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It's sort of an incredible exchange. Seems worth seeing on its own.

• pvg 10y ago
  It might be but so are videos of cars crashing and they're not good HN material. This is essentially drama-fishing in stuff that's already on the site and pushing a past (but barely day-old) covered story to the front page again.
  • aub3bhat 10y ago
    Whats happening is CF playing "never let a good crisis go to waste" against Google. Calling them out on it is not only appropriate but crucial given their past holier than thou attitude.
    • pvg 10y ago
      This isn't 'calling them out'. It's re-posting a single comment for rage-views. If you want to call them out, write something about it, quote Tavis Ormandy if you want, add whatever commentary you think is appropriate and post that. There is nothing in this that 'gratifies intellectual curiosity', it's just cheap incitement. I don't want to call it reddit-like since most sane subreddits sensibly discourage it as well.
  • andreareina 10y ago
    I think the content is very relevant to HN. For better or worse, CF has essentially become a significant part of the global internet infrastructure. We should be aware that the CloudFlare CEO is trying to shift blame for their mess. A mess that impacts a staggering portion of the internet. With regards to the fact that it's part of another thread, I don't think that matters too much. If it were an update present as a separate document it would pass muster. There've been several open letters, and responses to such, and further responses again, etc that have been posted to HN. Furthermore there's no guarantee that someone reading the original thread will see this exchange; I read the thread after the exchange happened and missed it. This is significant enough to be posted as its own item, that it's part of another, ongoing thread shouldn't take precedence over this significance.
    • pvg 10y ago
      Yeah, I don't think this is the way to do it, see my other comment.