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apayanon I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

https://web.archive.org/web/20260102060534/https://old.reddi...

Edit: switched to archive of old.reddit.com

apayanon Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack

Yeah, you're right. A direct connect in Milan at Equinix ML2 is $2.48/port-hour.

> "description": "$2.48 per connected HC-10G port-hour (or partial hour) (EU (Milan), Equinix ML2, Milano, Italy)"

https://gist.github.com/arashpayan/b115e834191fbc89ac1bc1cdc...

apayanon Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack

I just pulled the DirectConnect prices from the AWS API, and I think there is still a per/GB charge. Here's a description of a random direct connect point in Amsterdam (Equinix AM3). https://gist.github.com/arashpayan/a91c46c3787ac610e7884b77b...

If I'm reading the description correctly, egress from there is 2 cents/GB, while the regular price for egress (less than 10 TB) from eu-south-1 is 9 cents/GB.

apayanon Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack

Connecting to an AWS egress point for direct connect reduces the egress price (about half) but doesn't eliminate it. It also costs thousands of dollars a month just to have the connection, so it's not great for small operations. :-/

apayanon GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders

I hadn't heard of Heroic before. I'll check it out. Thank you.

apayanon GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders

I agree that GOG needs to port their client to Linux for all the reasons you stated, but as a workaround you can use Lutris which lets you log into your GOG account and download+install games (Windows games too).

It's not as pain free as Steam, because you sometimes still have to apply wine fixes, but it works well with the most popular games.

apayanon Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

Do you have another source for that? I checked his Mastodon feed and don't see any mention about the source of the questions from the IMO.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao

apayanon Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)

grpcurl is what I use to inspect gRPC apis.

https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl

apayanon DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

I think the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit was neutered on purpose by the Bush administration.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/sep/07/microsoft...

apayanon Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax

> generate directions like "turn left after the green building"

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the Los Angeles metro area, Google Maps already gives directions like this. "Turn left after the Carl's Jr.", "Turn right after the Starbucks". I notice it's usually done in areas where street signs are hard to see, but there is a clear landmark for the driver e.g. the golden arches of a McDonald's.

apayanon Is my plane a 737 MAX?

If you use Google Flights[1] to plan your flight, it lists the airplane that will be used for each leg of your trip so you can make sure to avoid flights on 737 MAXs.

[1] https://www.google.com/travel/flights

apayanon CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic

The book All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer is an excellent narration of the time leading up to the coup, and the coup itself. I think it's fair to say that a lot of our problems with terrorism at the present all stemmed from this coup in Iran in 1953.

apayanon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

I haven't posted much lately, but I'll keep the site updated as long as I'm alive. :-)

https://arashpayan.com

apayanon Health System in Minnesota Cuts Off Patients with Medical Debt

http://archive.today/ozyyG

apayanon More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey

Direct link to the section of the Stack Overflow survey with OS preferences:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#operating-system

apayanon Google Details Tools of Commercial Spyware Vendor Variston

Might the source link be better in this case?

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/new-details-on-com...

apayanon SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo

Interesting! I've never considered batching my calls to SQLite from Go that way. Do you have any numbers you can share about performance when doing that?

apayanon U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts

http://archive.today/VvfgN

apayanon Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

The implementation of footnotes on the right side of the screen is really cool, and not something I've seen before. Such a cool idea. I think it would be interesting for news publications to try that out in articles as well. It could allow for brevity in the main article text, but still allow those who want to know the source of a statement/fact or more detail the option to obtain it.

apayanon New Year, New CEO

Thank you to Moxie and the entire team at Signal for building this incredible software and releasing it out in the world! I've been using it since the TextSecure and RedPhone days and moving more and more of friends and family to it ever since.

To the HN crowd, please become a sustainer (monthly donations) of Signal through the app. You get a badge that way, which is an opportunity for those you communicate with to learn about becoming a sustainer too.

apayanon U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

I'm not aware of any microkernels for phones (I'm not sure that would help either), but Android has been sandboxing more and more processing [1] and started using some Rust at the system level [2] ever since the stagefright bug [3].

1: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/queue-hard...

2: https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-plat...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright_(bug)

apayanon HashiCorp – S1

Try out Interactive Brokers. They seem to serve a lot of non-USA customers. Disclosure: A happy USA user.

apayanon Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

Thanks, Brian. I sent a message to the address but it bounced because the group address is configured to only receive messages from inside the org.

apayanon Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

Hi Daniel. I'm probably just overlooking it, but I can't find a link on your site to submit my land for assessment. Should I just send an email to info at sitenna?

apayanon Npm Audit: broken by design?

Here's the video of the talk that goes with Greg Kroah-Hartman's slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeeoTE9jLjM

apayanon Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are posting about you online

Congrats on launching. This is a product category that I've been wanting to tackle for quite some time, and it looks like you've done a pretty good job. I also notice that many of the comments are raising the point about how to trust you and the catch-22 of having to provide PII to protect PII. I get it. I was going to launch a product like this as a second or third product of my company so there would be enough trust and good will built up to reduce everyone's apprehension. It's tough. :-/

I see in another comment you want to add support for opting out of zoominfo. Great idea. If I may humbly share some other suggestions:

* A family plan so I can monitor/remove my wife and children's data as well. Even a way to help my parents would be great.

* Opt out of junk snail mail.

* I don't know if this can be automated, but a way to get the credit card companies to stop selling our transaction data. I can't even count how many times Chase has sent us a letter telling us that they've updated their privacy policy, and if we want to opt out of their latest data selling scheme, we need to write a letter and mail it off to some mysterious address and pray that they actually do what they say they will do.

apayanon X0.at: upload files from cURL

If you like the convenience of transferring a file temporarily into the cloud to download it elsewhere (great for getting stuff out of a rancher environment), check out patchbay[0]. It uses what it calls 'HTTP channels' so if you start a POST request to a patchbay URL, it will block until a corresponding GET is made to the same endpoint which will receive the data from your POST. The operation can be done in reverse as well, with the GET blocking until the POST begins.

[0] https://patchbay.pub/

apayanon Google Play bans open-source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content”

Looks like the app will be restored on Google Play. https://mobile.twitter.com/element_hq/status/135566375338003...

apayanon Show HN: End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude

I don't know of any legal way to guarantee that a company won't be acquired, and start exploiting it's user base, but I think there are some signs you can look for to see if it's the kind of company that you want to patronize. In the case of Moves, it wasn't open source and didn't offer end-to-end encryption. Privacy and consideration for its users was never in its DNA.

If Zood offers Moves-like location history in the future, it will also provide a method for exporting the location data to CSV or similar (data portability).

apayanon Show HN: End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude

Hi wasmitnetzen. I don't want to discourage you from self-hosting OwnTracks, but I would like to clarify one thing about Zood Location. The server doesn't store any location data in plaintext. Your location is encrypted before it leaves your phone in such a wat that only the intended recipient can decrypt it (Zood can't view it). That encrypted payload is placed in a drop box on the server for the recipient to pick up later. Newer payloads of encrypted location info will then overwrite the old data in the same drop box.

A case could be made that hosting an instance of OwnTrack with your location data in the clear on a VPS somebody else controls is less safe than storing it encrypted on someone else's server.