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No as a Service
- macleginn 1y agoA worthy spiritual disciple of the Journal of Universal Rejection (https://www.universalrejection.org/ https://www.universalrejection.org/)
- Haeuserschlucht 1y ago:)
- artogahr 1y ago:)
- barberhenna 1y ago[dead]
- blahaj 1y ago> Rate Limit: 10 requests per minute per IP I understand that one wants some rate limiting so that others don't just use this as a backend for their own service causing every single request for their service to also create an API request. But this is as simple and resource unintensive as it gets for an HTTP server. 10 requests per minute is just silly. Also could it be that the limit isn't enforced against the origin IP address but against the whole Cloudflare reverse proxy?
- arp242 1y agoMate, it's a joke, not a serous service. The only silly thing here is going off on a tangent about the rate limit.
- jaywcarman 1y ago10 requests per minute per IP is plenty enough to play around with and have a little fun. For anything more than that you could (should!) host it yourself.
- blahaj 1y agoSo it is just purposefully made to be less useful? Is that part of the joke? The rate limit still pretty surely isn't applied per IP.
- mindtricks 1y agoIf it helps you, think of the rate limiter as the "no" final boss.
- choult 1y agoWell this is something... someone creating a service off the back of a meme that's been flying around my networks for the past two days...
- ziddoap 1y agoFun idea. I wonder why the rejection messages are repeated so often in the "reasons" file. "I truly value our connection, and I hope my no doesn't change that." shows up 45 times. Seems like most of the rejections appear between 30 and 50 times.
- khanan 1y agoWas wondering the same thing.. Probably cruft so it looks impressive at a glance.
- Retr0id 1y agoIf you ask LLMs for a long enough list of things, they often repeat entries.
- MalbertKerman 1y agoThere are 25 unique responses in that 1000-line file.
- justin_oaks 1y agoOnce you remove the duplicates that are different only because of the typos in them, yes, that's correct.
- mikepurvis 1y agoA single large file is also sadness for incorporating suggestions from collaborators as you're always dealing with merge conflicts. Better might be a folder of plain text files, where each can have multiple lines in it, and they're grouped by theme or contributor or something.
- spiffyk 1y agoA folder of plain text files will be sadness for performance. It's a file with basically line-wise entries, merge conflicts in that will be dead easy to resolve with Git locally. It won't be single-click in GitHub, but not too much of a hassle.
- varun_ch 1y ago> {"error":"Too many requests, please try again later."} I guess it still works.
- lgl 1y agoBug report: when the server is overloaded, the No's are no longer random :)
- kenrick95 1y agoClassic Hacker News hug of death
- xnorswap 1y agoIt looks like it's limited to 10 requests per minute, it's less of a hug and more of a gentle brush past. It's documented as "Per IP", but I'm willing to bet either that documentation is wrong, or it's picking up the IP address of the reverse proxy or whatever else is in-front of the application server, rather than the originator IP. Why do I think that? Well these headers: x-powered-by Express x-ratelimit-limit 10 x-ratelimit-remaining 0 Which means it's not being rate-limited by cloudflare, it's express doing the rate limiting. And I haven't yet made 10 requests, so unless it's very bad at picking up my IP, it's picking up the cloudflare IP instead.
- NotMichaelBay 1y agoIt's so elegant. Even in failure, it's still operational.
- Retr0id 1y agoIt could be genuinely useful for testing HTTP clients if it had a wider array of failure modes. Some ideas: - All the different HTTP status codes - expired/invalid TLS cert - no TLS cipher overlap - invalid syntax at the TLS and/or HTTP level - hang/timeout - endless slowloris-style response - compression-bomb - DNS failure (and/or round-robin DNS where some IPs are bad) - infinite redirect loop - ipv6-only - ipv4-only - Invalid JSON or XML syntax
- zikani_03 1y agoNot exactly what you are asking for, but reminded me that Toxiproxy[0] exists if you want to test your applications or even HTTP clients against various kinds of failures: [0]: https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy
- n8m8 1y agoinb4 someone genuinely doesn't understand why you wouldn't do this with an LLM
- thih9 1y agoExample responses: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service/refs/heads/main/reasons.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hotheadhacker/no-as-a-serv...
- deanputney 1y agoNot sure why, but reasons.json is mostly duplicates (as many as 50!) of the same 25 responses: https://gist.github.com/deanputney/4143ca30f7823ce53d894d3ede0a99c3 https://gist.github.com/deanputney/4143ca30f7823ce53d894d3ed... It'd be easier to add new ones if they were in there a single time each. Maybe the duplication is meant to handle distribution?
- finnh 1y agoah, yes, the "memory is no object" way of obtaining a weighted distribution. If you need that sweet sweet O(1) selection time, maybe check out the Alias Method :)
- justin_oaks 1y agoKnowing that there are only 25 responses, it makes it all the more funny that rate limiting is mentioned. And you can host the service yourself! Hard pass. I'll read the 25 responses from your gist. Thanks!
- anonymousiam 1y agoLooks impressive, but out of the 1000 possible responses, only 26 are unique.
- qrush 1y agoOh great, it's Balatro's Wheel of Fortune card as a Service (WoFaaS)
- hombre_fatal 1y agoI made a lot of things like this as a noob and threw them up on github. As you gain experience, these projects become a testament to how far you've come. "An http endpoint that returns a random array element" becomes so incredibly trivial that you can't believe you even made a repo for it, and one day you sheepishly delete it.
- blahaj 1y agoI don't think things have to be impressive to be shown. A funny little idea is all you need, no matter how simple the code. Actually I find exactly that quite neat.
- TehCorwiz 1y agoI think you'll enjoy this better: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
- seabass 1y ago{"error":"Too many requests, please try again later."} a missed opportunity for some humor
- richrichardsson 1y ago{"error":"Computer says no."}
- readthenotes1 1y agoBeats "I have a headache"
- svilen_dobrev 1y agonice. Reminds me of BOFH (Bastard operator from Hell) . And those box-like calendars with page-per-day with some excuse^w^w tip on each :) https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html
- hotheadhacker 1y agoThe API rate limiting has been removed.