Hacker News: QuinnyPig

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.

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

QuinnyPig — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:46:48 +0000

It turns out that anyone who wants to can just go on the Internet and spout bollocks. I like how there isn’t even a byline here, just “editorial staff.” Because who’d sign their name to this kind of tomfoolery?

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Internal Amazon Documents Warned AI Startups Are Delaying AWS Spending"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:05:27 +0000

We know it’s true because of how AWas PR is trying to refute it.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "2x Faster Hashes on AWS Graviton: Neon → SVE2"

QuinnyPig — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:10:13 +0000

Ooooh.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Judge finds Amazon acted in bad faith during discovery in FTC litigation"

QuinnyPig — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:58:05 +0000

> Given the totality of circumstances, the Court finds that Amazon’s behavior warrants no more relief except an admonition by this Court. Amazon and its counsel are admonished that their conduct during discovery was tantamount to bad faith. Similar conduct may lead to more serious sanctions.

That'll fix it.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "AWS announces EC2 instance attestation"

QuinnyPig — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:49:23 +0000

At some point it does come down to "we have to trust the provider isn't outright lying to us about what they're doing."

That was a hard bridge for me to cross for a long time; I got there via sustained in-depth conversations with folks there who simply wouldn't stand for something that breathtakingly opposed to everything AWS has strived to achieve from a trust perspective, that they'd sooner tear it all down than implement such a thing.

Some folks can't get there, and that's okay; if you don't have that level of trust, perhaps the cloud is not a fit for all of your workloads.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Flipper Zero Geiger Counter"

QuinnyPig — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:54:41 +0000

You can shock the hell out of yourself with the capacitors for the flash in a disposable camera, so the AAA battery source isn't exactly exculpatory...

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

QuinnyPig — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:57:37 +0000

I’m always amazed by how far my humor seemed to spread in those days.