Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 242 posts.

Open Source
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Fedora 29

[This message comes directly from the desk of the Fedora Project Leader. — Ed.] In just one week, it will be fifteen years since we announced the release of Fedora Core 1. Now, we’re announcing the release of Fedora 29 — now not just “core”, but Workstation, Server, Atomic Host, a whole collection of desktop Spins […]

185

Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

Linkerd 2.0 was recently announced as generally available (GA), signaling its readiness for production use. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to get Linkerd 2.0 up and running on your Kubernetes cluster in a matter seconds. But first, what is Linkerd and why should you care? Linkerd is a service sidecar…

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Porting SBCL to the RISC-V

What better thing to do, during the hot, hot July days, thank something semi-mechanical involving very little brain power? With student-facing work briefly calming down (we've just about weathered the storm of appeals and complaints following the publication of exam results), and the all-too-brief Summer holidays…

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AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available

NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details…