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Vaaniron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

  Location: 1 hr~ near London, UK | Remote
  Remote: Preferrable, but can do hybrid.
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Previously involved in product based microservices and REST APIs using Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, MySQL + more on AWS using Docker. Comfortable with Git, CI/CD, DevOps workflows. 10 years+ professional experience.
  Résumé/CV: Please DM or email.
  Email: vaanir@outlook.com

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Offline for over 2 hours in peak EU time, wild.

Vaaniron SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

I was in a similar boat to you, except I set up my new i7 rig (at the time) for SETI@HOME because I couldn't get mining to work properly, or it kept crashing!

Remnants of my attempts are at home on my PC somewhere, there are no wallets from my searches of my drives :-(.

Vaaniron Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

Great idea. Will pitch that to the council.

Vaaniron Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

I'm not sure on the actual design decision reasonings, however you can reach many of the exit junctions with multiple routes. So if everyone drove around it sensibly, there _would_ be fewer cars stuck in traffic.

Vaaniron Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

Has yours had "Mad Mike" drift around it? ;) https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/mad-mike-whiddett-drift...

Vaaniron Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

I enjoy it! you can avoid lots of traffic and queuing if you take a different route around the whole roundabout.

Personally never witnessed an accident, but I have heard of them.

They tend to be caused by indecision or drivers speeding -- drivers that think that they have a right of way i.e when everyone has stopped, two people go onto a mini roundabout at once.

Vaaniron Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

I live close to this magnificent piece of engineering, AMA.

Vaaniron Google Cloud Outage

Discord: https://status.discordapp.com/

Investigating - We are investigating some connection and site loading issues. The team is online and investigating, we will update when we know more. Jul 17, 12:18 PDT

Google: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18...

Vaaniron Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

Frontpage of HN, reddit, then check certain subreddits. Browse Twitter to check up on what certain devs/companies are saying.

During the day I periodically check certain Discords, IRC, HN, and reddit (I add items to Pocket if I see anything interesting).

Vaaniron Maersk IT systems infected with ransomware

Here is a tweet from the Ukraine Twitter account https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/879706437169147906

Vaaniron NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]

Well, around Jan 31st according to [1], more interesting details are listed in a presentation made for SXSW [2]

[1] https://nhsbuntu.org/nhsbuntu/2017/01/31/initial-post/ [2] https://nhsbuntu.org/nhsbuntu/2017/04/26/sxsw-show-and-tell/

Vaaniron Skype: Problems with sending messages and sign-in

Also Xbox Live! Surprised this isn't bigger news http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-live-status

Vaaniron Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption

He would make good friends with the Gitlab guy very easily I'd imagine.

Vaaniron Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0

Yikes! I thought we were bad with 1.3 (for a major UK business micro site)

Vaaniron [dead]

Direct result of the England and Northern Ireland celebrations perhaps.

Vaaniron Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer

All that terminology at a really low cost, awesome.

I feel like this comment could be turned into a popular blog post.

Vaaniron G is for Google

Google does not own https://www.alphabet.com/

Thought I'd link this to:

http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

Vaaniron Minecraft videos – why are they so addictive?

> It bears out earlier research from YouTube video research firms Newzoo and Octoloy, which found that Minecraft material notched up more than 3.9 billion views on YouTube in March 2015 alone.

Notched!

Vaaniron List of April Fools' Day Announcements

http://www.reddit.com/r/android and http://www.reddit.com/r/apple swapped their CSS.

Vaaniron Saying Goodbye To Windows 8

Like the others have mentioned, use <Shift> to add extra awesome.

Also, I would love it if Microsoft implemented a way of having multiple desktops, so I could switch between them with a shortcut like those.

I am sure there is a possible 3rd party solution though?

Vaaniron Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

I'm working on making a JSON API for Tennis scores, as I couldn't find one!

Vaaniron Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder

A Half Life fan site/blog?

Vaaniron 92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account

Some of the Google ones are ambiguous or duplicated.

I revoked everything anyway.

Vaaniron How do GameShark/GameGenie codes work?

It's always great to read stories like these, thank you.

I think these types of stories just goes to show how curious some people are at a small age (maybe due to lack of tech?) and what possibly could be achieved if something like CompSci was teached earlier or having earlier access to computing. However, there is bound to be people who do have everything but don't do anything.

Vaaniron Firefox OS Developer Preview Devices Announced

Any hint on the prices?

No doubt they will be priced cheaper than the Nexus 4.

Vaaniron Modern Web Development

Sorry, performance perspective. It happens in incognito as well (no extensions).

Not sure why no one else is commenting about it though..

Vaaniron Modern Web Development

Great read, not so sure why your page was awkward to scroll though.

Here is more about Heap Profiling from the horses mouth https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/he...

Vaaniron Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?

There's a quest button in the top right when using Maps, as of a hour or so ago I guess.

Vaaniron Show HN: This up votes itself

If only the link you had in your OP was clickable..