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The saltiness isn't a good look here. Especially seeing as he's not the poster.

It's the HN algorithm which is probably due to the fact that other posts from his domain have done relatively well, plus the actual poster here has quite a bit of karma.

Really love this style of writing. Pairing the diagrams/illustrations with the easy to grok copy is really helpful for folks like myself who have been mainly focused on the front-end.

What tool do you use for your diagramming, is it all hand-drawn?

How can I share this with a coworker without being rude haha?

Speaking of weird ways to name something, why did you write it as $WORK? It doesn't look like it's publicly traded.

Wow, this might be more disruptive than the AWS outages. Remote companies should have some sort of backup plan for when this happens.

Half of these tools are behind a demo and don't show pricing, yours included. Usually that is because it's too costly, and it becomes a non-starter for me.

This is really unhelpful, can you recommend a better list for 2022?

Yeah, I feel like it only works in Chrome. After a few minutes of having it open in Firefox the quality degrades to the point it becomes unusable.

We're expecting our second here in a few months, and from my research it's really expensive and most folks would be better off donating. I feel like banks feed too much off of peoples fears instead of the better good. What are the odds of someone needing their own cord blood vs. it being a publicly accessible thing? It feels like donating blood to a bank to store it for myself in case I ever need it.

Again, it's an exciting field with a lot of really good outcomes, but it kind of plays into the whole, "what if something happens to your kid fear" to sell it to people, instead of thinking about all the other kids that you could be saving.

It's a fairly popular trend now, doing exactly what OP said. It usually involves buying a few acres and trying to be self-sufficient. Of course there's a subreddit for it https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/

This is pretty common in a lot of ToS, if you use their stuff (especially for free) they want to be able to use you on their nascar page of logos, or in their pitch decks. I don't really see what's wrong with that?

Living the dream!

Sorry I wasn't trying to downplay your response, I agree it is the only hope we can actually have these days.

It's awesome that you are giving back though, Hawaii has got to be a really fascinating and challenging case study for conservation vs. consumerism.

Apologies, I'm based in Pennsylvania and it's definitely more noticeable here. I expect it will become more apparent elsewhere too.

We're at 3x the total population that existed when europeans started settling here, and without an appropriate way to cull the herd I don't see that changing. We have milder winters (so no starvation), less interest in hunting, and again a lack of natural predators.

https://extension.psu.edu/white-tailed-deer

I love that the answer is always more technology will save us. Whether it's carbon removal advances or cloning, we just look towards future advancements instead of cleaning up our act.

I understand that expecting some sort of big shift in how we live is not feasible, it's just a shame.

From the article it sounds like invasive species, plus the fact that we have royally screwed up the local ecosystem.

For instance — white-tailed deer are growing exponentially, eating all the underbrush and outcompeting other animals, and they have no/few natural predators left.

I agree that not much has changed since the 80s, I think it's just catching up to us now.

This is super depressing, it's crazy to see how much the flora/fauna have changed locally in my lifetime.

It makes me wonder how much worse it actually is. Is looks like most of these were initially listed in the 80s, not too long after Endangered Species Act passed.

Is there some sort of time limit before they officially declare something extinct?

Source? Look at MongoDB, Okta, Datadog, Elastic, etc... they wanted more capital, I'm sure their staff wanted liquid equity, this seems like a win for everyone.

It looks like they were part of the S12 cohort for YC, and that is definitely VC money.

They did take VC funding though? By pulling themselves up by their bootstraps (and a meager $1.3 million in funding) they were able to start a company!

That's not an insignificant sum of money, I see that they didn't take further rounds, but still this feels like a nice marketing piece with a bad headline.

How do things like this make it to the top of HN? I know it's unrelated, but I'm curious, is it due to the users post history? I mean within 15 minutes of posting it was down, and it already had 50 upvotes?

Facebook knows their audience well and is catering to it. It's social media for middle-aged conservatives, so it makes sense to advertise to them.

I don't know of a lot of young people who use the platform still, they've all gone off to TikTok or Instagram(still FB I know).

How long before it's killed by Google?

Obviously upvoting and downvoting is not enough for adequate moderation. There's still the aspect of people trolling and generally posting horrible things online. There's a reason Facebook had to pay $52 million to content moderators for the trauma/ptsd they suffered.

Awesome, I'm waiting on my new pro to get here, it's a huge upgrade from my 2016 butterfly that died on me.

I wasn't sure which one to get but after upgrading the memory to 16GB the cost difference is pretty inconsequential between the two.

Yeah, I second this.

I would definitely be interested to learn more about approaching VCs at the pre-seed/seed stage & pre-revenue/product market fit. Some questions I would love to see answered:

How do you raise money in stealth mode? (not saying that stealth mode is good, but it's crazy that people raise large sums of money before having a public facing product).

How do you get in front of VCs who haven't heard of you yet? This seems a bit easier in a Series A round as your investors can talk to your seed investors and there's probably a crunchbase page of your company.

How do you give your business a valuation before it's launched? I've been struggling a lot with this one, I've ran through the TAM/SAM/SOM but honestly feels like a shot in the dark still.

Thanks for commenting! As it seems like you are bothered by this, you should read what the core git contributors have to say about it.

https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006091126540....

So VC's are out, bootstrapping is in?

I'm really curious as to what Oxide's plans are who are they selling servers to – individuals or companies? Is the plan to build your own data center or is it to throw a few of their servers in a collocated spot? Who is the competition, cloud providers, VMWare, something else?

Anyways, good luck at your new job it sounds really exciting!

Yeah the color choices for the graph are questionable too. They definitely don't pass contrast tests.