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lykr0n commented on Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat cio.com/article/4125103/o... · Posted by u/ljoshua

isodev · 7 days ago

What value does Oracle offer?

lykr0n · 6 days ago

AI Data-centers and AI Hardware at cost or cost plus. OpenAI's deal with Oracle is more or less at cost...

OCI's infrastructure design is just good enough to work well enough most of the time, and you can't get cheaper.

lykr0n commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

lykr0n · 7 months ago

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Oracle Cloud IaaS. CPU & GPU Shapes. BM & VM.

Resume: Upon Request

Email: hn@lykron.mm.st

Seeking: Part time work or an offer I can't refuse.

Are you stuck using Oracle Cloud? Does working with their support team make you die inside? Do you need help on IPv6, OS Image Creation, Oracle Cloud Agent, vNIC management, OKE, or why things suck the way they do and how to work around them? Bump my line.

I've learned more about how to use Oracle Cloud than I would ever like to know and I've also found and gotten fix a few major platform defects.

lykr0n commented on What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? lumafield.com/article/wha... · Posted by u/walterbell

xmonkee · 8 months ago

I guess this serves as an ad for Lumafield's x-ray machines. I have no use for one but those scans are stunning.

lykr0n · 8 months ago

killer way to market a product.

Here's a blog post with interesting information that just so happens to advertise how you can use our product

lykr0n commented on Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016) cinematography.com/index.... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

lykr0n · 3 years ago

The amount of hidden engineering in Analog systems is mind blowing. Imagine how many hours were spent in a lab figuring out the exact right timings, chemical mixtures, and circuit design needed to make modern Cinema exist as we know it.

lykr0n commented on Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games miniclip.com/games/en/... · Posted by u/tech234a

lykr0n · 4 years ago

It's a shame that they can't transition it to a read-only archive type site, where everything is still accessible and playable- jut no new updates or content.

lykr0n commented on Zas Editor zeditor.app/... · Posted by u/sodality2

lykr0n · 4 years ago

Man. I would buy this in a heartbeat if it was on linux.

Good luck! It looks like an amazing product.

lykr0n commented on WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? wingolog.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/signa11

kortex · 4 years ago

Obviously the "Oranges: the new apples?" title is off-base; k8s is fundamentally a control loop engine, Wasm is a runtime.

What I want to know is, is there anything out there like kubernetes but stripped down to just the control loop engine part? Like a glorified IFTTT but without all the overhead and baked-in assumptions of k8s. Some kind of daemon/library where I can write an arbitrary controller which reads a spec, queries some state, and has actions to push the system toward the desired state.

The actual I/O is just writing an API and could basically just be a CRUD. What I'm looking for is the state management engine; that is tricky.

lykr0n · 4 years ago

Not really. Nomad is closer, and Mesos (the old one) is closer still.

I wrote my own as a rust library, and I'm in the progress of further breaking it apart. Might get a prototype finished this weekend and if so, I'll share it here.

lykr0n commented on Ask HN: What is something important I should start doing in my 20s? · Posted by u/saaspirant

kristiandupont · 4 years ago

I partied quite hard and I don't regret that.

It can obviously be a bit hard on the body and you should avoid getting addicted to alcohol or other substances, but I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with it..

lykr0n · 4 years ago

Same & Agreed. Be aware of what you're doing, and make sure you can realistically be sober 10 out of every 14 days. Dependence/Addiction needs to be avoided at all costs.

lykr0n commented on Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap ifixit.com/News/54829/app... · Posted by u/fomine3

lykr0n · 4 years ago

I think the part of the discussion that is ignored here is the security aspect.

Apple has hardened their hardware against attackers replacing components of the phone with compromised versions. Sure, at the same time it prevents 3rd party repairs, but I don't think Apple's only motivation for doing this was to screw over 3rd party repair shops.

When the NSA leaks came out, there was some sections that showed how shipments of electronics could be intercepted and backdoored. I would 100% believe there are groups out there that have or are working on chip level attacks for iPhones and other mobile products. Swap Apple's Face unlock chip with a custom one that includes other embedded profiles that can unlock the phone without the owner's knowledge does not seem far fetched.

A lot of the changes to the MacBooks seem to also have been done with device hardening in mind.

I cannot tell you how much damage my iPhone 12 Pro has taken without the screen cracking, which makes me personally think the reasons these changes have been made are not just related to 3rd party repairs.

lykr0n commented on Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) · Posted by u/capableweb

lykr0n · 4 years ago

I'm splitting my time between a Pre-Series A startup, a Series E startup that's my fulltime gig, and developing my own cloud platform similar to AWS in Rust.

The cloud platform is fun. Learning the different components and just giving myself the freedom to do things in the best way I can figure out- writing my own RPC Framework, Scheduler, VM Management Tooling, etc... The end objective is to build a "not for profit" cloud platform for personal and small projects. So you can build awesome cloud-native applications for communities and other areas that are not profit driven.

Also might start trying to build a custom digital rifle scope for my AR-10. Something that can do range finding and basic sight adjustments based on distance and wind. That'd be cool...