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Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
Please, just stop.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,839 posts.
Infrastructure & DevOps
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I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning.
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AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started
A collection of random tips for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that I wish I'd been told a few years ago, based on what I've learned by building and deploying various applications on AWS.
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Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
One of the skills I wish I’d learned earlier in my career is basic Linux server administration. Specifically in relation to hosting something on the web, either a web app or API that I wrote myself, or something from the thriving self-hosted community , such as WordPress. Managing servers is increasingly seen as the…
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`COPY –chmod` reduced the size of my container image by 35%
Earlier this week, I was writing a Dockerfile to download and run a binary when I noticed the image size was way more than what I would expect. I’m using ubuntu:21.10 as the base image, which is about 70MB. The binary I’m running is about 80MB. Other packages I’m installing would add 10-ish MB. But the image size is…
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Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
Let’s revisit Google and Amazon pricing since the AWS November 2016 Price Reduction. We’ll analyse instance costs, for various workloads and usages. All prices are given in dollars per …
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Incident CVE-2026-LGTM
A series of unfortunate agents.
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My Overkill Home Network
In this post I will hopefully detail my entire home network. Some of this has been in separate posts explaining single items, but nowhere do I have all of the network in one post with all the changes since last year. Here is a full shot of the rack in
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Kubernetes is our generation's Multics
Yesterday's post enumerated # blog-topics related to understanding and using shell. Today's post started out as a "grab bag" of other topics, but is now centered around problems with # distributed-systems .
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I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
Posted on Monday 10 Oct 2022. 1,417 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.
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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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Moving away from US cloud services
Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.
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Cloudflare's Disruption
Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.
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Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience
The differences between system administrators and software developers as well as why all software developers should have some amount of sysadmin experience.
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Docker in Production: A History of Failure
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…
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Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
Now that wireguard will be part of the upcoming Linux 5.6 Kernel it’s time to see how to best integrate it with my Raspberry Pi based LTE-Router/Access Point Setup. What is my scenario? Raspberry Pi 3 with a LTE hat, using a public IP address. This will be the VPN server (called edgewalker in this post) An Android…
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S3 is files, but not a filesystem
"Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful
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Self hosting is important
Computers are amazing tools and Internet is an amazing network, we can share everything we want with anyone connected. As for now, most of the Internet is neutral, meaning ISP have to give access to the Internet to their customer and don't make choices depending on the destination (like faster access for some…
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Self hosting in 2023
Why I've decided to host my page on my own in home server and how community is building amazing tools like Coolify.
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How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question.On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waki...
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The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.
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How to Deploy Software
Things Zach Holman said.
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My server is a phone now
rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.
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