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New comment by tzahifadida in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

tzahifadida — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:19:02 +0000

What would have happened if the US dis not get involved in WWII. We would probably not be here... Not everything is short sighted bean counters. Having major cities explode by nuclear devices in the US will surely cost more.

New comment by tzahifadida in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

tzahifadida — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:21:01 +0000

In WW-II, the US bombed the hell out of German forces for months on end. That is what people do not understand. The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely. There will be no boots on the ground for soldiers (they wish). They will just get pulverised as time goes by. If the US and Israel will think they cannot get to their thick skull they'll simply bomb the oil refineries and let the Iranian regime deal with paychecks from their street goons and fanatics who will eat them alive.

New comment by tzahifadida in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

tzahifadida — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:17:24 +0000

What about claude? Don't think they wont be used militarily that is naive...

New comment by tzahifadida in "TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan"

tzahifadida — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:48:35 +0000

Disagree. Making the world less centralized to TSMC chips makes less incentive to invade at the near future. There is no strategic upside to do it right now. If nothing else, to me it seems china is a strategic mover, and will not sacrifice anything for no strategic value.

New comment by tzahifadida in "Prism"

tzahifadida — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:42:42 +0000

Since it offers collaboration for free, it can take a bite out of overleaf market.

New comment by tzahifadida in "Which programming languages are most token-efficient?"

tzahifadida — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:43:45 +0000

An agent can make summaries via Markdown files while processing. Then use that to break the problem to several issues and then tackle them one by one, even automatically, but more usually interactively. The problem is the technique now, not the llm. Yes, it costs a lot (lot) more. But, it can do it, and people work cost way more than tokens.

New comment by tzahifadida in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

tzahifadida — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:21:26 +0000

Great read. Thanks.

New comment by tzahifadida in "O'saasy License Agreement"

tzahifadida — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:28:03 +0000

I believe AGPL3 with CLA is the worst in 2025. Code can be recreated fast in 2025 especially with genAI getting better and better. The problem you'll have is the ownership of the code from day one. Today, people have concerns signing a CLA, so I am not sure redis is repeatable in that regard (though we have n8n). With Apache 2.0, if you are redis, you could have closed source the code in a few months and bury the competition. Why? because you need upgrades, you need CVE fixes, features, documentation, HA, etc... If you don't have a CLA you cannot close source AGPL3.0.

Of course I am taking the stance of the company not the users here :) The table have turned, I believe in 2025 the users should insist on using AGPL3 without signing CLA. But again, with enough cash, the code can be recreated with genAI, it is just a matter of resources.

New comment by tzahifadida in "O'saasy License Agreement"

tzahifadida — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:22:39 +0000

Look at the caveat. If you cannot control the nerrative, you are done. Code is nothing in 2025, when a few 100$ can recreate a code base. AWS could have just recreated the code if they wanted, they just didn't have to. And, with their money, they could have bought redis labs if it was too difficult. I think people are looking at it the wrong way. The license wasn't the thing holding them back, they have the cash.

New comment by tzahifadida in "O'saasy License Agreement"

tzahifadida — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:52:11 +0000

I think that open source licenses for complete software (such as SaaS components) for commercial entities have a one major purpose: A marketing tactic. If I am open, it is easy to discuss it everywhere without paying for it.

I think that if you are short on cash, open source is the way to go to get adoption faster. If you have endless money, then there is really no reason to open source it (except edge cases, like shared protocols, libraries, etc...)

Even though it may seem harsh to apache 2.0 the code, no one will steal it since you are maintaing it, essentially paying to keep it on your turf. Reasons for not stealing: 1) Security CVEs and patches. No serious company will use it without these. 2) Bugs, if I take it I will have to fix it. 3) Merging changes. If the source is branched, I will have to get people to move to my project. Otherwise, I will have to employ people just to merge the changes all day. 4) Authority. I would argue that if you do not control the narrative of the project it is essentially similar to abandonware of the project. What would a customer/client prefer more? to use the original product or some copy of it? If you are the Authority that inspire people, they will not go to the competition.

