Hacker News: khurs

New comment by khurs in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

khurs — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:05:25 +0000

No mention of any details of the severance packages.

What's normal in USA for this size of company?

New comment by khurs in "Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:17:07 +0000

Don't know what it's like where you are, but most people nowadays are not so interested in reading a 'newspaper'. It's all online/tv/radio/podcast

Even the local freely distributed papers are hardly read (unless placed near to a train station or similar so someone about to have 30 mins on a train may pick it up).

New comment by khurs in "Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:51:38 +0000

>But who does general news benefit? How do we get them to pay?

NYTimes Revenue - $2.9B Daily Mail Group - £1.1Bn

Getting them/advertisers to pay isn't a problem!

New comment by khurs in "Ask HN: What home printer do you use/recommend?"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:19:46 +0000

I have a Canon laser printer. The shop wanted to sell me another brand as was cheaper to run, but I explained I wanted that one as it had a fast 'time to first print'. As like you I only print occasionally so want to turn on the printer and get it out asap.

A lot of printing in the e-commerce days are postage labels. So if you print a lot of them, also get a cheap label printer.

New comment by khurs in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:28:04 +0000

This is a goldmine for cheap deals

https://lowendtalk.com

New comment by khurs in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:27:39 +0000

OVH is one

New comment by khurs in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:25:58 +0000

>When hardwares price go up at least 4x for storage and ram, I don't see how you can avoid price increases

You said you are on older infra? So why did they increase your costs 1.25x?

That old hardware has long depreciated and paid itself back many times over and you run a higher risk of an outage due to components wearing out over time.

You should be asking for a discount!

New comment by khurs in "European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:12:52 +0000

I said 'one of the' not the leading one.

"unaccountable EU' and 'taking back control' were key slogans.

And UK were behind the freedom of movement in question, namely the widening to eastern European countries.

New comment by khurs in "Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:09:14 +0000

Musk didn't become the richest man in the world by accident, he is a formidable talent with deep connections.

But no indication that XAI will lead the field any time soon.

New comment by khurs in "Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:06:51 +0000

Most of that is from Anthropic which is IPO'ing?

Prior to IPO they want to show the best growth numbers possible, so how long they continue with the deal post IPO remains to be seen.

New comment by khurs in "European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:56:07 +0000

This is one of the main reasons UK left EU.

National politicians use the EU to bypass national democracy and then blame the EU publicly to deflect of their true involvement.

Uk was a leading EU country via being one of the largest financial contributors, and UK was behind many of the decisions they later blamed on 'EU Bureaucrats'.

New comment by khurs in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:48:01 +0000

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

New comment by khurs in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:42:40 +0000

The revenue keeps rising though...

New comment by khurs in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:41:01 +0000

London (where Meta offices are) isn't cheap, many UK companies offer private healthcare as public isn't fast enough, lots of homeless, entire 'tent cities'.

New comment by khurs in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:15:12 +0000

Cloudflare's business model appears to be wait till someone is generating lots of bandwidth and then give them 30 days to move up a tier or be closed down.

I've read reports of companies on the business plan being strong armed into signing Enterprise plans with 1 year upfront.

It's a listed company with revenue expectations, and VERY good at marketing itself, but it's free tier of CDN/DDOS to start off with is a good deal.

New comment by khurs in "Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:12:21 +0000

Musk's 'capital power' is spread thinly, as both xAI and SpaceX need ongoing enormous funding and have debts.

Google raised the same amount as SpaceX IPO at the same time, it just didn't get as much attention outside of financial and tech press

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/03/alphabets-record-breaking-...

The other big players (MS/Goog/Meta) have solid businesses already and both OpenAi and Anthropic are IPO'ing soon.

Musk over bought compute and is renting it out, many of the co-founders of XAI have quit, so doubt they will dominate any time soon.

New comment by khurs in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:03:59 +0000

Just looked at their website, they don't do many loss leaders as others, for example others offer free static site hosting.

But they are a private company with only one small $6m funding round back in 2022, so I think they are more focused on building organically and not chasing investor funded growth.

Good luck to Bunny!

New comment by khurs in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:02:01 +0000

Yes. Many others are free with no $1 minimum (e.g. Cloudflare)

New comment by khurs in "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:59:15 +0000

how do you pay nothing? As CDN isn't free?

New comment by khurs in "Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm"

khurs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:33:07 +0000

Making chips smaller is very hard at the nanometer sizes, and it requires the kind of expert equipment made by one single Dutch company (ASML) and expertise only the likes of Taiwan's TSMC have.

Stacking means keeping the same size, but adding more of it so it matches the same compute power as the more advanced smaller chip designs.

China (who is banned from buying from ASML) is currently pursuing stacking as a short to medium term strategy until they can catch up to TSMC.

https://policy.economy.ac/news/2025/11/202511284344