Hacker News: QuinnyPig

New comment by QuinnyPig in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:38:22 +0000

If that's the case, I'm fairly confident that AWS will forgive the bill (I... have some experience with this), and the kid learns not to be a jackhole on the internet.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Amazon launches new AI Wearable "Bee""

QuinnyPig — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:12:00 +0000

They acquired this last year. It’s been shipping since before then.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

QuinnyPig — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:38:29 +0000

Vercel seems to be pulling it off. So does PlanetScale, albeit for databases only. But everything’s a database.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Three AWS VPS Runs Looked Identical – One Still Failed Under Load"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:33:07 +0000

No kidding; t3 instances definitionally have variable performance.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "How LEDs are made (2014)"

QuinnyPig — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:22:36 +0000

You could probably see more if they used their own product.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:29:08 +0000

If you really want to know where the data centers are, the local Uber drivers and pizza delivery folks are a great source.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Same AWS plan, same continent – different behavior under load"

QuinnyPig — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:08:20 +0000

Ignoring the AI slop, no surprise; t3 performance is definitionally inconsistent.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Show HN: QuickMailBites – email client that reads your AWS S3 bucket"

QuinnyPig — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:06:07 +0000

This 404s and I'm annoyed because this is very much in my wheelhouse of interest.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "A YC-Backed Startup Left Production AWS Keys Public for 5 Months"

QuinnyPig — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:41:54 +0000

Looks like the site 404s?

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability"

QuinnyPig — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:50:36 +0000

You'd be surprised by how many industries are vulnerable to military strikes.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "AWS suffered 'at least two outages' caused by AI tools"

QuinnyPig — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:02:41 +0000

And how many regions is Cost Explorer in?

New comment by QuinnyPig in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:12:28 +0000

I always enjoy the color you add to these conversations. Thanks!

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Show HN: S3ui – Lightweight UI for Browsing Amazon S3"

QuinnyPig — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:18:55 +0000

I like this!

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Railway secures $100M to challenge AWS"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:17:02 +0000

That’ll cover a NAT Gateway.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

QuinnyPig — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:12:57 +0000

Man, your behavior when you realize you got something wrong is something the rest of us can aspire to. This is one of the things I like the best about you.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Ask HN: Dear Cloud Providers"

QuinnyPig — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:58:46 +0000

I would love this. How can I help?

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH"

QuinnyPig — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:21:06 +0000

I can’t recall encountering a system in the last 15 years that didn’t have vim (or at least vi for esoteric things) on it.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:48:00 +0000

Here’s my rundown:

AWS because I know how it breaks, Google Cloud if you’re starting from scratch due to great DX, Oracle Cloud if you trust them to not go all Oracle with it someday since it’s solid tech, Azure if you spent Thanksgiving dinner eating crayons at the kids’ table, IBM “Cloud” if you hate your company and yourself.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Tell HN: Amazon intentionally keeps your money for as long as possible"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:40:17 +0000

As much fun as dunking on Amazon for these things is, refunds via the credit card networks are always along this timeframe.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps Workers with AI Days Before Crash"

QuinnyPig — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:14:39 +0000

I think there’s a meaningful difference between “a ton of organizational knowledge has departed over the past few years” and “they let people go last week so now their site fell over.”

And I object strongly to the mischaracterization of my point as “the smart engineers left.” It’s unfair to the incredibly talented folks that work at AWS to cast the tenured folks as being any more or less skilled—it’s just that they definitively have more experience with the environment.