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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 528 posts.
Infrastructure & DevOps
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Incident CVE-2026-LGTM
A series of unfortunate agents.
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The Curse of NixOS
I've used NixOS as the only OS on my laptop for around three years at this point. Installing it has felt sort of like a curse: on the one hand, it's so clearly the only operating system that actually gets how package management should be done. After using it, I can't go back to anything else. On the other hand, it's…
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These feature…
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What chroot taught me about containers
In this article, the author explores the concept of containers and how they are essentially chrooted processes. They walk through the process of bu...
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How we ended up with microservices
Microservices are a thing these days.
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WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers
Hands-on exploration of using Docker to run WebAssembly applications.
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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
If you’ve been keeping up on the latest tech news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the CPU security flaw that Google’s Project Zero disclosed last Wednesday. On Friday, w…
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October 21 post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.
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Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions
Update: We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. We are continuing to…
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GitLab Container Registry
Built on open source software, GitLab Container Registry isn't just a standalone registry; it's completely integrated with GitLab.
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Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely available, and by making certificates smaller. Given that we…
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What is the best hard drive?
Check out the latest Hard Drive Stats. It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a
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The “mail is hard” myth
TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us - It's ok that people have…
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So you want to expose Go on the Internet
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That’s not necessary anymore!
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Litestream v0.5.0
Same Litestream goodness but better, faster, stronger
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Minecraft as a Kubernetes admin tool
KubeCraftAdmin : The adventurer’s admin tool
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Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
Turns out printing doesn't have to be hard
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015
In 2015 we ran 56,224 hard drives in our datacenter. In this post we review the reliability of the Seagate, HGST, Toshiba, and Western Digital drives.
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Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Ceph is an open source distributed storage system designed to evolve with data.
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Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
Let’s Encrypt had a great year in 2018. We’re now serving more than 150 million websites while maintaining a stellar security and compliance track record. Most importantly though, the Web went from 67% encrypted page loads to 77% in 2018, according to statistics from Mozilla. This is an incredible rate of change! We’d…
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Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers
The blog of Tyler Ward (aka scorpia)2019401 points300 commentscited by 3Hardware & Electronics details
The new pi has been released and it has a USB Type-C connector for power however people are finding some chargers are not working with it (notably macbook chargers). Some have speculated that this is due to a manufacturer limitation on the power supplies however it is actually due to the incorrect detection circuitry…
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