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Aaaaand... still down a day and a half later. Moved to another provider yesterday but was curious and checked back. No acknowledgement of the issue, no status update, no blog post,…

It says "connectivity issues" but our cluster is down hard.

In early 80s when I was a wee nerd in college a gentleman named Ray who owned Laboratory Microsystems was nice enough to give a poor college kid a copy of his excellent Forth imple…

Darn, on Heroku even the "maintenance mode" (redirects all routes to a static url) won't kick in.

Saw your link, did your test and here's my feedback. No "share" or "download" button in the app? Sure, "apps are cool" and all that - but what about folks who want to archive or sh…

Can we talk about hacking, this being hackernews? A few comments claim the sensors can be triggers by non-smoking events such as hairspray, nail polish remover, perfume... If that …

Yet more glossy 'form over function' nonsense from Apple in my opinion. Was hoping '26 would be the release that tackled their massive technical debt around broken/reduced function…

Nicely implemented screen layout. Curious if you've thought of reporting metrics showing how many guesses it's taking people? (I got 'volatile' in 9)

As discussed in quite a few HN threads, I agree with what seems to be the consensus that DMCA is a mess, ripe for bad actors. And, as discussed often, recourse against bad actors w…

Backup failed and attempts to reach the website timed out. Everything else worked fine, even Google worked without popping up a captcha. Turns out iDrive is blocking certain IPs us…

Their hosted Exchange email has been having "issues" since December. But today their "Rackspace Email" (hosted Webmail/IMAP/POP/SMTP) has been disrupted since 2pm ETS.

Yes, cant even access https://dashboard-next.heroku.com/ so the problem seems broader than what they describe on their status page which seems to imply only issues related to updat…

Email received today: "One of our updates involves how disputes are resolved between you and Amazon. Previously, our Conditions of Use set out an arbitration process for those disp…

Anyone else get the email today from HBOMax@mail.hbomax.com (mail headers match), with subject "Integration Test Email #1", and message "This template is used by integration tests …

Seems like yet more "let perfect be the enemy of the good" thinking. If you want a cut-me-off set to $X, and some lag might allow charges to reach X+Y before the cutoff took effect…

There ought to be a "emergency shutoff" threshold, period. And there's just no customer-centric excuse for not implementing it after these many years. Here's how to implement it: "…

The past few days we started seeing a high (but intermittent) percentage of failed email sends using Sendgrid. It would be 80% fails (406 status code in our logs) for an hour or tw…

Best general explanation I've seen so far, thanks for posting the link. Unfortunately, it still completely sidesteps any discussion of the relative risk of a vaccinated person (who…

It seems to me that the official recommendation "the best vaccine is the one they offer you first" ignores one crucial consideration that might make a better decision for some indi…