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> Equinix Metal got the closest, but bare metal on-demand still carried a 25-30% premium over our CapEx plan. Their global footprint is tempting; we may still use them for short-lived expansion.

> The Equinix Metal service will be sunset on June 30, 2026.

https://docs.equinix.com/metal/

cornfieldlabson Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

Thank you!

-Many say they want to stop doomscrolling and clout-chasing but I don't know how many are actually willing to do so

-Individuals may move here but their friends won't. So the feed will be initially empty by design. Introducing any kind of reward is against our ethos so we are clueless about how to convince existing friend circles to move.

cornfieldlabson Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

We are building a private text-only no-clout social network with chronological feed for close friends.

(It was supposed to be completed months ago but got stuck in other issues)

Here's the waitlist and proposal: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

cornfieldlabson A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages

Is that friend Josh Kopelman?

cornfieldlabson Fast

I switch to vs code from cursor many times a day just to use their python refactoring feature. The pylance server that comes with cursor doesn't support refactoring.

cornfieldlabson I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

> I'm paranoid that some squatter can tell which domains i'm searching

Don't search on GoDaddy. I read somewhere GoDaddy raises the prices of high value domains by choosing them from searches

cornfieldlabson I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

I have had a single cheapest ec2 server at 5$ per month and hosted both db and server in it. Sqlite for db so easy to back up. It didn't contain any important data though.

I ran many projects in it

cornfieldlabson I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

> I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready.

Me too. I learnt it after 6 expired domains

cornfieldlabson I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

> And the famous "anti-social media social network" (spoiler: it was just me).

Haha we are building one too!

Got any advice for us?

Here's the waitlist page with all the features: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

Email is in profile if you want to connect.

Thanks in advance!

I myself have left 6 domains expired over the last 4 years so you are not alone! 3 are from this year alone

Now a days I don't buy the domain until I have actually set up the server with the codebase. Project might get dropped just before that. It has happened

Edit: I feel validated after reading the replies. I am not alone!

cornfieldlabson Ask HN: How will the OSA affect small Mastodon instances?

I asked a somewhat related question here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710221

cornfieldlabson VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

This. Even sites who don't want to store IDs because they are small or it's against their ethos have to do it or pack their bags

cornfieldlabson VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in

How should small social network sites, forums or any sites that post user-generatrd content etc who can't afford to do age verification respond to this law? Block all requests from UK IPs?

We are building a niche social network and don't want to be in the cross-hairs.

Is anyone in a similar position? How's your company dealing with this?

Edit: apart from cost, storing user IDs etc goes against our goal of building a private social network. We would like to retain least amount info

https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

cornfieldlabson Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

Me and my brother are working a social network with chronological feed and private profiles.

Goal is to build a social network that doesn't harm the user in any way and provides full control over their data.

Here's the waitlist: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

Let me know if you have any questions. Email is cornfield.labs@gmail.com

cornfieldlabson Do not download the app, use the website

We are building a social network with chronological feed and we are building a mobile-friendly site instead of an app.

If the site takes off, I think we will have to build a mobile app even though we don't want to. Non-tech users don't care about web.

As someone who pushed everyone I know to use Firefox with uBlock on Android, I am disappointed

But as someone who uses old.reddit.com on mobile, I am not surprised

cornfieldlabson I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm

I didn't create that subreddit BTW. But it is good to have a community

cornfieldlabson I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm

There will be a chronological feed comprised of one's friends' posts. It doesn't have to be curated.

Edit: Raising VC funding is the main cause of enshittification. We don't plan on doing that. It is not gonna cost us that much to run - there are not many non-techies who are ready to quit dooms-scrolling. Techies go for sites like Mastodon. So it will be a small group of people who would find this useful and that's enough. It is something we have always wanted to build and building and maintaining is fun.

cornfieldlabson I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm

There's a subreddit dedicated to something like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/digitalminimalism/

We are also building a non-algorithmic private social network if anyone's interested: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

(Thanks to everyone who have already joined the waitlist and provided feedback)

cornfieldlabson OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

Update:

> Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in $2.4 billion AI talent deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/google-windsurf-ceo-varun-mo...

cornfieldlabson OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

I guess building it internally is cheaper

cornfieldlabson Postcard is now open source

Just 4 years ago, I was recommending Postmark to everyone who faced deliverability issues with sendgrid.

Who's the relatively better provider now?

Edit: A useful article about IP Warm up https://blog.healthchecks.io/2023/08/notes-on-self-hosted-tr...

cornfieldlabson I'm dialing back my LLM usage

For me it's the opposite. Autocomplete suggests the lines I just deleted and also suggests completely useless stuff. I have a shortcut to snooze (it's possible!) it. It interrupts flow my flow a lot. I would rather those stuff myself.

Chat mode on the other hand follows my rules really well.

I mostly use o3 - it seems to be the only model that has "common sense" in my experience

cornfieldlabson Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

(edited) Thanks!

We’re doing this just as an experiment — it doesn’t have to turn into anything big, so no rabbit hole problem.

English isn’t my first language, so it’s sometimes hard for me to infer things from just text.

Really appreciate your thoughts, especially since you’ve done a lot of work in this space.

We don’t think our idea is “revolutionary” or anything like that, and we’re not trying to spin it as one. At best, it might take off; at worst, it’s just a way to practice our programming skills.

cornfieldlabson Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

I am solving a problem I myself had and seeing if anyone else might find it interesting.

It may or may not take off like every other startup and I am fine with it.

Why the snark?

cornfieldlabson Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

We are building a private, "healthy" social network for close friends with chronological feed and no doomscrolling or clout-chasing.

https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev