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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025) on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:55AM (#45166787)
Location: Porto, Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript (NestJS, Express) | Rust | PHP | Redis | ClickHouse | Terraform | GitHub Actions | AWS | Linux (primarily Ubuntu)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RobsfSJArgFS5ZPp-uG7hBXBXLP...

Email: [email protected]

Show HN: placesloth.com – generate placeholder images of sloths

https://placesloth.com/

Hey all,Last week I had to make a couple of test pages and turned to one of my favorite sites to fill it with some imagery: https://placebear.com/There's a pretty large amount of sites like this, but none seemed to be serving the superior animal: sloths.So I hacked this together quickly over the weekend. It's definitely ugly code and an ugly approach, nothing prevents this from going OOM, it'll...

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Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:54PM (#23930119)
If you're distributing releases (or anything, really) users should not have to go directly to your object store...
Re:Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:06PM (#23929526)
Yeah spot capacity providers for Fargate only got added a few months ago, been running well for us in production.
So far, the only use I've had for running Windows machines was running Adobe After Effects for a render farm, because you can't run the Adobe suite on Linux. I struggle to imagine workloads I'd want to run on Windows machines voluntarily honestly, but I'm also unfamiliar with the ecosystem from a sysadmin perspective.