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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,377 posts.
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Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server
A month or two ago, I decided to remove Varnish from my site and replace it with Nginx's built-in caching system . I was already using Nginx to proxy to my Python sites, so getting rid of Varnish meant one less thing to fiddle with. I spent a few days reading up on how to configure Nginx's cache and overhauling the…
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Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025
On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in AWS us-east-1 caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and us-east-1. In this post, we explain what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
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Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux
I don’t want to post yet another anti-systemd rant, but I think the ubiquity of systemd could eventually create real problems for embedded Linux. I just wish I knew what to do about it.
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Why did containers happen?
Autumn update This is what it is looking like around here at the moment. DevOpsDays London I gave a talk at DevOpsDays London recently. It was a nice...
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Systemd Sucks, Long Live Systemd
systemd seems to be a dividing force in the Linux community. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground to...
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DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean
Published: 19-11-2013 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3
Many developers believe S3 is the "end of file system history". It is impossible to build a file/object storage system on AWS that can compete with S3...
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Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding internal technology)
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OpenWrt 19.07
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How To Set Up Your Linode For Maximum Awesomeness
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Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today. In this landscape, we see enormous opportunity for the cloud to accelerate innovation, support people across the continent who are working to transform their businesses, explore new entrepreneurship opportunities and help solve some of the world’s…
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Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
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New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
February 9, 2021: Post updated with the current regional availability of container image support for AWS Lambda. With AWS Lambda, you upload your code and run it without thinking about servers. Many customers enjoy the way this works, but if you’ve invested in container tooling for your development workflows, it’s not…
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Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS crash course series
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS crash course series: ramp up on core DevOps tools through quick, hands-on courses where you learn by doing.
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How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
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You Don't Need the Cloud
Thymer is a beautiful editor to write, outline and plan at the speed of thought. Real-time multiplayer, malleable with plugins and themes, open to your agents through plain files. End-to-end encrypted, on web, desktop and mobile.
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Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am
Like so many things I’m supposed to do but don’t — getting exercise, eating right, sleeping well, standing up for women and minorities in public spaces — backing up my data has always been something I’ve half-assed at best.
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More random home lab things I've recently learned
From my series of "Christian's Home Lab adventures", here's some more things I've recently learned / discovered and figured are worth sharing: NVMe SSDs on a Raspberry PI, ARM64 adventures, more zfs troubles, and some cool tools you should try.
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180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0
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Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi
I like to take long running notes, jotting down an idea here and there when one pops up. I never know which devices I will have with me, so I like to have these notes synced across all of them.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
Check out the 2022 year-end Drive Stats data, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.