Hacker News: scottndecker

New comment by scottndecker in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

scottndecker — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:17:42 +0000

If everyone turned off their lights 100% of the time they left their workstation, they could power those additional data centers for about one second.

The Entrepreneur's Epilogue and the Paradox of Success [pdf]

scottndecker — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:29:50 +0000

Article URL: https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/What%E2%80%99s%20Next%20The%20Entrepreneur%E2%80%99s%20Epilogue%20and%20the%20Paradox%20of%20Success.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267557

Points: 1

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New comment by scottndecker in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

scottndecker — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:45:14 +0000

Based on title, I was figured it was referring to USA moving to the metric system

Deer antler size best predicted by mother's health

scottndecker — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:56:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORv-p7npls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829773

Points: 1

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New comment by scottndecker in "Show HN: A Daily Bible Game"

scottndecker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:02:52 +0000

I can only do a verse every 15 hours? Why the rate limit?

Ask HN: What B2B SSO solution are you using and do you like it?

scottndecker — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:29:24 +0000

Seems like there are quite a few options out there. Looking for recs on something that can handle the various identity providers of a B2B context (e.g. Azure AD, Okta, etc), don't cost a fortune, and are straightforward to implement and support.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422231

Points: 1

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Tell HN: No, your Lambda credentials aren't being used outside of AWS

scottndecker — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:51:16 +0000

AWS just sent out a poorly worded sns announcement that looks like your Lambda credentials have been compromised.

{ "version": "1", "type":"NEW_FINDINGS", "findingDetails":[{ "findingType":"UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/ResourceCredentialExfiltration.OutsideAWS", "link":"", "findingDescription":"This finding informs you that a host outside of AWS has attempted to run AWS API operations using temporary AWS credentials that were created on a Lambda resource in your AWS environment." }] }

I opened up a case with AWS and am told this is only a product announcement. You can see this finding type was released just yesterday (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/doc-history.html).

If anyone hears differently, would love to know. For now, we're standing down with the understanding that there is no incident.

Super poor wording of email. That just took a few hours of my life I'll never get back.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305340

Points: 1

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The Most Intense Shoe Salesman You'll Ever Meet

scottndecker — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:49:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H4MMvaIpyk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281214

Points: 2

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New comment by scottndecker in "GPT-5.2"

scottndecker — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:17:13 +0000

Still 256K input tokens. So disappointing (predictable, but disappointing).

Ask HN: Azure Open AI Issues?

scottndecker — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:42:07 +0000

Anyone else seeing latency issues with Azure OpenAI this morning? Status page says it's up but we're seeing timeouts. Specifically, on a gpt-4o models. Happening across multiple apps, multiple subscriptions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937327

Points: 2

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New comment by scottndecker in "My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster"

scottndecker — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:26:56 +0000

"Although I was invested in this project, I definitely wasn't "flirty sex chat with some random scammer" levels of invested. The thought also dawned on me that part of their playbook could even involve "Aidana" calling for phone sex.

Either would be crossing lines that I didn't want to cross, meaning that I'd stumbled upon an unexpected 4th rule of engagement: don't talk dirty with scammers."

Rules of life to live by.

New comment by scottndecker in "Ask HN: Is it possible to start an AI product without venture capital?"

scottndecker — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:44:13 +0000

Without venture capital? Yes. Without $20? Probably not. $20 subscription doesn't need to cover costs of most active user. It needs to cover the cost of the average user (assuming you don't want to put any cash into it yourself...but if that's the case, maybe you don't believe in this idea enough?).

Ask HN: Who should decide when to ship?

scottndecker — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:42:10 +0000

Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO) says he reviews everything before it goes out the door (I'm sure that's still at a high level).

Product managers are the defacto but they can often always want one more feature before it's "just right" and, therefore, be slow to ship.

Technology leaders know the features intimately well and if they're ready for use but are typically abstracted from the customer.

Who is the person best situated and with the right mentality to say "ship it"?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196584

Points: 1

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New comment by scottndecker in "Ask HN: Azure Ran Out of Capacity?"

scottndecker — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:56:40 +0000

Nope, not a surprise. I've been doing cloud for a while.

What I've never experienced from a cloud provider is a denial at creating infrastructure and told to use a different region.

Ask HN: Azure Ran Out of Capacity?

scottndecker — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:24:29 +0000

We tried provisioning a database in US EAST. We were denied. We submitted a support request. We were told they could not provision the database due to high demand in that region (what??). We pivoted to US EAST 2 and am now getting blocked trying to deploy an App Service.

Azure, you have one job and that's to ALWAYS deploy the infrastructure I request.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a work around?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732185

Points: 11

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New comment by scottndecker in "Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?"

scottndecker — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:07:09 +0000

The Guns of John Moses Browning. One of those where you didn't realize how someone you likely don't know much about has impacted every human on the planet.

Facebook removes business listings for homes/vehicles

scottndecker — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:09:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/492940666175475

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101268

Points: 5

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New comment by scottndecker in "Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?"

scottndecker — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:01:52 +0000

If you're that close to publishing just publish already :) This thread is dead in the next couple hours.

New comment by scottndecker in "The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)"

scottndecker — Thu, 12 May 2022 13:06:30 +0000

Not the saddest; just the most recurring "just ship it" story ever.

Federal Judge Blocks Biden Mask Mandate Extension for Travelers

scottndecker — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:04:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-blocks-mask-mandate-for-public-transportation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074264

Points: 4

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