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If you’re the one that’s down while no one else is, suddenly it becomes your fault.

It wasn’t even all of a single AZ. None of my resources in use1-az4 had any issues. The most annoying thing was the 20 notifications we got saying “it’s not all fixed yet” every hour.

DNS is barely centralized. Is there an alternative global name lookup system that is less centralized without even worse downsides?

The blockchain.

The only thing a blockchain is good for is achieving decentralized consensus on what value a key points to, which is what DNS is.

An alternative way of looking at this is that acquiring domains must be somewhat expensive by definition; either you enforce it at the system level, or you make it free, but then somebody will inevitably grab all the interesting ones and re-sell them to others. A blockchain is the only way to make decentralized financial infrastructure viable.


GNS is the obvious response here, in addition to the various blockchain based solutions. Nothing that enjoys widespread support or mindshare unfortunately.

Even the current centralized ICANN flavor could be substantially more resilient if it instead handed out key fingerprints and semi-permanent addresses when queried. That way it would only ever need to be used as a fallback when the previously queried information failed to resolve.


GP said it was a risk (and it is), not that there are better alternatives. Not all risks can be eliminated easily but you should still be aware of them.

BGP, but the names in question are limited to 128 bits, of which at most 48 will be looked up, and you don't get to choose which 48 bits are assigned to you.

Polymarket engages in scammy behavior?? Wait, isn’t that their entire business model?

The part where all their legal troubles went away when one of the President's sons became an "advisor" says "yes".

I don’t know why you were modded down because this is mostly true. They are still prohibited from operating in the US but it appears that regulators have no appetite to enforce the law.

Tether and a bunch of even shadier crypto stuff normalized this.

Yes, the software that piles up literally is the tech debt. Every automation and tool that was vibe-coded has to be maintained as well. If software is 100x easier to write and you write 100x as much of it, then taking into account network effects, your tech debt is now 100x worse. Congrats!

How would an outside observer know it’s an experiment?

It’s annoying for the team members I suppose, but to be fair, if you’re working on a high-profile open source project, owned by one of the most hyped companies in the world, and your branches are public, it’s probably a good idea to be clear in the branch naming and supplemental files if you’re just “experimenting”.

By working in public on a popular open source project, you are communicating intent and purpose to your users and the general public through your commit messages, branch names, and documentation. You’ll save yourself a lot of grief if you act accordingly.


The rain doesn’t happen directly above where it evaporates. And “slightly warmer” waste water can have major ecological impacts, destroying native life in the lakes and rivers where the wastewater is ejected. Plus, if the water is taken away from underground aquifers that may not be refilling fast enough, or if it’s taking water from downstream users, that’s something to be concerned with.

So tired of these articles. Yes, it’s possible for them to use very little water. But naive comparisons to non-potable agricultural or other irrigation use or comparisons that don’t take into account growth rates of specific uses or local bottlenecks are useless.

Nice way to automate the unethical destruction of the commons. Shared space and community standards are for suckers.

Calling it "unethical destruction of the commons" does not make it so.

Ghostbox helps a you run dev workflows in your own GitHub account, using your own Actions minutes.


You're mistaken - ghost is not a service consuming actions for itself - it's a CLI tool you run locally to drive workflows with sane default configs so you can easily drop into them and continue working or debugging in reliable and consistent infra, or have your agent do it. It is a better CLI for GH workflows (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982915), now whatever you were imagining.

What did you imagine it was?


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