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This deal is very strange and smells funky.

Why would the state, the county, and the military even consider letting an inexperienced developer with zero past successful datacenter projects undertake such a vast project?

I’ve been around the datacenter world for many cycles, and this story seems like a tale old as time.

Again, why would someone with no experience take such an enormous risk?

It may seem easy to build these things; but it’s actually quite difficult to get it all up and running safely and in sync at full capacity.

Even experienced people in these fields mess up from time to time.

For example, the largest electrical contractor in the dc area that was multigenerational family owned went under building the NSA data center in Utah, and they knew what they were doing!

This was an expert electrical contractor with over 50 years of experience, and they got in way over their head with cost over runs and bad engineering.

Somehow phases got crossed and things blew up if I remember correctly, and it lead to power surges that took them under.

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How exactly is the shark tank guys property management company going to pull this off?

Still publicly available.

Just forwarded this post to a few members of Congress.

Shout out Paul!

Here is a pretty recent and in depth video by Larry Chen of the Subaru WRX STI Project Midnight car built by the same company.

For those who are underestimating just how advanced Vermont Sports Car is, this should open up your eyes.

https://youtu.be/5GklA8AXQvU?si=9pZwanLVpbVw_cWq

You can have one built; you just call Vermont Sports Car lol.

Yes, price is a major factor.

No, you are completely incorrect on street legality; and way far from the truth lol

The basis of a WRC rally car is that it is indeed street legal; and is required to be driven on the public roads with a proper license plate in between the stages of the rally.

Vermont Sports Car.

They build all the fast Subarus for everyone; Travis Prastana, Bucky Lasik, Ken Block, Lia Block.

The Huckster, the Project Midnight; all them too.

https://vtcar.com/

No, those were entirely different user experiences when the services you mentioned were gaining traction and finding product market fit.

UberCab and Palo Alto Delivery were both services that had great success at user experiences for everyone involved including drivers, riders, small businesses, people ordering food. These experiences created brand champions who went out and raved about these technological innovations nonstop.

I don’t see any mentions of any positive experiences with Scale Ai here on HN or Reddit.. maybe that’s the reason behind the acquisition?

This is a very interesting buy because Scale AI has been spamming anyone and everyone on freelancer platforms; and they don’t have a very good reputation online so far from people they have contracted with.

Just go look at what people say about them on Reddit. It’s rare to find anything positive, or even a single brand champion that had some sort of great experience with them.

So would you be interested in a simple serverless service that lets you run LLM’s and is focused on privacy and security first instead of trying to run it on an expensive workstation with a single 4080?

You are never found as innocent within U.S. criminal courts. It’s only guilty or not guilty.

Nvida was started in a booth at a Denny’s.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-dennys-trillion/

Yes, this is correct.

PubMed is self hosted in a datacenter located within NLM on the NIH campus.

They also have their own fiber connections as you mentioned.

There is also a legit storage vault located within the building that houses non digital records. We were told that there were medical records going back thousands of years kept there; and possibly as far back as the Egyptian era.

I’m a little late to this thread; but is PubMed really one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet?

I worked on the underlying infrastructure that powers PubMed in the 2010’s at the National Library of Medicine.

I was all up in that thing converting legacy pneumatic Johnson Control systems to Siemens PXC’s, and didn’t actually realize its historical importance online. That’s pretty cool to see this comment.

We had full access to the Datacenter at the National Library of Medicine, and as a young apprentice I really had no idea what PubMed was at the time lol.

I only realized how important of a system it might be when we saw the realtime traffic analytics on the screens outside of the data hall.

The Terraformer tool was the biggest blessing when I had to reverse engineer our AWS stack into .tf modules.

Shoutout to the Waze team for creating it!

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

We built out a large serverless stack on AWS, and we got a request from higher ups to convert it all into Terraform modules for portability and transparency purposes.

The Terraformer tool pulled in the entire stack and spit out the whole thing into tf files in less than 30 seconds.

Everyone was super impressed on the team lol.

Yes, this is a really great start.

One of my current clients recently had his WP install taken over, and SiteGround took it down for offensive content.

