Why “on-prem” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Sadly these relatively recent price bumps on hardware have made on-prem a bit of a harder sell for some.
by aquariusDue · Oct 31, 2026
> Weirdly, underutilization of hardware was never a problem before. Fixing exactly this has been the constant drumbeat of IT since the early 00's at least. It started with virtu…
by phil21 · Oct 30, 2026
1. That's fair, I didn't realize people were expecting my comment to be perfectly-aligned to every aspect of the thread parent, including the "their own hardware" part, but now…
by ang_cire · Oct 30, 2026
The reason we were talking about on-prem is because we're talking about the effort of doing these things yourself vs farming it out to a third party. If you're a security engine…
by kube-system · Oct 30, 2026
> LLM assisted attacks solve Yes, LLMs can easily knock over your on-prem docker appliances. But you can still put stuff out of reach. I'm currently designing a key on-prem appl…
by elevation · Oct 30, 2026
Ideally they need to divide those apps entirely; your public website doesn't need to talk to your app. For stuff like Netflix that is truly consumer-facing, where mTLS or IP whi…
by ang_cire · Oct 30, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "on-prem" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "on-prem" over time.