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spun.io is a personal blog at spun.io about hardware and security. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link spun.io's posts on the drawbacks of AWS Elasticsearch and on repairing a vintage Macintosh SE/30 in a multi-part series.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-11
What Hacker News says?
> some of their offerings shift from being best-in-class to being very reliable and with a ‘just-ok-but-well-integrated’ user experience. I would go further and say that some of their experiences are buggy and often non-functional. Ever tried to search for a service in ECS? The results load from the backend, and it's a frontend based search on the backend set . Meaning it will say your service does not exist, but yo…
Comment linking /2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally-flawed-offering/
on “Unbundling AWS”Submitted Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom as a story · 446 points
HN discussionSemi-related: once some hardware arrives, I should be able to finish finding a way to rip the 802.1x certs off of the 5286AC so we can use our own routers, or at least put these things into a proper bridged mode. https://spun.io/2018/03/18/getting-into-the-pace-5268ac-rout...
Comment linking /2018/03/18/getting-into-the-pace-5268ac-router-part-1/
on “AT&T stealing/misrouting 1.1.1.0/29 for some of their residential customers”Submitted AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering as a story · 278 points
HN discussionLocation: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depends on location Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Python, Go, GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Demisto, Splunk, Devo, Tanium, Linux Resume: https://spun.io/resume.pdf Email: nick@spun.io GitHub: https://github.com/DominoTree 20+ year career in technology and security, comfortable diving in at any level of a software stack, kerne…
Comment linking /resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)”Submitted Let’s Repair an Ancient Macintosh SE/30, Part 2 as a story · 93 points
HN discussionThis article neatly outlines some of it. Unfortunately I didn’t go digging and got enticed by the marketing in the end. https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally...
Comment linking /2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally-flawed-offering/
on “AWS just went multi-cloud”Submitted The Telephreak 12 Badge: A Geiger Counter for WiFi Deauthentication Frames as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI highly recommend you show your lead/management these two articles, then ask if they want to proceed: https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally... https://code972.com/blog/2017/12/why-you-shouldnt-use-aws-el...
Comment linking /2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally-flawed-offering/
on “Elastic 7.9”Submitted Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory at Home, Part 2: Assembly as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPart 1: https://spun.io/2018/04/23/lets-repair-an-ancient-macintosh-...
Comment linking /2018/04/23/lets-repair-an-ancient-macintosh-se-30-part-1-looks-like-its-broken/
on “Let’s Repair an Ancient Macintosh SE/30, Part 2”Submitted Everything Always Returns 0: Adventures in Adding “Volkswagen Mode” to FreeBSD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory at Home, Part 2: Assembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Network Security Technologies by Decoupling Traffic Ingest from Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the XGecu TL866II Plus Under Linux with Wine as a story · 1 points
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