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Leave AWS: Every AWS service and how to leave it

bojangleslover — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:12:57 +0000

Article URL: https://leaveaws.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403864

Points: 1

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New comment by bojangleslover in "WTF Ubuntu?"

bojangleslover — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:30:12 +0000

Inflicting some pain to sell Ubuntu Pro maybe?

New comment by bojangleslover in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

bojangleslover — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:25:35 +0000

Just don't connect it to wifi

New comment by bojangleslover in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

bojangleslover — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:56:48 +0000

To pick a dentist, I simply ring them up and ask

1) Does the dentist still have student debt? 2) What's the ownership structure of the practice? 3) How many years has the dentist been practicing (correlated with 1)

New comment by bojangleslover in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

bojangleslover — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:16:49 +0000

There were two in the Greenwich CT library when I lived there in 2019, not sure if they’re still around.

New comment by bojangleslover in "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"

bojangleslover — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:04:15 +0000

> there is no fundamental technological barrier to building a true SSD-based, disaggregated storage service with the durability, capacity, and pricing profile needed to serve as a general-purpose replacement for S3

There are a lot of very competitive alternatives around today are largely unknown. For example B2 Overdrive by Backblaze boasting up to 1 Tbps, Wasabi offering byte-compatible S3 storage with no egress fees for reasonable use and Cloudflare R2 also with no egress, all priced comfortably under S3 before egress (which the the real kicker...how do you even put a cost on lock-in?).

Not shilling any of these. We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them, but are not paid to say good things about them.

(1) https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/b2-overdrive (2) https://wasabi.com/cloud-object-storage/wasabi-fire (3) https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/pushing-r2-to-its-limit...

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

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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

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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

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