I remember in the past the open source were thought of as communists. I think that we are far from that, and big capitalist companies knows how to profit from open source (even Apache 2.0 and MIT).

New comment by tzahifadida in "'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay"

tzahifadida — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:09:46 +0000

I think that people looks at n8n success and say why not use source available?... However, I believe they are wrong to believe that this would work for any project...

New comment by tzahifadida in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

tzahifadida — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:35:20 +0000

I don't understand these legal mambo jumbo, but lets make it simpler. Israel and the US have a tight intelligence agreements. No one have to keep secrets since they share information readily. That is what it means to be friends. Israel is the best outpost for western influence in the Middle East, and the US have a strategic need to maintain that to oppose forces such as China, Russia and Iran axis. There is no need for bribes or anything like that to get intelligence from both sides... The last time they started lying to each other was disastrous and henceforth I believe the relationship is stable. Not to mention it includes European powers, even though they are happy to defame Israel, they share intelligence, participate in joint operations and buy a huge amount of arms and technology from Israel and sell arms to Israel. So don't let the media fool you...

New comment by tzahifadida in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

tzahifadida — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:41:51 +0000

Really easy, I made a script to build bitnami images from a command line menu and push it to your dockerhub. It also detects changes in versions and you can rebuild and push again.

https://github.com/tzahifadida/oys-bitnami-builder

New comment by tzahifadida in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

tzahifadida — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:25:44 +0000

This reminds me about the bitnami containers. They pulled the docker images so everyone migrated away because they fear they will also pull the artifacts building the project. They never said that. They seem to be continuing to updating the projects and providing access to the artifacts. It is very easy to build the dockers... it is just a dockerfile really... There is really no upside to stop updating the projects, it is free marketing...

New comment by tzahifadida in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

tzahifadida — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:34:49 +0000

Guess which airline I won't be flying with next time...

New comment by tzahifadida in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

tzahifadida — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:45:45 +0000

I think this is amazingly great. If they can compete with AWS SES on pricing then, why should I work and pay to 2 services if I already use cloudflare and just use AWS SES for transactional emails. BUT and this is a big one. Most OSS already integrates with SES, so I doubt it will be easy to replace, it may take years, unless.... they can replace them completely as is without adding new codes and apis...

New comment by tzahifadida in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

tzahifadida — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:38:51 +0000

I think the moral here is, if you'll ever have less than 1000 active customers per second, don't do micro services, don't use redis, just use a monolith with a simple stack and you'll still be happy, less maintenance, less knowhows, etc... cheaper all around.

Show HN: OYS Bitnami Builder – Build your own Bitnami containers

tzahifadida — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:28:17 +0000

Hi HN,

When Broadcom announced they're killing free Bitnami containers (Sept 29, 2025) and charging $50K+ for replacements, I got frustrated and built this.

It's a bash script that builds Bitnami containers from the original Apache 2.0 source. Interactive menu, multi-platform builds, works with any registry. I've been using it since the announcement dropped.

The source code didn't disappear - Broadcom just changed their business model. This lets you keep using what you need without the vendor dependency.

GitHub: https://github.com/tzahifadida/oys-bitnami-builder

Curious what others think about the approach. Are you dealing with the Bitnami transition too?

More details: https://shipacademy.dev/articles-html/oys-bitnami-builder-br...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290146

Points: 2

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New comment by tzahifadida in "Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account"

tzahifadida — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 07:29:24 +0000

For anyone interested I am in the last stages of building a course operating around Kube-Hetzner (https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne... 3k github stars). Basically a lot of scripts that shows how this works and how to perform backups, restores etc... and a lot of exercises for common use cases and failure troubleshooting. Intentionally NOT abstracting away anything so you can see how this works. Without understanding you are going to get stuck.

Join the waiting list here: https://shipacademy.dev

New comment by tzahifadida in "One Million Screenshots"

tzahifadida — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:05:08 +0000

Rarely I save something like this. Addicting. Saved it in my daily news. It is interesting to get new ideas by just clicking on the zoom button.