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  1. Gmail is killing independent email (igregious.com)
    235 points 138
  2. Ask HN: How to Stop Gmail Rate-Limiting

    Gmail messages from one of our mail servers (190.92.179.88) suddenly started being rate-limited a week ago. This affects thousands of Google's customers, who are getting their booking confirmations over 24 hours late.…

    6 points 6
  3. Forms are going blue, whether you like it or not

    If your website forms use checkboxes, radio buttons or range controls, you're in for a nasty surprise. Instead of neutral grey, the latest Chrome renders these in a bright blue, which clashes horribly with many…

    1 points 1
  4. How Did Yandex Discover a Private URL?

    I recently set up a VPS server to provide a private service for an Appengine app. To test exception handling, I set up a test URL /boo.hoo/test, and visited it a couple of times with Chrome browser on Ubuntu to make…

    7 points 8
  5. Extend robots.txt to specify session variable names?

    To cope with visitors who block cookies, we use a query variable in our URLs to maintain sessions. In our case we use "z", because it is short and unlikely to be used for anything else. So our URLs look like…

    1 points 2
  6. Salesforce 12-Hour (so far) Outage (theregister.co.uk)
    4 points 1
  7. What's the status of legal privilege given PRISM?

    Should all lawyers be avoiding email now? Even if we believe the NSA is only gathering the emails of non-citizens, lawyers represent of non-citizens. Is there an opportunity to provide a hardened email service for legal…

    1 points 0
  8. Facebook like button Fail

    We just had ten minutes or so of very strange behaviour. Rendering the Like button on our home page suddenly redirected the whole page to a Facebook error page. Until we removed the like button, our page was effectively…

    9 points 0