Hacker News: axelfontaine

New comment by axelfontaine in "The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

axelfontaine — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:16:12 +0000

Quite reminiscent of Searching for Sugar Man! (true story and excellent movie in case you haven't seen it yet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man

What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us by CGP Grey (2014) [video]

axelfontaine — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:24:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919928

Points: 1

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Seattle Underground

axelfontaine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:26:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562371

Points: 2

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Humanoid Robot Shatters Human Half-Marathon Record to Make History

axelfontaine — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:48:46 +0000

Article URL: https://hothardware.com/news/humanoid-robot-shatters-human-half-marathon-record

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838829

Points: 1

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Are You Just a .md File? – The SaaSpocalypse Survival Scanner

axelfontaine — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:35:55 +0000

Article URL: https://deathbyclawd.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600679

Points: 2

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New comment by axelfontaine in "Tony Hoare has died"

axelfontaine — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:53:12 +0000

I had the privilege to attend his "Billion Dollar Mistake" talk in person at QCon London 2009. Little did I know that this talk would go down in software development history! What an honor to have witnessed this live!

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...

New comment by axelfontaine in "GitHub cancels Actions price change for self-hosted runners"

axelfontaine — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:42:04 +0000

See update: https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-fo...

GitHub cancels Actions price change for self-hosted runners

axelfontaine — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:42:04 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310661

Points: 17

# Comments: 9

New comment by axelfontaine in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

axelfontaine — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:41:21 +0000

The $0.002 per-minute for self-hosted runners will definitely change the unit economics for a lot of 3rd party runner providers.

I'm sure we'll feel it too at https://sprinters.sh, but probably a bit less than others as our flat $0.01 per job fee for runners on your own AWS account will still work out to about 80% average savings in practice, compared to ~90% now when using spot instances.

Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities

axelfontaine — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:28:05 +0000

Article URL: https://copenhagenizeindex.eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088241

Points: 58

# Comments: 116

1997 Lego Spill

axelfontaine — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Lego_spill

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884752

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

Majestic Modular Monoliths [video]

axelfontaine — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:21:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvxJaklcr0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879705

Points: 1

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New comment by axelfontaine in "Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn"

axelfontaine — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:35:23 +0000

And yet somehow, bad planning like this can be seen every day in cycling paths. It's almost as if the planners think it would be acceptable there. To which I clearly say: no, it's not! In fact even less so than for cars are losing your momentum and regaining costs significantly more energy than a press on the accelerator!

Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge

axelfontaine — Tue, 20 May 2025 07:40:28 +0000

Article URL: https://yle.fi/a/74-20161606

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038835

Points: 461

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New comment by axelfontaine in "How to harden GitHub Actions"

axelfontaine — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:26:44 +0000

This is a great article, with many important points.

One nitpick:

> Self-hosted runners should never be used with public repositories.

Public repositories themselves aren't the issue, pull requests are. Any infrastructure or data mutable by a workflow involving pull requests should be burned to the ground after that workflow completes. You can achieve this with ephemeral runners with JIT tokens, where the complete VM is disposed of after the job completes.

As always the principle of least-privilege is your friend.

If you stick to that, ephemeral self-hosted runners on disposable infrastructure are a solid, high-performance, cost-effective choice.

We built exactly this at Sprinters [0] for your own AWS account, but there are many other good solutions out there too if you keep this in mind.

[0] https://sprinters.sh

Warren Buffett announces retirement from leading Berkshire Hathaway

axelfontaine — Sat, 03 May 2025 22:41:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/03/warren-buffett-retirement-berkshire-hathaway

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43882967

Points: 4

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New comment by axelfontaine in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

axelfontaine — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:25:50 +0000

Iframes, while not perfect, are pretty close though...

New comment by axelfontaine in "Canoeing on the Danube"

axelfontaine — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:10:05 +0000

The classic recommendation would be Passau - Vienna as the infrastructure is very well built out and Vienna is a great destination. This can easily be combined with a start in Munich and taking the bike back on the train to Munich for a round- trip that takes around 5-7 days (+-500 km).

That being said a few other sections come to mind:

- the very start from Donaueschingen to Regensburg is on beautifully wild cycling paths in the middle of nature with a number of interesting cities along the way

- Vienna - Budapest + train back is another fun loop including 3 capitals!

- For the more adventurous, the Serbian part is very scenic too. Belgrade is great. Leaving it on the busy road not so much. After that you quickly find yourself on a meandering road along the shore with spectacular cliffs and tunnels. No cycling path anymore. But well worth it.

- Romania is still challenging for cyclists, but the delta is very spectacular if you get a chance to visit it (by boat, no bike , as there are no roads).

New comment by axelfontaine in "Canoeing on the Danube"

axelfontaine — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:51:44 +0000

A very large part. Certainly up to the Romanian border, then it's all over the place. The Danube cycle path has been integrated in EuroVelo 6. You can see the detailed path here for yourself (just click through the different sections): https://en.eurovelo.com/ev6/from-ulm-to-passau

New comment by axelfontaine in "Canoeing on the Danube"

axelfontaine — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:01:13 +0000

While I haven't canoed it, I cycled the whole Danube from the sources of the Brigach and Breg in the Black Forest in Germany to the delta in Romania. AMA.