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76 points by bootlegbilly | 28 comments
Blog post arguing that observability should be built on wide events, as in Meta's Scuba, rather than OpenTelemetry's split into metrics, logs and traces.
343 points by esher | 89 comments
Homepage of FreeDNS (afraid.org), a free and premium DNS hosting service offering dynamic DNS, static DNS, subdomain and domain hosting.
8 points by mikelgan | 2 comments
Computerworld news article on Google's deal with Voltus for a 1GW virtual power plant that pays consumers to cut electricity use, freeing grid capacity for data centers.
43 points by ibobev | 7 comments
A blog tutorial on setting up and using systemd-nspawn containers, covering creating rootfses for Debian, Fedora, and Alpine and booting them.
802 points by psxuaw | 344 comments
A blog post sharing surprising things the author learned about Docker internals while building their own container runtime, covering namespaces, cgroups, images, runc and Go.
33 points by torutofu | 28 comments
Fly.io blog post introducing the Sprites Block Device (SBD), which replaces a modified JuiceFS setup with ext4 on an NBD block device backed by object storage.
53 points by Klaster_1 | 20 comments
GitHub engineering blog post on migrating Git repositories to Azure using per-reference quorums and object-storage-backed virtual replicas to scale reads and writes.
47 points by bearsyankees | 9 comments
GitHub status page incident report about delays affecting pull requests and webhook deliveries.
107 points by storagebits | 28 comments
Uberblok is an interactive web museum explaining OpenZFS internals like the uberblock, copy-on-write, txgs, RAID-Z and the ARC with animations tied to source code.
140 points by ibobev | 138 comments
A blog post on Entropic Thoughts about how using NixOS makes the author less afraid to try and self-host software like FreshRSS.
373 points by paweladamczuk | 207 comments
Neowin news article reporting a Google Cloud outage disrupting HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Equifax and other European services.
15 points by brndnbuilds | 4 comments
Landing page for Rouler, a free-beta Windows tool that routes traffic per app, IP or subnet across multiple network interfaces and VPNs.
3 points by QuantumNomad_ | 0 comments
Globus blog post recounting the history of GridFTP, a protocol for high-speed bulk file transfer used in scientific and grid computing.
144 points by gateauxd | 111 comments
GitHub status page incident report on degraded availability for GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages and Webhooks.
97 points by tosh | 20 comments
Netflix Technology Blog post on Medium describing how Netflix built an ontology-driven, end-to-end knowledge graph for observability at scale.
100 points by bcongdon | 17 comments
Blog post by Ben Congdon arguing that LLM agents dedicated to watching individual system components are the future of software operations monitoring.
75 points by stokedmartin | 31 comments
Engineering at Meta blog post describing Prometheus, Meta's gigawatt-scale AI supercluster and the data center and networking work behind it.
9 points by brgv | 4 comments
Blog post explaining how the author deployed a Tectonic-based LaTeX compilation service behind an edge-hosted app to generate PDFs, covering security and hosting choices.
559 points by sashk | 290 comments
Reddit r/sysadmin post where a user reports Namecheap seized and disabled all their domains; the page loaded as a Reddit network-security block.
36 points by StepBroBD | 9 comments
Landing page for ranet3, an open-source policy-routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN using userspace ESP over UDP, IKEv2 with ML-KEM, Babel routing, and SRv6 steering.
109 points by pmoriarty | 63 comments
A blog post in which a longtime infrastructure engineer, skeptical of Kubernetes, explains its components and the reasoning and tradeoffs behind them.
120 points by zdw | 15 comments
The DNS Museum is a catalog of odd, inventive, and impractical uses of DNS, such as traceroute art, DNS tunnelling, and DNS-based tools and toys.
18 points by relatedcode | 11 comments
Landing page for OneDeploy, a service that provisions dedicated servers running any of 88 open-source apps with TLS certificates and nightly backups, from $32/month.
27 points by hn9zmdcaou | 27 comments
Simon Willison link post on Anthropic's write-up about building a custom Git alternative after code changes merged per day rose from 2,500 to 30,000.
90 points by porridgeraisin | 49 comments
Blog post by Anurag Bhatia describing experiments with RFC8950, routing IPv4 prefixes over an IPv6 next-hop without tunnels, and its use cases for networks.
607 points by BrunoBernardino | 385 comments
Personal blog post describing which services the author self-hosts, which they don't, and why, motivated partly by leaving streaming services.
18 points by porridgeraisin | 2 comments
Marc Brooker's blog post using Lorenz curves and Little's Law to quantify how latency percentiles contribute to mean latency and the cost and capacity of tail latency.
129 points by tosh | 13 comments
Oxide Computer blog post describing Virtual Oxide Labs, a system for emulating a full Oxide rack to support testing and development without physical hardware.
