Posts

New ask Hacker News story: S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure?

S there room for a VPN with zero Five Eyes servers and RAM-only infrastructure? 3 by yanbinette | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been building on AWS for years and got deep into privacy/networking recently. The more I learned, the more I realized most VPN providers are theatre. The problem I see: "no-logs" is meaningless if your servers are physically in the US, UK, Canada or Australia. A warrant is a warrant. Even providers I respect like Mullvad and Proton have servers in Five Eyes countries. What I'm thinking: - Servers only in Iceland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Romania, Japan - RAM-only — no disk, no logs possible by design, reboot wipes everything - WireGuard - Open source, annual Cure53 audit - BTC/Monero, no account required Break even is around 200-300 customers. Infrastructure to start is maybe $500-1000/month. Honest question: does Mullvad already own this positioning well enough that there's no room? Or is "zero Five Eyes + provably no logs...
Post a Comment
Read more

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks?

Ask HN: Is it just me or has Gemini enshittified in the last three weeks? 3 by EvanMcCormick | 3 comments on Hacker News. As someone who's been using the Gemini Pro plan for the past 9 months, I noticed a massive jump in the amount of rate-limiting I'm getting from Gemini since around the beginning of May. It seems to coincide with the updated UI and the release of the Gemini 3.5 Preview model. For the better part of this year, Gemini was my go-to model for answering simple questions quickly. The google search plug-in made it super easy to ask, and it seemed to have endless capacity for research and complex answers on the $20/month plan. Meanwhile, I used Claude very sparingly, and saved most of my Pro plan for Claude Code tokens. Now I find that I'm rate-limited by Gemini harder than Claude. Is compute being shifted away from Gemini behind the scenes? Maybe LLM compute is finally moving away from subsidized direct consumer use. Still, I had previously thought that Gemin...
Post a Comment
Read more

New ask Hacker News story: European vs. American Productivity Culture: 10 Key Differences in 2026

European vs. American Productivity Culture: 10 Key Differences in 2026 2 by marian_abz | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Post a Comment
Read more

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?

Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI? 3 by coolcoder613 | 7 comments on Hacker News. It's been a long time since I've written code without AI, and I miss it. How can I get back into it without ending up reaching for AI?
Post a Comment
Read more

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?

Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. And maybe they could have even given the cartridge for free to people who have already bought a C64 without it.
Post a Comment
Read more

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?

Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout? 3 by MollyRealized | 0 comments on Hacker News. "Messages" appears to have disappeared from Google Takeout. Does anyone know why Google removed it, or if there is an official notice or explanation?
Post a Comment
Read more

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?

Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications? 4 by creatorcoder | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a C++ programmer and I want to learn how to develop real-time programs. It looks like it's a "lost art" these days.I think we all use such programs every day to one degree or another. For example, if you work with a network, then you probably use wireshark. If you work with audio, then you probably use something from this field. What do I mean by real-time apps? These are applications where we have a part that creates data (or a data stream, with high frequency) and a part that processes it (or gui part, if we somehow process it). I would like to focus specifically on network applications. I'll say right away that I've already read Richard Stevens book[1], but it doesn't seem to be enough to develop applications of this level. [1] Richard Stevens - Unix Network Programming
Post a Comment
Read more