Hacker News: fastest963

New comment by fastest963 in "Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban"

fastest963 — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:32:01 +0000

Rezoning land is extremely difficult and likely requires changes to the Master plan for the city/county. If a citizen is unhappy with a zone nearby do not move there.

If an area is zoned for industrial and someone wants to build a datacenter there without variances I don't see why anyone should be able to say no. Same thing for building condos or single-family homes in areas zoned for those. There's almost always variances though which is why there is even an opportunity to say no.

New comment by fastest963 in "Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban"

fastest963 — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:25:56 +0000

> The project is expected to generate approximately $310 million in property taxes over 30 years, in addition to utility taxes.

https://www.joliet.gov/Home/Components/News/News/5666/41

New comment by fastest963 in "Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban"

fastest963 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:26:30 +0000

This is what zoning is for. If you live near land zoned for industrial or commercial then you can't fight it when someone wants to develop the land. If you don't want to live near something like that you shouldn't have bought/rented next to that zone.

New comment by fastest963 in "Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban"

fastest963 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:25:06 +0000

Depends. Is the alternative a loud, obnoxious factory? Or a warehouse with a constant stream of trucks? If you live near land zoned for industrial buildings then something is going to go there eventually.

New comment by fastest963 in "Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban"

fastest963 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:21:23 +0000

Datacenters bring millions in tax revenue (I oppose giving them tax breaks, that's a politician issue not an issue inherent to DCs) and are much less of a nuance than factories or warehouses. The increased cost of electricity is a concern but can be helped by an upfront investment, a bond for future grid maintenance, or separate utility infrastructure.

Are the datacenter concerns actually AI fears and they somehow think that stifling datacenter construction will save their jobs from AI? I understand the fear but if there's money to be made, datacenters will get built somewhere, and another municipality will reap the benefits.

New comment by fastest963 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

fastest963 — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:32:10 +0000

Coinbase confirmed on X that the exchange only ran in one AZ for latency reasons: https://x.com/i/status/2052855725857329254

New comment by fastest963 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

fastest963 — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:21:11 +0000

Coinbase claimed multiple AZs were down but the AWS statement was that only a single AZ was affected. Does anyone have more details?

New comment by fastest963 in "Unbounded connection churn issue in gRPC-go"

fastest963 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:23:23 +0000

For the last 3 months I've been trying to get support from Google/gRPC/GCS teams to fix an issue with gRPC which results in thousands of connections and constant connection churn. The underlying issue appears to be a constant backend priority rotation with the endpoints for the client to connect to. The gRPC team seems unwilling to address why the gRPC client is opening several hundred connections when I'm not even using the client.

I was told to open a GCP support ticket and after many messages back and forth the ticket was closed because the discussion would continue on GitHub only for the issue to be closed a few weeks later.

I'm not the only one experiencing this issue either as a related issue was just posted in the google-cloud-go repo: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/14538.

Unbounded connection churn issue in gRPC-go

fastest963 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:17:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/8888

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064396

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Span Announces XFRA, a Mini Household Data Center

fastest963 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:13:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.span.io/blog/span-announces-xfra-a-distributed-data-center-solution-to-close-the-speed-to-power-gap-for-ai-compute-demand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048433

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by fastest963 in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

fastest963 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:31:44 +0000

Yeah, but this still gives any employee RCE on the GHES server right?

Cursor Deleted Railway Production Volume and Backups

fastest963 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:17:50 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2048103471019434248

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917362

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

US Mobile now bundles Starlink home internet starting at $47/month

fastest963 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usmobile.com/home-internet/starlink

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733443

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Spanner Columnar Engine in Preview

fastest963 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-columnar-engine-in-preview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612666

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Uplevel your workload scaling performance with GKE active buffer

fastest963 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:42:05 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/new-gke-active-buffer-minimizes-scale-out-latency/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603264

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Boosting Android Performance: Introducing AutoFDO for the Kernel

fastest963 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:16:34 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/BoostingAndroid%20PerformanceIntroducingAutoFDO.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334607

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fastest963 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

fastest963 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:11:17 +0000

RateRudder: https://raterudder.com

I've been working on a solution to automate solar+battery use to arbitrage the market. I'm on a real-time utility plan but even if you're on TOU it can save you $1+ per day by strategically planning when to use the battery and when to conserve or charge the battery. So far it's limited to a few providers and only FranklinWH batteries but I'm eagerly looking for someone to help me get Powerwall support working and other ESS. It's open-source on GitHub as well.

New comment by fastest963 in "More Mac malware from Google search"

fastest963 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:47:34 +0000

On Mac binaries need to be signed and notarized and Apple could stop the spread of the malware once it's identified or even detect it before notarizing it.

New comment by fastest963 in "Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life"

fastest963 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:32:44 +0000

I wouldn't say it's without pay. It's in the job description when you're hired and the pay should compensate for that. SREs are typically paid very well.

New comment by fastest963 in "Go Proposal: Secret Mode"

fastest963 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:29:08 +0000

I'm not sure there's a realistic alternative. If you need to generate a key then it has to happen somehow on unsupported platforms. You can check Enabled() if you need to know and intend to do something different but I assume most of the time you run the same function either way you'd just prefer to opt into secret mode if it's available.