Hacker News: mavdi

New comment by mavdi in "Go European: Discover European products and services"

mavdi — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:50:41 +0000

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

New comment by mavdi in "WASM will replace containers"

mavdi — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:12:22 +0000

Anyone comes up with any shit these days, say apples will replace oranges.

“ChatGPT make me sound confident”

New comment by mavdi in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

mavdi — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:20:56 +0000

Not surprised. I've had a few interactions with Subaru connected services dev team as an external contractor from another car company, everyone was everyone else's cousin, friend, homeboy from India. Nepotism was rampant, no one wanted to listen to advice, a strong culture of corporate antibodies had formed. I'm surprised they even got it to work at this level.

New comment by mavdi in "Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue"

mavdi — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:15:43 +0000

Hi everyone,

We've gone through a lot of pain to get this blueprint working since our AWS costs were getting out of hand but we didn't want to part ways with CDK.

We've now got the same stack structure going with Pulumi and Digital ocean, having the same ease of development with at least 60% cost reduction.

Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue

mavdi — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:15:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/stoix-dev/stoix-cloud-saver

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42065561

Points: 174

# Comments: 166

Show HN: Flowee – Generate Beautiful Diagrams from CDK/CloudFormation Templates

mavdi — Tue, 14 May 2024 12:21:51 +0000

Hi HN,

We've built Flowee, which a CLI tool that generates architectural diagrams from AWS CDK/CF templates.

We use it internally to send out the latest diagrams of each build to Slack, it's really interesting to see the applications evolve this way.

We have more features planned for the future, would love to hear your comments/feedback.

Thanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40354410

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by mavdi in "IBAHRI condemned UK treatment of Julian Assange in US extradition trial"

mavdi — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:48:51 +0000

I don’t care much about Assange but that’s a fair statement.

New comment by mavdi in "Cloudflare was down"

mavdi — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:04:42 +0000

Who watches the watchmen?

New comment by mavdi in "What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory"

mavdi — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:00:28 +0000

Fascinating read.

I suspected life could be thought as a self replicating and self improving algorithm like physical process. Very encouraging to see the information theory and biology are being used in this context.

New comment by mavdi in "Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm"

mavdi — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:54:57 +0000

You’re being downvoted, but as a father I wholeheartedly agree with you.

My daughter is the most precious being in my life, but I can’t shake the feeling that I brought her to this world on purely selfish reasons and now she’ll be faced to suffer in this ever convoluted planet and I won’t be there to help her for most of her life.

I might be wrong, but please consider this before you bring a life to this world.

New comment by mavdi in "Async Python is not faster"

mavdi — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:17:53 +0000

I get enraged when articles like this get upvotes. The evidence given doesn't at all negate the reasoning behind using async, which as you said, is about not having to be blocked by IO, not freaking throughput test for an unrealistic scenario. Just goes to show the complete lack of understanding of the topic. I wouldn't dare write something up if I didn't 100% grasp it, but the bar is way lower for some others it seems.

New comment by mavdi in "Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?"

mavdi — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:38:53 +0000

AWS secrets manager or SSM or KMS for any kind of secrets, keys etc. Works well because our entire stack is on AWS. Otherwise hashicorps Vault would do I guess but that’s yet another service on life support.

New comment by mavdi in "Coffee consumption and mortality: Does the brewing method matter?"

mavdi — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:04:49 +0000

Phew, I'm on the right method then.

New comment by mavdi in "Show HN: I trained a recurrent neural network to draw dick doodles"

mavdi — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:03:33 +0000

This is hilarious. Thanks.

Study suggests smokers might be at a lower risk of getting coronavirus

mavdi — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 01:54:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/french-study-suggests-smokers-at-lower-risk-of-getting-coronavirus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22963833

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mavdi in "Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system"

mavdi — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:07:41 +0000

Thanks for the write up. We are moving away from Kafka to Kinesis, and will consider these points mentioned.

New comment by mavdi in "Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system"

mavdi — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:28:01 +0000

Not questioning your judgement but interested to know about the factors moving you away from Kinesis.

New comment by mavdi in "Nearly 500M animals killed in Australian bushfires"

mavdi — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 15:49:45 +0000

I’d say not voting in climate change deniers would be good first step.

New comment by mavdi in "Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric"

mavdi — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 20:26:50 +0000

I’m old enough to remember the last “first fully homemade Turkish car”. It was named Imza (Turkish for signature). I don’t remember the specifics but it was total flop with some financial fraud in the mix. Hoping for a better result this time.

It’s all in the database. Orwellian UK TV license ad. (2010)

mavdi — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:35:06 +0000

Article URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FjsmPrEcz6o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798800

Points: 3

# Comments: 0