56 points by bealesh | 47 comments
GitHub repository for Neckbeard, an AI agent plugin that scaffolds tested, cost-aware cloud infrastructure from a versioned module catalog.
113 points by nikanj | 72 comments
Tell HN post warning that third-level .name domains will be permanently removed next year and asking how others migrated, with discussion comments.
161 points by speckx | 63 comments
APNIC blog post by Geoff Huston on submarine cable resilience, opening with the Matsu Islands' cable cuts near Taiwan.
76 points by jadenlemmon | 27 comments
QA Wolf blog post describing E2exe, their system for running Windows desktop app tests at scale from Linux using disposable VMs.
824 points by Philpax | 878 comments
Anthropic engineering blog post describing how it migrated to an in-house version control system in five months after merge volume grew more than tenfold.
37 points by theHRTBeat | 4 comments
Hudson River Trading engineering blog post on using eBPF to trace unexplained network traffic across the firm's global compute cluster.
81 points by HatchedLake721 | 76 comments
AWS News Blog post announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions, a new form factor for running standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting code as event handlers.
151 points by vishnukool | 104 comments
Launch HN post for Agent37, a YC startup offering low-cost sandboxes for running AI agents, explaining its cost-reduction techniques like gVisor and non-hyperscaler hosts.
149 points by dkpk | 134 comments
GitHub status page incident report for an outage affecting Actions, Pull Requests and Issues.
153 points by rooftopzen | 45 comments
Cloudflare Radar bot traffic page for Yandex's network (AS13238) over 7 days; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
66 points by andsoitis | 59 comments
Google's Data Centers site with an interactive map and search for locating the data centers Google owns and operates worldwide.
26 points by gmays | 33 comments
An a16z American Dynamism article explaining why Texas's grid operator paused new data center interconnections amid a surge of large-load requests.
4 points by dorianzheng | 0 comments
A BoxLite blog post opening a build-in-public series explaining what BoxLite is, why it started on libkrun, why it is replacing it, and how a VMM works.
532 points by defly | 638 comments
Yandex Cloud status page incident report about a third data center being hit, but the capture shows only a SmartCaptcha robot check.
177 points by ghuntley | 89 comments
Geoffrey Huntley blog post recounting a conversation with Justin Cormack about why unikernels are becoming practical again and their security benefits.
7 points by eraclide | 5 comments
Event page for SNTPings by Studenten Net Twente, a shared canvas drawn by sending IPv6 ping packets to celebrate the SURFnet Infinity launch.
19 points by speckx | 3 comments
APNIC blog post by Geoff Huston explaining the DNS root zone DNSSEC Key-Signing Key rollover scheduled for 11 October 2026.
91 points by cnkk | 24 comments
Hetzner engineering blog post giving a history and technical overview of the Hetzner Cloud network stack.
51 points by dhruv_ahuja | 10 comments
OpenTelemetry blog post on designing self-hosted and SaaS products to export logs, traces, and metrics natively via OTel to any observability backend.
56 points by pierreneter | 39 comments
GitHub repository for k10s, a clickable Kubernetes terminal UI written in Go with search, logs, exec, port-forward, themes, and AI features.
33 points by 7777777phil | 11 comments
A ServerlessHorrors post by Andras Bacsai showing a $10,811.41 Cloudflare invoice tied to Durable Objects usage from vibe-coded software.
14 points by emrahsamdan | 4 comments
GitHub repository for Project Arena, a vendor-neutral Kubernetes incident benchmark for evaluating AI SRE investigation tools with an AI judge.
116 points by mzajc | 140 comments
ICANN application details page for a new generic top-level domain application for the string .lan, in pre-evaluation processing.
218 points by tonymet | 195 comments
Blog post benchmarking WSL 2.6.3 against WSL 3.0.2 across syscalls, memory bandwidth, and Go compile workloads, comparing Linux kernels 6.6 and 6.18.
31 points by ChrisArchitect | 38 comments
ICANN announcement publishing the list of applications received in the 2026 round of the New Generic Top-Level Domains program, including contention sets.
4 points by cs1996 | 3 comments
Mainbrella engineering blog post on designing its backend so retries are safe when a Linux machine is created but the reply to the client is lost.
221 points by gagan2020 | 171 comments
GitHub status page incident report for an outage affecting Git operations, pull requests, and GitHub Actions.
8 points by wbnns | 3 comments
GitHub status page incident report for an outage affecting Git operations, pull requests, and GitHub Actions.
33 points by acronpolis | 25 comments
AWS News Blog post presenting usage statistics for AWS services that powered Amazon Prime Day 2026.
39 points by a_kawashiro | 8 comments
GitHub repository for ProcInSh, a web-based 3D process inspector for Linux.
32 points by matt_d | 11 comments
SREGym research blog post describing a Jev-driven pipeline for SRE diagnosis that picks where to investigate and which cluster evidence supports a diagnosis.
