Nvida was started in a booth at a Denny’s.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-dennys-trillion/

Ah, that makes more sense. Thank you.

Yes, this is correct.

PubMed is self hosted in a datacenter located within NLM on the NIH campus.

They also have their own fiber connections as you mentioned.

There is also a legit storage vault located within the building that houses non digital records. We were told that there were medical records going back thousands of years kept there; and possibly as far back as the Egyptian era.

I’m a little late to this thread; but is PubMed really one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet?

I worked on the underlying infrastructure that powers PubMed in the 2010’s at the National Library of Medicine.

I was all up in that thing converting legacy pneumatic Johnson Control systems to Siemens PXC’s, and didn’t actually realize its historical importance online. That’s pretty cool to see this comment.

We had full access to the Datacenter at the National Library of Medicine, and as a young apprentice I really had no idea what PubMed was at the time lol.

I only realized how important of a system it might be when we saw the realtime traffic analytics on the screens outside of the data hall.

The Terraformer tool was the biggest blessing when I had to reverse engineer our AWS stack into .tf modules.

Shoutout to the Waze team for creating it!

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

We built out a large serverless stack on AWS, and we got a request from higher ups to convert it all into Terraform modules for portability and transparency purposes.

The Terraformer tool pulled in the entire stack and spit out the whole thing into tf files in less than 30 seconds.

Everyone was super impressed on the team lol.

Blog about it and get it on HN?

Yes, this is a really great start.

One of my current clients recently had his WP install taken over, and SiteGround took it down for offensive content.

It’s just a basic informational website for his consulting business, and he never logs into it or makes changes to it. He has no idea how anyone hacked it.

It really baffles me that this is still a thing in 2025, and that people can’t get a basic Shopify type of experience for creating informational websites and blogs where they can set it and forget, and focus on running their business. They should be concerned about how their content website is growing their business and overall bottomline; not if they have been taken over with offensive content or not based off of basic security best practices.

No we don’t lol..

That’s like saying we need plumbers and electricians who come into your house and steal everything.

You can use V0.dev to build your frontend components.

You can also pay someone like Tailwind for a license to their UI kits which grants you access to premade components and full website templates.

As a backend developer; picking up typescript shouldn’t be too difficult for you if you leverage reference points like V0.dev or ShadCN.

Thank you!

My theory behind the big private equity play behind buying up all the HVAC companies is that some smart people on wall street realized that R22 refrigerant was banned, and basically any system using R22 that was installed before 2010 will have to be replaced in the coming years because you can’t find the refrigerant needed to charge your system.

The PE play is always "I see people getting good service at a fair price. That indicates I am not making enough money."

There's been a running joke about it since the R12 days.

The joke is usually some play on government being in bed with the chemical industry lobbyists and banning things as soon as the 3rd world starts being able to make them cheaply.

It seems like it’s changing every year. Why can’t we just settle on one standard and let us start lowering costs again? I shouldn’t have to pay 10k to replace my AC.

(I like the idea of using propane as a refrigerant. Surprisingly efficient. Very cheap. And I don’t think there’s enough to be more dangerous than a grill?)

My view is that someone just went over list of industries and asked can we afford to get regional monopoly here. That is do we yet have enough money to buy out enough of certain regional markets to extract enough value to make it worthwhile. Value of jobs don't even need to have anything big coming up see vetinary clinics.

I think you'll be able to buy R22 for at least another 6 (and probably another 11+) years, at which point that system will be 20 (or 25+) years old and replacing it won't be viewed as out of the ordinary, nor provide a particular bonanza of income/profits to HVAC companies.

A lot of people in various countries just charge R-22 and R-12 systems with purified propane. (or regular propane too)

You're not supposed to need to charge it in the first place. Once it's leaking like that, the system generally needs to be replaced, due to some microscopic leak springing somewhere in the welds.

Are you able to name of the publishers that you say run massive WP installs?

I do know they exist of course, Sony being one.

I’m coding up a little something that I feel is more modern and superior compared to WP, and I’d like to learn what their business requirements and use cases are that keep them on WP.

Thanks in advance!

I don't want to discourage you...but there's so many WP alternatives out there that are supported by bigger companies, have a big ecosystem around them with agencies and developers for many years. Why would massive WP installs switch to "a little something"?

I just see the opportunity to provide developers and users a better experience using modern tooling, and feels open and simple enough for anyone to download and use without worrying about security vulnerabilities.

Something that feels powerful and safe; like WP of 10 to 15 years ago.

Digital First Media/MediaNews Group, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the US, runs its 100+ local newspaper (NY Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, etc.) websites on WordPress.

Thank you for the info! This is a solid response :)

WP's strength is its size and history. WP is entrenched, it's good enough and it's got an enormous talent pool.

Not in any particular order:

Java, Spring Boot, Angular 1 & 2, React, CSS design tokens like Tailwind or Bootstrap, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS and AWS Gov Cloud, Amazon SQS, Kubernetes, Rancher, New Relic, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Service Now, Confluence, Jira, and so on.

Study up and understand AGILE workflows, and a 2 week 10 business day sprint working cycles. Then tie that back into continuous integration/continuous deployments mentioned above.

If you get a grasp of everything I mentioned above and build out your LinkedIn and resume with all of those skills, multiple recruiters will be in your inbox on a daily basis.

Thank you, I've already got a portion of that under my belt. Getting to work now...

Please don't take the parent too too seriously, they listed some fairly useful technologies that are widespread but some that are definitely more situationally needed/niche. I think they were speaking somewhat jokingly/ironically if you couldn't tell (listing 3 relational databases for example as if you need to have experience with all 3 rather than just _any_ relational database).

I was not joking at all. I was 100% serious and listed technologies and skills that the U.S. government is actively recruiting for right now.

In that case I think you perhaps overstated what is necessary to get a US government job. Or to get a software engineering job in general. I get paid GS-15 level as a civilian and I've never touched Oracle DB, Tailwind, Rancher, or some other technologies you mentioned. Perhaps you didn't mean to imply a person need to know all those things to get a job, but it came across that way to me and I disagree.

I've done work for places where both MySQL and PostgreSQL were used. In any case, I'm reasonably proficient with either.

Thanks.