Hacker News: QuinnyPig

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Cloud Bill Billionaire"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:34:21 +0000

This is ridiculous. I love it.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Launching Route 53 Files"

QuinnyPig — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:20:39 +0000

It was my first feedback for you. I’m still incensed.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Launching Route 53 Files"

QuinnyPig — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:49:17 +0000

You might note who the customer quote is from.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "What Is a Syslog Server?"

QuinnyPig — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:23:56 +0000

"Splunk that runs locally with a worse UX, but on balance doesn't eat all the resources you throw at it and doesn't charge you a kidney."

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital Invests $215M in Amazon"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:36:28 +0000

So they spun up two Managed NAT Gateways?

New comment by QuinnyPig in "We 10×Ed Our AWS Bill by Checking Our AWS Bill"

QuinnyPig — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:31:17 +0000

Man, what a ChatGPT coded article start to finish.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "Same $24 AWS Lightsail VM, Different Bang for Buck by Region"

QuinnyPig — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:20:20 +0000

Oh dear. Lightsail instances are burstable t family instances. Of course performance is going to be variable; they're generally oversubscribed and subject to noisy neighbor workloads. It's not directly correlated with region.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

QuinnyPig — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:21:34 +0000

Was this the day that gp3 EBS volumes came out by any chance?

New comment by QuinnyPig in "AI Assistant for Amazon"

QuinnyPig — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:02:18 +0000

I like how you don’t disclose it uses affiliate links. Real ethical of you.

New comment by QuinnyPig in "What Happens When You Run 10k Concurrent Lambda Functions Against DynamoDB"

QuinnyPig — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:28:06 +0000

I was really hoping this wouldn’t be AI slop. Alas…

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.