372 points by mariocesar | 601 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking what services people find worth running 24/7 on a cheap $5 VPS or mini PC.
27 points by thomask1995 | 20 comments
GitHub repository for Durable Actors, an MIT-licensed open-source TypeScript alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects with per-actor SQLite and configurable compute.
76 points by yashdotrv | 18 comments
Landing page for Parseable, an open-core columnar data lake for observability and telemetry data written in Rust and using Parquet.
21 points by abdelhousni | 6 comments
Windows Blogs post by Microsoft's Logan Iyer announcing the general availability of WSL containers.
93 points by hising | 63 comments
GitHub status page incident report about a service disruption affecting GitHub Actions.
12 points by joekarlsson | 7 comments
A personal blog post by Joe Karlsson reviewing his homelab two years on, detailing each upgrade and its cost.
125 points by mkornaukhov | 30 comments
A 2016 blog post walking through a minimal Linux container implementation in C, covering namespaces, capabilities, mounts and other isolation mechanisms.
158 points by renehsz | 34 comments
Vincent Bernat's blog post explaining how to build self-hosted HTTP tunnels to expose a local server using a plain SSH client and nginx.
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70 points by signa11 | 36 comments
AI Engineer World's Fair talk video in which Stanford's John Ousterhout presents Homa, a transport protocol proposed to replace TCP in AI datacenter clusters.
469 points by sensanaty | 608 comments
Local Nebraska TV news report on how an improperly redacted annual report revealed water and electricity usage of Google's Lincoln data center.
67 points by jgx0 | 95 comments
A personal blog post about the author's search for an affordable custom-domain email service with unlimited addresses, verified sending, and Apple Mail integration.
6 points by birdculture | 0 comments
gVisor blog post announcing that the gVisor container sandbox project is being donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
573 points by elffjs | 290 comments
Simon Willison blog post arguing that pay-per-usage services and APIs need default hard budget caps, especially as coding agents make spinning up costly services easy.
205 points by geoffbp | 172 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing the open beta of Artifacts, a Git repository service usable from Workers, and a competition to build a Git platform on Cloudflare.
38 points by avsm | 30 comments
Blog post by Dave Scott explaining that Docker Desktop has run containers inside microVMs with a stripped-down Linux kernel since 2016.
39 points by Betelbuddy | 15 comments
The Register article reporting that pending regulatory approval for grid transmission may delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter past its planned 2027 start.
250 points by vntok | 100 comments
The Tao of Backup, a parable-style site teaching data backup principles through a master's lessons on the 'seven heads of backup'.
11 points by jamilbk | 0 comments
Firezone engineering blog post describing how the company built reliable and fast directory sync for user and group provisioning from identity providers.
49 points by spy888 | 20 comments
A blog guide from Mailfully explaining how to configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC DNS records for an email sending domain.
277 points by elffjs | 104 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing K2, a serverless event streaming product on its Developer Platform, covering usage, comparisons with Queues and Pipelines, and pricing.
10 points by zasc | 5 comments
A yeet blog post by Jacob Pradels about an app sending StatsD UDP datagrams to port 8125 with nobody listening, exploring observability and telemetry internals.
215 points by jbott | 93 comments
Netlify blog announcement about moving Edge Functions from V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs, claiming 5x faster performance.
13 points by mortenvp | 5 comments
NanoPing benchmark page showing live video streamed from a moving laptop over three Wi-Fi networks at once, with every packet arriving within 100 ms.
14 points by Levitating | 0 comments
Amutable blog post by Aleksa Sarai describing Quarry, a system for distributing OS images using dumb servers and smart clients.
148 points by Thom2503 | 156 comments
NL Times news article reporting that most data centers in the Netherlands refuse to disclose how much water and electricity they use.
142 points by bketelsen | 86 comments
Project page for nsl, a tool that gives Linux hosts persistent distro environments via systemd-nspawn containers in a small VM, mimicking WSL.
18 points by CG144 | 4 comments
GitHub repository for Corral, a Linux tool that runs a command with a wall-clock limit and ensures every process it spawned is killed, using sessions, cgroups or /proc tracking.
147 points by macleos | 71 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing cf, a command-line tool designed for AI agents and developers to access the entire Cloudflare API.
6 points by nonmaskable | 6 comments
Blog post from Epure on Sentry's 16GB RAM self-hosting requirement, presenting Epure as a lightweight Rust and Postgres exception-ingest alternative using about 53 MiB.
19 points by nine_ch | 16 comments
Blog post from Swiss cloud provider Nine describing a three-day DDoS attack in August and what it revealed about weaknesses in their network.
10 points by JumpCrisscross | 6 comments
WSJ article about a rural town where every household would receive $10,000 if a proposed data center is built; the capture shows only a device verification screen.