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New comment by bojangleslover in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

bojangleslover — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:30:51 +0000

I made this with OpenScreen: https://x.com/derekdfulton/status/2015804409205125151

Thought it came out pretty good

New comment by bojangleslover in "[dead]"

bojangleslover — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:59:01 +0000

"Per standard deviation, parental wealth predicts a child's adult income at least as strongly as the child's own cognitive ability"

>Parental cognitive ability predicts both parental wealth and child's wealth.

New comment by bojangleslover in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

bojangleslover — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:37:39 +0000

The US has a high variance population. Aggregating the US into a single mean or median for that matter is a fool's errand.

New comment by bojangleslover in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

bojangleslover — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:35:37 +0000

It's neither capitalist nor socialist. If it were fully socialist you would have long wait lists but it would be free and there would be one payer. It is like this for Medicare and Medicaid which I've heard are a fantastic UX. But this is only the case for about half of Americans (the ones who don't pay for it).

On the other side, if it were fully capitalist you would be able to see the price and walk away if you didn't like it. This is what makes capitalism work. Your margin is my opportunity. Instead, the upper middle class, who pays for everything already, and is unable to use Medicaid, is forced to use a certain "network" of providers and never, ever sees the price upfront. This is the cornerstone of capitalism. Does the buyer like the price? If so, transact. It's completely not there. Instead, it's actively discouraged and banned, and the price is maximized post-hoc by the same entities who negotiate directly with the employee's employer. Ie, a quantitative shakedown.

New comment by bojangleslover in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

bojangleslover — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:28:15 +0000

He's an idiot. He pulled off one of the most incredible stunts I've ever seen. Not only does was he able to find and extract the gold over a mile down, which is incredible, he was also able to rally over 100 investors and raise capital. Ironically this is basically how capital markets originated, from shipping ventures not unlike this one.

He should have given the investors their money, taken his performance fee, and not spend up to half of his remaining lifespan (and probably around 3/4 of his remaining health span).

On the other hand, if he has grandkids and he manages to give them say 100mm instead of 20mm, he may feel it was worth it genetically.

New comment by bojangleslover in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

bojangleslover — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:24:56 +0000

What I do now is I make an MVP with the AI, get it working. And then tear it all down and start over again, but go a little slower. Maybe tear down again and then go even more slowly. Until I get to the point where I'm looking at everything the AI does and every line of code goes through me.

New comment by bojangleslover in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

bojangleslover — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:17:24 +0000

Didn’t this happen a long time ago?

Stable Performance: Equine Genome Alignment on EPYC Processors

bojangleslover — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:55:42 +0000

Article URL: https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/stable-performance-series-part-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309952

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bojangleslover in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

bojangleslover — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:57:02 +0000

Currently moving Carolina Cloud to Kubernetes. I had built a custom orchestrator but really want the freedom of pod movement as well as KubeVirt's live migration capabilities. My ultimate plan is to open a second location in South Carolina at a cheaper colocation and then drain the nodes one by one, moving them to there, and leave my prior colocation. Kubernetes will make this possible.

30k Peptides and a GPU That Wasn't Trying Hard Enough

bojangleslover — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:15:47 +0000

Article URL: https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/30000-peptides-and-a-gpu-that-wasnt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171449

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bojangleslover in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

bojangleslover — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:03:17 +0000

Completely different situations. None of the MinIO team worked for free. MinIO is a COSS company (commercial open source software). They give a basic version of it away for free hoping that some people, usually at companies, will want to pay for the premium features. MinIO going closed source is a business decision and there is nothing wrong with that.

I highly recommend SeaweedFS. I used it in production for a long time before partnering with Wasabi. We still have SeaweedFS for a scorching hot, 1GiB/s colocated object storage, but Wasabi is our bread and butter object storage now.

New comment by bojangleslover in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

bojangleslover — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:23:56 +0000

The complexity is what gets you. One of AWS's favorite situations is

1) Senior engineer starts on AWS

2) Senior engineer leaves because our industry does not value longevity or loyalty at all whatsoever (not saying it should, just observing that it doesn't)

3) New engineer comes in and panics

4) Ends up using a "managed service" to relieve the panic

5) New engineer leaves

6) Second new engineer comes in and not only panics but outright needs help

7) Paired with some "certified AWS partner" who claims to help "reduce cost" but who actually gets a kickback from the extra spend they induce (usually 10% if I'm not mistaken)

Calling it it ransomware is obviously hyperbolic but there are definitely some parallels one could draw

On top of it all, AWS pricing is about to massively go up due to the RAM price increase. There's no way it can't since AWS is over half of Amazon's profit while only around 15% of its revenue.

New comment by bojangleslover in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

bojangleslover — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:20:33 +0000

Great comment. I agree it's a spectrum and those of us who are comfortable on (4) like yourself and probably us at Carolina Cloud [0] as well, (4) seems like a no brainer. But there's a long tail of semi-technical users who are more comfortable in 2-3 or even 1, which is what ultimately traps them into the ransomware-adjacent situation that is a lot of the modern public cloud. I would push back on "usage-based". Yes it is technically usage-based but the base fee also goes way up and there are also sometimes retainers on these services (ie minimum spend). So of course "usage-based" is not wrong but what it usually means is "more expensive and potentially far more expensive".

[0] https://carolinacloud.io, derek@

New comment by bojangleslover in "I left Nvidia to bootstrap a cloud provider focused on CPUs, not GPUs"

bojangleslover — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:10:03 +0000

https://archive.is/2zhes

I left Nvidia to bootstrap a cloud provider focused on CPUs, not GPUs

bojangleslover — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:09:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-engineer-derek-fulton-launch-carolina-cloud-2026-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722945

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

A Deep Dive on Egress Fees

bojangleslover — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:39:59 +0000

Article URL: https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/the-launch-of-carolina-cloud-storage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535445

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

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

bojangleslover — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:57:22 +0000

Really it's for both. One of our cofounders came from a genomics background and so that's why we have the Marimo notebooks + R Studio Server + genomics container. But we've also had a lot of requests for general VMs so we made some of those as well.

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

bojangleslover — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:27:32 +0000

I guess you're right. Is it even possible to truly own everything yourself? Even if you open your own data center, at some point you have to agree to peer with big fiber providers like Segra, Lumen, AWS Edge Network, right?

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

bojangleslover — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:17:29 +0000

Did you try to log in with Github or gmail?

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

bojangleslover — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:16:34 +0000

We have no egress fees but you're right about Hetzner. They're cheap. We aim to offer more value-added software to make up for it. Also that machine is in Europe, Americans don't like the latency (at least I don't), they have been known to shut people down (within reason).

Also I'm seeing that the most they can go RAM-wise for a dedicated US location is 192G. We go to 512 and will soon go beyond. I'm sure they'll get there soon but that's a consideration as well.