next Two Years of Software Engineering

talonx — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:59:53 +0000

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/next-two-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46508917

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by talonx in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

talonx — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:19:42 +0000

Oh thank you! I sorely miss the original HS website.

New comment by talonx in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

talonx — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:18:01 +0000

And worse - when I open Google News all the news under Technology is about the latest mobile phones and "gadgets".

New comment by talonx in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

talonx — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:16:21 +0000

I remember Firefox used to have this cool feature where you could detect any RSS feeds on the page you have open.

Now if I don't see it on a page I check the page source - some blogs don't advertise the feed but it's there.

The World Happiness Report Is a Sham

talonx — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-world-happiness-report-is-a-sham

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288543

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost?

talonx — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 03:12:47 +0000

https://archive.ph/0MFPK

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46251654

Points: 81

# Comments: 2

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

talonx — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:43:31 +0000

BetterStack did report issues with some of their services, but they were not very informative.

New comment by talonx in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

talonx — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:14:37 +0000

- What I'm working on right now - https://incidenthub.cloud - It monitors cloud/SaaS status pages. I'm working on some white-labeling features.

- New ideas - Easier way for new users to try out the product. It's currently a few steps, but I want to optimize it for specific user personas.

New comment by talonx in "Show HN: Upty – Status pages with automated health checks"

talonx — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:22:53 +0000

You're welcome.

New comment by talonx in "Show HN: Upty – Status pages with automated health checks"

talonx — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:16:07 +0000

Ah, to be honest I did not look at the tour.

Thanks for explaining #2 - but the text "Auto" might be a bit non-intuitive for a user.

New comment by talonx in "Show HN: Upty – Status pages with automated health checks"

talonx — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:49:22 +0000

Congrats on launching this.

I understand this is an initial launch, so not trying to nitpick, but these are what felt like would add immediate value:

- Adding a social login like Google would allow faster signups.

- Maybe I missed it - but I could not find any options for automatic monitoring which would update the status page. There are manual options for adding an incident.

- Post-signup, it takes me to a login page. Why ask to enter the company name instead of user/pass directly?

- If I could click on "Components" on my dashboard (/admin) and go directly to the Components page, that would be nice.

I like it that you took the time to write a privacy policy that is both readable and precise, especially as to the list of third-party services.