Hacker News: thehouenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thehouenHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 08 May 2026 16:45:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by thehouen in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"]]>This is just a legacy of the hopefully-soon-to-be past. We all went way to hard on the aws bandwagon (myself included). I worked for a bit in the past for a company doing 100 mio. API requests daily off of 6 boring old servers.

There is no explicit need for AWS in this. But it was probably easier to build since it is what we are used to.

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:22:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061571thehouenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061571https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061571<![CDATA[New comment by thehouen in "Mother of All Grease Fires (1994)"]]>That was a fun read. Thank you

]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:17:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331701thehouenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331701https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331701<![CDATA[Silos will hurt your startup. Friendships will make you strong]]>Article URL: http://blog.houen.net/silos-will-hurt-your-startup/

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