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/dev/null as a Service
- alexchamberlain 13y agoI'm guessing this is a parody?
- abat 13y agoYes, look at their upcoming product: /dev/random as a Service: Do you think every random-number-generator is broken? Well, we do! Simply trust us and use our numbers as your only seeding source!
- alexchamberlain 13y agoNah, that's almost useful. It could be a crowd-sourced random number stream based on noise generated by a network of mobile phones.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoI could see a service that just accepts any HTTP you send to it as being kinda useful for early testing of client-side software. Personally I'd just use netcat, but maybe a service would be easier for some people.
- cben 13y agohttp://requestb.in/ http://requestb.in/ , http://httpbin.org/ http://httpbin.org/
- mikeash 13y agoIt's almost useful if you need random numbers that aren't secret, but it's useless for crypto, which is probably the major use of good-quality random numbers.
- toomuchtodo 13y agohttp://www.random.org/ http://www.random.org/ "RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. The service has existed since 1998 and was built by Dr Mads Haahr of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. Today, RANDOM.ORG is operated by Randomness and Integrity Services Ltd."
- chops 13y agoI'm guessing it's inspired by the video "MongoDB is Web Scale" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
- aroman 13y agoWow I can't believe that video has gone viral — I remember showing it around to a few friends 2 years ago or so when it only had a few thousand views. Ironically, MongoDB has since become my go-to DB of choice...
- kansface 13y agoHave you read http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb ?
- donretag 13y agoIf /dev/null is fast in web scale I will use it. Is it web scale? Does /dev/null support sharding?
- einhverfr 13y agoYes, and it is much faster than MongoDB as there are no write locking issues.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoNo, this is real life. Services just like these already exist.
- anonymous 13y agoProbably the site is under load, but I loved that when I clicked on "features", I got back an Error 500 - Internal Server Error.
- jlgreco 13y agoThey only guarantee 85.66% uptime. They need to sleep too!
- jnbiche 13y agoBest nginx config ever? location /dev/null { if ($request_method = POST ) { return 200; } }
- Artemis2 13y agoI've always dreamt of that!
- wulczer 13y agoReminds me of http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
- aroman 13y agoOh this is brilliant. The link to the whitepaper 404'ing was extremely clever. Thanks for sharing :)
- pdelbarba 13y agoI like that the donation link is .../error.html?aspxerrorpath=/payments/submit/s4/is/a/joke/stop/sending/us/money/readthefineprint.aspx
- DanBC 13y agoWhich reminds me of this Dilbert strip (http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-09-02/ http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-09-02/)
- rjgray 13y agoI especially love that the web proxies at my place of employment block this site as "Online Storage"
- fallingmeat 13y agohaha, yeah here too
- itchitawa 13y agoHeh. Try buying it: "The resource you are trying to access cannot be read, due to the following reason: No read operation available. Please try the following: Make sure you really want to access this file. I mean, is it really that important in the big scheme of things?"
- wiml 13y agoDoubtless built from a massive array of Signetics 25120 WOM chips.
- whalesalad 13y agoI get the feeling that the fact that the site never loads for me is intentional?
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoAt least these guys are honest: We know that everyone cares about thier privacy these days. We promise we won't let anyone have a look at your data[1]. [1] Anyone excluding the following companies and departments. Just the good guys, you know?: NSA, Nestle, Communist Party of China (CPC), The Coca-Cola Company, the KGB, some of your coworkers and our friends (especially if there is something funny).
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoThis is actually implying that one of the listed entities is a department within company that produced this marvelous software. I wonder which.
- shenoybr 13y agoThey had me at "Use our distributed service located in over 380 countries!"
- anonymoushn 13y agoI'd like to visit their backup Earth :)
- elwell 13y agoIP address is owned by NSA Fort Meade office. Possible honeypot scheme? I can't think of any other reason it would have that attractive free tier.
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- Chupachupski 13y agoYou're teasing, right? dig devnull-as-a-service.com ; ANSWER SECTION: devnull-as-a-service.com. 1481 IN A 213.95.21.200 http://whois.domaintools.com/213.95.21.200 http://whois.domaintools.com/213.95.21.200 Whois Server: whois.psi-usa.info ASN: Germany AS12337 NORIS-NETWORK noris network AG (registered Mar 22, 1999) IP Location: Germany - Bayern - Nuremberg - Noris Network Ag Domain Status: Registered And Active Website
- nwh 13y agoA reverse lookup shows that the server is also hosting https://coffeestats.org/ https://coffeestats.org/ - clearly there's someone here trying to collect vast amounts of data about the general public. I don't think the parents fears are unwarranted, the fact that it's hosted in a German IP block could be to throw people off the trail.
- diorray 13y agoOh, NSA did not fill.
