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The P in PGP isn't for pain: encrypting emails in the browser

https://ckardaris.github.io/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html
1•ckardaris•47s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•2m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
1•ColinWright•5m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•9m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•9m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•9m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•10m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
3•sohimaster•14m ago•1 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
3•harshalone•14m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•20m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•21m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
2•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•22m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•22m ago•1 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
8•c420•23m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•23m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•24m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•25m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
4•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
4•TheCraiggers•30m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•31m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
14•doener•31m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•33m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•34m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•34m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Multiple Digital Ocean services down

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/lgt5xs2843rx
115•inanothertime•2mo ago

Comments

jsheard•2mo ago
They don't name names but it's probably due to the ongoing Cloudflare explosion. I know the DigitalOcean Spaces CDN is just Cloudflare under the hood.
matt-p•2mo ago
Just spaces CDN, not spaces - you'd think they'd just turn the CDN off for a bit.
potato3732842•2mo ago
You can't just "turn off CDN" on the modern internet. You'd instantly DDOS your customers' origins. They're not provisioned to handle it, and even if they were the size of the pipe going to them isn't. The modern internet is built around the expectation that everything is distributed via CDN. Some more "traditional" websites would probably be fine.
matt-p•2mo ago
If you are DO you could, you just decided not to bother. They control the origins it's spaces (s3), so they could absolutely spin up further gateways or a cache layer and then turn the CDN off.
graemep•2mo ago
Either you are wrong and they do not have the capacity to do that, or they have decided it is acceptable to be down because a major provider is down

I imagine a cache layer cannot be that easy to spin up - otherwise why would they outsource it?

matt-p•2mo ago
You outsource it because clouflare have more locations than you so offer lower latency and can offer it at a cost that's cheaper or the same price as doing it yourself.
graemep•2mo ago
Which suggests its expensive enough for it to be unlikely they just have the capacity lying around to spin up.
oasisbob•2mo ago
To the contrary, CDN pricing will usually beat cloud provider egress fees.

Common example: you can absolutely serve static content from an S3 bucket worldwide without using a CDN. It will usually scale OK under load. However, you're going to pay more for egress and give your customers a worse experience. Capacity isn't the problem you're engineering around.

For a site serving content at scale, a CDN is purpose-built to get content around the world efficiently. This is usually cheaper and faster than trying to do it yourself.

graemep•2mo ago
That is not what I said. I said DO will not have the spare capacity because its too expensive. Can you please tell me who DO pay egress fees to?
matt-p•2mo ago
They will be doing a mix of peering both across free PNIs and very low cost IXP ports, with the reminder going down transit like Colt or cogent. Probably average cost of the order of about $1 per 20TB of egress in Europe and NA markets.

The thing is with edge capacity is that you massively overbuild on the basis that;

It's generally a long ISH lead time to scale capacity (days not minutes or hours).

Transit contracts are usually 12-60 months

Traffic is variable, not all ports cover all destinations

Redundancy

So if you are doing say 100Gbps 95%ile out of say London then you will probably have at least 6+ 100Gb ports, so you do have quite a bit of latent capacity if you just need it for a few hours.

oasisbob•2mo ago
Might be just me, but I can think of many origins under my control which could live without a (non-functional) CDN for a while.

CDN is great for peak-load, latency reductions, and cost - but not all sites depend on it for scale 24/7

tgma•2mo ago
nit: that's more DoS (from a handful of DO LBs) than DDoS.
TechRemarker•2mo ago
Yes all sites showing the CloudFlare error due to the massive outage. Seems their outages are getting more frequent and taking down the internet in new ways each time.
archerx•2mo ago
I have two projects on DO using droplets and they are still running fine.
hshdhdhj4444•2mo ago
It seems mostly a CludFlare related issue.

My DOs are working fine as well.

sgc•2mo ago
Are you using their "reserved IPs"? I was thinking of starting to use them, but now I wonder if it is part of their load balancing stack under the hood.
soheilpro•2mo ago
Droplets are fine.

> This incident affects: API, App Platform (Global), Load Balancers (Global), and Spaces (Global).

giancarlostoro•2mo ago
So yesterday Azure got hit hard, today CF and DO are down, bad week or something else?
zx8080•2mo ago
Year-end promotion cycle is the worst time for end-users and the best one for engineers greedy for promotions.
Lammy•2mo ago
Don't blame individual engineers who want to do what will be rewarded instead of company performance policies that reward this type of behavior.
fridder•2mo ago
shoot, there are also end of year layoffs and reorgs to pump up those year end numbers
red-iron-pine•2mo ago
what engineers, mate? they AI now

and they're doing just spectacular

BubbleRings•2mo ago
I would also like to know people’s opinion on this.
matt-p•2mo ago
DDOS, but I don't really understand why in particular.
giancarlostoro•2mo ago
Having known people like this, its either flexing about who has the more powerful botnet or advertising who can do what.
red-iron-pine•2mo ago
NATO testing internal infra, or Russian hackers stepping it up after aggressive sabotage efforts in Eastern Europe?
watermelon0•2mo ago
Azure DDoS event happened in October. Blog post about the attack was published yesterday, and was quickly picked up by news sites.
showerst•2mo ago
I use DO's load balancers in a couple of projects, and they don't list Cloudflare as an upstream dependency anywhere that I've seen. It's so frustrating to think you're clear of a service then find out that you're actually in their blast radius too through no fault of your own.
wesammikhail•2mo ago
slight off topic: I used DO LBs for a little while but found myself moving away from that toward a small droplet with haproxy or nginx setup. Worked much better for me personally!
showerst•2mo ago
The point of an LB for these projects is to get away from a single point of failure, and I find configuring HA and setting up the networking and everything to be a pain point.

