Hacker News: cantalopes

New comment by cantalopes in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

cantalopes — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:10:45 +0000

I feel you. I've been coding for about 20 years and the last 2 years were an absolute downer, draining all the joy of programming by offloading the actuall puzzles to an ai third party thst i just navigate and correct. I am 20 times more productive but 20 times less happy

New comment by cantalopes in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

cantalopes — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:04:42 +0000

I love the random hyperlink underlines on that page

New comment by cantalopes in "Does anybody like React?"

cantalopes — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:50:41 +0000

New comment by cantalopes in "GitHub's take on age assurance for developers"

cantalopes — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:31:35 +0000

"Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online." Noone is doing this in order to "protect children"

New comment by cantalopes in "Claude for Small Business"

cantalopes — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:57:41 +0000

Yeah and if you have 20-50 people aboard you are already considered medium/big sized company. 500 is HUGE

New comment by cantalopes in "Claude for Small Business"

cantalopes — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:55:27 +0000

Reminds me of openai paying Kenyans $2/hr to flag violent and toxic stuff for them and a bunch of people ending up with ptsd

New comment by cantalopes in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

cantalopes — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:10:00 +0000

It looks quite nice on the paper, but honestly, i have browsed the website and see fal.ai in the case studies which is a very red flag for me.

We use fal heavily in our manual production pipeline and their cdn/storage speed is really bad. Like, my colleagues that generate videos in the platform sit on the platform sometimes wait for minutes before a generated 5-10 video downloads from the servers, the speeds are very slow. Sometimes it works but half of time i hear them b!tching about fal being slow, when i checked the network requests, the content that's getting fetched from the v3b.fal.media for example goes reeeeally bad

New comment by cantalopes in "Bright lights: UFO files shed light on sightings but leave interpretation"

cantalopes — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:55:54 +0000

I don't think we should be giving media presence to this red herring that is used to divert the attention from war, failing leadership news, and epsten files

New comment by cantalopes in "Is Google down for anyone else?"

cantalopes — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:53:58 +0000

Works here. Also, use Kagi!

New comment by cantalopes in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

cantalopes — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:01:37 +0000

sorry to hijack this but since we're talking the AWS egress exorbitant prices, could someone recommend a reliable production-tested s3 service that will not ruin me financially? i have been with hetzner and while their vps server are great, they are absolutely terrible at s3. random downtimes, incomplete uploads/downloads, capacity issues, terrible api key management, etc - but the failure rate is really high

New comment by cantalopes in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

cantalopes — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:54:30 +0000

This is crossing the line where the governments should step in and ban/fine google heavilly for this monopol behavior

New comment by cantalopes in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

cantalopes — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:42:19 +0000

Why cant users disable connectivity elsewhere other thsn canada? People are supposed to call their car dealer each time after car update before turning it off again? Seems to be a cheap pr stunt to portray canadian regulation in attempt to shed good light on rivian

New comment by cantalopes in "Flipdiscs"

cantalopes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:16:16 +0000

It makes me really anxious that the 3d model in the header is not in quaternions and i keep getting gimbal locked

New comment by cantalopes in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

cantalopes — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:25:53 +0000

Necer hace i tgought i can have a job in age of jobless ai by being a human verified data scraper

New comment by cantalopes in "Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election"

cantalopes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:00:21 +0000

Hell yes

New comment by cantalopes in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

cantalopes — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:02:27 +0000

wait, this was not an april 1st joke?

how is anyone supposed to believe cloudflare to build a reliable cms after its reputation with the outages and mass layoffs

New comment by cantalopes in "Flighty Airports"

cantalopes — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:44:07 +0000

I mean, still better than having to go to airports' official pages

New comment by cantalopes in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

cantalopes — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:05:00 +0000

Yes they absolutely can. Nowadays it's as simple as clicking "install" from inside windows to try a linux distro

New comment by cantalopes in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

cantalopes — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:08:23 +0000

Using them for production for years, never dissapointed.

What you should be aware of is their new exploration of s3 storage. I mean, the s3 works and everything but it's still too eaely - the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download. They are still tuning out the storage architecture. The api key management is kind of too primitive (although much more headache free than configuring aws), and the online file browser is lacking

But for vps servers - they are battletested veterans

New comment by cantalopes in "70% of Australian teens are getting around the social media ban"

cantalopes — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:56:03 +0000

What's with everyone going all orwellian in the comments? The ban negative impact on everyone, and are absolute privacy nightmare