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New comment by pcarmichael in "Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers"

pcarmichael — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:51:56 +0000

Ok that should be in - if you view the price trend pages now there are different currency grouping options (with EUR being one of them). Hope this helps!

New comment by pcarmichael in "Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers"

pcarmichael — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:58:35 +0000

I can add Spain price trends to PCPartPicker. Quick question though - do you want the price trends to cover just Spanish retailers, or should it trend the prices across all of the EU?

New comment by pcarmichael in "Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers"

pcarmichael — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:10:04 +0000

They are US-specific, yes. Thanks for asking that - I'll look into updating those graphs to show for the appropriate region/country depending on what country you've selected (on the top right of the page).

New comment by pcarmichael in "Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot"

pcarmichael — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:35:28 +0000

Lots of VPNs route through hosting providers. Some hosting providers are more prevalent with spammers than others. But in the end you can only really use it as a scoring measure. It's not nearly binary enough to straight filter using it.

New comment by pcarmichael in "Motherboard Specifications on MotherboardDB"

pcarmichael — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:00:46 +0000

The names changed out from under us. It’s hard because some people expect to see 3.0, while others expect to see 3.1gen1. Whichever one we pick we end up confusing the other side. In the end we went with the current industry naming because that’s what people will see on manufacturer spec pages and most retailers. Had our specs differed in naming between those (even if we were specifying the same thing), we’d end up getting a lot of confused people thinking our specs were wrong. We ended up doing the same rename for WiFi numbering - both those name changes went in about the same time, though I stubbornly held out as long as I felt we could...

New comment by pcarmichael in "Amazon sellers are moving to alternative ecommerce platforms during Covid-19"

pcarmichael — Fri, 08 May 2020 13:37:19 +0000

There somewhat is - many retailers offer data feeds. The formats and quality vary widely though. Google shopping has a feed format that many retailers implement.

New comment by pcarmichael in "A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb"

pcarmichael — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:54:26 +0000

Absolutely loved that book and the sequel. He has another book out now titled _Energy: A Human History_.

New comment by pcarmichael in "Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters"

pcarmichael — Tue, 14 May 2019 02:27:36 +0000

Mine was replaced under warranty last week (after waiting several months) - 2017 Model S, AP 2.0.

New comment by pcarmichael in "F-35's Towed Decoys"

pcarmichael — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:06:35 +0000

> Instead, they maintained altitude and speed, using their advantage in a dive to execute "slashing" attacks.

Fun trivia that I read a while back: After getting hold of a zero, they discovered that the carburetor design would cause the engine to sputter on high speed dives. https://www.history.com/news/the-akutan-zero-how-a-captured-...

New comment by pcarmichael in "Completely Silent Computer"

pcarmichael — Tue, 15 May 2018 23:47:14 +0000

Back around 2001 I took my desktop build (Celerin 300A oveeclocked to 450MHz), installed a giant passive heat sink on the CPU and PSU, put in an 8MB IDE flash drive, and network booted off a server in my laundry room. I thought I was finally noiseless. But the end result was worse. I had coil whine out of my power supply any time CPU usage ramped up. If I was in the same room, I could tell whenever my email pinged the server or if a cron job ran. It was both instructional (why is my cpu ramping and I’m not even logged in?) and really annoying.

New comment by pcarmichael in "'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer"

pcarmichael — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:56:46 +0000

Aye. We've got some things in the works to improve that.

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?"

pcarmichael — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:09:49 +0000

I did the same for new account registrations on my site. The humorous side effect was actually LinkedIn. That whole thing where you can auto invite everyone on your contact list... led to me getting several connection invites a day from users I had never personally met.

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?"

pcarmichael — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 20:56:26 +0000

Glad you like it! We make money through affiliate deals with the retailers we list.

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?"

pcarmichael — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:05:24 +0000

I posted an Ask HN to review my side project PCPartPicker about six years ago. Got great feedback and things grew from there. I went full-time, had to hire employees, etc. Not big like Dropbox, but we made it over the hump self-funded and without taking investment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

pcarmichael — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 03:37:49 +0000

Amazon smile actually still generates affiliate revenue. (Amazon doesn't take the charity cut out of the affiliate side.)

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

pcarmichael — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:36:25 +0000

Our revenue is primarily through affiliate deals with retailers that we partner with. (We don't run any ads.)

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

pcarmichael — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:35:22 +0000

We don't run any ads.

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

pcarmichael — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 20:16:59 +0000

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

New comment by pcarmichael in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

pcarmichael — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 20:07:39 +0000

A bit over five years ago I posted an 'Ask HN' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123) for my side project PCPartPicker (http://pcpartpicker.com). I received great advice and many feature requests that would later get implemented.

A few years after that post I left my job to work on PCPartPicker full-time. Then a year later I hired my first employee. Now we're a larger team working toward expansion.

The feedback I got from the original post was extremely helpful.

New comment by pcarmichael in "Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-Degree Video"

pcarmichael — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:15:29 +0000

They weld a metal shoe over each landing leg.