Ya dont say.

Negative Free Cash Flow are the words every one on HN needs to learn.

Every thing before now, you will look back upon as the happy time. When every year storage, ram and compute grew and the prices went down. Your cloud provider made so much money they paid cash for hardware.

Now they borrow at 8% and net margins on ram/storage were around $0.10/GB ... today they sit at over a dollar. (SEE micron's s10's if you want to check the math on that).

Forget circular financing, its a circular firing squad because your going to have to figure out where the hell your going to run any of your gear.

4x to 10x for ram +8% for financing +30percent AWS margins. Good luck everyone its gonna get rough out there.

-10B on VR, -(The Compny's Future) on AI

IIRC one of the analysts said 1:1 CPU:GPU was for recommendation algorithms and 1:2 is better for LLMs.

This sounds suspiciously close to what used to be called a DDoS attack

So they can do something which used to be considered stalking

Every single thing this company does would get an individual thrown in jail

Why do the zuck and his goon squad get a free pass to literally be criminals?

> These are the Meta-owned ranges I'm blocking now, in case it helps anyone: 57.141.0.0/16, 57.142.0.0/15, 57.144.0.0/14, 57.148.0.0/15

What's Meta's ASN? May be simpler to just null-route the entire organization.

I've blocked Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic and yet they seem to find ways to get back in. It's pretty annoying.

nft add table inet filter

nft add set inet filter meta_crawl '{ type ipv4_addr; flags interval; }'

nft add element inet filter meta_crawl '{ 57.141.0.0/24 }'

nft add chain inet filter input '{ type filter hook input priority 0; }'

nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr @meta_crawl tcp dport {80,443} reject with tcp reset

Those identified themselves are not the worst ones.

I have seen crawlers fake chrome and edge from a set of Brazil residential IPs crawling at 1.5m req/hour for 3 hours, and it comes back every four weeks at same time.

> incompetent

I think that's not incompetence, I think that's by design.

bet it was written in PHP

(Rhetorical question) Who would you trust scraping your website? Google, for who among all their issues I haven't seen complaints of "Google is ddosing the web", both pre and post LLM

Or Meta, run by someone of Zuckerberg's character that wants to dominate everything and it shows by how many requests per minute? He's one of the reasons sites now have to implement bot blocking technologies

I didn't want to have to put everything behind cloudflare, but this sort of nonsense made it the least bad path forward for us.

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Yes the reason is they're pushing the GPUs hard so that they fail, and having hot spares saves the job until helping hands can go replace the bad component.

Theres a ton of people working at (neo)clouds doing exactly that