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bithavocon Vagrant is approaching EOL. No more "Docker for VMs"

I think I understand why, I used Vagrant for many years and this was my evolution:

* Vagrant for everything: VM provisioning(always local), os dependencies, app dependencies and the apps themselves was all Vagrant.

* Vagrant for VM provisioning and OS dependencies only. docker-compose for the rest

* Vagrant for VM provisioning, Rancher 1.6-ish for the rest

* Vagrant for VM provisioning and K3S for the rest.

* either k3s or docker-compose with no VM

so towards the end it was easy to replace Vagrant with whatever provisioned a VM

bithavocon Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

(VP of Eng here) I filled out their sales form last year and never heard from them. We're currently spending $900k/year on AWS, and they didn't even acknowledge my request. crazy stuff.

bithavocon Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire

I wouldn't be surprised, even the the core of the project is heavily vibe-coded[0]

[0] https://github.com/viggy28/streambed/blob/a660ebb75b4744f5bd...

bithavocon To my students

for the curious, this is mentioned by the author in another post.

http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/009L/index.xml

bithavocon Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks

Today I learned aerial drone is not the only type of drone there is.

bithavocon Luce: First Electric Ferrari

so OpenAI[0] designed a Ferrari?

[0] https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

bithavocon White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations

You’re not providing a conclusion. Please finish your thought…

bithavocon White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations

exactly, there’s no conclusion, it’s been almost three decades.

It’s nice to have a different ruling party every few years and not just every three decades like in Venezuela(so far).

Maybe Venezuelas want to give their oil to another 3rd-party that is not Iran, Cuba, Russia or China for a change.

bithavocon White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations

The US has seen six governments since Woodstock ‘99, alternating the ruling party almost perfectly every four years: Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump again.

Venezuela has seen only two presidents in 26 years, Chavez and Maduro, and both belong to the same ruling party.

bithavocon Tailscale Down

with Tailscale Lock you have a lot more control, you can also self-host your coordinator server which is an alternative even mentioned in the service docs[0]

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock

bithavocon Deploying Temporal on AWS ECS with Terraform

yes, one word: IAM

bithavocon Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region

does DynamoDB run on EC2? if I read it right, EC2 depends on DynamoDB.

bithavocon iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

> Worth the upgrade? 100 percent.

First time I noticed such claim in an iPhone announcement.

bithavocon Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation

agree, also I believe box.com was smaller than Dropbox and it seems like they’re still alive, it’s crazy to me.

bithavocon Joyent ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook 10y before AWS

This post feels written by AI, but something caught my attention.

> But they made one technical choice that would haunt them forever.

> They built it on Solaris. Developers wanted Linux.

Recently I’ve seen how TrueNAS Core(FreeBSD-based) is being replaced by TrueNAS Scale(Linux-based)[0] and they ended up with an unarguably better product.

Meanwhile Oxide picked Solaris over Linux[1].

I vaguely remember what it was like to work with Joyner Public Cloud, but it was all an abstraction over APIs just like the Oxide rack, but in terms of GTM speed, it seems like Joyent lost some momentum trying to replicate what AWS found in Linux coming from Xen.

Oxide knows what they’re doing and they have some smart folks over there, however, I still consider a bold move not to pick Linux these days.

[0] https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/truenas-scale-anno...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180706

bithavocon Reverse proxy deep dive: Why HTTP parsing at the edge is harder than it looks

that’s cool, I’m working on branded artifact delivery. Docker, Go, NPM, Pypi repos delivered on free custom sub-domains. Vultr BGP services doing the trick so far.

bithavocon Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks

me too, what are you building?

bithavocon Why We're Moving on from Nix

Rust can cross-compile, yes, but is not as seamless. For example, Rust can not cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux without external support like MinGW.

Go can cross-compile from Linux to Windows, Darwin and FreeBSD without requiring any external tooling.

bithavocon Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth

Zitadel is switching its license from Apache to AGPL3, that’s at least one difference. The license change caught my attention because I also use Zitadel, this project is MIT.

[0] https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-v3-announcement

bithavocon The WinRAR approach

Pulumi is sorta like this, very generous free tier, so DevOps fall in love with it easily.

bithavocon Making Postgres Distributed with FoundationDB

This is interesting, it would be like YugabyteDB but on top of FoundationDB.

bithavocon Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?

I use Pulumi native package for Kubernetes, no more YAML, only instances of Typescript classes.

bithavocon We Moved Off Next.js

the sentiment against Next.js seems to be building up. funny, this page didn’t mention Vercel once so this is all about the framework itself. I will continue using Next.js for the time being, but if I come across an alternative that doesn’t imply changing React for something else, I would consider it. I just can’t find any viable alternatives and React Router alone is not going to cut it for me.

bithavocon Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

what a great article, I love the explanation and motivations of Apple to generate less code so it consumes less device battery, because most of their code runs in battery-powered devices

bithavocon Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

I guess if the crawlers can’t actually see the trap, misinformation would be attributed to your website in case model responses expose content attribution tags to end users.

bithavocon 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure

I can’t believe how unlucky Fly.io is. This is going to be the second time Cloudflare steals their lunch.

bithavocon MongoDB acquires Voyage AI

that’s what I thought, but every single candidate I interviewed mentioned MongoDB as their recent reference document database, I asked the last candidate if they were self-hosting, the answer is no, they used MongoDB cloud.

bithavocon YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

there’s one in ‘19 and a new one in ‘24, which Tandem are you referring to? I just checked and the one listed in this page is YC’19 it looks zombie-ish, both founders moved on quietly according to LinkedIn

bithavocon Cloud Virtualization: Red Hat, AWS Firecracker, and Ubicloud internals

Ubicloud is built on Ruby, interesting take for 2025.

bithavocon Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

this is so cool, any chance you post a video?