Hacker News: lifeofguenter

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan"

lifeofguenter — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:37:18 +0000

was this maybe an issue with the cd-writer? maybe at the speeds it was writing with?

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago"

lifeofguenter — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:37:29 +0000

Who is comparing LLM with Humans?

As far as I can tell nobody is.

LLM is a great tool that helps our brains same way a hammer helps our hands.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4"

lifeofguenter — Tue, 28 May 2024 05:23:15 +0000

You are right, approx 2B households alone exist.

Using SRV and increasing IP address space “by 64k” is only valuable for large single consumers such as AWS.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash"

lifeofguenter — Wed, 22 May 2024 05:03:45 +0000

Impressive project.

But I always feel that if you reach a certain complexity in your bash scripts, you should rather pivot to any other $lang.

Bash scripts should be simple glue between programs (unix-principle).

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

lifeofguenter — Fri, 17 May 2024 04:52:13 +0000

Comparing Graffiti with Bank robbery is crazy.

Its Art.

I would like to understand why people take offense in it - especially if done on places that are so non-important.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative"

lifeofguenter — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:19:00 +0000

Have you ever tried running Git in the cloud? :)

Cloud-native and running things on “EC2” are very different things.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days"

lifeofguenter — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:25:43 +0000

Hetzner Storage just lost a couple of snapshots a while ago…

If you want “perfect architecture” and reliability/availability you just need to pay for it (aws/s3). Or make use of multiple providers.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

lifeofguenter — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:16:25 +0000

I used cloudflare-workers still this year and only switched a couple of months ago: https://securitytrails.com/domain/url.rw/history/a

The performance was still very bad from a 95 percentile perspective.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

lifeofguenter — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:13:34 +0000

On AWS with Global Accelerator as well.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

lifeofguenter — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:13:02 +0000

Yes, this is still true in 2021 (why I switched) and even true that you will not always receive the closest PoP even in bandwidth-cheap countries.

For example from Sweden I was usually routed via Denmark. I was Pro user, more PoPs are available to Business or Enterprise customers however.

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

lifeofguenter — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 13:32:05 +0000

Lambda@Edge unfortunately does not support provisioned concurrency, so you are bound to cold-starts as well (I tried, measured, and reverted before even going live with it).

The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator

lifeofguenter — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 07:20:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lifeofguenter.de/2021/11/fasters-dereferer-service-with-aws-global-accelerator.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29158742

Points: 129

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New comment by lifeofguenter in "Crypto miners are killing free CI"

lifeofguenter — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:33:54 +0000

Running something locally is not necessarily free either. Even if maybe the "host" is for free (which I can not imagine, unless someone throw something at you), it will still require your time to setup and ensure its running.

For private/small open source projects I would highly welcome such a pricing tier from travis-ci but 69USD is just not in my pocket (not saying its unjustified though!).

For larger open-source projects that rely on many builds throughout the day/month, this might be a bigger problem.

So while its "free" marketing, it might be much more crucial to our open-source structure than we think it is (which might be a problem as well).

And I think we can all agree: open source software is an important part not only for the industry but our lives :)

Running Spinnaker on AWS Fargate (ECS)

lifeofguenter — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:55:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lifeofguenter.de/2020/10/running-spinnaker-on-ecsfargate.html

Hacker News: lifeofguenter

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

New comment by lifeofguenter in "The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator"

The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Crypto miners are killing free CI"

Running Spinnaker on AWS Fargate (ECS)

Warn: mysqldump is broken (5.7 and json)

New comment by lifeofguenter in "Ask HN: Is Route53 down for anybody else?"