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hunkins

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NYC-based entrepreneur. Engineer. TCK.

- building: [mage.space](https://mage.space) - twitter: [@greghunkins](https://x.com/greghunkins)

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hunkins··on Modal Major Outage
This appears to be resolved now.
hunkins··on Modal Major Outage
This is the third major outage in a month.

5.7.2026 - SEV 1, AWS us1-az4 overheats 5.19.2026 - No published incident report 6.3.2026 - Ongoing, internal auth system down

hunkins··on AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1)
Outage on Modal because of this. Not good.
hunkins··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Yup, appears to be an turn off turn on fix. Very frustrating though for such a critical piece of infrastructure
hunkins··on Just launched: Out of Office (OOO) – your AI travel sidekick
Brilliant. Would love to know more about how Myers Briggs preferences are integrated.

The auto-planning is super cool.

Minor bug: typing in the trip creation airport is laggy or overwrites sometimes. Might need a debounce.

hunkins··on Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down
Yep, timeouts on my end.

PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 Request timeout for icmp_seq 3 ^C --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

hunkins··on [dead]
A status page that works! Incredible.
hunkins··on The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain
Interesting. I grew up most of my life overseas learning various different languages. Anecdotal, but most of the best coders I know are talented writers and often are multi-lingual.
hunkins··on Who has the best pricing for text to speech?
Self-hosting almost certainly.
hunkins··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
Mage.Space | Machine Learning Engineer | NYC | Full-time (In-Person) | $150-250K | 0.50% - 1% Equity

Mage is the home for open-source AI enthusiasts, from beginner to expert.

Send resume here: mage@mage.space

We are a fast-moving seed stage start-up with seven-figure ARR who ship daily to millions. If you love open-source AI software & want to help integrate it into a product with a thriving community, Mage is the place for you.

Who You Are: Entreprenuerial Engineer who loves to hack and build. Expertise with and passion for open-source AI software (Diffusers, Torch, Transformers, vLLM, Ray, etc).

What You Will Do: You will own our machine learning backend, which is deployed to a world-wide distributed GPU cluster. Our system serves tens of thousands of base models across a variety of architectures that seamlessly integrate with hundreds of thousands of auxiliary models (LoRAs, ControlNets, IP Adapters, etc.). Optimizing and integrating the latest open-source models so that anyone can have fun and build with them is the goal.

Remote contract work is available as well.

hunkins··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
Update: looks like the problem has been identified.

"We've identified a cause of degraded git operations, which may affect other GitHub services that rely upon git. We're working to remediate."

hunkins··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
Yeah, this is not good. I've experienced other outages on their other products (e.g. GitHub Actions), but not even being able to do a basic git pull is an entirely different level.
hunkins··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
GitHub git operations are down. Any git operation returns a 500 error response.
hunkins··on Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol
The science keeps getting stronger and stronger on this.

Excited for the day when I do not have to justify to my friends & family why I do not want a drink.

Many point to the rise in depression and social isolation as a counterweight to the discussion on alcohol's negative effects, but my take is that once the social stigma of refusing a drink is severely lessened and social spaces adapt, that argument will also dissolve.

hunkins··on The Four Circles of Belonging
It's the second part of a two part essay on loneliness. [1]

I've always wondered why even when certain circles of my life feel so full (e.g. relationship), I can still feel lonely. This essay gives me a mental model for why.

[1] https://boxx.substack.com/p/loneliness-the-epidemic-12

hunkins··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
It's an investment, remember that - and one that will pay dividends. Best of luck!
hunkins··on HuggingFace Is Down
Hugs to the Ops team over at HuggingFace. Hope this gets resolved soon.
hunkins··on Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn
Love it, great work!
hunkins··on [dead]
Update: builds have finally been going through.
hunkins··on [dead]
Sentry has acknowledged that they are having issues, it appears to be more than just their Dashboard that is having issues. [1]

[1] https://status.sentry.io/

hunkins··on [dead]
Same here! Would be very curious to know if today and yesterday's outages are related in any way, or if this is a coincidence.
hunkins··on GitHub having issues today
Getting intermittent 500s browsing repositories right now.

Hugs to the GitHub ops team.

hunkins··on Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
I think this is the correct response. Have federal agencies remove the content itself, instead of worrying about identifiable dead links.
hunkins··on Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
The primary obstacle to this is that a relatively easily identifiable diff would then be accessible for anyone motivated to identify the material.
hunkins··on FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
Of course, it's mostly about slowing the speed of aging. Sleep, nutrition, exercise can only take you so far, gene-based therapy is the next era.
hunkins··on FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
He primarily focuses on sleep, nutrition, and exercise as measurable methods to reduce the speed of aging. Not certain how that makes him a charlatan.
hunkins··on FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
If you're interested in this, check out Bryan Johnson and Blueprint.
hunkins··on Hidden Functions of Hacker News
Really interesting. I had a few posts and comments get marked as [dead] and was curious about shadow banning. Nice to see it all documented here.
hunkins··on OpenAI's chaos does not add up
Agreed.

Board took the fastest growing commercial enterprise ever and the talent responsible for this real-world harry potter sh*t and decided to dance it underneath a flame for a giggle.

Something doesn't add up.

hunkins··on AI-guided custom meditations based on how you feel
Love this usage for AI. Would love to see the ability to customize the voice!
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