[kopos]

A bit ingenious to say we do nothing when you have CloudFlare in front of your servers. Cloudflare by itself can automatically detect and handle DDoS without explicitly activating the Under Attack mode.

Also Java jar files give you the same benefit.

[vintermann]

> Also Java jar files give you the same benefit.

You have to explain that one a bit more.

[RedShift1]

You can compile a jar to include all dependencies (like statically compiling C code), then you can just run `java -jar myprogram.jar` and it will work as long as the Java runtime is the same major version or newer than the version you compiled for.

[diarrhea]

That’s different from the runtime-free binaries produced by Rust and Go (binaries ship with tiny runtime) though. These are truly dependency-free, requiring only that you can execute ELF files.

[cwillu]

Ingenious doesn't mean what I think you think it means.

[worddepress]

It is ingenious to turn a mild attack into a 100+ point HN submission!

[sethammons]

I think they meant disingenuous

[rezonant]

Also those requests for the 200MB setup aren't even hitting your servers unless you have disabled caching for some reason, not that it'd be that hard to serve it directly.

[n4r9]

> bit ingenious

I think the word you're after is "disingenuous"