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Re:The AI Credit Resale Economy on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:41AM (#49327207)
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.

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.

Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:55AM (#46315244)
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/

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!

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!

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.

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/

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.

Re:Citadel, a Calibre-compatible eBook management app on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:16AM (#38988512)
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.

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?

Re:Show HN: Streamdal – an open-source tail -f for your data on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:43AM (#38095261)
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!

Thank you! Will reach out on GitHub with any questions.
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.
Re:Ask HN: How to start learning about investments? on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:18PM (#29089964)
I wrote a post about this that you should find useful:

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

Re:How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:34PM (#28686520)
How is this different from https://github.com/cdr/code-server ?
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.

More links:

- https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/what-is-an-ergodox/ - https://people.ergodox-ez.com/ivan-smirnov/

Re:Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:48PM (#26826566)
So this is like half of: https://www.gboards.ca/product/ginni

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

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...

This remind me of https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik, except that's self hosted.
So it's even worse. What's up with the trend going in the wrong direction?
I wrote an article about this exact question: https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/what-can-you-do-with-a-persona...

Some new tech that hasn't made it on the list yet:

- https://github.com/issmirnov/zap - recursive URL expander, can be run at DNS level. Ie, "n/" -> "https://news.ycombinator.com/" or "f/g/homelab" -> facebook.com/groups/homelab

- netdata

- https://concourse-ci.org/

- https://varnish-cache.org/intro/

- AFP/NFS/samba for file sharing

- https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web - web UI for calibre ebooks

- https://jupyter.org/ for python scripts and web scraping

- https://github.com/cdr/code-server for an IDE in a tab.

- https://www.portainer.io/ if you use docker

- https://yourls.org/ for a private URL shortener in your home

Re:Sourcegraph is now open source on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:08AM (#18119169)
Awesome!! So the Go code intelligence is now free for single devs who are self hosting?
Re:Treating the Bay Area as like working in the mines on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:09PM (#18079775)
I do not doubt your work experience, but I would like to respectfully point out that the data I have for those ~10 engineers does indeed match to the numbers I have presented.

Either way, with $200k salary the rent mentioned in the article is doable.

Re:Treating the Bay Area as like working in the mines on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @05:11AM (#18064668)
Here are real numbers.

Background: Average of 10 programmers who range ages 22-25 and are 2-3 years out of college.

Base: 140k Bonus: 30k Equity: ~60k Total: $230k year pretax.

Taxes: - 33% federal bracket - 10% state bracket - 7% FICA+Medicaid. (50% total)

Brackets listed are marginal rates, actual rates are noted here: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#p9c7Y...

Let's run the math - $230k comp - $83k taxes = $147k/year - assuming no other expenses, no retirement savings and no other income, that's 147/12 = $12.2k/mo, post tax. At this point $5,500/rent is easy.

Realistically, the breakdown is more like this: $147k post tax income - $20k retirement - $18k food/drinks ($1500/mo in SF is reasonable) - $10k car payments - $10k insurance/misc = $89k/year

$89k / 12 = $7,400/mo post tax and expenses. A $5,500 rent is still doable, but again extremely stupid because you aren't saving.

Re:G Suite Horror Story on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:17PM (#17727504)
UPDATE: https://lawgimenez.me/2018/08/07/g-suite-happy-ending/

Google reached out to the author and got the situation resolved.

Re:Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:40PM (#17531341)
First things first: everyone is different, so try various alternatives first. Run some experiments and see what sticks.

That being said, I strongly suggest a personal wiki. I write about Dokuwiki on my blog (https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/how-to-make-a-personal-wiki/).

Key takeaways: - Make sure the underlying storage is as simple as possible. Markdown in text files is as safe as it gets - Friction has to be close to zero, otherwise you won't use it - Put information in a deterministic location. Store any information that you might come back to, so that you don't have to repeat your research.

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