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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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1071 points kentonv | 5 comments | 16 Nov 24 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]:

> If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos.

Hopefully I did that?

Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub:

https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty

Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

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laidoffamazon ◴[16 Nov 24 21:22 UTC] No.42159467[source]▶
This is neat, but as a $NET shareholder and someone with another ~$1m in net worth that can't afford to buy a house for at least another 6 years this makes me think we should significantly increase taxation.
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1. sfeng ◴[17 Nov 24 08:28 UTC] No.42162813[source]▶
If you’re a Cloudflare shareholder, Kenton has increased your net worth quite a bit. He is one of the few people who is so unreasonably capable he can and has changed the direction of a multibillion dollar company single handedly. It sounds hyperbolic, but it’s not in this particular case.

I’m also fairly convinced he didn’t capture one tenth of one percent of the value he created, so I’m not sure how anyone can argue this is ‘unfair’.

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2. laidoffamazon ◴[17 Nov 24 08:41 UTC] No.42162864[source]▶
As someone that was previously bullish on Workers but now fully disillusioned with a barely positive cost basis on it right now I disagree with this - if anything I feel burned for believing and continuing to believe.

Either way, people like me aren’t going to be able to capture even a tenth of the success of joining Google in 2005 or buying a $1m house in Palo Alto ~4 years after graduating (I’m 6.5 years out of graduating) because people like me aren’t as human as the folks that own this house.

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3. alecco ◴[17 Nov 24 10:56 UTC] No.42163386[source]▶
Take it easy. These kind of thought won't help you. It's a rough time out there but thing change. Our ancestors survived famines and war. We should be able to manage this.

And yes, life is not fair. But don't waste it, it's finite.

4. newsclues ◴[17 Nov 24 12:53 UTC] No.42163952[source]▶
"people like me aren’t as human as the folks that own this house"

What do you mean? People aren't human if they do not have a certain level of wealth?

Seems to imply that you may think people with less wealth aren't valuable or even human. What should people with less wealth than you feel?

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5. laidoffamazon ◴[17 Nov 24 21:32 UTC] No.42167499{3}[source]▶
My net worth is temporary, theirs and their status is not.