Offering loss-leading products is a common business strategy and I'm perfectly okay taking advantage of this for hosting needs that fit a vendor's free tier.

Static hosting is very cheap to offer and gathering free tier users will gain developer mind-share, which helps the vendor can sell their truly money-making products. To pick a clear-cut example: AWS Lambda does not collect any additional data on free tier usage compared to paid usage.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928421

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Remote: Yes, within Europe; on-site around Geneva

Willing to relocate: No, but happy to travel

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, Nest.js, React, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS (CDK / IaC), WebRTC, real-time streaming, GPU autoscaling, LLM inference & voice agents, Swift, Kotlin, Unreal Engine, Unity3D, Firebase, CI/CD

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlucavogel/ (full CV on request)

Email: [firstname] [at] nathanvogel [dot] com

Hands-on engineering leader with 14 years building products, infrastructure, and teams, from indie apps with 10M+ users to a production real-time GenAI platform.

Most recently Director of Engineering at Journee, where I scaled the team to 25 and ran a multi-cloud, multi-geo GPU platform (3,000+ concurrent nodes behind a custom cost-aware autoscaler), a low-level WebRTC backend for interactive 1080p/60fps streaming that beat Unreal's PixelStreaming on latency and bandwidth, and the web apps and APIs on top. I also owned cloud FinOps (six-figure annual savings), enterprise security and GRC for automotive and public-sector clients, and represented the tech org in investor relations.

I'm useful when product goals, infrastructure, and team structure are out of sync: getting a real-time or AI system to hold up in production, cutting cloud spend, tightening developer experience, and helping a team ship without piling on process. I trained as a designer (ECAL) before going deep on engineering, so I care as much about the UI/UX as the GPU autoscaler, and I bridge product, design, and infra without overengineering.

Looking for: fractional or full-time CTO / Head of Engineering, or technical advisory work.

Best fit: startups and scale-ups building AI-powered or real-time products that need one senior person to set technical direction and stay hands-on in the code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392362

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> "[They] placed too much weight on the introspections that they generated at that moment in time, and thus lost sight of their more enduring attitudes.” [1]

The quote refers to this study [2] in which subjects had to chose a poster to take home. The group who was instructed to think about their reasons for their initial choice, and had the option to change it, were less satisfied with it three weeks later. As the abstract says:

> When people think about reasons, they appear to focus on attributes of the stimulus that are easy to verbalize and seem like plausible reasons but may not be important causes of their initial evaluations.

This suggests that satisfaction is more correlated with initial gut feeling than reasoning, at least for aesthetic choices, but I think in many other cases as well.

[1] https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/S0065-2601(08)00401-2

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/014616729319301...

Individualkex also has a couple videos on the high level ideas: https://youtu.be/GQXDjzNWuPc?si=zlAN7dO9STGATKad

With your suggested approach, the attacker is free to use the account to impersonate the victim until they get a new SIM card, which could easily take days or weeks.

This seems like a degredation compared to the current abuse potential which is mostly limited to logging you out.

On top of that, if a specific account is targeted at the rate-limit, a flag could be put in place to let support disable the automation for that account.