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Larry Gadea
Personal blog · lg.ioprogrammingsystems
Larry Gadea writes Larry Land, a personal blog at lg.io about programming and systems. Since 2015, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Larry Gadea's 2015 guide to running your own high-end machine on AWS and streaming games to another device, as a reference in cloud gaming threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Larry Gadea's random ramblings
Most-linked posts?
- Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2017-02-21
- Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC27 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-07-06
- AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-16
- Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-12
- Cloudy Gamer: Playing Overwatch on Azure's New Monster GPU Instances2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-16
What Hacker News says?
I don't know, I worked in the gaming industry as well. Only left last year, but even then I was seeing a growing desire to move to host systems: https://nexus.vert.gg/gaming-on-amazon-s-ec2-83b178f47a34 or https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow... Larry Land even started working on Azure solutions. They were more stable, however, more expensive. With all that said, there's definitely an interes…
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service”Submitted Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 as a story · 592 points
HN discussionhttp://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own...
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame”Submitted Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015) as a story · 279 points
HN discussionNo, but there are guides out there to use SteamLink for gaming on EC2. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning”Submitted AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app as a story · 229 points
HN discussionrun games on spot instance g2s & stream them to the sticks, ala http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own...
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on “Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration”Submitted Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 as a story · 201 points
HN discussionExactly: a few reasons. Moreover 1. latency is low enough that people are playing triple AAA video games on AWS for a $1/hr. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow... 2. Sure, that's a good reason. It had better be spewing out lots of data, though, or again, you might as well process in the cloud. 3. Being able to access your workstation via airport wifi at all is actually a benefit in this cas…
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Introducing Surface Book 2”Submitted Cloudy Gamer: Playing Overwatch on Azure's New Monster GPU Instances as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI used the old version of this guide, the new one may work better but I already have a working instance: http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own...
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on “Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of”Submitted Cloudy Gamer: Playing Overwatch on Azure's New Monster GPU Instances as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou may have seen this before, but if not it would probably interest you: http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own...
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of”Submitted Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://lg.io/2016/10/12/cloudy-gamer-playing-overwatch-on-a...
Comment linking /2016/10/12/cloudy-gamer-playing-overwatch-on-azures-new-monster-gpu-instances.html
on “Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney's 'Moana'”Submitted Using Lets Encrypt to Secure Cloud Apps Like Ubiquiti MFi, Unifi, Unifi Video as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat were the arguments in favour of SPAs in the first place? I'm finding it interesting that most of the top HN submissions (by popularity) matching "single page app" are critical, not positive. First 15 follow, all but 5 are negative: - You probably don't need a single-page app ( https://journal.plausible.io/you-probably-dont-need-a-single... ) 816 points | 6 years ago | 499 comments - A single-page app is almost…
Comment linking /2015/05/16/the-future-is-now-and-its-using-aws-lambda.html
on “Building websites with lots of little HTML pages”Submitted Benchmarking Cloud Storage Providers: S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'd say do this http://lg.io/2015/04/12/run-your-own-high-end-cloud-gaming-s... and make it super affordable with generous free plans.
Comment linking /2015/04/12/run-your-own-high-end-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Ask HN: I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?”Submitted Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNvidia is also rolling out GeForce NOW: http://www.geforce.com/geforce-now People have also rolled their own solution: https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Microsoft Launching $10/month Xbox Game Pass”Submitted Ubiquiti EdgeRouter: Configuring this low-cost enterprise-grade router for home as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes here is a guide to make your own. That's from 2015 but the idea is the same. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow... But there are services too https://liquidsky.com https://parsec.tv
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Nvidia GPU Cloud”Submitted Show HN: Creating a long distance phone dialer with Twilio's TwiML as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPeople have been doing this for a while[1], so it's not required. It will just give you more flexibility in the other specs for your box. [1]: https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
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on “Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows”The Linux attempt was pretty successful. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows”Alternatives Geforce Now https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/ Parsec https://www.parsecgaming.com/ Make your own with EC2 https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
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on “Project Stream”how much to per hour with windows? I want to do this. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
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on “Amazon EC2 Instances with Up to 8 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs (P3)”Check things like this out: http://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own... If you've close enough to an AWS datacenter, you can reasonably play modern 3D games on a remote machine over the internet. The internet is _surprisingly_ fast. There's a rant somewhere from John Carmack were he points out he can get packets to London faster than he can change pixels on his monitor... Edit: See John Carmack's…
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Ask HN: A Laptop that outsources processing to a Desktop?”I've done it (Steam "in-home" streaming, over OpenVPN to AWS). It's works fairly well. Latency wasn't an issue for playing Skyrim, but for competitive multiplayer FPSes it's probably a no-go. You can tune the bandwidth vs. quality in Steam. I followed this guide: https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow... I found managing the VM on AWS to be a terrible pain. I may have misunderstood it, but it s…
Comment linking /2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
on “Ask HN: Cloud-based gaming”
