Hacker News: amhoab

New comment by amhoab in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"

amhoab — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:36:46 +0000

We used to work together at AOL. Glad to see you on here; I hope you're doing great!

New comment by amhoab in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

amhoab — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:30:23 +0000

Aren't you the Webmin guy?

New comment by amhoab in "Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads"

amhoab — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:01:15 +0000

This is a huge market and there are lots of competitors out there. Just FYI that 1/3 of the AWS price isn't really considered cheap when you look at the budget market. Some of the cheap European providers have US presence now as well. That said, the pricing isn't too bad and the lineup looks good. Also, the website also gives me issues on my Android phone.

New comment by amhoab in "Yahoo Wants to Buy Chrome"

amhoab — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:38:33 +0000

It's actually Apollo Global Management. Verizon only retained 10% of the company after they sold it.

New comment by amhoab in "Show HN: Yet another SaaS boilerplate ShipFlask"

amhoab — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 01:48:36 +0000

I was considering Bullet Train for a new project. Would you advise against it? What would you suggest for something new today?

New comment by amhoab in "Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?"

amhoab — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:39:51 +0000

Call for presenters.

New comment by amhoab in "Ask HN: I'm tired of intense code review cycles"

amhoab — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 12:42:46 +0000

https://github.com/psf/black

New comment by amhoab in "WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore"

amhoab — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:38:07 +0000

Regarding Comcast pricing being out of reach, what are your thoughts on their low-income program, https://www.internetessentials.com? It's 25Mbps for $10/mo. There are probably hoops to jump through, but it does seem within reach otherwise.

New comment by amhoab in "Exodus – Painless relocation of Linux binaries without containers"

amhoab — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:58:06 +0000

This project is awesome. Do you know if there's a way to bundle up something like a python or PHP script so it runs standalone without needing the runtimes on the target system?

MoveMyMail: Super Easy Mail Migration

amhoab — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:04:58 +0000

Article URL: https://movemymail.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925430

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by amhoab in "Biscuit: a multi-region key value store for your AWS infrastructure secrets"

amhoab — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:38:31 +0000

This is also similiar to Sneaker (https://github.com/codahale/sneaker), which is written in Go. It doesn't copy to other regions by default, but it's not hard to handle that on your own. This also uses KMS, but stores encrypted secrets in S3.

New comment by amhoab in "AWS mistakes to avoid"

amhoab — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 06:04:10 +0000

I'm a big Terraform fan, but I really don't like HCL and its limitations. I ended up writing a PHP "SDK" of sorts that generates JSON that Terraform consumes [1]. It uses the AWS SDK for some things (like listing all available AZs in a VPC), and provides some macros. I made this for use at work, and it powers a few production sites for a large company.

There's still a lot to do to make it ideal for public consumption (like writing docs and freezing the API), but it'll get there sometime soon. PRs are most welcome.

[1] https://github.com/ameir/terraform-php

Instagration Pt. 2: Scaling our infrastructure to multiple data centers

amhoab — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:53:43 +0000

Article URL: http://engineering.instagram.com/posts/548723638608102/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552044

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by amhoab in "Ask HN: Self-Hosted API Documentation?"

amhoab — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:01:47 +0000

This is what I use, with good success: http://apidocjs.com.

New comment by amhoab in "Why we aren’t using the Gmail API (yet)"

amhoab — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:30:11 +0000

I wonder if they use IMAP's EXAMINE or SELECT commands when iterating through folders. The former is read-only, although the end user has no control or guarantee that this is how they'll go through folders.