x13's comments

On: Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains

[x13]

Globally distributed critical infra isn't free.

"As of March 31, 2024, we had 172.5 million .com and .net registrations in the domain name base."

https://investor.verisign.com/static-files/2412702e-e744-485...

"1865 instances operated by the 12 independent root server operators."

Verisign maintains root servers at 209 locations. ("A" and "J") https://root-servers.org/

Latency https://a.root-servers.org/metrics

13 root servers https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers

On: Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "...

[x13]

https://peering.google.com/

On: What Are You Building? Share Your Projects

[x13]

Turbo - Bitly + Stripe for easier payment acceptance.

Copy, Paste, Paid.

https://tur.bo

Inspiration - Receiving invoices without a clear alternative to mailing a check.

On: Tech giant with 30k employees has no return-to-off...

[x13]

Yes; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globant

On: Solidigm 61.44TB SSD

[x13]

yep!

On: Show HN: Wife couldn't find a dev job so I built a...

[x13]

Why does your app want to access my camera? (Using the Windows build)

[sebestindragos → x13]

definitely should not, can you give me more details? Is it specifically asking for camera access? Not sure how Windows works, I'm on macos

On: Elon Musk to Take on Gmail with New Xmail Service

[x13]

vaporware; Space Karen just wants to stir the pot.

On: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)

[x13]

  Location: Colorado
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Product Manager / Product Design / Fintech & Telecom experience, passionate about payments, checkout, tokenization, orchestration, ACH, RTP.
  Résumé/CV: https://scottgalvin.com/resume.pdf
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgalvin/
  Email: On my resume.

On: Ask HN: Why has no one replaced Ticketmaster?

[x13]

check out their public SEC 10-k filing, just a few pages in will give you a plain-English explanation of their size.

On: Iridium: Open-source customer identity and access ...

[x13]

Why not just go whole hog and name the project Motorola?