Hacker News: bojangleslover

New comment by bojangleslover in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

bojangleslover — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:07:26 +0000

I think people are overthinking this. I'm the first one to criticize AWS (I run a competitor, carolinacloud.io) but I don't think we should hold it against them when they lost data due to their hard drives being physically bombed.

Pushing R2 to its limits: stress testing Cloudflare's zero-egress object storage

bojangleslover — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:51:19 +0000

Article URL: https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/pushing-r2-to-its-limits-stress-testing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608533

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bojangleslover in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

bojangleslover — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:30:53 +0000

I'm not sure if this is CF. Cursor, GCP and AWS had some errors. GCP AFAIK can route fully independently of CF. My money would be on a fiber backbone provider (Megaport, Zayo, Lumen).

New comment by bojangleslover in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

bojangleslover — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:38:16 +0000

What are you using for this? We tried this a few years back, could simply not find a good diarization engine.

New comment by bojangleslover in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

bojangleslover — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:20:16 +0000

Looking forward to trying this out: https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta

New comment by bojangleslover in "We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon"

bojangleslover — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:08:52 +0000

This is unbelievably cool. How did you use AI for this? Absolutely not suggesting there's anything wrong with it - quite the contrary. I find AI is most useful for these lower level driver type projects such as yours that one knows are possible but that would be very onerous for a human to implement. For example the guy who re-wrote a driver from scratch for his HP Printer the other day.

Do you think you could have done this without AI? I've been migrating people off of AWS recently and it was absolutely made possible (or at least expedient) by AI.

Show HN: Carolina Cloud Nextflow

bojangleslover — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:03:57 +0000

Nextflow is an orchestration platform not entirely unlike Kubernetes, Slurm, Snakemake and others. It is quite popular in the bioinformatics community. Some details:

-Uses gVisor containers -Reuses input file with "host locality" -10% faster than AWS HealthOmics -First-class support for LLMs

If you're into bioinformatics, or just curious about how biologists are using compute, please check it out!

Link to launch post: https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/nf-ccloud-launch-what-i...

Link to benchmarking post: https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/nf-ccloud-launch-benchm...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284206

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bojangleslover in "Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits"

bojangleslover — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:59:54 +0000

The only way CC credits will expire is if I (the founder) die and my beneficiaries liquidate the business

New comment by bojangleslover in "Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits"

bojangleslover — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:58:45 +0000

That's not a like-for-like comparison. You need to compare CC to the c8a range of AWS, on-demand only. That's where the 1/3 comes from. For example:

c8a.medium (1vCPU/2GiB RAM/no SSD) on-demand on AWS: 5.39 cents per hour plus egress Carolina Cloud equivalent: 2 cents per hour with zero egress

If you don't have egress then the price is closer to 40% that of AWS. If you do have egress, the price could be far, far below 1/3.

Hetzner server auction is great for many use-cases, but it's not a fair comparison with EPYC Turins.

(1) https://cloudprice.net/aws/ec2?filter=c8a

New comment by bojangleslover in "Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits"

bojangleslover — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:29:23 +0000

This is aimed at CFOs, not hobbyists

New comment by bojangleslover in "Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits"

bojangleslover — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:18:02 +0000

It's the case because once you buy cloud credits you are in an entirely unregulated space. At Carolina Cloud, that means your cloud credits are nothing more than an audited and backed up DB entry. Therefore, we can do whatever we want with them. We could double them every 6mo if we wanted. We settled on something more reasonable (SOFR).

Not unlike the hyperscalers giving $100k+ to startups and it not counting as income for C-corp tax purposes. Totally unregulated space!

New comment by bojangleslover in "Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits"

bojangleslover — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:08:13 +0000

This is correct, if you put in $1000 you could basically run a small dedicated VM in perpetuity.

New comment by bojangleslover in "Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits"

bojangleslover — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:05:41 +0000

This is interest on credits, not on cash. Once you start paying interest on cash you need a banking license. I think you'd be fine even in Europe paying interest on credits.

Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits

bojangleslover — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:28:01 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.carolinacloud.io/organizations/prepaid-interest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107713

Points: 61

# Comments: 55

Process-based billing on Carolina Cloud: Pay only when a process is running

bojangleslover — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:34:17 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.carolinacloud.io/containers/genomics/#sentieon-billing-usage-based

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876853

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bojangleslover in "Grok 4.5"

bojangleslover — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:17:48 +0000

Ironically, removing political comments from HN would be a great use case for a tiny local model or even just an embedding model.

New comment by bojangleslover in "Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool"

bojangleslover — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:41:37 +0000

This is an unironically good idea

Carolina Cloud now pays interest on prepaid credit balances

bojangleslover — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:41:34 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.carolinacloud.io/organizations/prepaid-interest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670206

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tell HN: Just scammed for $5207.11 by "10-4 by WEX" (Mercury Personal)

bojangleslover — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:57:36 +0000

Just curious whether anyone's seen this scam? 10-4 by WEX is a diesel rewards program for truckers in the USA which is likely usually considered a low-risk merchant. This was with a Mercury personal debit. The physical card has been with me nonstop and it's also on my Apple wallet.

The charges happened on June 15. I have been in the UK since May 17.

And now for the reason I am actually asking HN: Any idea what this could have been? Maybe a card skimmer? I bought fuel at Tesco and Shell (likely low-risk).

Obviously cancelled the card etc, but I have never been scammed like this and since this is so out of the blue I'm quite honestly a little dubious of Mercury Bank at this point.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566316

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by bojangleslover in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

bojangleslover — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:20:48 +0000

"Death of personal computing"

Renewed M1 Mac in 2026: <$400

Entry level MacBook in 2006: $1099

This hardware price spike is just a blip.