Hacker News: miniman1337

New comment by miniman1337 in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

miniman1337 — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:13:57 +0000

from the blog linked via Wayback Machine. "From Day 1, we had this notion at the forefront.

The other notion that we have intuited is that you can’t build a cloud on another cloud. We have devoted years of practice running our own metal (and playing well with other clouds) to make sure that Railway’s business, which invariably becomes your customer’s business, is as rock solid as possible."

New comment by miniman1337 in "A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp"

miniman1337 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:42:46 +0000

FWIW DCV is free on EC2, and anywhere else it has a very minimal nag without a license.

New comment by miniman1337 in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

miniman1337 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:59:17 +0000

the irony

New comment by miniman1337 in "Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining"

miniman1337 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:32:09 +0000

Used Disks, No DR, not exactly a real shoot out.

New comment by miniman1337 in "S3 is showing its age"

miniman1337 — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:04:41 +0000

S3 Object Lambda solves a lot of these "problems" with this design

New comment by miniman1337 in "Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts"

miniman1337 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:54:11 +0000

stumbleupon 2.0

New comment by miniman1337 in "VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr"

miniman1337 — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:50:14 +0000

this is not correct in the slightest

New comment by miniman1337 in "AWS P5 instances with H100 generally available"

miniman1337 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:47:11 +0000

3200 Gbps Networking...

New comment by miniman1337 in "Virgin Orbit pauses all operations"

miniman1337 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:11:15 +0000

Except the engines they built are finally launching in about 2 months.

New comment by miniman1337 in "Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer"

miniman1337 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 23:03:43 +0000

CM4 supports it, although its just 1x and PCIe 2.0

New comment by miniman1337 in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

miniman1337 — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:54:22 +0000

not sure if its going to "fix" the housing market, but its a step in the right direction, away from nimbyism.

New comment by miniman1337 in "How Netflix keeps its data infrastructure cost-effective"

miniman1337 — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 13:31:41 +0000

jpeg-xs?

New comment by miniman1337 in "Homelab 10“ mini-rack shelves"

miniman1337 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 14:27:48 +0000

Lots of Video and Audio Devices come in 1/3rd and 1/2 rack sizing, this would be good for Blackmagic Ultrastudio type devices. (8.27" wide and need airflow side to side)

New comment by miniman1337 in "Ask HN: Good private email host with IMAP?"

miniman1337 — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:55:22 +0000

infomaniak is very cheap and based in Switzerland, has a modern UI and supports IMAP

New comment by miniman1337 in "Ask HN: What are good Raspberry Pi alternatives that are in stock?"

miniman1337 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 04:09:39 +0000

just watch RPilocator.com to see when they are back in stock

New comment by miniman1337 in "DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing"

miniman1337 — Mon, 16 May 2022 14:50:53 +0000

AWS RDS is significantly cheaper

New comment by miniman1337 in "Axzez Interceptor carrier board for RPi CM4 gets 8-port PoE+ board"

miniman1337 — Wed, 04 May 2022 22:19:04 +0000

you could take a look at some other SBCs like the upcoming rockpi5 with rockchip rk3588, apparently it's very fast and has lots of pcie to spare

New comment by miniman1337 in "Tesla Vision transition results in confusion over Autopilot safety features"

miniman1337 — Thu, 27 May 2021 19:07:44 +0000

Just ask the Tesla PR team... oh wait.

New comment by miniman1337 in "Florida governor signs bill to ban Big Tech 'deplatforming'"

miniman1337 — Tue, 25 May 2021 14:49:44 +0000

Sure for FedEx / UPS if you break the ToS. USPS might be a different story.

New comment by miniman1337 in "How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2"

miniman1337 — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 03:57:30 +0000

That is untrue... did you just make all of this up?