Comment by jonluca

5 hours ago

Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.

  • I really hope/imagine this project specifically has a LLM of some kind doing real-time analysis on the uploaded files for malware from the get-go. How good that is could be is anyone's guess (and chances are there would be blind spots / evasion techniques).

When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing.

Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems?

Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

  • I think the HN rule for "curmudgeonly" applies.

    > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    I think HN should be a place where I am excited to see what others have to add. When I see a post I am excited to see what takes and spins others have on it. I do want real criticism and a lively debate about important things, but there has to be a balance.

    I want to see other comments that seem like they genuinely want to help steer something or build people up. Sometimes I get the impression that's not happening on HN.

  • > Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

    Probably (I'm just assuming) because that person observes negative/cautious/"I don't like this because X and Y and also Z"/etc sentiment too much and feels like people are only quick to notice issues while forgetting about good sides.

    It's only an assumption, though.

Agreed I think this is pretty solid especially since you get all the Cloudflare benefits like CDN from the get-go.

Corporations acting as if naive is a bit of problem in reality. For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy.

Same here: CF is basically giving malicious actors an ability to ship contents/data publicly while laundering the legal responsibility of those actors.

Now tell me what is cool

  • > Now tell me what is cool

    Not immediately being a copyright bootlicker.

    The fact that you went straight to "BuT pIrAtEs" already shows who you actually care: Corpos, not people.

hn has turned into a reddit hate fest. It's getting hard to read non stop negativity and hate. I'm happy to see your positive comment.

  • Agreed. This is the same crowd that is mad about free tiers going away on other dev-friendly hosting services…

  • Brother it’s always been like this. Just check n-gate.com (tragic loss btw, rip)

    • Hi! I have been following n-gate.com a small bit over the years, because I found it very interesting and it was a rabbit hole I wanted to go down.

      I actually setup "xor-gate" for a while, which was trying to be a similar thing co-authored by a friend, but it was too time consuming and we gave up.

      Did the author pass? I'm not trying to be crass, but I don't know the details.

  • wait till anyone remotely mentions apple or apple products. the neckbeards on their thinkpads will come in droves to shit on cupertino's best.