It's me or more and more upvoted articles here try to sell you something ?

I think it's happening more as HN readers recognize the (personal) benefits of having something hit the front page.

I did notice that too.

"Pour des raisons de sécurité, l’ensemble des services IRC (à titre non-exhaustif : bots, proxy, bouncer, etc.), services de navigation anonyme (généralement appelés proxy), nœuds TOR, ne sont pas autorisés sur le réseau OVH sauf autorisation écrite d’OVH. OVH se réserve le droit de suspendre tout serveur sur lequel ces éléments seraient utilisés sans autorisation préalable d’OVH."

It looks like anything looking like a proxy is forbidden now. Including tor nodes :/

For security reasons, all IRC services (including bots, proxies, bouncers, etc.), anonymous navigation services (also known as proxies), TOR nodes, are not allowed on the OVH network without written authorization from OVH. OVH reserves the right to suspend any server on which these services are used without prior authorization from OVH.

Proxies were already forbidden since 2010 (I think).

I hope you mean open proxies, because even ssh allows you to establish a (for you only) socks 5 proxy.

Urban Terror 4.2 is going to be released today ;) http://www.urbanterror.info

"Why Johnny still can't encrypt" http://chariotsfire.com/pub/sheng-poster_abstract.pdf