Hacker News: maxclark

New comment by maxclark in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

maxclark — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:09:24 +0000

The average non fiction book is 200 pages, can be summarized in under 10, and is repackaging someone else’s ideas

Literary slop being replaced with AI

New comment by maxclark in "Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10"

maxclark — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:45:59 +0000

Sun Rays were so awesome. Smart cards for authentication and sessions. Options for fiber directly to them. Great tech that died with Sun.

New comment by maxclark in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

maxclark — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:21:41 +0000

"The timing of this is coincidental with the large outage on April 27, 2026."

This PS is as impactful as the body of the post.

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

maxclark — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:40:09 +0000

And almost by happenstance Apple. Turns out they have a great platform for inference and torched almost nothing comparatively on Siri. The Apple/Gemini deal is interesting, Google continues to demonstrate their willingness to degrade their experience on Apple to try and force people to switch.

New comment by maxclark in "Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code"

maxclark — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:55:53 +0000

Did they submit 500 patches?

New comment by maxclark in "How to Attend Meetings"

maxclark — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:12:06 +0000

Did anyone make a copy they can share?

New comment by maxclark in "Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets"

maxclark — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:13:25 +0000

No API and Bots is a feature for me

New comment by maxclark in "I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day"

maxclark — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:07:48 +0000

He also has a 25 Gbps Internet connection - not really a huge problem here

New comment by maxclark in "What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?"

maxclark — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:26:47 +0000

Shopify did this - it’s frightening when you see the numbers across your entire org

New comment by maxclark in "Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?"

maxclark — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:07:26 +0000

My immediate reaction reading the post was “don’t use PayPal”

Online marketplaces, multiparty sellers, credit card transactions, etc… are hard enough as it is

Don’t become dependent on a vendor who’s absolutely terrible to work with

New comment by maxclark in "Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)"

maxclark — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:28:39 +0000

I know some large AWS environments that run a variation of this

Autoscaling fleet - image starts, downloads container from registry and starts on instance

1:1 relationship between instance and container - and they’re running 4XLs

When you get past the initial horror it’s actually beautiful

New comment by maxclark in "Tailscale has raised $160M"

maxclark — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:33:13 +0000

$33m/year burn accelerating to $50m+/year

Profitability and exit math just got harder

I love the service and am rooting for them - I just don’t get this cash outlay

I can’t wait to learn what I’m missing here

New comment by maxclark in "What If We Made Advertising Illegal?"

maxclark — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:35:24 +0000

99% of consumer tech would die

New comment by maxclark in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

maxclark — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:14:23 +0000

First I don't believe this is an effective remedy to break up a Google monopoly, but I have no influence on the DOJ.

I'm curious though, if Google can no longer pay browsers for search engine traffic what is the business model that will sustain development and advancement in the space?

How does a non Google owned Chrome support itself and continue development?

What happens to all the applications that rely on Chrome extensions?

As much as I dislike Google behavior, I don't see this as being a good thing.

New comment by maxclark in "FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security"

maxclark — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:35:05 +0000

The FTC action is because GoDaddy claimed to have security when they didn’t - not because they didn’t have security in the first place.

Subtle but important difference.

Also the remedies include having a complete security program within 90 days IIRC, on what world would anyone think that’s remotely possible?

They wouldn’t even have an RFP drafted in 90 days.

New comment by maxclark in "Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?"

maxclark — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:12:31 +0000

You might want to move, but do all ~49,999 other people share the same view?

New comment by maxclark in "So you want to build your own data center"

maxclark — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:06:03 +0000

There's places where it makes sense to be on the cloud, and places where it doesn't. The two best examples I can give are for high bandwidth, or heavy disk intensive applications.

Take Netflix. While almost everything is in the cloud the actual delivery of video is via their own hardware. Even at their size I doubt this business would be economically feasible if they were paying someone else for this.

Something I've seen often (some numbers changed because...)

20 PB Egress at $0.02/GB = $400,000/month

20 PB is roughly 67 Gbps 95th Percentile

It's not hard to find 100 Gbps flat rate for $5,000/month

Yes this is overly simplistic, and yes there's a ton more that goes into it than this. But the delta is significant.

For some companies $4,680,000/year doesn't move the needle, for others this could mean survival.

New comment by maxclark in "So you want to build your own data center"

maxclark — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:05:38 +0000

If you didn't lower your bandwidth costs way more than 50% we should chat.

New comment by maxclark in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

maxclark — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:00:49 +0000

We’ll surely see a note is their next earnings release about the uptick in Gemini usage

New comment by maxclark in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

maxclark — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:24:30 +0000

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