Hacker News: easton

New comment by easton in "Degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks"

easton — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:27:40 +0000

They have this with the ghe.com hosting option, it cuts you off from the GitHub.com instance so you can’t share projects there though, if that matters (also $$$).

New comment by easton in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"

easton — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:00:49 +0000

I think he said the agents couldn’t make features in their existing codebases as well as in new ones, so he needed devs to still work on Basecamp. Maybe that has changed.

New comment by easton in "Theranos.world"

easton — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:52:58 +0000

It’s still there if you close that out: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

New comment by easton in "DevDay 2026 Recap"

easton — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:22:00 +0000

Aren’t these crowds mostly people that work at the company? So you’re really cheering for the thing you built?

(I remember that being the explanation of why people would cheer at very lame things at Apple events.)

New comment by easton in "In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches"

easton — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:52:24 +0000

They require disclosure of what tool was used if submitting AI-helped code.

(Which probably means this is slightly underreported from people not disclosing.)

New comment by easton in "Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band"

easton — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:26:54 +0000

Meta doesn’t sell these separately from the glasses :(

Are they patented to heck and back or can another manufacturer make a EMG bracelet for controlling a PC?

New comment by easton in "Creepy Crawlies"

easton — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:24:27 +0000

Side note: why are shallow clones evil? I always thought they were cheaper, but I guess that’s really just for my disk space. (since the server has to compute what blobs to give you instead of just “everything”?)

New comment by easton in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

easton — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:50:46 +0000

Requiring that you believe those companies that they won’t hand the keys over to the US at the first ask.

Like, the critical problem with the AWS sovereign pitch is that you must believe that they won’t give the keys to the US, and they also won’t give the source code that’s hosted in the US to the government either for them to find vulnerabilities in. I don’t know if that’s good enough unless you just need the data to stay in the EU and you don’t care if another country sees it.

I know they probably did some work on it (what if primary AWS goes rogue and the EU entity must work without it) but I don’t know if they explained how they’re safe to the public.

New comment by easton in "The AI Billboards Are Killing SF"

easton — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:10:14 +0000

The most fun one is the Metro stations near the Pentagon, where often the ads will be for fighter jet engine upgrades.

They must work, because they're buying the ad space for about three relevant people.

New comment by easton in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

easton — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:34:51 +0000

The company line has been that they expect you to have your own backups in a region outside of the Middle East or you’re hosed until they can turn the (now destroyed) buildings back on.

I wonder if AWS even has the capacity to keep an entire region’s data elsewhere if they wanted to (I mean they could with their margins, but I doubt they do.)

New comment by easton in "The Voice of Google"

easton — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:00:11 +0000

> One recounted a tragicomic anecdote from a T.G.I.F. meeting on International Women’s Day, when a Googler had asked Larry and Sergey to name some of their personal female heroes.

..and they couldn’t just say “Grace Hopper”? These people have used computers before, right?

Logging in to Use Old Reddit

easton — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738835

Points: 10

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New comment by easton in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

easton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:45:26 +0000

Counterpoint: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-fi...

And also, you’ll notice that Fargate takes minutes to launch while Lambda takes a second or less. You’re waiting on AWS to launch a EC2 with your config and pull your containers into it.

(that article matches things I heard from Amazon when I asked why my stuff is slow)

New comment by easton in "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"

easton — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:01:35 +0000

Guessing it’s reading the system color scheme, because on my phone it’s white text on black.

(on iOS with dark mode enabled system wide)

New comment by easton in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

easton — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:00:07 +0000

Feels like AWS could just tell them they’re not launching Fable then. Anthropic needs them more than the opposite, no?

Nobody who is a big Bedrock customer will ditch for another cloud provider for the privilege of having anthropic hold on to their inputs.

New comment by easton in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

easton — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:18:25 +0000

A company with different taste would redo that apple ad from the Power Mac era: “this model has been classified a munition”.

https://youtu.be/l2ThMmgQdpE

New comment by easton in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

easton — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:59:50 +0000

I think that’s by AWS though. For Fable you need to flip an account wide flag that says “I want to share my prompts with the model vendor.”

New comment by easton in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

easton — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:42:00 +0000

If you have an Apple TV it can use an iPhone as a camera for FaceTime (you put it under your TV temporarily). Works great, presuming you already have some other reason to have the hardware.

New comment by easton in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

easton — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:54:00 +0000

The AWS pricing page says 10% more than OpenAI, which is probably because they’re forcing all inference through the US and data residency is at a 10% premium from the model vendors for whatever reason (because you’ll pay for it).

If they put in a global endpoint like with Claude (or OpenAI directly) then it’ll probably match the direct pricing, if the pattern holds.

(https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/, scroll to OpenAI)

New comment by easton in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

easton — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:45:40 +0000

I always thought it was a joke on the python xkcd: https://xkcd.com/353/

(Which, interestingly, also appears if you type “import antigravity” at the python repl).