Hacker News: x13

New comment by x13 in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

x13 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:36:17 +0000

Convenience? Maybe a belief the media would be accessible for a long time, versus the ever-changing catalog available from streaming services?

Consumers are lured into walled-gardens all the time - consoles, app stores, hardware. Where would you suggest someone purchase a digital license for a movie?

New comment by x13 in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

x13 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:50:01 +0000

don't compare it to a public resolver like 1.1.1.1.

It's authoritative name servers for your domain. Compare it to AWS Route 53, Akamai Edge DNS, IBM NS1.

New comment by x13 in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

x13 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:45:16 +0000

AXFR is not supported by AWS Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, Azure, Rackspace, Hetzner, Bunny, Alibaba Cloud DNS, No-IP, nor Tencent.

It is supported by Akamai Edge DNS, Oracle Cloud, enterprise Cloudflare accounts, IBM NS1 Connect, ClouDNS, CloudFloorDNS, and DNS Made Easy.

New comment by x13 in "Dell inks $9.7B Pentagon contract after Trump acquires stock"

x13 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:37:37 +0000

The only conflicts Trump wins are conflicts of interest.

Remember when breaking the law was illegal?

New comment by x13 in "A web server on a single floppy disk"

x13 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:42:06 +0000

an Apple camera perhaps? I loved that camera

New comment by x13 in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

x13 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:58:23 +0000

does the FCC still exist?

New comment by x13 in "Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]"

x13 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:34:27 +0000

maaaaybe it was the Nazi salute

New comment by x13 in "Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]"

x13 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:59:44 +0000

proton

New comment by x13 in "Apple Services Experiencing Outage"

x13 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:25:21 +0000

Apple Pay, with 65M users, can rely on external content from Apple.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepayontheweb/d...

New comment by x13 in "Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year"

x13 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:36:31 +0000

Settings > General > Screen Capture > Full-Screen Previews

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-the-screen-cap...

New comment by x13 in "Delta pilot performs 'aggressive maneuver' to avoid a B-52 bomber"

x13 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:36:33 +0000

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-begins-firings-o...

New comment by x13 in "Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries"

x13 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:44:06 +0000

How are you handling this?

https://stripe.com/legal/marks

Use or incorporate any of our Marks in your own trademark, service mark, trade dress, trade name, website name, domain name, corporate name, or social-media handle (or any other source-identifying use), or use any trademark, service mark, trade dress, trade name, website name, domain name, corporate name, or social-media handle (or any other source-identifying use) that is likely to be confused with any of our Marks.

New comment by x13 in "!Camera"

x13 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:22:42 +0000

$14.. for a camera app. oof. uninstalled before I could take a photo and judge the quality of the app.

New comment by x13 in "Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?"

x13 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:55:26 +0000

https://opensrs.com/email/pricing/

https://proton.me/mail/pricing

https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/us/

https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/pricing/

New comment by x13 in "Ask HN: Why are banks charging so many fees for accounts and cards?"

x13 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:13:01 +0000

In 2023, JP Morgan Chase collected $1.1 Billion in overdraft fees

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-repor...

New comment by x13 in "Dual-Link QR Code Generator"

x13 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:03:29 +0000

ok, so you're going to explain to people to scan it at different angles? absurd. this is like having a hyperlink go to a random destination.

New comment by x13 in "Rivian is opening its charging network to other EVs"

x13 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:18:58 +0000

3,500 new locations is helpful for all EV owners (and brands)

New comment by x13 in "Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report"

x13 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:59:37 +0000

SV is wrapped around Elon's finger, sadly.

New comment by x13 in "Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains"

x13 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:33:20 +0000

Globally distributed critical infra isn't free.

"As of March 31, 2024, we had 172.5 million .com and .net registrations in the domain name base."

https://investor.verisign.com/static-files/2412702e-e744-485...

"1865 instances operated by the 12 independent root server operators."

Verisign maintains root servers at 209 locations. ("A" and "J") https://root-servers.org/

Latency https://a.root-servers.org/metrics

13 root servers https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers

New comment by x13 in "Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?"

x13 — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:21:25 +0000

https://peering.google.com/