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Peter Cai
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Peter Cai's personal blog at petercai.com covers programming and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Cai's posts on cloud storage pricing, citing a piece arguing S3 prices have stopped falling. Comments use it as a source for storage cost figures and for self-hosting arguments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Peter Cai, software developer and engineering leader from Massachusetts.
Most-linked posts?
- /storage-prices-have-sort-of-stopped-dropping/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
What Hacker News says?
Amazon literally hasn't reduced prices for S3 since 2016: https://www.petercai.com/storage-prices-have-sort-of-stopped... Hard drive cost $/B continue to fall: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ Self-hosting is looking more and more attractive.
Comment linking /storage-prices-have-sort-of-stopped-dropping/
on “Nix/NixOS S3 Update and Recap of Community Call”Submitted So I only ate potatoes for 2 weeks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe're currently at around $0.02 per GB, so that would be $0.20 per person. A bargain. (From a random source on the internet, [1]) [1] https://www.petercai.com/storage-prices-have-sort-of-stopped...
Comment linking /storage-prices-have-sort-of-stopped-dropping/
on “Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable”