And I'm 100% sure the management responsible for this is already fueling up the ferraris to drive to their beach house. All of us make them rich and they keep on enshittifying their product out of pure hubris.
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
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#72At what point does the cost outweigh the benefit?
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#73You know what, maybe AI is taking all the goddamn jobs
Stop trying to devalue labor. Not much sympathy when you’re obviously cutting corners.
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#74The old guard has left as they we too much of an expense in this cost-cutting age... without mentors, crap creeps in and now we are seeing what happens when people don't know how things work, are in charge...
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#76You know what, maybe AI is taking all the goddamn jobs
They pretty much said this. All the big companies that had recent outages are companies that publicly embraced vibe coding.
Obviously, 'The Crying Boy' was not the cause of the fires, it was just that most homes in the 80s England had that print, as it was a popular one, and people found a pattern where there wasn't one.
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#77> A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.
does this mean we can blame React Server Components for something new?
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#78You know what, maybe AI is taking all the goddamn jobs
They’re a global company that offshores with location based pay and utilizes H1Bs. I think that’s the first thing to look at. You get what you pay for. Stop trying to devalue labor. Not much sympathy when you’re obviously cutting corners.
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#79Internet is no longer decenstralised. Some interesting DNS data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249
Hence why I wrote a post on 18th of Nov (previous Cloudflare outage): https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cl... . That blog post made it to the front page of HN and my site did not go down. Nor did any DDoS network take the site out even though I also challenged them last time by commenting that I would be okay with a DDoS. I would figure out a way around it. In general, marketing often works vi…
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#80The old guard has left as they we too much of an expense in this cost-cutting age... without mentors, crap creeps in and now we are seeing what happens when people don't know how things work, are in charge...
Why not build the next cloudflare then, I'm sure it is appreciated by HN folks.