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Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production.<p>Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.<p>Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.<p>All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.<p>Never use GCP for production.<p>----
Edit: full story by request, long read:
----<p>Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://status.cloud.google.com/products/oLCqDYkE9NFWQVgctQTL/history) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra. Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspension". Edited and updated the billing cards. Opened a billing support request clearly mentioning this is a production environment and all the bills are paid. They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended.
A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
Nobody wants to teach anymore
I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
Hi HN,<p>During lockdown I took up the keyboard hobby but I couldn't find anything I liked the aesthetic of. So I set out to design my own keyboard from scratch that shunned the gamer look in favour of a more minimal, serious design.<p>I've built several prototypes but I would love to get some feedback from the HN community.
Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?
I am reading more and more about startups which are focusing on investments in real estate [1].<p>Doesn't anyone feel uneasy about it, that more and more people are looking at real estate as a financial tool, not a basic human right to have a roof over one's head?<p>Aren't startups like this just adding oil to the fire which is the real estate market?<p>I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own four walls.<p>[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/backed-by-forerunner-and-bezos-back-arrived-a-startup-that-lets-you-buy-into-single-family-rentals-for-as-little-as-100/
Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways