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2,878 karma · joined January 30, 2011

I'm Pēteris Caune, founder of Healthchecks.io

my-hn-username-here@monkeyseemonkeydo.lv

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cuu508··on Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)
What is stans and pols?
cuu508··on Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
Same with ISPs.
cuu508··on Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down
These awesome things will enable a higher human population. We are like a virus taking over the host organism and overdoing it.
cuu508··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
What is the average salary, the average tech worker salary, and the number of tech and other workers in Poland?
cuu508··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
Do we know if and how cycles are defined in the regulation?
cuu508··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Fingers crossed the Chinese eventually figure out the screens are the mark of cheapness, and start demanding 100% physical controls.
cuu508··on This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
BTW if you want to kick the tires at the current stage, building it locally is easy, just a couple of commands to install dependencies and run the build script:

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/Docu...

cuu508··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
> The argument assumes that unassisted PR authorship is what builds trustworthy contributors, and that LLM assistance prevents that growth.

No, I don't think that was the argument. As I understood it, unassisted contributions have higher chances to grow a trusted contributor. Not 100% vs 0% chances, but statistically higher. So, given limited resources, it makes sense to prefer unassisted over assisted contributions.

cuu508··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Please elaborate?
cuu508··on Three constraints before I build anything
core tenets
cuu508··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
That's the board firmware, not the official Meshcore Android or IOS app.
cuu508··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
I can't find the source code either for the official MeshCore app or for MeshOS -- where can I read the code?
cuu508··on Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
The graphs are from Netdata. I'm using it to monitor the servers, and also feeding it some application metrics via its statsd interface.
cuu508··on Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
(Author here) that's more or less what I have right now – one machine with a file system and an SSD. S3 API on top is there to give multiple web servers shared access to the same storage. I could have used something else instead of S3 – say, NFS – but there was a feature request for S3 [1] and S3 has a big ecosystem around it already.

[1] https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/609

cuu508··on Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
(Author here) There are multiple web servers for redundancy (3 currently), and each needs access to all objects.
cuu508··on Cloudflare Email Service
Sure you can, look at Spain ;-)
cuu508··on Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson
Yes, I "fixed" it by disabling pull requests on the repository. I'm still happy to pull from other people's branches (and do say so in CONTRIBUTING.md)
cuu508··on DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor
Faster than to work with a human person who edits your videos.
cuu508··on Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure
Also, TFA says:

> If you have used Stripe before, Mollie is the closest thing to that experience in the EU.

But Mollie does not even properly support recurring payments, a pretty important feature for SaaS. It does not track subscription state and does not retry failed payments.

cuu508··on No one owes you supply-chain security
Does this really happen? Can you provide concrete examples?
cuu508··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
I think the main UX obstacle is that it is unfamiliar – no-one does signups like that currently. But the flow does not need to be quite as bad, if you use "mailto:" links. In the happy case:

- user click on the link

- their email client opens, with the To:, Subject:, Body: fields pre-filled

- user clicks "Send"

- a few seconds later a sign-in link arrives in their inbox

cuu508··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
How about a signup flow where the user sends the first email? They send an email to signups@example.com (or to a generated unique address), and receive a one-time sign-in link in the reply. The service would have to be careful not to process spoofed emails though.

Another approach is to not ask for an email address at all, like here on HN.

cuu508··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
Correct.
cuu508··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
> If a bot creates an account with someone else’s email, the victim gets one email, if they ignore it that’s the end of it. The welcome email and everything after it only fires once the user verifies.

As a user, I would prefer no welcome email at all.

cuu508··on GitHub's Historic Uptime
You can click on "Breakdown" and then on "Actions" to hide it.
cuu508··on Android Developer Verification
> Is there a way around this shitocracy?

Refuse to play. Switch to technologoy that the shitocracy has not gotten around to yet, or, eventually, pick up woodworking.

cuu508··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
Scrapers can work around those other easy tricks too.
cuu508··on I decompiled the White House's new app
Or from APKPure https://apkpure.com/the-white-house/gov.whitehouse.app
cuu508··on Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
The browsers of their site visitors.
cuu508··on Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
It is C&C -- it instructs their site visitors to DOS a specific site.
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