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alexis2bon ECB's $1.9T-a-day trade system suffers outage

Still down -> https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ecb-takes-down-secu...

According to a market participant "the T2S operator will attempt to failover to their recovery site".

Doesn't smell good...

alexis2bon Show HN: Lockbox: forward proxy for making third party API calls

Not by regulation, you need a specific “payment service provider” licence for that.

alexis2bon The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023

> As an aside, not sure if OP is related to them but updown.io is a nice service and I appreciate the simple PAYG pricing! For what it's worth their mails seem to get through successfully to me too.

Not related in any way except as an happy customer. They added a blog recently and this article caught my eye because of the nightmare that is mail delivery issue for everyone.

I found it particularly ironic that you now have to think like a spammer (i.e. look at spam detection engine source code to find a way to circumvent their heuristics) in order to get your totally valid email delivered (^_^).

edit: typo

alexis2bon Credit card debt collection

There is also in the Bible the notion of a 50 years periodic Jubilee[1] when all debts would be canceled and the system effectively resets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)

alexis2bon Experiments with higher-kinded types and object algebras in C# (2020)

If only C# had a brother language that would expose a nice functional syntax while keeping full interop and the benefits on running on the CLR ;-)

Nice thought experiment though!

alexis2bon Noyb win: First major fine (€ 1M) for using Google Analytics

We use Matomo

alexis2bon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

SILEX | https://www.silex-partners.com | Geneva (Switzerland) or Paris (France) | Full Time | ONSITE

SILEX is helping wealth managers by combining human expertise and technology, to SPARK up investment ideas & performance. Founded in 2017, SILEX Tech team is looking for a new software engineer mastering the C#/.NET ecosystem and interested by the world of finance (portfolio management, investment products, digital advisory). You will be exposed to many different challenges: from our internal operations management software to our client-facing digital platform on web and mobile.

If interested please send your resume to jobs.tech(at)silex-partners.com mentioning Hacker News and we will be in touch!

alexis2bon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)

SILEX | https://www.silex-partners.com | Geneva (Switzerland) or Paris (France) | Full Time | ONSITE

SILEX is helping wealth managers by combining human expertise and technology, to SPARK up investment ideas & performance.

Founded in 2017, SILEX Tech team is looking for a new software engineer mastering the C#/.NET ecosystem and interested by the world of finance (portfolio management, investment products, digital advisory). You will be exposed to many different challenges: from our internal operations management software to our client-facing digital platform on web and mobile.

If interested please send your resume to jobs.tech(at)silex-partners.com mentioning Hacker News and we will be in touch!

alexis2bon SVB Securities management exploring buying firm back

I think the article is about the SVB Securities subsidiary (an investment bank) spinning off itself with a management buy-out.

Sadly this is not about the main bank and will not save it.

Sort of ejection pod for investment bankers tied to the mothership and deciding it is time to separate…

(edited: typo)

alexis2bon How big is the capital hole at Credit Suisse?

http://archive.today/Xh9JK

alexis2bon France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them

France, #1 on TaxTech :-)

alexis2bon Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?

Check TIPS (Treasury Inflation Linked Securities)[0] for a way to stay liquid but still get inflation protection.

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan....

alexis2bon Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?

Be careful of not trying to catch the proverbial falling knife!

There is still a ton of air down below :-)

If you go in, do it gradually in small trades, don’t try to « time the market ».

alexis2bon Multiple fibers cut across France, impacting several cities

More information and speculation on the link below (in French) - seems Free was the most impacted.

https://lafibre.info/dorsale-internet/27042022-multiples-cou...

alexis2bon Spring Core on JDK9 is vulnerable to remote code execution

According to this article [0] there are already signs of exploitation in-the-wild.

0: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-spring-ja...

alexis2bon GoDaddy Security Breach

Over 80% of statistics posted in comments are made on the spot.

alexis2bon Suspicious Discontinuities

Recent example (for me): Atlassian monthly per-user pricing vs. annual bulk pricing (discontinuous).

When moving up a range it seems more economical to revert to monthly pricing than to go annual. (Btw: that sucks!)

Source: https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/future-pricing/cloud-pri...

alexis2bon Ask HN: Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?

Data Revolution is one of the brands used by a UK based recruitment agency named VMR Consultants. As a hiring manager they are the worst I ever encountered - sending template emails every day where only the candidate name would change. Looking at their Glassdoor profile they look like an abusive employer as well. I am usually nice to people but in their case I would straightforwardly answer “sorry, I blacklisted your firm” and hang up to any poor soul cold calling on behalf of one of their brands… Stay away!

alexis2bon Hypixel servers, biggest Minecraft community, down for days after DDoS attack

In what is reported as a DDoS attack, the servers of the largest online Minecraft gaming community (bedwars, skyblocks) have been unreachable for days. It looks like they had to setup again their whole infrastructure [0] as a result of “continuous ongoing large-scale attacks on the Minecraft server scene”.

As a funny side effect, hundreds of thousands of Minecraft players frustrated of not being able to access their favorite games are now taking it to YouTube with videos like “what to do when hypixel is down?” [1].

[0] https://hypixel.net/

[1] https://youtu.be/ZpJRlW8Soes

alexis2bon Airlines Fly Bizarre Flight Paths to Avoid French Airspace Amid National Strike

(2019)

alexis2bon UUID, serial or identity columns for PostgreSQL auto-generated primary keys?

You could try NanoID[0]? Seems available in many languages.

[0] https://blog.bibekkakati.me/nanoid-alternative-to-uuid

alexis2bon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

SILEX Partners | Switzerland-Geneva or France-Paris, ONSITE | Full-Time | https://www.silex-partners.com/

SILEX is a young and fast-growing financial services company that aims at modernizing wealth management by combining human expertise and technological innovation.

We develop several products in-house dedicated to financial portfolio analysis, construction and optimization. We are starting a greenfield project to modernize the end-to-end value chain of financial transactions.

* Software Engineer ASP.NET/Core, preferably with financial experience

* Front-Office Developer - Excel/VBA, Python, SQL, Finance

Please apply at https://www.silex-partners.com/en/join-us mentioning Hacker News!

alexis2bon The high price of mistrust

This article made me think immediately about a lot of discussions regarding blockchain suitability for a given use case.

I realized solving for a « no trust » environment is extremely expensive (even purely computationally if you look at proof of work as a solution).

Most of the times, deciding to start putting a little trust in the design saves a lot of complexity...

alexis2bon How Akka Cluster Works: Actors Living in a Cluster

Interesting! Not trying to divert from Akka which is a wonderful piece of engineering, but your comment reminded me of Microsoft’s take at the Actor model with Project Orléans - which was used for the backend side of the Halo / XBox MMO [0].

I think the GA version of Project Orléans is now called Service Fabric, although I never had the pleasure to try it.

[0] https://youtu.be/I91ZU8tEJkU

alexis2bon Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

I am a big fan of BareTail and BareGrep when browsing and making sense of any very large set of log files. The pro versions are definitely worth your money: real-time match, regex-to-table log parsing, grep in tail / tail in grep, and all this in an incredibly minimalist UI and a single small exe.

alexis2bon Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?

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alexis2bon Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?

CHF, B2 is considered the minimum proficiency level for business but acceptable.