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Yeah you can go hardcore. I remember seeing someone make a toolbox server that they put on a roof, it might have been posted here actually. I was just looking at small things like those garden night lights you can stake into the ground, has a solar cell on it.
If you can make a garden light server that will survive the HN front page, you win at HN :)
Solar energy is too unpredictable and can't serve as a reliable source of power. We should be thinking about servers running on nuclear power.
You got me thinking... Are there any ways for a simple person to make it's own nuclear power reactor? You know, wind and solar is just "buy from internets and plug in", mostly, but what about nuclear? Would it even be legal? :-D
Solar energy is too unpredictable and can't serve as a reliable source of power. We should be thinking about servers running on nuclear power.
You got me thinking... Are there any ways for a simple person to make it's own nuclear power reactor? You know, wind and solar is just "buy from internets and plug in", mostly, but what about nuclear? Would it even be legal? :-D
The local state unemployment office website will only let you complete some tasks during business hours.
When you’re unemployed it is a lot less amusing.
There's no better stress test than Show HN, and unsurprisingly, that's revealed that Solar Witch has a buffer overrun bug somewhere which I'm investigating! If Solar Witch is currently offline, here's a screenshot of what it might look like: https://ttm.sh/ix3.png
HN may be a good stress test for Arduinos and WordPress, but it's really not that much load. I've recently had my site high on the front page and the page specifically recommended reloading if you didn't see the effect the first time. This is hosted on a ten year old laptop and a home Internet connection. The load average didn't budge. People hugely overestimate the amount of firepower you need when you "go viral", p…
I've been hugging Hacker News to death the past few hours waiting for Solar Witch to come back online. Something like this is the reason why I come to the website so I hope if there's not enough hours left of daylight, where OP lives, that the mods can at least give him or her a redo.