Hacker News: samx18

New comment by samx18 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

samx18 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:54:01 +0000

They had a cash-cow called AWS to keep the retail business afloat

New comment by samx18 in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

samx18 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:50:17 +0000

Kind of surprising that HN still is quite limited to the US-West, expected a little more diversity with the readers and discussions out there

Strands Agents SDK – AWS Open Source Agents Developer Kit

samx18 — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://strandsagents.com/0.1.x/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44009670

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by samx18 in "Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG"

samx18 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:28:42 +0000

I agree, most production RAG systems have been doing this since last year

VSCode LLM Playground for AWS Bedrock

samx18 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:40:47 +0000

Article URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices-AISolutionsArchitecture.bedrock-vscode-playground

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39284197

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by samx18 in "The Amazon Premium"

samx18 — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:19:58 +0000

I don't agree with the pricing comparison, it is factually incorrect. For instance the digital ocean equivalent in AWS would not be an EC2 but a similarly sized light sail instance which is $40/monthly flat. There are also other factors like region, on demand vs reservations that are ignored.

New comment by samx18 in "India Loses Dogfight, and Questions Arise About Its ‘Vintage’ Military"

samx18 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:36:40 +0000

To be clear - they shot down one F-16 with their aging MIG 21. Pakistan has a habit of denying everything. They denied Bin Laden's presence, but guess what...

NSA Guide to Selinux Policy Configuration [pdf]

samx18 — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 21:09:16 +0000

Article URL: http://m.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/digital-media-center/publications/research-papers/assets/files/configuring-selinux-policy-report.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13786584

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Netflix personal trainer

samx18 — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:38:19 +0000

Article URL: http://makeit.netflix.com/projects/personal-trainer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13770258

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by samx18 in "Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS"

samx18 — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:02:25 +0000

Agreed! Cant run it on our environment as well :(

New comment by samx18 in "Nicotine Normalizes Brain Activity Deficits That Are Key to Schizophrenia"

samx18 — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:27:40 +0000

While I certainly don't encourage anyone to just start vaping for the sake of it, there is noting good about putting anything into your lungs other than air. But if you have tried everything else to quit smoking and nothing has worked. Vaping can help. I've seen quite a few who have just given up on the idea of quitting smoking simply because there was no alternative to the nicotine addiction. It can be a life saver in those cases.