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The HFT Guy
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The HFT Guy is a personal blog at thehftguy.com about programming, systems and startups. Since 2016, 75 different Hacker News readers have linked it 185 times, most often “Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)14 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2016-11-22
- How Many Visitors Do You Get from the Hacker News Front Page?8 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2017-10-26
- Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS – The HFT Guy7 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-11-26
- Docker in Production: An Update6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2017-02-23
- Career Advice and Salary Negotiations: Move Early and Move Often6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-01-26
- Why products are shutdown? The case of Verizon and Yahoo Groups4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-12-10
- French judge rules GPL license must be enforced via contract law, not copyright3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-09-15
- Scrum vs. Kanban: Aren't they the same thing?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-12-09
- The 187M Dollars Gmail Bug3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-04
- The Differences Between Splunk, Kibana and Graylog. – The HFT Guy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
What Hacker News says?
I believe the way you put it describes this part in the DMCA takedown notice the best way possible. Bringing up European laws on intellectual property and mixing it with US "copyright" is comical to me, especially after reading this [0] article on French law recently: > France doesn’t have copyright. Sorry for US readers, your “copyright” is nonsense that doesn’t apply here, though the word “copyright” can be seen m…
Comment linking /2020/09/15/french-judge-rules-gpl-license-to-be-inapplicable-in-french-copyright-court/
on “YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA”Submitted The most remarkable legacy system I have seen as a story · 526 points
HN discussionGoogle Cloud if you're looking for something similar. It's just so much better and cheaper. I think a lot of the resistance here towards that kind of move is just because people are inherently lazy and they aren't paying the bill themselves. (I'm guessing a relatively large part is also selfish attachment to the market leader because of employment reasons. I hate wasting money, both for myself and for my employer, s…
Comment linking /2016/06/15/gce-vs-aws-in-2016-why-you-should-never-use-amazon/
on “Ask HN: Is S3 down?”Submitted CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent as a story · 336 points
HN discussionHere I wrote a blog post to explain why products are shutdown, illustrating Yahoo and Verizon. https://thehftguy.com/2019/12/10/why-products-are-shutdown-t...
Comment linking /2019/12/10/why-products-are-shutdown-the-case-of-verizon-and-yahoo-groups/
on “Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14”Submitted GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn as a story · 324 points
HN discussionI wrote a post on that, what prevents companies from open sourcing their codebase https://thehftguy.com/2020/07/07/what-prevents-companies-fro...
Comment linking /2020/07/07/what-prevents-companies-from-open-sourcing-their-codebase/
on “Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages”Submitted French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid as a story · 297 points
HN discussionFor reference, all of these practices are abusive and will void the subscription contract in civil law (Europe). Ask for a refund and perform a charge back if they don't refund. I wrote a detailed article about it, what every developer should know about software subscriptions and civil law: https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/08/what-every-developer-should...
Comment linking /2020/09/08/what-every-developer-should-know-about-civil-law-and-software-subscriptions/
on “Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes”Submitted JWT is Awesome as a story · 259 points
HN discussionPredicted that weeks ago. AirBnb is super bloated, they have a similar amount of employees as the other major travel groups but only serve a fraction of the products and customers https://thehftguy.com/2020/03/23/will-airbnb-go-bankrupt-and... Good to hear that they are giving a decent severance package.
Comment linking /2020/03/23/will-airbnb-go-bankrupt-and-when/
on “Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce”Submitted How to present a GitHub project for your resume (2016) as a story · 254 points
HN discussionPhysical infrastructure is always overprovisioned because it has to be planned long in advance and the smallest unit is huge (8 cores? 128 GB of RAM? for a small server). If anything that's an argument against physical infra, not in favor of. Although it's fine if one wants a lot of the same big servers (an Hadoop cluster, or video computing cluster, or a CDN), which are the few use cases where physical can make sen…
Comment linking /2018/11/13/2018-cloud-pricing-aws-now-cheaper-than-softlayer/
on “Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?”Submitted What Does It Take to Track a Million Cell Phones? as a story · 254 points
HN discussionSame thing happened last month with Amazon. AWS decided to roll out a new product called CodeGuru, that was a well established site on Windows development (codeguru.com). That's the end of the road for them. https://thehftguy.com/2020/08/03/amazon-blatantly-taking-ove...
Comment linking /2020/08/03/amazon-blatantly-taking-over-the-codeguru-trademark-from-microsoft/
on “Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo”Submitted Companies may be losing millions due to emails buried in collapsed Gmail threads as a story · 244 points
HN discussionThat depends a lot on the article and the views from reports on reddit/twitter/facebook/linkedin. 100k is rather toward the top of the curve. Here I've published stats on my few posts that reached first page on HN. https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...
Comment linking /2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-page-how-much-traffic-do-you-get/
on “Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run”Submitted HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016) as a story · 214 points
HN discussion"Basically, you need to perform a binary search. When you get an offer, you know that you can get at least that. Then you repeat the process a bit higher." https://thehftguy.com/2017/01/23/career-advice-and-salary-ne... Except that isn't a binary search.
Comment linking /2017/01/23/career-advice-and-salary-negotiations-move-early-and-move-often/
on “New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary”Submitted Docker in Production: An Update as a story · 170 points
HN discussion> By giving a number first, you're either too high and you won't have an opportunity to sell yourself, you're too low and you've literally already negotiated against yourself, or you're lucky and right at their expectation, which you could have gotten to by simply not giving the first number. And that's why salary is a binary search! https://thehftguy.com/2017/01/23/career-advice-and-salary-ne...
Comment linking /2017/01/23/career-advice-and-salary-negotiations-move-early-and-move-often/
on “New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary”Submitted GCE vs. AWS in 2016: Why You Shouldn't Use Amazon as a story · 149 points
HN discussionScrum vs Kanban https://thehftguy.com/2017/12/06/scrum-vs-kanban-arent-they-...
Comment linking /2017/12/06/scrum-vs-kanban-arent-they-the-same-thing/
on “You don’t need standups”Submitted Making Millions by Distributing Pirated Movies as a story · 133 points
HN discussionYes it can, if you consider hundreds of dollars a significant amount. I do. A good article is around 50k visits. The most I've done was 300k over a few days of going viral on HN/reddit/twitter/other. I published some stats there https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...
Comment linking /2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-page-how-much-traffic-do-you-get/
on “DigitalOcean App Platform”Submitted Perl is dying as a story · 122 points
HN discussionBeing generous, there is only the spectrum around 100 MHz to 10 GHz that's usable. In layman terms, 1 MHz allow for about 1 Mbps. That's all the bandwidth you can get. Wired connection bandwidth is trivial, any optic fiber will give a dependable gigabit link. A tower is already equipped with 3 to 12 radio stations. While we are talking about telecommunications, I wrote that last week: https://thehftguy.com/2017/07/1…
Comment linking /2017/07/19/what-does-it-really-take-to-track-100-million-cell-phones/
on “Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About”Submitted Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016) as a story · 112 points
HN discussionWhat is it with tech companies and fucking terrible name/branding analogies? Docker. Ok, works with containers I get... wait. Your logo is a WHALE with a bunch of shipping containers on it. You know that whales DISAPPEAR underwater for hours at a time, and shipping containers are NOT MEANT TO DO THAT? Ok ok maybe it was an honest mistake hey whats this new thing moby.. wait. Whales. Moby. Moby dick? Your project is…
Comment linking /2017/02/23/docker-in-production-an-update/
on “A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components”Submitted The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes as a story · 88 points
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