These are all low-traffic projects so it's more cost effective to just throw on the smallest LB than spend the time setting it up myself.

grayhatter•2mo ago
If they are small projects, why are they behind a load balancer to begin with?
nickmonad•2mo ago
Usually because of SSL termination. It's generally "easier" to just let DO manage getting the cert installed. Of course, there are tradeoffs.
showerst•2mo ago
I use the LB's for high availability rather than needing load balancing. The LB + 2 web back-ends + Managed DB means a project is resilient to a single server failing, for relatively low devops effort and around $75/mo.
grayhatter•2mo ago
Are both servers deployed from the exact same repo/scripts? Or are they meaningful different, and/or balanced across multiple data centers?

Did your high availability system survive this outage?

showerst•2mo ago
I have a couple of instances of this same pattern for various things that have been running for 5+ years, none of them have suffered downtime caused by the infrastructure. I use ansible scripts for the web servers, and the DO API or dashboard to provision the Load Balancer and Database. You can get it all hooked up in a half hour, and it really doesn't take any maintenance other than setting up good practices for rotating the web servers out for updates.

They wouldn't survive DO losing a DC, they're not so mission critical that it's worth the extra complexity to do that, and I don't recall DO losing a DC in the past 10 years or so.

They did stay up during this outage, which was apparently mostly concentrated on a different product called the 'global load balancer', which ironically is exactly the extra complexity I mentioned to in theory survive a DC outage.

Keep in mind these are "important" in the sense that they justify $100/mo on infra and monitoring, but not "life critical" in that an outage is gonna kill somebody or cost millions of bucks an hour. Once your traffic gets past a certain threshold, DO's costs don't scale that well and you're better off on a large distributed self-managed setup on Hetzner or buying into a stack like AWS.

To me their LB and DB products hit a real sweet spot -- better reliability than one box, and meaningfully less work than setting up a cluster with floating IP and heartbeats and all that for a very minimal price difference.

miken123•2mo ago
It is mentioned in their list of subprocessors: https://www.digitalocean.com/trust/subprocessors
bbss•2mo ago
Regional LBs do not have Cloudflare as an upstream dependency.
coreylane•2mo ago
I find stuff like this all the time, railway.com recently launched an object storage service, but it's simply a wrapper for wasabi buckets under the hood, and they don't mention this anywhere... not even the subprocessors page https://railway.com/legal/subprocessors - customers have no idea they are using wasabi storage buckets unless they dig around the dns records. so i have to do all this research to find upstream dependencies and go subscribe to status.wasabi.com alerts etc.

dig b1.eu-central-1.storage.railway.app +short

s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.com.

eu-central-1.wasabisys.com.

timomeh•2mo ago
Hey, I'm the person that was responsible for adding object storage to Railway. It was my onboarding project, basically a project I was able to choose myself and implemented in 3 weeks in my 3rd month after joining Railway.

Object Storage is currently in Priority Boarding, our beta program. We can and will definitely do better, document it and add it to the subprocessor list. I'm really sorry about the current lack of it. There was another important project that I had to do between the beta release of buckets and now. I'm oncall this week, but will continue to bring Buckets to GA next week. So, just to give this context. There's no intentional malevolence or shadiness going on, it's simply because there's 1 engineer (me) working on it, and there's a lot of stuff to prioritize and do.

It's also super important to get user feedback as early as possible. That's why it's a beta release right now, and the beta release is a bit "rushed". The earlier I can get user feedback, the better the GA version will be.

On the "simply a wrapper for wasabi buckets" - yes, we're currently using wasabi under the hood. I can't add physical Object Storage within 3 weeks to all our server locations :D But that's something we'll work towards. I wouldn't say it's "simply" a wrapper, because we're adding substantial value when you use Buckets on Railway: automatic bucket creation for new environments, variable references, credentials as automatic variables, included in your usage limits and alerts, and so on.

I'll do right by you, and by all users.

drob518•2mo ago
Dominos falling into dominos falling into dominos…
aforty•2mo ago
Cloudflare outage.
igtztorrero•2mo ago
I knew it, DigitalOcean CDN is using Cloudflare behind the scenes. Why DO ?
mrkramer•2mo ago
Who is next?
red-iron-pine•2mo ago
my guesses would be look at who has a FedRAMP capable service first.

maybe also GCP, hetzner, akamai

foxyv•2mo ago
Man, it really seems like the cloud providers are having some tough times lately. Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare! Is everything just secretly AWS?