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Black bar event for HN.

Rest in peace, Picard.

Which is its own flavor of red flag.

If it's $1000 per month on subscriptions to make $1M in revenue and that's your full development team working 24x7; good deal.

If it's $1000 per month to make $0 because you haven't found PMF, less obviously a good deal unless you have a pathway to revenue?

I see OP edited their post claiming getting to HN's front helped.

I think the likelihood GitHub did something within 10 minutes of a post appearing on HN's front page is approximately zero.

Nobody in GitHub Trust & Safety is sat there watching HN.

An executive or communications professional who might have heard it got on HN, or seen it appear in a tool monitoring Microsoft and GitHub's mentions across the internet, and who then flagged the post, Trust & Safety would probably spend *more than 10 minutes* noticing the email or Teams message, then trying to find the right ticket internally. Then after locating the ticket you still have to investigate the facts, discuss, and click buttons to ban/delete the user.

It's (much) more likely this sat in a queue until someone got to it and the timing of it being on HN is a complete coincidence.

Selection bias then as the majority of European companies are for sure not hosting their own Forgejo or GitForge.

I think I’m on the upper end of what’s normal in U.S. but also not super abnormal either —

1. Four lines on Google Fi is about $220 per month for “Unlimited”.

2. Comcast is $95 per month for 1Gbps.

3. A regular cinema ticket is $22.83 to the nearest movie theater and that isnt a "premium" thing like IMAX.

Wow. As a side effect, this outage is handing Corey Quinn material for the next 4 years of AWS shitposting. No longer is NAT Gateway the prime target.

And yet TrueNAS is moving away from BSD towards … Debian!

A sandwich, bag of crisps and a drink for £5 is an actual deal. Sandwich alone in U.S. would be $10 and the “$15 Meal Deal” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

That’s because all of that hardware probably dates back to when Steve Jobs roamed the planet.

I work from Starlink regularly and it’s just fine for meetings and everything else I do.

Meetings are usually under 10Mbps of downstream and 2Mbps upstream.

It’s simply false you need 1Gbps of “low latency” internet to work from home effectively unless your job is something like content production and working with huge files.

Producing for OnlyFans? Benefit from 1G to send raw to your editor.

Doing most other forms of work? Doesn’t require remotely close to this amount of bandwidth.

Amazon is probably deploying in the range of 250,000 racks per year into AWS. That’s millions of square feet before you get into all the infrastructure around them so they’re powered, cooled and operated the way they need.

Figure on ~10 million square feet of conditioned DC space per year, approximately 5-10GW of additional power consumption to power those 250k cabinets (depending on the exact mixture of what’s in the racks — Compute, Storage, Network, Accelerators), and that’s just for one hyperscaler.

There are at least 5-7 companies in the hyperscaler weight class although likely none individually meaningfully larger than AWS, they’re the 800lb bear and everyone else is in the 500-750lb range.

It’s a lot. Datacenters also take long enough to build that a hyperscaler is pouring concrete today for shells they expect to serve real workloads in 2029 - 2031. What you’re seeing come online today in response to customer demand really started being built in 2021 - 2023.

Building on grade is much cheaper. There is in general plenty of surface area on Planet Earth.

Datacenters aren’t built next to Nordstrom. Theres just no reason to spend on engineering and construction that increases density like underground parking.