Hacker News with Generative AI: Web Services

Cloudflare R2 Global Outage (cloudflarestatus.com)
Cloudflare is investigating an increase in HTTP 5xx errors with R2 and related services Stream, Images, and Cache Reserve.

Cloud Computing, Outage, Cloudflare, Web Services

6 points by leiferik 12 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: X and Grok down since the early AM? (ycombinator.com)
Anyone else seeing this? I'm on east coast, been down for me for hours.

Web Services, Downtime, User Experience

25 points by sergiotapia 24 days ago | 10 comments

Cloudflare R2 Incident on February 6, 2025 (cloudflare.com)
Multiple Cloudflare services, including our R2 object storage, were unavailable for 59 minutes on Thursday, February 6th. This caused all operations against R2 to fail for the duration of the incident, and caused a number of other Cloudflare services that depend on R2 — including Stream, Images, Cache Reserve, Vectorize and Log Delivery — to suffer significant failures.

Cloud Computing, Security, Web Services, Data Storage, Outage

40 points by ko_pivot 55 days ago | 13 comments

Am-I.online (am-i.online)

Internet, Web Services, Online Resources

12 points by vednig 91 days ago | 13 comments

Representational State Transfer (2000) (ics.uci.edu)
This chapter introduces and elaborates the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems, describing the software engineering principles guiding REST and the interaction constraints chosen to retain those principles, while contrasting them to the constraints of other architectural styles.

Software Engineering, Architectural Styles, Web Services, REST

4 points by redbell 114 days ago | 0 comments

Internet Archive Services Update (archive.org)
Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Internet Archive, Web Services, Downtime

46 points by pabs3 149 days ago | 0 comments

Libravatar: FOSS alternative to Automattic-owned Gravatar (libravatar.org)
Libravatar is a service which delivers your avatar (profile picture) to other websites.

Privacy, Alternatives, Profile Pictures, Web Services

8 points by pluc 161 days ago | 0 comments

Building the hundred-year web service with Htmx (youtube.com)

Web Development, Longevity, Htmx, Web Services

6 points by todsacerdoti 171 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp (todayhasbeen.com)

Journaling, WhatsApp, Web Services

126 points by rahulg 192 days ago | 99 comments

Reddit Breaks Old.reddit.com (ycombinator.com)
Looks like the end is here. Old.reddit.com no longer works, so it is time to say goodbye to Reddit for good.

Reddit, Social Media, Web Services

35 points by ftth_finland 195 days ago | 24 comments

Correlating Ownership of Sites Protected by Cloudflare (jamesmotherway.com)
Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy which allows it to provide content delivery network (CDN), web application firewall (WAF), and other services.

Security, Cloudflare, Web Services, Data Analysis

38 points by jamesmotherway 200 days ago | 6 comments

I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription (kateva.org)
In the years following the Great Recession, from 2010 to 2013, many web services went offline. In retrospect that was the end of the Berners-Lee web.

Web Services, Online Services, Subscriptions, Web History

192 points by leotravis10 201 days ago | 95 comments

Alternatives to Google Products – Updated (peq42.com)

Alternatives, Google Products, Web Services, Comparison, Privacy

28 points by peq42 207 days ago | 21 comments

What percent of users are you losing to Cloudflare? (ycombinator.com)

Cloud Computing, Web Services, Market Share

13 points by elwebmaster 209 days ago | 3 comments

1M Users (spacehey.com)

Social Media, Web Services, User Growth

787 points by theneedful 213 days ago | 184 comments

GitHub Is Down? (ycombinator.com)