Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,376 posts.
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage…
Let’s Encrypt has reached a milestone: we’ve now issued more than 100,000,000 certificates. This number reflects at least a few things: First, it illustrates the strong demand for our services. We’d like to thank all of the sysadmins, web developers, and everyone else managing servers for prioritizing protecting your…
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.
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.
The differences between system administrators and software developers as well as why all software developers should have some amount of sysadmin experience.
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…
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…
We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP , reducing the installation footprint and boosting performance. The new API also offers server-side pagination for the query log, ensuring a faster and more responsive interface.
"Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful
For the Operations team at 37signals, the biggest effort in 2023 is removing our dependencies on the cloud and migrating our application stacks back into the data center onto our own hardware. We’ve already made amazing progress in a fairly short time — let’s get into some details!
Your browser lacks modern WebAssembly support, so verification is running a slower fallback. Consider updating your browser.
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…
Why I've decided to host my page on my own in home server and how community is building amazing tools like Coolify.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Whereas, on 1 March 2019, the Board took action on each of the 35 recommendations issued within the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team Final Report dated 8 September 2018, as specified within the scorecard titled " Final CCT Recommendations: Board Action (1 March 2019) ". The Board…
we found that 44% of docker image scans had known vulnerabilities, and for which there were newer and more secure base image available. Most vulnerabilities originate in the base image you selected. For that reason, remediation should focus on base image fixes.
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...
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
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.
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
Things Zach Holman said.
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.
Common Kubernetes mistakes: missing resource limits, misconfigured probes, no ingress controller, wrong autoscaling, weak RBAC, missing anti-affinity and PDBs.
A consistent developer workflow to build, deploy, and release applications across any platform.
rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.
