This seems to focus on "verifying" accounts using SMS, but I have never been asked by any service to do this. When does this happen?
Readit Newsdom96 commented on Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms cam.ac.uk/stories/price-b... · Posted by u/teleforce
We should then make laws that parents must tell their kids to clean their room. Next we can make laws that parents must tell their children to eat their veggies. What about chore laws? Teeth brushing laws? Stop arguing with your sister laws! More laws!
Honestly, there should be more laws on how children should be brought up.
Unless I misunderstand, AWS SnapStart and their memory snapshots are the same feature (taking memory snapshots to speed up cold start). It doesn't seem a fair comparison to ignore this and my assumption is because AWS Lambda SnapStart is faster.
It wasn't an intentional omission, we weren't aware of this feature in AWS Lambda. The blog post has been updated to reflect that the numbers are for Lambda without SnapStart enabled.
Python Workers use snapshots by default and unlike SnapStart we don't charge extra for it. For many use cases, you can run Python Workers completely for free on our platform and benefit from the faster cold starts.
If anyone from cloudflare comes here - it's not possible to create D1 databases on the fly and interact them because databases must be mentioned in the worker bindings.
This hampers the per user databases workflow.
Would be awesome if a fix lands.
(I work at Cloudflare, but not on D1)
I believe this is possible, you can create D1 databases[1] using Cloudflare's APIs and then deploy a worker using the API as well[2].
1 - https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/d1/subresour...
2 - https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/workers/subr...
dom96 commented on Ecosia: The greenest AI is here blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-ai... · Posted by u/doener
I haven't kept up to date with this, but last I heard we still aren't certain how much energy AI training/inference actually takes at the big AI companies (OpenAI/Anthropic). Have any of these companies shared this since? What's our closest estimates if not?
Elasto Mania is a great game from decades ago (but still for sale!) that exploits this fact to a hilarious extent. You control a motor bike with excessively wobbly physics making all kinds of stunts possible (and necessary, to complete the levels) that are spectacular and surprising.
I remember playing this game when I was like 12 years old, good times
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dom96 commented on Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator news.ysimulator.run/news... · Posted by u/johnsillings
Pretty cool, love the criticism and it does feel somewhat realistic: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/142
dom96 commented on Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different? crazystupidtech.com/2025/... · Posted by u/speckx