Hacker News: apayan

New comment by apayan in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

apayan — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:57:46 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260102060534/https://old.reddi...

Edit: switched to archive of old.reddit.com

I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

apayan — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:57:25 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461563

Points: 623

# Comments: 296

New comment by apayan in "Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack"

apayan — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:13:30 +0000

Yeah, you're right. A direct connect in Milan at Equinix ML2 is $2.48/port-hour.

> "description": "$2.48 per connected HC-10G port-hour (or partial hour) (EU (Milan), Equinix ML2, Milano, Italy)"

https://gist.github.com/arashpayan/b115e834191fbc89ac1bc1cdc...

New comment by apayan in "Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack"

apayan — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:29:58 +0000

I just pulled the DirectConnect prices from the AWS API, and I think there is still a per/GB charge. Here's a description of a random direct connect point in Amsterdam (Equinix AM3). https://gist.github.com/arashpayan/a91c46c3787ac610e7884b77b...

If I'm reading the description correctly, egress from there is 2 cents/GB, while the regular price for egress (less than 10 TB) from eu-south-1 is 9 cents/GB.

New comment by apayan in "Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack"

apayan — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:51:19 +0000

Connecting to an AWS egress point for direct connect reduces the egress price (about half) but doesn't eliminate it. It also costs thousands of dollars a month just to have the connection, so it's not great for small operations. :-/

New comment by apayan in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

apayan — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:56:56 +0000

I hadn't heard of Heroic before. I'll check it out. Thank you.

New comment by apayan in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

apayan — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:06:43 +0000

I agree that GOG needs to port their client to Linux for all the reasons you stated, but as a workaround you can use Lutris which lets you log into your GOG account and download+install games (Windows games too).

It's not as pain free as Steam, because you sometimes still have to apply wine fixes, but it works well with the most popular games.

New comment by apayan in "Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO"

apayan — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:57:15 +0000

Do you have another source for that? I checked his Mastodon feed and don't see any mention about the source of the questions from the IMO.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao

Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors

apayan — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:07:23 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2025/06/16/tesla-robotaxi-launch-dangerous-game-smoke-mirrors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300727

Points: 130

# Comments: 193

New comment by apayan in "Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020)"

apayan — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:09:34 +0000

grpcurl is what I use to inspect gRPC apis.

https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl

New comment by apayan in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

apayan — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 05:19:38 +0000

I think the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit was neutered on purpose by the Bush administration.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/sep/07/microsoft...

New comment by apayan in "Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax"

apayan — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 22:49:39 +0000

> generate directions like "turn left after the green building"

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the Los Angeles metro area, Google Maps already gives directions like this. "Turn left after the Carl's Jr.", "Turn right after the Starbucks". I notice it's usually done in areas where street signs are hard to see, but there is a clear landmark for the driver e.g. the golden arches of a McDonald's.

New comment by apayan in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

apayan — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:51:57 +0000

If you use Google Flights[1] to plan your flight, it lists the airplane that will be used for each leg of your trip so you can make sure to avoid flights on 737 MAXs.

[1] https://www.google.com/travel/flights

New comment by apayan in "CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic"

apayan — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:33:47 +0000

The book All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer is an excellent narration of the time leading up to the coup, and the coup itself. I think it's fair to say that a lot of our problems with terrorism at the present all stemmed from this coup in Iran in 1953.