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Some of the original developers of H3 gave a presentation about it that goes over the tradeoffs between those different systems, would recommend watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDuKeUkNLkQ

seanlaneon Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust

We use it at Neighbor.com for a lot of data analysis in our marketplace, things like our price recommendations, supply and demand balances, etc.

seanlaneon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

Neighbor.com | Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer | Onsite | Lehi, Utah | Full-time

We're hiring experienced software engineers to build the future of self-storage and vehicle storage.

Neighbor is a marketplace connecting people with spare space to those needing storage, disrupting the $40B self-storage industry.

Backed by A16Z, real estate venture firm Fifth Wall, leaders of Airbnb/Doordash/Uber, among others.

We're looking for strong generalist software engineers who enjoy ownership and impact in an early-stage, growing company. Our stack includes Typescript, React, Ruby on Rails, Golang, and Python, primarily deployed on AWS. You'll be involved in feature development, system architecture, and producing a high-quality product.

What we're looking for:

  * 4+ years full-time software development experience.
  * Solid understanding of software engineering principles.
  * Experience with our tech stack (or a strong desire to learn).
  * Ability to take ownership and drive projects.
  * Must be willing to work on-site in our Lehi, UT office.

Bonus points for:

  * Experience with React, Ruby/Rails, AWS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL.
  * DevOps experience.
  * Interest in AI/machine learning/data science and their applications.
  * Technical leadership experience.

Interested?

Apply directly to one of the open listings found at https://www.neighbor.com/careers.

seanlaneon Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts

You can find versions that have 4+ NICs that make great routers running opnsense: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/cwwk-topto...

seanlaneon Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts

If you're feeling a little adventurous, you can find Intel N100 boxes with 4-6 NICs: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/cwwk-topto...

Went down this route and haven't had any issues with heat or having to replace heatsinks, add fans, etc. that others mentioned, but your mileage may vary.

Runs opnsense on proxmox, along with some other containers. It's been a great little box.

seanlaneon Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died

On a podcast series covering some of the history of the intersection of business and technology in Utah (The 4th Node), the hosts had an episode with Bruce Bastian. Covers his background and the history of WordPerfect, for those curious to learn more and/or hear from Bruce himself:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1z0AEyFvPN30WFbQc317T6

seanlaneon Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It

It's a pain to get set up initially, but the Automatic Ripping Machine[1] plus Jellyfin/Plex/etc[2] makes for a great combination.

[1] https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-rippi...

[2] https://jellyfin.org/

seanlaneon Persona Incident Postmortem – October 24th, 2023

Postmortem report from withpersona.com resulting in ~12 minutes of complete service unavailability and several hours of varying degrees of degraded service.

seanlaneon How far did my post go on the Fediverse?

It's not entirely clear to me after reading, but the author addresses it somewhat in the article. Seems like it depends on the persistence of the crawler, if the host instance permits that info to be shared:

> In the example above, if Ringo were to reshare John's reshare of my status - John doesn't know about it. Only the original poster (me) gets notified. If John doesn't share his social graph, it might be possible to work out where Ringo saw the status - but that's rather unlikely.

> Mastodon has an API rate limit which only allows 80 results per request and 1 request per second. That makes it long and tedious to crawl thousands of results.

> Similarly, some instances do not share their social data or expose anything of significance. Some servers may no longer exist, or might have changed names. It's impossible to get a comprehensive view of the entire Fediverse network.

seanlaneon Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

- Bitwarden: Been great for sharing passwords and other secrets. We moved to it from LastPass, never tried 1Password, which seems to have a lot of proponents here

- Syncthing, Restic, Backblaze B2: Syncs photos and other files from devices to a NAS, then Restic to create backups locally and on Backblaze B2. For the in-laws and others, I make sure they're backed up using Google Photos or Apple iCloud

- Jellyfin: Streaming our own movies and shows.

- Tailscale: Connect to the home network from anywhere

- Caddy server: Reverse proxy in front of the services like Jellyfin

- Paperless-NGX: Document repository that's hooked up to the scanner and email accounts to keep things organized.

There's a few other ones that get some use, but we use the above almost daily.

seanlaneon Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript

Some further discussion to be had on the corresponding GitHub pull request: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/971

seanlaneon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://sean.lane.sh/posts/

It's been a while since I posted, but I hope to correct that in the near future. Mostly random software projects and tips, sprinkled with some other posts.

seanlaneon Incompetent but Nice

Loved reading this, and then pleasantly surprised at seeing the name at the end, though I probably shouldn't be. Everyone I've come across who met Brandon always seems to have a story of his kindness.

Mine was much smaller, just having a genuine chat with him at a hiring event without knowing who he was at the time, but it left a lasting impression. Gone too soon, unfortunately.

seanlaneon Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?

