Hacker News: Sami_Lehtinen

New comment by Sami_Lehtinen in "Matrix.envs.net Is Shutting Down"

Sami_Lehtinen — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:57:16 +0000

Better url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574903

Many don't have Matrix client installed.

Matrix.envs.net Is Shutting Down

Sami_Lehtinen — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:56:28 +0000

Article URL: https://envs.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574903

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Sami_Lehtinen in "Matrix.envs.net Is Shutting Down"

Sami_Lehtinen — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:54:28 +0000

Hello everyone,

I'd like to inform you about an important change at envs.net.

As many of you know, the Matrix service consumes a lot of resources. This has become increasingly problematic in recent months, as it's making operation more and more expensive.

For this reason, I've decided to discontinue the Matrix service.

The shutdown is planned for March 1, 2026, but no later than April 1, 2026.

Registration of new Matrix accounts has already been disabled.

I believe this timeframe is appropriate to give everyone enough time to migrate their Matrix account to another server.

At the same time, the entire envs.net infrastructure will be moved to a new, more cost-effective server to return closer to envs' original minimalist values.

In the future, chat for the envs project will again take place via IRC.

As before, we will be using the tildeverse IRC server:

• Server: irc.tilde.chat • Channel: #envs

Please respect this decision and refrain from sending private messages expecting justifications.

Thank you for your understanding and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

Best regards, Sven aka. ~creme

Matrix.envs.net Is Shutting Down

Sami_Lehtinen — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:54:28 +0000

Article URL: https://matrix.to/#/!dDZYx7e4nzZjqR2tnC6v1pDbZX52HJVfQRuuBpinG9U/$QUY4XtMR2WS56N-VN9na768Fd37_N7Yj5KiQU8B2Wo8?via=matrix.org&via=envs.net&via=tchncs.de

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574885

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

We Bought 404media.com

Sami_Lehtinen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:49:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/we-bought-404media-com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504750

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

Sami_Lehtinen — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:59:17 +0000

Article URL: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/from-90-to-45

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117743

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

Sami_Lehtinen — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2029

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152369

Points: 71

# Comments: 43

Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters

Sami_Lehtinen — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.printables.com/model/441233-comic-sans-typeball-for-the-ibm-selectric-typewrit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111909

Points: 160

# Comments: 40

SimpleX Chat v6.4.1: welcome your contacts, review members to protect groups

Sami_Lehtinen — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://simplex.chat/blog/20250729-simplex-chat-v6-4-1-welcome-contacts-protect-groups-app-security.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44737289

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Sami_Lehtinen in "Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin"

Sami_Lehtinen — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:46:12 +0000

For CGI endpoints that are called infrequently—daily, weekly, or even monthly—the script startup delay is negligible. Even a persistent process waiting to handle a request can have its memory swapped to disk by the OS under varying server load. When a request finally arrives, the delay from swapping that memory back in can negate any theoretical advantage over a cold-starting CGI script.