Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,376 posts.
We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean. Digital Society is a not-for-profit cooperative helping you get your projects off the ground and realise the value of your data.
Let’s Encrypt passed another major milestone by issuing our first certificate. You can see it in action here. Our cross signature is not yet in place, however this certificate is fully functional for clients with the ISRG root in their trust store. When we are cross signed, approximately a month from now, our…
TLDR: Despite claiming to backup all your data, Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders - along with potentially many other things.
Podman offers better security, uses fewer resources, and integrates seamlessly with Linux and Kubernetes, making it a superior Docker alternative
Today is fundraising announcement day . As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing this. What is the goal of building exe.dev ? I am already…
Bun is stable and ready for production.
Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service, offers customers ACID transactions and SQL semantics, without giving up horizontal scaling and high availability.
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Likewise, it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they trusted it to someone else.
Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force.
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS, Inc., an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions, for a purchase price of $250 million, subject to certain adjustments at closing that…
Amazon produces and delivers to customers world-class entertainment via Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, MGM+, Amazon Music, Audible, Wondery, Amazon Games, and Twitch. Amazon’s entertainment properties empower millions of customers around the world to enjoy a massive selection of the very best in…
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON 'API' requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone,…
System administration is in a sad state. It in a mess.
I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…
Why we use our own hardware and what the tradeoffs and costs look like
Some notes about the UK air traffic control meltdown
Your DNS bill shouldn't scale with your traffic. So we removed query fees from Bunny DNS entirely. No per-request billing and no query limits.
Like Heroku, but you own it.
Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.
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.
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
