How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs(bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)

338 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 147 comments

A Big Data Stream newsletter article explaining how AWS S3 achieves 1 PB/s throughput and 150M QPS using commodity hard drives.

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 (2023)(allthingsdistributed.com)

16 points by metadat 1 year ago | 2 comments

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3(allthingsdistributed.com)

700 points by werner 3 years ago | 135 comments

Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on how Amazon S3 is built and operated at massive scale, from hard drives to organizational practices.

H100 GPUs Set Standard for Gen AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark(blogs.nvidia.com)

137 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 62 comments

Accidental database programming(sqlsync.dev)

523 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 265 comments

Blog post by Carl Sverre arguing that frontend apps end up reimplementing database features like caches and indexes, and proposing a frontend-optimized database stack.

Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups(sfcompute.org)

672 points by flaque 3 years ago | 161 comments

Landing page for The San Francisco Compute Group, a shared GPU cluster that startups and labs co-buy and schedule for bursty large-model training runs.

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

369 points by TomAnthony 4 months ago | 216 comments

Hacker News discussion of Anthropic requiring 30-day data retention for Mythos-class Claude models on AWS Bedrock, moving data outside AWS's security boundary.

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360(kennedn.com)

155 points by kennedn 13 days ago | 42 comments

A personal blog post recounting the author's years-long effort to hack an Xbox 360 using a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D glitcher modchip.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

GPUs Go Brrr(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

1056 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 243 comments

Stanford Hazy Research blog post on what GPU hardware wants for efficient AI kernels, introducing the ThunderKittens CUDA kernel library.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.