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alFReD-NSH··on Get your FREE custom Email
I wish this landing page had more explanation.
alFReD-NSH··on Pg_re2: 9x faster regular expressions in Postgres
No link
alFReD-NSH··on MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
In theory, you could set up a process to move data/filesystem between sessions into and out of s3.
alFReD-NSH··on MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...
alFReD-NSH··on Show HN: Catch abnormal usage of your API keys on Google Cloud
Lazy question, does this solution itself cost anything?
alFReD-NSH··on Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs
I heard of a story had an issue with one of the drivers, if I remember right regarding audio, after letting LLM loose, making patches and recmpiling the kernel, it worked. They even shared the patch as a pull request or something which of course the person, mentioned that it was out of his depth so he won't be working on the feedback.

I thought this was a quite a success story, normally I wouldn't compile my own kernel, let alone making code changes. LLMs can be quite empowering! Of course, always keep a backup!

alFReD-NSH··on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
And vpc sharing is free. Cost and architecture are tied.
alFReD-NSH··on Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
It's definitely interesting. Probably, one could also see how much of the context is unnecessary to optimise usage. I wonder if one could also detect whether cache was used.
alFReD-NSH··on Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs
How it does it monitor usage?
alFReD-NSH··on Show HN: I built this Postgres logger
Don't give them the DROP permission and have them go through a (automated) process to elevate their privilege when they need it.
alFReD-NSH··on Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances
Autoscaling group with mix instance type spot strategy does that. You can even give weights to instance type, giving more performant/higher capacity higher weight and it can choose the cheapest one with the weight in mind.
alFReD-NSH··on TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
They are in that market actually with major manufactures like BMW.
alFReD-NSH··on TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
As long as they have their B2B deals, they are gonna be around.
alFReD-NSH··on TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
Something that most commenters are missing is that TomTom's most revenue comes from B2B deals, which are mostly deals with automotive companies for car screens experience and also providing maps data for products like Bing Maps.
alFReD-NSH··on TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
Actually TomTom has deal with few car manufacturers to provide those feature-rich screens.
alFReD-NSH··on AWS Tools Suck
Please do give feedback if you see anything inaccurate on the documentation. I've submitted feedback many times and they would sometimes reply to my email that they have updated the documentation.
alFReD-NSH··on Paris to Become 100% Cycling City Within Four Years, Reveals New Plan
You should see the Netherlands. 100% cyclable but lots of streets are there for emergency vehicles, buses and trams. Disabled can and do ride in the bicycle lane with their electric wheelchairs.
alFReD-NSH··on Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
TomTom provides mapping data to Apple maps, Bing maps and they power many automotive in-dash navigation systems: https://www.tomtom.com/customers/

Very likely they use OpenStreetMaps to enrich their data and it's nice to see that they contribute back.

alFReD-NSH··on Cleaning Up Git History
I personally commit and push to a branch when I think there's enough changes for someone else to review my work (of course with WIP flag), in case if someone is curious and once any of the changes are ready to be merged (this can be before the review changes), I'll clean up and write nice commits.

I guess it's personal preference, I don't recall losing context, as I don't let too much of time passed. And I actually ensure nice commits are written before code review otherwise it might be harder for the reviewer to get the context of the changes.

alFReD-NSH··on Cleaning Up Git History
The article is suggesting that while you are working you can commit as you go, quick and dirty, irrelevant of the changes. Once you get something working and it's ready to be merged, then you can go back rewrite the branch, removing back and forth changes and writing a good commit message with the reason for it for every one change.

This way, the history would be meaningful instead of it be littered by fix up commits and it makes reverts easy.

alFReD-NSH··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
Probably it's because porn is blocked and the average Iranian would search in Persian and not English, so possibly Google trends didn't have the Persian terms.
alFReD-NSH··on AWS CloudShell
The point of CloudShell is to easy use AWS CLI without setting it up and setting the credentials, however to use this from your own terminal, it means you have to install software and then configure credentials, well then that would exactly same as installing AWS CLI and configuring it.
alFReD-NSH··on Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
Living in the Netherlands and Flixbus is no competition to the trains here. As for travel inside of country, most of the passengers are travelling for work and normally employers pay for travel costs and if not it would be tax deductible, so they would naturally take trains. A lot of lines are already at maximum capacity during rush hour. As for travel to outside of the country, trains move a lot more passengers than Flixbus. Cheap train tickets are always bought early for holiday season.