It's been a minute since I was an intern there, but haven't seen this one mentioned yet. I spent a summer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, https://pnnl.gov) and really enjoyed my time. It seemed like compensation was pretty good, especially considering the cost of living in the area. There were a number of times when we needed some help from a subject matter expert, and we could go down the hall or to another building and speak with someone who recently published on the topic. There was a lot of interesting work going on, from national security issues to storing nuclear waste, etc.

The campus there was also different than many other national lab campuses in that it's an open campus and doesn't have the military entrances that others have. It felt like the culture was much more laid back than the FAANG and other corporate cultures that OP mentioned, but perhaps more bureaucratic as well. Again, I was an intern, so didn't have much visibility into that aspect. Overall, definitely a positive experience and I could see myself there if things lined up right.

seanlaneon The Nevada national security site pt 1

Really enjoyed this post, I'll need to try to get a tour as well, hopefully within this decade.

If this sort of thing interests you, another interesting tour is the Hanford Site B Reactor tour: https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/hanford-attend-a-b-reactor-to...

It's one third of the Manhattan Project National Historic Park, a few hours southeast of Seattle, with the other portions in New Mexico and Tennessee. I haven't been able to see the other portions, but walking into the main chamber of the B Reactor and looking up at it was an inspiring experience.

seanlaneon Remove YC “[company] is hiring” ads on HN

For a response "from someone with a YC shirt", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602113 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285793

seanlaneon Tell HN: Cloudflare prevents transfer-out of domains, sets to 'pendingdelete'

For those looking for registrar options, I've always had good experiences with porkbun.com.

I don't have any affiliation with them, just a happy customer for several years now

seanlaneon Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

I've never had problems launching out of San Jose, CA, which is the closest region to me, but I can't say I've tried others.

seanlaneon Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

Dang, you're right. I know it used to be 20TB/mo, and you can find other references to it around the Internet. I wonder when it changed...

seanlaneon Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

For a good tunneling option, Oracle Cloud has always-free instances with 20TB/mo of outbound bandwidth.

seanlaneon Biden Administration Launches U.S. Digital Corps

Seems to be aimed at more junior level applicants than the US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/), which is what I initially confused this with.

From another source [1]:

> "The idea for a Digital Corps was sparked by technologists across government who identified a gap in the federal government's journey towards digital success — a lack of early‑career technology talent," it says. "TTS recognized the need for entry‑level technologists to not only bring immediate innovation but also to serve as a continuing resource for government digital transformation. These technologists would help complement the civic technology efforts already underway by organizations like TTS while bringing in fresh perspectives."

[1] https://fcw.com/articles/2021/08/30/gsa-digital-corps-usdc-w...

seanlaneon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)

idk, it's not required, gives someone a chance to show a side of themselves that might be hard for them to describe otherwise.

seanlaneon Hard Drive Stats for 2019

Similar to the other two sibling comments, been using restic to sync to B2 over the past 6-7 months. Stored amount has been 450-475 GB, and total costs tend to be about $2.50-$2.75 per month.

seanlaneon Clayton Christensen has died

Off topic, but FYI: the link in your bio goes to a 404 page for Rivet Health, which links to a designer template site of some sort.

https://rivethealth.com/careers/

seanlaneon Ask HN: What do you use to backup your personal files in 2019?

I use syncthing to sync photos and videos from my phone, and my wife's, to a home server. Then gmvault to backup my GMail account locally.

From there, I use restic to make a first copy to an external hard drive, and then a second copy goes to Backblaze's B2 service, so there's three copies on two different mediums, with one copy off-site.

It's been rock solid over the past year or two, and the cost is about $2.50/mo with B2, storing around 450GB. Restic has been bullet proof; when I thought it was failing, turned out that a stick of faulty RAM was the true culprit.

seanlaneon Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019

That's correct, restic operates under the assumption that you cannot trust where it's storing the data.

Some more (informal) analysis on restic's crypto was done here:

https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/

seanlaneon Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019

I've been using restic with the Backblaze B2 backend for a home server backup, which seems to be as close as Backblaze will ever get to having a Linux client.

My rough numbers are 450GB stored monthly, 4GB downloaded monthly, 90k stored files, 385,000 individual transactions, which ends up costing about $2.25 in storage fees, $0.25 for transactions, and $0.10 for download bandwidth.

seanlaneon Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake

They are based and ran out of Park City, UT, so it's more than just a paper relationship.

We certainly have our fair share of less-than-scrupulous companies here.

seanlaneon Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks

My alternative to slapping them on a laptop or laptop case:

https://imgur.com/gallery/TTlSdKK

Grab some magnet sheets, place sticker, and cut out. Makes them a bit more durable in that you can move them around, rather than only being able to stick once.