Hacker News: smivan

New comment by smivan in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

smivan — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:41:11 +0000

My pet theory is that the PRC is heavily subsidizing the hosted inferencing costs in order to capture valuable training data, token usage patterns and the occasional leak of valuable data.

Given their past history and current geopolitics, I'd be willing to bet this is more likely than not.

New comment by smivan in "GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions"

smivan — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:31:33 +0000

I ended up prototyping self hosted https://woodpecker-ci.org/ on my k8s cluster. Ended up taking just a few hours of AI time (Claude Code). Woodpecker has a helm chart, can connect to Github and post status checks to commits.

Open to feedback or tips and tricks on this, but so far it's looking promising. Curious how other folks experience has been.

New comment by smivan in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

smivan — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:55:11 +0000

This is one of the reasons I picked a small, dedicated email provider [1] over Google Workspace for my corporate emails. If Google flips out and ban hammers us for no reason, my company will still be able to reach clients and work on projects. Apple, Google and Facebook are way too trigger happy with automated bans and no recourse.

[1] https://mxroute.com/

New comment by smivan in "So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide"

smivan — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:23:46 +0000

This is amazing, thank you! Will digest and shoot you a DM with some questions.

I've been trying to figure out how to build up that liquidators network, and sounds like you've really nailed it!

New comment by smivan in "So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide"

smivan — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:08:39 +0000

Can you share some vendors and model names? I've been looking into upgrading my home lab from 10g to 100G, but the costs were absolutely astronomical.

I'm likely running a personal lab similar to many folks on HN - about 20-30 wired servers and a small rack of managed Unifi switches.

Appreciate you!

New comment by smivan in "Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests"

smivan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:35:57 +0000

I'm a night owl C-suite (CTO), but with all of my peers as you describe.

It's possible to make it work, you have to be very firm on your boundaries. One option that worked for me was to explain that I can effectively do more timezone coverage despite being in the same Geo-zone.

It also helped to showcase the work I do while they are offline, so when they wake up they see a column of work that has been bounced back across to their plate.

It is definitely hard though, and takes the right crowd who respects you enough to make it work.

It's probably impossible to do this as a CEO though.

New comment by smivan in "Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub"

smivan — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:28:50 +0000

They do: https://about.gitea.com/pricing/

New comment by smivan in "Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub"

smivan — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:28:04 +0000

I have the same nightmare, so to mitigate risk I run a self hosted instance of Gitea [1] and set up nightly mirroring.

The folder with the mirrors is then uploaded to a backup provider, in my case Borgbase [2]

1. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea 2. https://www.borgbase.com/

New comment by smivan in "FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines"

smivan — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:48:49 +0000

Try out various masks. I bought one of each mask available and tried them all, ended up with the N20.

CPAP.com is great for decent prices and direct to consumer sales.

If the internal pressure is annoying, airtight earplugs help with keeping the sinus pressure even.

New comment by smivan in "Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app"

smivan — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:16:15 +0000

The challenge that I face is Calibre absolutely craters after 20,000+ ebooks.

I understand that most folks probably have 10-300 books, but in my case I have some large libraries I tried to use with Calibre, and it just absolutely DIES.

The steadfast decision to exclusively use SQLite doesn't help. I opened a PR back in 2016 or so, but the maintainer was quite enthusiastically opposed to changing the DB layer or making it pluggable.

New comment by smivan in "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Configuration"

smivan — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:28:43 +0000

What sort of topologies are you attempting?

I was able to set up fiber link aggregation with triple NICs and a custom VLAN and MTU with no issues. It supports bridges and child interfaces just fine.

Can you share your details?

New comment by smivan in "Show HN: Streamdal – an open-source tail -f for your data"

smivan — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:43:24 +0000

Congratulations on the launch!

I have been a long time customer of the enterprise version of Streamdal, and I can confidently say Daniel and Ustin are absolutely KILLER engineers. Any time we spoke I always was impressed by their super deep experience and understanding of modern challenges!

So good to see you getting some love on HN. Excited to implement this in some personal projects as well!

New comment by smivan in "Scrutiny – A WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring (written in Go)"

smivan — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 06:22:37 +0000

Thank you! Will reach out on GitHub with any questions.

New comment by smivan in "Scrutiny – A WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring (written in Go)"

smivan — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 23:08:36 +0000

This looks amazing! Do you have a sample kubernetes deployment or helm chart we could use? I'd love to deploy the metrics collector on my k3s and have all my servers stream in data.

New comment by smivan in "Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?"

smivan — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:32:19 +0000

https://github.com/issmirnov/dotfiles/tree/master/cheat/pers...

New comment by smivan in "Ask HN: How to start learning about investments?"

smivan — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:18:52 +0000

I wrote a post about this that you should find useful:

https://ivans.io/investing-starter-kit/

New comment by smivan in "How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE"

smivan — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:34:39 +0000

How is this different from https://github.com/cdr/code-server ?

New comment by smivan in "Ask HN: What's your keyboard and what you love and hate about it?"

smivan — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:01:25 +0000

I’m a huge fan of my Ergodox EZ. Picked up one for home and one for work from https://ergodox-ez.com/

It runs QMK (https://docs.qmk.fm/#/) and is very customizable.

New comment by smivan in "Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard"

smivan — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:48:18 +0000

So this is like half of: https://www.gboards.ca/product/ginni

Reminds me of https://www.artsey.io/

New comment by smivan in "Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?"

smivan — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 23:03:05 +0000

It's unfortunately non-trivial to set up and requires a fairly large swap partition

https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/how-to-set-up-hibernate-on-ubu...