It’s just a basic informational website for his consulting business, and he never logs into it or makes changes to it. He has no idea how anyone hacked it.

It really baffles me that this is still a thing in 2025, and that people can’t get a basic Shopify type of experience for creating informational websites and blogs where they can set it and forget, and focus on running their business. They should be concerned about how their content website is growing their business and overall bottomline; not if they have been taken over with offensive content or not based off of basic security best practices.

I’ve been working on a side hobby project for a year in an attempt to solve these problems.

It keeps growing in interest, and the demand has become more than I can handle currently.

If anyone is interested in helping to build an open and secure platform that is an alternative to WordPress, please reach out or comment.

No we don’t lol..

That’s like saying we need plumbers and electricians who come into your house and steal everything.

You can use V0.dev to build your frontend components.

You can also pay someone like Tailwind for a license to their UI kits which grants you access to premade components and full website templates.

As a backend developer; picking up typescript shouldn’t be too difficult for you if you leverage reference points like V0.dev or ShadCN.

My theory behind the big private equity play behind buying up all the HVAC companies is that some smart people on wall street realized that R22 refrigerant was banned, and basically any system using R22 that was installed before 2010 will have to be replaced in the coming years because you can’t find the refrigerant needed to charge your system.

Thank you for the info! This is a solid response :)

I just see the opportunity to provide developers and users a better experience using modern tooling, and feels open and simple enough for anyone to download and use without worrying about security vulnerabilities.

Something that feels powerful and safe; like WP of 10 to 15 years ago.

Are you able to name of the publishers that you say run massive WP installs?

I do know they exist of course, Sony being one.

I’m coding up a little something that I feel is more modern and superior compared to WP, and I’d like to learn what their business requirements and use cases are that keep them on WP.

Thanks in advance!

I was not joking at all. I was 100% serious and listed technologies and skills that the U.S. government is actively recruiting for right now.

Not in any particular order:

Java, Spring Boot, Angular 1 & 2, React, CSS design tokens like Tailwind or Bootstrap, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS and AWS Gov Cloud, Amazon SQS, Kubernetes, Rancher, New Relic, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Service Now, Confluence, Jira, and so on.

Study up and understand AGILE workflows, and a 2 week 10 business day sprint working cycles. Then tie that back into continuous integration/continuous deployments mentioned above.

If you get a grasp of everything I mentioned above and build out your LinkedIn and resume with all of those skills, multiple recruiters will be in your inbox on a daily basis.

Build up your experience with Java, Spring Boot, MySql, Angular, React, and AWS; and build up your LinkedIn profile with these said skills until the recruiters for government contractors start messaging you.

To get into the cool defense/offense projects, you’ve got to get an offer on a project that is classified as secret/top secret with full scope poly.

There are a ton of TS jobs out there for hire right now; unfortunately you have to find a contractor who is willing to pay the fee and sponsor you on a new clearance.

Finding someone who will sponsor you right now is difficult for some reason; but once you get one, you have a ton of leverage within the government contracting space.

You can self host it on your own stack and subdomain; completely segmented away from the public GitHub application.

This is pretty awesome and well encompassing for basic authentication!

Congratulations on the launch Zai and Konsti!

I’m working on a hobby project that I had to build in basic email password auth using Auth.js due to a clients specific requirement.

I’ve experienced all the headaches you mentioned above, so I’ll be certainly taking a deeper look into this.

Again, great work!

Cheers!

I am currently working on a serverless solution that covers everything you mentioned above and is a direct alternative and upgrade to WordPress.

It's built with full-stack Next.js, and the frontend is the backend, and the backend is the frontend; it's all the same. React server components have eliminated the need to separate the frontend from the backend into separate domains, and the frontend essentially securely talks directly to the database which eliminates extra network round trips and vulnerable backend API routes.

Built with Next.js, Postgres, TipTap, Tailwind, and Auth.js.

Compatible with Vercel, Neon, Supabase, Firebase, Cloudflare R2, etc.

What do you think? Is this a solution you might consider over your current WordPress domain?

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