I find public transport more expensive compared to minimum wage keeping other countries that I lived before, but the quality is high.

Trains are fast and reliable here and there's continuous improvements on the trains and their tracks. Every year they would announce that decrease in travel time due to improved tracks or higher frequency for some routes.

The only problem is that when something goes wrong extreme weather, signal failure, problem on the tracks in the rush hour, then that route stops working and all neighbouring routes become delayed or overcrowded. Luckily I only experience it every few months.

alFReD-NSH··on On Cryptocurrencies (2018)
This was true in 2018, but the cryptocurrency world has moved beyond bitcoin being an easy way to make transactions. That was just the beginning and Bitcoin doesn't do a good job compared to the newer Blockchains.

Right now you can buy Bitcoin via bank transfers which the fee for it can be easily low as you as 5 USD depending on the provider, I buy with fee of 0.1% normally. So the transaction fee in the article is not true anymore.

You can also use bitcoin as a collateral for a loan. If you have bitcoin savings and suddenly you need to cash out temporary you can already do that.

And if you look into news you can see banks and trust funds holding bitcoin as an asset.

The cryptocurrency and decentralised market has to grow, it has a lot of problems, but there's a crazy amount of investments on it so problems are being solved and new things come out every week.

alFReD-NSH··on A Surprise AWS Bill
There's a actually a lot of companies doing that. Google 'aws managed services'
alFReD-NSH··on A Surprise AWS Bill
AWS does have budget notifications that you can set up with a few clicks. It doesn't come by default because AWS doesn't know what's the right amount for those notifications. I already get enough emails from AWS for every account that I make.

I can actually think of possible/real workloads that would burn 2700 usd out of blue in two days and those customers would not be happy if AWS blocks their account because AWS thinks they did something wrong.

AWS Support quite often happily refunds these amounts and you don't need to post to Twitter. I've seen them refund a lot more.

Why haven't they done something to prevent this mistakes? They already refund these things, it's just those refunds is a drop in bucket compared to services that enterprise customers are paying for, and AWS engineers are busy building for them.

AWS gives you a lot of power compared to what you can do on your average hosting provider, but sadly there's also a lot of room to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know what you are doing.

alFReD-NSH··on Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?
If you have the time to fix them asap you can follow this route:

- use spot or reserved instances or saving plans. - have a look at compute optimizer - understand aws networking costs are and try to optimise it (cross az and internet egress can be costly) - go through the trusted advisor checks: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-adv...

You can enable trusted adviser checks by enabling business or enterprise support. - try using one of these cost optimisation tools: https://aws.amazon.com/products/management-tools/partner-sol...

- contact aws for well architected review

If you don't have the time, then I suggest contacting AWS to introduce you to a consulting partner. They can come and actually fix whatever is needed.

alFReD-NSH··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
5CA | Customer Service / Offshoring company in Gaming Industry | Netherlands (Visa possible for awesome candidates in Tech & Data), REMOTE work - all over the globe. Tech and Data roles onsite required unless stated Remote on the job. We are in hyper growth environment, we are looking for:

- Customer support/ Gaming support in Japanese / EN language - Remote

- Data Engineers - APAC Remote

- Senior Data Analyst - Netherlands Onsite(Visa possibility)

- Data Analyst - Netherlands Onsite / Remote (Visa Possibility for Onsite)

- Business Optimization Analyst - Netherlands Onsite (Visa possibility)

If you want to apply for these roles apply directly via careers.5ca.com

alFReD-NSH··on After century of removing appendixes, doctors find antibiotics can be enough
I'm guessing you still have to take antibiotics when you have any surgery to reduce chance of getting an infection.
alFReD-NSH··on AWS bastions and assume-role
Coinbase is not the only company doing this. This is actually best practice.
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