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Cybersecurity's global alarm system is breaking down

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/11/1119370/cybersecurity-alarm-system-breaking-down/
1•unripe_syntax•3m ago•0 comments

Perspective: A data visualization and analytics component for large datasets

https://perspective.finos.org/
1•huerne•3m ago•0 comments

New Software from 'Ruđer' for Faster Supercomputer Simulations

https://www.irb.hr/eng/News/New-Software-from-Ruder-for-Faster-Supercomputer-Simulations
1•taubek•4m ago•0 comments

The Big Beautiful Bill will kill one profession: Gambling

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/07/10/the-big-beautiful-bill-will-kill-one-profession
1•helsinkiandrew•4m ago•1 comments

Native array_first() and array_last() Functions in PHP 8.5

https://laravel-news.com/native-array-first-and-array-last-functions-in-php-85
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

Tandy Corporation, Part 3 Becoming IBM Compatible

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/tandy-corporation-part-3
1•klelatti•5m ago•0 comments

NeuroKit AI – Curated Directory of 1000 AI Tools and Model Data

https://www.neurokitai.com/en
1•RobertChin•6m ago•1 comments

Personal Reflections on Immutable Linux

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/personal-reflections-on-immutable-linux/
1•tenkabuto•7m ago•0 comments

GPX Studio. Show, edit GPX files, route planning, file processing tools, MIT Lic

https://gpx.studio
1•nuker•9m ago•1 comments

Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI): A fully decentralized identity system

https://keri.one/
1•rapnie•11m ago•0 comments

What Does It Mean to Orange-Pill Someone? (2022)

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/what-does-it-mean-to-orange-pill-someone
1•austinallegro•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built AI Email Writer – Let AI help you write better Emails

https://writemail.app
1•funcin•13m ago•1 comments

Whimsical Animations

https://whimsy.joshwcomeau.com/
1•bluehatbrit•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Online Photo Gallery

https://www.newurgency.art
1•Stepanchykov•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A decentralized command line key-value store on Nostr

https://github.com/chr15m/nkv
2•chr15m•19m ago•0 comments

Huawei's Pura 80 roll-out in Dubai is latest move in global smartphone push

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3317843/huaweis-pura-80-series-roll-out-dubai-latest-move-global-smartphone-push
1•outrunner•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do I get traffic and distribution for my app cheaply?

2•notlemon•27m ago•2 comments

Apache Fory Serialization Framework 0.11.2 Released

https://github.com/apache/fory/releases/tag/v0.11.2
2•chaokunyang•30m ago•0 comments

Data Over Time – some tips on dealing with the challenges of temporal data

https://blog.julik.nl/2025/07/data-over-time
1•julik•30m ago•1 comments

Ultra-thin bendy solar panels are so light you can wear them

https://www.cnn.com/science/perovskite-solar-cells-expo-vests-hnk-spc
1•outrunner•34m ago•0 comments

Convert a GitHub Markdown file to a pretty HTML CV

https://gist.github.com/amiune/4f59edb82e110f89a4177567a0ad3426
2•amiune•40m ago•0 comments

Awesome Fresh Developer Tools

https://github.com/devtoolsd/awesome-devtools
6•dariubs•44m ago•1 comments

Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/travel/rental-car-ai-scanner-hertz.html
2•perihelions•44m ago•0 comments

Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/woman-takes-10x-dose-of-turmeric-gets-hospitalized-for-liver-damage/
15•burnt-resistor•49m ago•21 comments

One Company Poisoned the Planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY
1•doener•52m ago•0 comments

Croissant: Building a No-Framework Web App

https://dbushell.com/2025/07/11/croissant-no-framework-web-app/
1•ingve•56m ago•0 comments

A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do by R.W. Hamming

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/bookshelf/hamming.html
2•luskira•57m ago•0 comments

Slack's 57MB 404 page

https://a.slack.com/archives/b/c
76•lecarore•58m ago•49 comments

A Mind Is Born: 256 byte Commodore 64 demo

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
1•fanf2•59m ago•0 comments

Navigating AI in translation: Why human expertise still matters

https://www.gulf-times.com/article/707217/opinion/navigating-ai-in-translation-why-human-expertise-still-matters
1•Bluestein•59m ago•0 comments
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Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-300k-daily-aws-bill-isnt-the-scandal-you-think-it-is/
10•ankit01-oss•7h ago

Comments

blinded•7h ago
I worked at a SaaS that had a 220 million a year bill. We did a ton to reduce the bill (reserved instances, right sizing, etc etc). 2020 rolled around and the business decided to cut back, we were able to save 20~% with being more aggressive with spot instances, moving from vpc connections via transit gateway to more peering, swapped to karpenter, etc. If there is anything I've learned is that there can always be money saved.
ChrisArchitect•6h ago
Related:

Figma spends $300k on AWS daily

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462016

andrewstuart•1h ago
>> what everyone’s missing is that these spend targets are post discount.

That makes it worse, not better.

>> Here’s what the pearl-clutchers don’t fully grasp: 12% of revenue on cloud infrastructure for a compute-intensive, real-time collaborative platform is completely reasonable.

The blog post author switches the discussion from cash outlay to percentage of revenue.

In every facet of your life, pay careful attention to when someone switches the numbers to percentage instead of cash ……. it has a giant impact on perception of value and if it’s happening and you don’t notice it then you’re the patsy.

Conversely, when you are negotiating, ensure you always have this tool in your toolbox to turn the negotiation in your favor, it’s an amazing way to get the upper hand whilst persuading the other party they are getting a good deal.

Masterfully used here it is clear the author is a negotiator.

I am not persuaded that a daily $300k AWS bill is OK for a company like Figma without particularly special computing requirements like AI. I am persuaded that you should engage Duckbill if you wish to convince management that your ridiculous AWS bill is normal and all is good.