- jeza 13y agoSeems like a genuine joke to me. This is the guy behind it: http://noqqe.de http://noqqe.de "About Florian Baumann (24). Arbeite bei der GfK SE und interessiere mich für allerhand Dinge unter anderem Debian, BSD, OpenSource, R, Statistik, Scripting, Hacks, Administration. Was das alles so mit sich bringt schreibe ich manchmal hier auf. Manchmal nicht. Außerdem sammle ich hier ohne Sinn und Schema Zeug das ich nie wieder brauche."
- snorkel 13y ago/dev/null is way too polite. For my services I much prefer to rely on the http://foaas.com/ http://foaas.com/ API
- Schwolop 13y agoAwesome. I thought "this is exactly the kind of thing my former colleagues would find hilarious". Then I scrolled down. They wrote it.
- runnr_az 13y agothat's very silly.
- venantius 13y agoPity devnull.io was already taken.
- korvkorvkorv 13y agoYou guys and your fancy HTTP services. Discard should be enough for everyone. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc863 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc863
- timv 13y agoDiscard is fundamentally flawed. Because the service does not provide a response the client cannot reliably determine whether the data was successfully discarded. Without a response there's the possibility that your data could be lost on its way to being thrown away, and you'd never know.
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- korethr 13y agoWow, is it April already? Do you suppose after they successfully implement /dev/random as a service, they might implement /dev/zero or /dev/full next? Or /dev/console might be especially useful.
- bitops 13y agoI've already launched a competitive /dev/urandom service!
- reinhardt 13y agoYou jest but... http://www.random.org/clients/http/ http://www.random.org/clients/http/
- joshguthrie 13y agoHere you go: https://github.com/cbumgard/node-qrand https://github.com/cbumgard/node-qrand
- pouzy 13y agoIf you don't let Google read my data, I'm ready for the 5k/y
- paxcoder 13y agoCC-NC epic fail
- Walkman 13y agoI wonder if it would be possible to sell a service like this for real. I bet it would.
- bluesmoon 13y agoleet timestamp on the HTML: 27.10.2013, 13:37
- noqqe 13y ago;) https://github.com/noqqe/devnull-as-a-service/commit/a305550d5c234834ec74c165e394d03be38f69fe https://github.com/noqqe/devnull-as-a-service/commit/a305550...
- drnex 13y agoThis is trash, literally and figuratively.
- rcfox 13y agoI'd be wary of using this. There's no mention of their data retention policy.
- Aldo_MX 13y agoPrivacy We know that everyone cares about thier privacy these days. We promise we won't let anyone have a look at your data[1]. [1] Anyone excluding the following companies and departments. Just the good guys, you know?: NSA, Nestle, Communist Party of China (CPC), The Coca-Cola Company, the KGB, some of your coworkers and our friends (especially if there is something funny). http://devnull-as-a-service.com/features/ http://devnull-as-a-service.com/features/
- comice 13y agoIf they've not configured nginx carefully, it will be buffering request bodies to temporary files on disk. So your data might not really be going to /dev/null - it might be going to a disk. Most likely not want you want at all. I'll get a CVE allocated for this bug right away.
- FrankenPC 13y agoI laughed at high availability /dev/null cluster.
- alpeb 13y agoWhat's up with HN today? Lots of reddit-style garbage in the front page.
- gwu78 13y agoOne reason I am not a devfs fan is because I'm a mknod(1) user. For example, FreeBSD has one of those famous "_________ is deprecated" bold warnings regarding mknod. It is not deprecated in my usage. I use it all the time. I do not rely on /dev/null. I make my own null character devices as I need them.
- derleth 13y ago> I do not rely on /dev/null. > I make my own null character devices as I need them. Why? Is there ever a reason to have more than one file on your system which acts as a /dev/null?
- gwu78 13y ago"Why?" Why not? In my case, the reason is because it's shorter to type. I would expect most longtime UNIX users have experienced what happens when, for one reason or another, /dev/null is not a null character device and you have scripts or programs writing to it as if it was. By the time you realize that this has happened, it's too late -- data has already been saved to this file. There may be various workarounds for this. I'm not a professional sysadmin. But in my case, for my own personal usage systems, by using my own null character device in my own tmpfs mounted folders, I can just test for the success/failure of the mknod command before I start redirecting anything to it. I don't need a /dev/null. But I do need mknod.
- anyfoo 13y agoAnd you need to be root, apparently.
- ryan-allen 13y agoThe website is missing a "meet the founders" page with the pre-pubescent CEO, CTO, Director of Marketing and Director of Customer Excellent, who just happens to be the CTO's little sister.
- gotrecruit 13y agohow do you know?
- dschiptsov 13y agoThis must be at least few hundred millions of lines of Java code (to be able to access /dev/null in a portable way).
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- dhruvbird 13y ago"85,66% guaranteed uptime (we need some sleep, too)" lol!!!