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Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
28•speckx•1h ago

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slekker•57m ago
For a little bit more you can rent on https://openbsd.amsterdam - they also donate to the OpenBSD foundation!
8by3•49m ago
They are cool, man they've grown. I used that when there were ~20 VM's on there. Its a great project but think its only physically in Amsterdam which is why I ended up moving back to vultr, as they have many more options.
8by3•56m ago
I've always gone with Vultr (vultr.com) for BSD VMs, its properly supported by them and while I've never hard verified this, they seem like a nice smaller player. Like they have offered Open/Free BSD VM's for > 10 years, kind of nice.
SoftTalker•50m ago
I used buyvm.net for BSD a while back. Didn't have any issues, and the few times I contacted their support they were quick to respond and helpful.

rootbsd.net before that, but they don't seem to exist anymore.

cedricgle•32m ago
Does DigitalOcean still only propose up to 4 basic cpu as droplet maximum ?. All their compute capacities disappeared overnight 2025/2026 without any reason.
andai•25m ago
I heard all the RAM scheduled to be manufactured next year had already been sold out. Maybe that's a related phenomenon?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236

e.g. Hetzner tripled prices recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542064

daneel_w•13m ago
I run OpenBSD at netcup.de for €2/month. It's very low-spec, but it's enough.

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
701•interpol_p•5h ago•572 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
570•interpol_p•5h ago•332 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
66•raattgift•1h ago•28 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
104•sarreph•1h ago•21 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
52•bmulholland•4h ago•5 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-n...
321•runako•5h ago•166 comments

Nitter project received cease and desist

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
206•Banditoz•1h ago•133 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
172•speckx•4h ago•107 comments

Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer
1•gfavvas•1h ago

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
28•speckx•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
33•smiths1999•1h ago•5 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
267•helsinkiandrew•45m ago•31 comments

A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant

https://www.judegomila.com/posts/riemann-lambda-0.1787854
28•judegomila•1h ago•3 comments

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/
38•ibobev•2h ago•6 comments

Starbase, LA

https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la
78•bilsbie•2h ago•73 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
156•surprisetalk•4h ago•120 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
240•Hbruz0•6h ago•100 comments

Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler

https://www.kurz.net/posts/fuzzing-gleam-compiler
18•crowdhailer•2h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon
17•ygagaga•1h ago•8 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html
28•zdw•1d ago•9 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1
38•yboris•52m ago•3 comments

Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents

https://pgbot.dev/
3•sashash•16m ago•3 comments

Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3820012
24•coffeeaddict1•3h ago•2 comments

Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents

https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/sandbox/minecraft
14•someguy101010•2h ago•3 comments

Solving the 1+N Query Problem

https://acadia.engineering/blog/solving-the-1-plus-N-query-problem
26•wheatBread•6h ago•15 comments

Otto Dix, Nietzsche, and the Great War (2019)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/beyond-good-and-evil-nietzsche-and-great-war
29•samizdis•3h ago•16 comments

HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly
73•Bluestein•7h ago•40 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

https://tarjan.itch.io/thoreaubasic
101•Gorsefound•2d ago•35 comments

How much of HN is AI?

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/how-much-of-hn-is-ai
202•surprisetalk•3h ago•192 comments

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
265•garo-pro•6h ago•121 comments