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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).

New comment by easton in "AI is a technology not a product"

easton — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:24:04 +0000

Are people in the habit of asking their admin to order a pizza or a Uber? There’s more complex things (the floor I think is booking a flight that doesn’t conflict with activities I have to do), but by time you summon your assistant you could’ve had the car on its way.

New comment by easton in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

easton — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:04:03 +0000

They actually kind of fixed this recently, you can ask them to move your route53 control plane to another region in the event of us-east-1 breaking: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/ac...

There’s a bunch of caveats but it’s worth enabling if you’re changing dns all the time (as most AWS networking doodads like to do).

New comment by easton in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

easton — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:56:57 +0000

It’s a joke because all of the AI systems du jour are non deterministic and people are putting them in important places anyway.

New comment by easton in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

easton — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:54:24 +0000

I think they built the NPU with whatever models they needed to run on the iPhone in mind vs trying to build a general purpose chip, and then got lucky it was also useful for LLMs.

(Like “I want to do object detection for cutting people into stickers on device without blowing a hole in the battery, make me a chip for that”.)

New comment by easton in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

easton — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:52:39 +0000

It forces you to pay at least $20 in tokens per user even for people who use less (they probably have stats on how many people use just autocomplete, which doesn’t count against the quota. or have a seat and don’t use the service at all).

New comment by easton in "The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership – OpenAI"

easton — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:09:24 +0000

Isn’t that an “API product”? I read this assuming the whole point of renegotiation was to let OpenAI sell raw inference via bedrock, but that still seems to be blocked except for selling to the US Government.

New comment by easton in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

easton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:04:53 +0000

AWS actually has a thingy on some services called “deletion protection” to prevent automation from accidentally wiping resources the user didn’t want it to (you set the bit, and then you need to make a separate api request to flip the bit back before continuing).

I think it’s designed for things like Terraform or CloudFormation where you might not realize the state machine decided your database needed to be replaced until it’s too late.

New comment by easton in "Issue links now open in a popup"

easton — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:08:00 +0000

They should also order the comments in order of recency top to bottom so you have to read the page in reverse.

New comment by easton in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

easton — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:01:24 +0000

The developer seats are read-only, so they rely on designer seats existing to actually create files to inspect for development (and I’d guess PMs are using figma because designers are using figma).

If designers still want Figma then the other people are along for the ride (unless the idea is the designers are being replaced with a PM+Claude.)