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Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
Hi, small SaaS founder here (tardis.dev) - I've been heavy Cloudflare Workers user (currently 4 billions requests & 1PB of data per month) for about 4 years already and today at 00:00 UTC without any warning my account was restricted, both website and APIs are down or very very slow to respond/time out, customers are angry obviously. I confirmed with support that "hmm, I see that your zone seems like being restricted due to 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content, see that there's high JSON data transfer". - which is bit strange as I'm using workers which have different terms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 (confirmed by their CTO)...anyways I get it, perhaps I pay too little and should be on enterprise plan already, but when I got approached by Cloudflare sales team I explicitly asked if I can still be on pay as you go/self server model and reply was: "Enterprise wise, that's up to you and you could likely get away with utilising self-serve as you go, but if you did choose to go enterprise (without R2) I might be able to have something approved in the xx/month range."<p>I would fully understand that I am required to upgrade, but why not sending me an email before shutting down my business completely? I even asked about such scenario on zoom meeting I had with their Sales and they said it will never happen - few weeks forward and here we are...anyways going back to replying to my customers emails regarding service outage.
Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
Hey HN!<p>I just shipped a project I’ve been working on called Maroofy: <a href="https://maroofy.com" rel="nofollow">https://maroofy.com</a><p>You can search for any song, and it’ll use the song’s audio to find other similar-sounding music.<p>Demo: <a href="https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554</a><p>How does it work?<p>I’ve indexed ~120M+ songs from the iTunes catalog with a custom AI audio model that I built for understanding music.<p>My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output.<p>I then store the embedding vectors for all songs into a vector database, and use semantic search to find similar music!<p>Here are some examples you can try:<p>Fetish (Selena Gomez feat. Gucci Mane) — <a href="https://maroofy.com/songs/1563859943" rel="nofollow">https://maroofy.com/songs/1563859943</a>
The Medallion Calls (Pirates of the Caribbean) — <a href="https://maroofy.com/songs/1440649752" rel="nofollow">https://maroofy.com/songs/1440649752</a><p>Hope you like it, and would love to hear any questions/feedback/comments! :D
Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
I was having trouble loading GMail in Chrome. I wasn't sure if it was my spotty internet or the browser acting up so I gave Firefox a shot. And behold! Firefox opened it in a jiffy.<p>What impressed me most was that it was able to import saved passwords, bookmarks and websites history from Chrome pretty quickly. Previously, I had imported these to Chromium based web browsers (Brave & Edge) but was afraid that it might be an issue for non-Chromium browser like Firefox, but to my pleasant surprise, it wasn't.<p>Some really cool observations in first 30 mins of using it :<p>1. It opens websites really quickly, much faster than Chrome<p>2. All parts feel really customizable. I was able to get rid of the Firefox View tab really easily (I may explore it in the future because it seemed quite interesting to send links from phone to desktop). It was also easy enough to customize bookmarks bar to only show up in new tab.<p>3. Extensions ecosystem is thriving . I was glad to find my old favorite: Dark Reader. But I have also found a new favorite - Tab Stash. I also found an extension to download Youtube videos - Video Downloader, something I didn't find in Chrome<p>4. Clean look that gets out of your way.<p>I had given Firefox a shot in the past and had found Chrome to be a better performing browser at the time. But this time, Firefox seems to really have clicked with me.<p>I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share.
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