Hacker News: crumby

New comment by crumby in "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"

crumby — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:51:11 +0000

Often there are irritating legal geographic limitations on where cloud hardware can exist for a given country. I can understand why, but there is this particular drawback of having all eggs baskets close together.

New comment by crumby in "Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

crumby — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:23:03 +0000

Yup

New comment by crumby in "How to ask for help from people who don't know you"

crumby — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:19:24 +0000

Don't say, I've been working on your neighbors house and figured you might want to hire my crew to work on yours. We all know it's a lie.

New comment by crumby in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

crumby — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:31:51 +0000

Super Groups usually don't turn out as good as they sound like they should. One or two good songs over the course of multiple albums at best.

New comment by crumby in "Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic"

crumby — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:56:20 +0000

I know AI companies are selling ad training into the models so the models know about your product. I'm not sure if that is what they were referring to, but it could be related.

New comment by crumby in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

crumby — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:36:17 +0000

I did not know that.