Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 528 posts.
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being used within Microsoft Azure. They had proudly stat…
A deep dive into container scheduling and Flyd, our new orchestrator.
zswap and zram are fundamentally different approaches with different philosophies. If in doubt, use zswap.
Update: January 15, 2026 Six-day and IP address certificates are now generally available. See 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available for details. This year we will continue to pursue our commitment to improving the security of the Web PKI by introducing the option to get certificates with six-day…
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We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change. Here's a rundown of what happened, why, and what we're doing about it.
This incident remains the top priority for my engineering team and for our entire company.
(Edit 3/16/2012: I am surprised that this post is picked up by a lot of media outlets. Given the strong interest, I want to emphasize what is measured and what is derived. The # of server racks in …
Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…
Update: since I did these statistics, Linode has upgraded their memory offering even more, which means that their offer is even better than what I show here. As of summer 2010, Slicehost'…
The team at Terraform Industries is now 11 people working towards a near term future where atmospheric CO2, much of it centuries of unpriced industrial waste, becomes the preferred default source o…
Public access to your device—without the security risks. Tailscale Funnel makes exposing services to the internet safe & simple.
Marking a major investment in Meta’s AI future, we are announcing two 24k GPU clusters. We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extr…
Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
See cooldowns.dev for up-to-date information on cooldown adoption across various languages and package ecosystems.
Here at MNX, we’ve been busy setting up a brand new data center for our cloud hosted services. We started off as a consulting company providing managed Linux services, which means we have been exposed to a ton of different customer environments and an equal number of schemes for naming equipment…not all of them good…
Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA. The advice I shared included using Tor, preferring certain cryptography over others, and using public-domain encryption wherever possible. I also recommended using an air gap, which physically…
Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an opt-in global virtual store for up to 7× faster installs.
