Why “sand” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
You just tell them to pound sand and switch providers no matter how painful. Google Cloud exists and the product suite is better than Microsoft’s anyway. Never except extortion,…
by ericmay · Oct 31, 2026
What an odd bar. People need to be involved because we haven't built the proper amount of robotics to create a data center from sand yet. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we co…
by ragequittah · Oct 31, 2026
your point is well-taken enough, but the idea that a sharp investor was investing in Yahoo or Myspace in 2006 is a bit silly. Myspace was bought out in 2005, and it had been dea…
by keeganpoppen · Oct 30, 2026
Just like that EY [1], that Deloitte [2], and that PwC [3]. Yes, all of these major auditors with hundreds of thousands of employees each and probably-similar-in-magnitude clien…
by evdubs · Oct 30, 2026
My timeline was loose, but I was specifically talking about the Fair Housing act of 1968: https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1 So 58/59 years…
by johnnyanmac · Oct 30, 2026
I don't know what else to tell you, but yes a world where a company is free to single handedly buy all compute and then rent it out to you for insane prices is quite literally a…
by mrguyorama · Oct 30, 2026
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