Why would the state, the county, and the military even consider letting an inexperienced developer with zero past successful datacenter projects undertake such a vast project?
I’ve been around the datacenter world for many cycles, and this story seems like a tale old as time.
Again, why would someone with no experience take such an enormous risk?
It may seem easy to build these things; but it’s actually quite difficult to get it all up and running safely and in sync at full capacity.
Even experienced people in these fields mess up from time to time.
For example, the largest electrical contractor in the dc area that was multigenerational family owned went under building the NSA data center in Utah, and they knew what they were doing!
This was an expert electrical contractor with over 50 years of experience, and they got in way over their head with cost over runs and bad engineering.
Somehow phases got crossed and things blew up if I remember correctly, and it lead to power surges that took them under.
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How exactly is the shark tank guys property management company going to pull this off?
Just forwarded this post to a few members of Congress.
For those who are underestimating just how advanced Vermont Sports Car is, this should open up your eyes.
Yes, price is a major factor.
No, you are completely incorrect on street legality; and way far from the truth lol
The basis of a WRC rally car is that it is indeed street legal; and is required to be driven on the public roads with a proper license plate in between the stages of the rally.
They build all the fast Subarus for everyone; Travis Prastana, Bucky Lasik, Ken Block, Lia Block.
The Huckster, the Project Midnight; all them too.
UberCab and Palo Alto Delivery were both services that had great success at user experiences for everyone involved including drivers, riders, small businesses, people ordering food. These experiences created brand champions who went out and raved about these technological innovations nonstop.
I don’t see any mentions of any positive experiences with Scale Ai here on HN or Reddit.. maybe that’s the reason behind the acquisition?
Just go look at what people say about them on Reddit. It’s rare to find anything positive, or even a single brand champion that had some sort of great experience with them.
PubMed is self hosted in a datacenter located within NLM on the NIH campus.
They also have their own fiber connections as you mentioned.
There is also a legit storage vault located within the building that houses non digital records. We were told that there were medical records going back thousands of years kept there; and possibly as far back as the Egyptian era.
I worked on the underlying infrastructure that powers PubMed in the 2010’s at the National Library of Medicine.
I was all up in that thing converting legacy pneumatic Johnson Control systems to Siemens PXC’s, and didn’t actually realize its historical importance online. That’s pretty cool to see this comment.
We had full access to the Datacenter at the National Library of Medicine, and as a young apprentice I really had no idea what PubMed was at the time lol.
I only realized how important of a system it might be when we saw the realtime traffic analytics on the screens outside of the data hall.
Shoutout to the Waze team for creating it!
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
We built out a large serverless stack on AWS, and we got a request from higher ups to convert it all into Terraform modules for portability and transparency purposes.
The Terraformer tool pulled in the entire stack and spit out the whole thing into tf files in less than 30 seconds.
Everyone was super impressed on the team lol.
One of my current clients recently had his WP install taken over, and SiteGround took it down for offensive content.
It’s just a basic informational website for his consulting business, and he never logs into it or makes changes to it. He has no idea how anyone hacked it.
It really baffles me that this is still a thing in 2025, and that people can’t get a basic Shopify type of experience for creating informational websites and blogs where they can set it and forget, and focus on running their business. They should be concerned about how their content website is growing their business and overall bottomline; not if they have been taken over with offensive content or not based off of basic security best practices.
It keeps growing in interest, and the demand has become more than I can handle currently.
If anyone is interested in helping to build an open and secure platform that is an alternative to WordPress, please reach out or comment.
That’s like saying we need plumbers and electricians who come into your house and steal everything.
Hey HN!I came across the Devin.ai website recently and was pretty impressed with what they have going on design wise.The most I could uncover by sniffing their website was that they are using Three.js to make the magic happen.What they have built is pretty different and unique from a lot of the frontends I’ve seen out in the wild, and I’d like to explore this avenue of using three.js to make...
You can also pay someone like Tailwind for a license to their UI kits which grants you access to premade components and full website templates.
As a backend developer; picking up typescript shouldn’t be too difficult for you if you leverage reference points like V0.dev or ShadCN.
Something that feels powerful and safe; like WP of 10 to 15 years ago.
I do know they exist of course, Sony being one.
I’m coding up a little something that I feel is more modern and superior compared to WP, and I’d like to learn what their business requirements and use cases are that keep them on WP.
Thanks in advance!
Java, Spring Boot, Angular 1 & 2, React, CSS design tokens like Tailwind or Bootstrap, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS and AWS Gov Cloud, Amazon SQS, Kubernetes, Rancher, New Relic, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Service Now, Confluence, Jira, and so on.
Study up and understand AGILE workflows, and a 2 week 10 business day sprint working cycles. Then tie that back into continuous integration/continuous deployments mentioned above.
If you get a grasp of everything I mentioned above and build out your LinkedIn and resume with all of those skills, multiple recruiters will be in your inbox on a daily basis.
To get into the cool defense/offense projects, you’ve got to get an offer on a project that is classified as secret/top secret with full scope poly.
There are a ton of TS jobs out there for hire right now; unfortunately you have to find a contractor who is willing to pay the fee and sponsor you on a new clearance.
Finding someone who will sponsor you right now is difficult for some reason; but once you get one, you have a ton of leverage within the government contracting space.
Congratulations on the launch Zai and Konsti!
I’m working on a hobby project that I had to build in basic email password auth using Auth.js due to a clients specific requirement.
I’ve experienced all the headaches you mentioned above, so I’ll be certainly taking a deeper look into this.
Again, great work!
Cheers!