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(June 2026)"}, {"id": 773789507, "item_id": 48361844, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361844", "by": "thecolorblue", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Docker, AWS, GCP", "excerpt": "Location: Cleveland, Ohio Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: MCP servers, agents, AI harnesses, javascript, typescript, python, SQL, Docker, AWS, GCP R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S9-IyIijC/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103594669786970489916&rtpof=true&sd=true Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com I am a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience with javascript, 6 wit", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? 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(June 2026)"}, {"id": 773731911, "item_id": 48358244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358244", "by": "jon_north", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Azure, GCP, Terraform", "excerpt": "Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8). Happy to deal with greenfield or legacy or any mix of the two. I learn new things extremely quickly. I prefer long term contract work, though I\u2019ll help you with smaller things ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 772331969, "item_id": 48270748, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270748", "by": "thinkindie", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "many are still hosting on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft, therefore you are not 100% insulated from Cloud Act", "excerpt": "this website seems a clone of https://european-alternatives.eu/ Either way, one of the most critical parts is that many are still hosting on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft, therefore you are not 100% insulated from Cloud Act.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}, {"id": 771518912, "item_id": 48219932, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219932", "by": "shwetanshu21", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "most good cloud consultants ask their clients to stay away from GCP", "excerpt": "I think GCP has been giving out lucrative contracts with lots of discounts and credits which has led to this growth. I've seen many companies jump the ship cause they got 100/200k 2/3 year credits which is a lot for many of them at that stage. They also have their partners migrate them at their own expense. So it is essentially free money for those companies. I know a prominent entertainment content provider who went", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report"}, {"id": 771496592, "item_id": 48218537, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218537", "by": "Shank", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> As a former GCP consultant, I can share that these sort of shut downs aren't random and it's usually due to the customer not being compliant - that breaks cloud compliance requirements for the big clouds, so automated systems flag it. Eg. Someone serving CP on their CDN, for instance. If this was the case it would obviously be horrific. I did check to see, and I noticed that Railway is not listed as an ESP who sent", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report"}, {"id": 771395360, "item_id": 48212210, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212210", "by": "boylan", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I have not trusted GCP since.", "excerpt": "This exact thing happened to me when I ran https://www.fatherly.com/ circa 2017. Google just shut down our account without notice. We were spending like $10k/month. It also locked us out of our premium support account, so we couldn't even get anyone there to notice that they'd locked us out. After about 8 hours, a random Google support tech said it was because we were mining bitcoin, which was laughably untrue. We ha", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report"}, {"id": 771323440, "item_id": 48207715, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207715", "by": "somewhatgoated", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We rely on them so I would have definitely noticed.", "excerpt": "We rely on them so I would have definitely noticed. Even a couple of minutes and our customers would freak out\u2026", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"}, {"id": 771291056, "item_id": 48205691, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205691", "by": "nikcub", "date": "2026-05-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google and GCP have a problem where they completely cook users who get flagged in their automated fraud net", "excerpt": "This just incentivizes market for bio-mules, which already exists with world[0] - where prices stay low because it was rolled out to low-income countries. Then there's the platform game theory. If you adopt you add friction which reduces signups, and there will always be a competitor who would risk the 10x fraud increase in order to capture 100x the market. Railway has seen hyper-growth because it's so easy to run fr", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"}, {"id": 771251616, "item_id": 48203226, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203226", "by": "Barbing", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google Cloud accidentally deletes $125 billion Australian pension fund - May 2024", "excerpt": "Google Cloud accidentally deletes $125 billion Australian pension fund - May 2024 https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/google-cloud-accidentally-deletes-125-billion-australian-pension-fund-124051800606_1.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"}, {"id": 771248736, "item_id": 48203046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203046", "by": "dantiberian", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It was a pretty nasty bug", "excerpt": "I wrote about the UniSuper issue at the time: https://danielcompton.net/google-cloud-unisuper. It was a pretty nasty bug where their VMWare environment was created with a one-year expiry date, but was one \"resource\" from the perspective of Google Cloud.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud infrastructure", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"}, {"id": 771235712, "item_id": 48202232, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202232", "by": "garciasn", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love GCP and its services; we have been very pleased with it over the years", "excerpt": "Nothing surprises me with anything related to support on GCP. While we absolutely do not need them, I have been through no less than 12 different Account Executives over the last 6y and they're all ENTIRELY and COMPLETELY useless. They all introduce themselves, beg me to setup a meeting w/them and some sort of engineering resource(s), and they come to a meeting with a canned slide deck that is so absurdly unrelated t", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"}, {"id": 771232848, "item_id": 48202053, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202053", "by": "scorpioxy", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I believe the problem was always the process that Google has where they tend to want to automate everything from the start and make it very difficult to reach a human and explain the situation. The service itself seems solid but if you make it difficult to address any problems when(not if) they occur then I won't be comfortable doing business with you. I stay away from their services for anything serious for this rea", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down"}, {"id": 771220081, "item_id": 48201255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201255", "by": "htrp", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable.", "excerpt": "Not their fault Railway their hosting provider is entirely down as well From https://status.railway.com/ >Identified >Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable. We have escalated this directly with Google. The Railway Platform team has since confirmed access to Google Cloud and is working on restoring access to all workloads. We have access to some of our Google Cloud\u2013hosted infra", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superlog (YC P26) \u2013 Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs"}, {"id": 771216368, "item_id": 48201023, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201023", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google cloud is quite finnicky and could ban you", "excerpt": "I had once thought about architecting my own railway/Platform-as-a-service[0] and this was something that I used to really think quite a lot as Google cloud is quite finnicky and could ban you, so It doesn't inspire the greatest confidence in me that Railway hadn't really fixed it. In my opinion, although not a one to one comparison but I would generally prefer to have my own hetzner/ovh or any other provider whom I ", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Cloud Auto-Banned Railway.app Account \u2013 Major Railway Outage"}, {"id": 770784819, "item_id": 48174051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174051", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-05-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "GitHub and GCloud are now the painful platforms for me", "excerpt": "They have had a complete turn around the last 2-3 years. It's snappy and seems like they actually listen to the feedback forms I fill out. GitHub and GCloud are now the painful platforms for me. Jira/Bitbucket are nice by comparison now (imo). I use all of these daily. I suspect that Google and Microsoft are suffering from internal push to do everything with Ai. It shows when they are shipping slop and having uptime ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fired Atlassian engineer posts breakdown of every system he built"}, {"id": 769380240, "item_id": 48086265, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086265", "by": "bironran", "date": "2026-05-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "GCP has it's own share of issues.", "excerpt": "GCP has it's own share of issues. ... I was writing a long vent about GCP but the mix of issues we had, just in the last few weeks, was too identifying and I don't want to sour an already tremulous relationship, as much as I'd like to spill it all here. Let's just sum it up with resource crunch and degraded services because, apparently, when one customer signs a $200B deal [1] all the \"just a few $10M\" get thrown to ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left"}]}