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New ask Hacker News story: Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff

Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff 3 by creativesage | 0 comments on Hacker News. Dear HN, I’m a solo operator with no paying customers yet. I wanted more predictable baseline costs while iterating on a side project, so I migrated from App Engine to Cloud Run. I fed my setup, budget, and constraints as context into Gemini CLI, asked it to search official documentation and best practices, and followed that guidance. I removed –min-instances=1, expecting autoscaling to reduce idle spend. The commit message claimed “60% cost savings.” The actual outcome was roughly an 1,800% increase and a surprise decline message when I went to buy coffee on my credit card. From Nov 2 to Dec 14, Cloud Run accrued ~$4,676. There was no traffic spike, no abuse, no application bug. The services were mostly idle. What compounded: CPU and memory were over-provisioned (4 CPU, 16Gi) from earlier experimentation. Each deploy created a new revision, and I deployed frequently while itera...
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New ask Hacker News story: SSH Tiny.christmas

SSH Tiny.christmas 5 by cyanbane | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Tell HN: Merry Christmas 2 by franze | 1 comments on Hacker News. And what IT issue will you (probably) fix today?
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New ask Hacker News story: Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal

Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal 14 by apatheticonion | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, didn't want to pay for Strong or Heavy so I started building my own lifts journal app. It's free and always will be. https://stronk.app Source Code (open to contributions). If you find bugs, add it to the issues. If you don't use it now but plan to after I build out the features, please star the project so I know to keep working on it. https://ift.tt/7Zq1hOS There a lot to do still, gotta add things like; - Strava/Facebook Sync - Import/Export - Charts - Set type (warmup/drop) - Timers - Online backups (right now it's saved to your phone) It's a web app because I'm not paying Apple and Google to publish it on the app store.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup?

Ask HN: What did you lose forever because you had no backup? 6 by postit | 1 comments on Hacker News. A friend and I were talking about a DOS POS system we wrote decades ago. It was crude, handwritten using Turbo Pascal DBF files and somehow still running in a few places since it got pirated. We no longer have the source. No install disks. No backups. The software survived longer than our memory of it. It made me realize how often "temporary" work outlives its creators, while the source vanishes. What’s the most important thing you lost because you assumed you’d back it up later? Code, data, research, art, configs, anything. Did that loss permanently change how you handle backups?
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New ask Hacker News story: Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM)

Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM) 4 by varshith17 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I spent the last week chasing a "ghost" in a RAG pipeline and I think I’ve found something that the industry is collectively ignoring. We assume that if we generate an embedding and store it, the "memory" is stable. But I found that f32 distance calculations (the backbone of FAISS, Chroma, etc.) act as a "Forking Path." If you run the exact same insertion sequence on an x86 server (AVX-512) and an ARM MacBook (NEON), the memory states diverge at the bit level. It’s not just "floating point noise" it’s a deterministic drift caused by FMA (Fused Multiply-Add) instruction differences. I wrote a script to inspect the raw bits of a sentence-transformers vector across my M3 Max and a Xeon instance. Semantic similarity was 0.9999, but the raw storage was different For a regulated AI agent (Finance/Healthcare), this is a nightmare. ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question

Ask HN: Migrating old Substack posts to my own blog, have a question 2 by Praddy | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m moving my older posts from Substack to my personal blog and I want Google to treat my blog as the primary source going forward. Constraints: - Substack doesn’t support canonical URLs (so I can’t point Substack → my blog). - I don’t want to use a custom domain on Substack. - Going forward, I want Substack only as the newsletter, and my blog as the SEO winner. I’ve seen the “ghost post” approach (replace most of the Substack post with a teaser + link), but I don’t want to delete/gut the original Substack content because I still want readers there to have the full post. Is there any way or a hack to get this donee??
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