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Cloud pricing, cost optimization, infrastructure sizing, hybrid-cloud tradeoffs, and resource economics.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026555 stories
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged↗ privatecaptcha.com · HN · 365 comments · 707 points · May 08, 2026
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX↗ anthropic.com · HN · 486 comments · 512 points · May 06, 2026
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner↗ isayeter.com · HN · 430 comments · 893 points · Apr 18, 2026
Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%↗ docs.hetzner.com · HN · 628 comments · 553 points · Feb 23, 2026
Don't rent the cloud, own instead↗ blog.comma.ai · HN · 497 comments · 1222 points · Feb 05, 2026
2025578 stories
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud↗ theregister.com · HN · 498 comments · 519 points · Dec 20, 2025
Tell HN: Azure outage↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 806 comments · 885 points · Oct 29, 2025
Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server↗ disco.cloud · HN · 556 comments · 813 points · Oct 21, 2025
Moving away from US cloud services↗ martijnhols.nl · HN · 368 comments · 580 points · Mar 18, 2025
Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?↗ mattsayar.com · HN · 357 comments · 607 points · Jan 15, 2025
2024665 stories
Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 686 comments · 472 points · Nov 28, 2024
AWS data center latencies, visualized↗ benjdd.com · HN · 209 comments · 529 points · Oct 24, 2024
Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing↗ horovits.medium.com · HN · 407 comments · 453 points · Aug 25, 2024
Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud↗ security.apple.com · HN · 373 comments · 617 points · Jun 10, 2024
Cloud Egress Costs↗ getdeploying.com · HN · 304 comments · 485 points · Feb 10, 2024
2023761 stories
Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs↗ paraxial.io · HN · 34 comments · 64 points · Aug 29, 2023
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay↗ theregister.com · HN · 13 comments · 36 points · Jul 31, 2023
BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users↗ cloud.google.com · HN · 38 comments · 67 points · Mar 31, 2023
The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises↗ techcrunch.com · HN · 19 comments · 37 points · Mar 20, 2023
How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?↗ alicegg.tech · HN · 21 comments · 28 points · Feb 06, 2023
2022757 stories
AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different↗ freeman.vc · HN · 234 comments · 545 points · Sep 21, 2022
Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 508 comments · 1313 points · Aug 22, 2022
OVHcloud fire: SBG2 data center had no extinguisher, no power cut-out↗ datacenterdynamics.com · HN · 198 comments · 420 points · Mar 22, 2022
I got pwned by my cloud costs↗ troyhunt.com · HN · 641 comments · 1398 points · Jan 24, 2022
We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400↗ blog.polyhaven.com · HN · 401 comments · 766 points · Jan 05, 2022
2021646 stories
A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model↗ twitter.com · HN · 176 comments · 456 points · Sep 30, 2021
Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 215 comments · 657 points · Sep 28, 2021
My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day↗ mark.mcnally.je · HN · 451 comments · 781 points · Sep 07, 2021
Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform↗ shitbowl.com · HN · 237 comments · 722 points · Feb 13, 2021
Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers↗ cnbc.com · HN · 906 comments · 420 points · Jan 18, 2021
2020735 stories
Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt↗ blog.tomilkieway.com · HN · 388 comments · 282 points · Dec 10, 2020
Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses↗ atlassian.com · HN · 298 comments · 380 points · Oct 16, 2020
Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 755 comments · 779 points · May 06, 2020
NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs↗ theregister.co.uk · HN · 173 comments · 282 points · Mar 19, 2020
Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month↗ blog.sia.tech · HN · 334 comments · 659 points · Mar 06, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare↗ ciphercue.com · HN · 387 comments · 388 points · Sep 08, 2026
VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 45 comments · 104 points · Sep 07, 2026
Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?↗ sunkcost.ai · HN · 99 comments · 47 points · Sep 15, 2026
The state of European cloud providers in 2026↗ crescentro.se · HN · 0 comments · 16 points · Sep 09, 2026
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting↗ theregister.com · HN · 2 comments · 26 points · Aug 30, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare↗ ciphercue.com · HN · 387 comments · 388 points · Sep 08, 2026
VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 45 comments · 104 points · Sep 07, 2026
Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?↗ sunkcost.ai · HN · 99 comments · 47 points · Sep 15, 2026
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting↗ theregister.com · HN · 2 comments · 26 points · Aug 30, 2026
GCP us-central1 having major issues↗ status.cloud.google.com · HN · 1 comments · 19 points · Sep 01, 2026
The state of European cloud providers in 2026↗ crescentro.se · HN · 0 comments · 16 points · Sep 09, 2026
Fly.io 2026 Pricing Update↗ fly.io · HN · 2 comments · 5 points · Sep 21, 2026
Debt-hungry AI companies face increased risk as bond yields spike↗ cnbc.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 27, 2026
Anthropic to Pay Akamai Technologies $11.6B over Seven Years for Cloud Services↗ wsj.com · HN · 1 comments · 4 points · Sep 24, 2026
Amazon says cloud infrastructure in Bahrain, UAE 'beyond saving'↗ thecradle.co · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 16, 2026

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