Hacker News: nixgeek

New comment by nixgeek in "Microsoft weighs legal action over $50B Amazon-OpenAI cloud deal"

nixgeek — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:56:00 +0000

New comment by nixgeek in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

nixgeek — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:36:26 +0000

Genoa was a big leap from Milan. Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment. Kudos to Lisa Su and the team.

AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 Region Down (Due to additional loss of mec1-az3)

nixgeek — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:52:18 +0000

In addition to mec1-az2 now AWS has also lost mec1-az3 rendering the region down, as many control planes rely on quorum.

Also impact in Bahrain, with mes1-az2 power and network impaired.

Status -> https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215022

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by nixgeek in "Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters"

nixgeek — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:27:14 +0000

Just as a heads up to the author, some of the commits against Luxury Yacht aren’t attributed to a GitHub account because Git wasn’t configured to use an email that’s associated —

https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/commit/62953f68b94e55259...

  From 62953f68b94e552596a149474c632c0ea0a05bf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
  From: John Jeffers 
  Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:07:51 -0700
  Subject: [PATCH] add linux troubleshooting info

New comment by nixgeek in "Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans"

nixgeek — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:24:21 +0000

A million subscribers on Twitch?

New comment by nixgeek in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

nixgeek — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:36:37 +0000

Discord. It’s not self-hosted but it currently works fine for my needs. I guess if they start charging $15/mo per user we’ll all migrate again.

New comment by nixgeek in "Unifi Travel Router"

nixgeek — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:59:43 +0000

You can connect a UTR to the hotel network, and also connect your devices via WiFi to it; works just like GL.iNet's Slate 7 in this regard.

New comment by nixgeek in "Cisco Finally Did It"

nixgeek — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:46:49 +0000

Everything journalism is trending towards paywalls.

New comment by nixgeek in "GitHub partial outage"

nixgeek — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:23:18 +0000

A team of us moved it off Rackspace in 2013, it’s been mostly in a set of GitHub operated colo since then. Used to be there was some workloads on AWS and a bit of DirectConnect. Now it’s some workloads on Azure.

To the best of my knowledge there’s been no Rackspace in the picture since about 2013, the details behind that are fuzzy as it’s been 10+ years since I worked on infrastructure at GitHub.

New comment by nixgeek in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

nixgeek — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:03:27 +0000

Is anyone aware of or working on an equivalent to zigbee2mqtt but for both Matter-over-WiFi and Matter-over-Thread devices?

It’s so darn convenient to have MQTT in the picture for home automation and my #1 challenge in imagining a future world past my 400+ ZigBee devices is what replaces zigbee2mqtt and has a similar “owner experience”.

New comment by nixgeek in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

nixgeek — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:00:26 +0000

These are all Matter-over-Thread and meet your requirements, yay!

Oracle appoints insiders Clay Magouyrk, Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs in surprise move

nixgeek — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-appoints-insiders-clay-magouyrk-121559145.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45333975

Points: 4

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New comment by nixgeek in "GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)"

nixgeek — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:55:39 +0000

This feels like countering insinuations on the Internet with insinuations on the Internet.

Cellebrite doesn't publicly publish the latest support matrix so we have no real idea what progress if any they've made against recent iPhones and iOS versions, nor any real detail on how something like Lockdown Mode influences outcomes for their software.

Nor does this show anything about Pixel 9 or Pixel 10 and the newest variants of Android OS (which for Pixel 10 makes sense given (2024), but for Pixel 9 does it?).

What we do know as both companies disclose this is that Apple implements particularly with Advanced Data Protection enabled significantly more E2EE than Google, and both companies invest significantly through i.e. Apple's SEAR into the security of their hardware, software and platforms.

That GrapheneOS exists is great but I don't think this post helps much.

New comment by nixgeek in "Google debuts device-bound session credentials against session hijacking"

nixgeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:53:22 +0000

You seem to spend most of your time on HN saying the cattle are meeting the butcher, or saying fsck responsible disclosure, or other hot takes.

New comment by nixgeek in "Google debuts device-bound session credentials against session hijacking"

nixgeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:48:43 +0000

I think Microsoft has also been working on this and protected resources using Conditional Access can enforce a requirement for DBT?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/msal/javascript/brow...

New comment by nixgeek in "Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?"

nixgeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:31:58 +0000

Isn’t AWS always quite expensive? Look at their margins and the amount of cash it throws off, versus the consumer/retail business which runs a ton more revenue but no profit.

If you’re applying the same pricing structure to Kiro as to all AWS products then, yeah, it’s not particularly hobbyist accessible?

New comment by nixgeek in "Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?"

nixgeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:29:36 +0000

Excluding training two of their biggest costs will be payroll and inferencing for all the free users.

It’s therefore interesting that they claimed it was close: this supports the theory inferencing from paid users is a (big) money maker if it’s close to covering all the free usage and their payroll costs?

New comment by nixgeek in "Open models by OpenAI"

nixgeek — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:28:48 +0000

A ton of EMR systems are cloud-hosted these days. There’s already patient data for probably a billion humans in the various hyperscalers.

Totally understand that approaches vary but beyond EMR there’s work to augment radiologists with computer vision to better diagnose, all sorts of cloudy things.

It’s here. It’s growing. Perhaps in your jurisdiction it’s prohibited? If so I wonder for how long.

New comment by nixgeek in "Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability"

nixgeek — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:24:10 +0000

Most new drives are sold into consumer/end user retail around $20/TB and only seem to dip a little during sales (with most sellers also quantity limiting any sales, also). Getting to $10/TB is possible but typically involves buying manufacturer recertified, and may involve going smaller (14-16TB drives) than you might prefer.

I managed to find 64x Seagate Exos 20TB for $13/TB new about 2 years ago, on NewEgg of all places, but I’ve never seen that deal repeat. :(

All the new 30TB+ HDDs using HAMR technology from Seagate and WD still feel like expensive unobtainium.

New comment by nixgeek in "Telo MT1"

nixgeek — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 03:58:00 +0000

Did anyone reserve? If yes what’s your preorder position number?