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Jud Valeski

Personal blog · one.valeski.orgbusinessstartupsprogramming

Jud Valeski writes One, a personal blog at one.valeski.org about business, startups and programming. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Removing your files from S3 can cost thousands of dollars”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-23, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
8HN people?
2008–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Jud Valeski's blog post from 2010 describes a failed attempt to delete files from Amazon S3, with a claim about deleting billions of objects. HN links it in a discussion of S3 deletion costs.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

Most-linked posts?

  1. Removing your files from S3 can cost thousands of dollars
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. brown9-2 · 2010-05-10
    He claims to need to delete "billions of objects": http://one.valeski.org/2010/03/amazon-s3-file-deletion-fail.... Would it be naive of me to assume that no single person/company is making up a few percentage points of all S3 objects?

    Comment linking /2010/03/amazon-s3-file-deletion-fail.html

    on “Removing your files from S3 can cost thousands of dollars”
  2. petewarden · 2010-05-10

    Submitted Removing your files from S3 can cost thousands of dollars as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  3. saryant · 2017-01-10

    Submitted How Did Gnip Get the Twitter Deal? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. joshfraser · 2011-01-26

    Submitted Business & Technology; Yin & Yang? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. coderdude · 2011-01-06

    Submitted On trying to delete millions of files from S3 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. petewarden · 2009-12-20

    Submitted An honest evaluation of a startup's year as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. petewarden · 2009-08-30

    Submitted Are API providers blocking EC2/GAE IPs? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. gaika · 2008-10-12

    Submitted "If there's gold in them hills..." as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. zimbu668 · 2012-05-13

    Submitted Socket Connections: From Subsecond to Multiweek as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. bootload · 2008-07-01

    Submitted Sockets, HTTP, XMPP, and Leap Frog as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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