Hacker News on Thursday, 27 July 2023

Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3(allthingsdistributed.com)

700 points by werner 3 years ago | 135 comments

Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on how Amazon S3 is built and operated at massive scale, from hard drives to organizational practices.

BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system(bloomberg.github.io)

631 points by carride 3 years ago | 222 comments

Documentation homepage for BlazingMQ, Bloomberg's open source high-performance distributed message queuing system.

Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints(reuters.com)

630 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 539 comments

Reuters special report alleging Tesla formed a secret team to suppress thousands of customer complaints about cars falling short of advertised driving range.

Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)(twistedsifter.com)

583 points by caiobegotti 3 years ago | 247 comments

TwistedSifter article explaining how wavy crinkle-crankle walls, popular in England, use fewer bricks than straight walls while remaining stable.

Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

552 points by imadkhan 3 years ago | 774 comments

Ask HN thread where a laid-off front-end developer asks whether the tech job market is bad after months of applications yielding one interview.

Tarsnap outage postmortem(mail.tarsnap.com)

520 points by anderiv 3 years ago | 299 comments

Colin Percival's mailing-list post-mortem on the July 2–3, 2023 Tarsnap outage caused by a failed EC2 server in us-east-1, and how service was restored.

Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing(neelc.org)

513 points by neelc 3 years ago | 236 comments

Blog post arguing Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal resembles Microsoft's ill-fated Palladium trusted computing initiative and threatens ad blockers.

Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub(discuss.systems)

405 points by luu 3 years ago | 218 comments

A Mastodon post by Adrian Sampson apologizing to the GitHub user @reset, who keeps getting tagged when the Calyx team discusses resetting registers.

Commander Keen's adaptive tile refresh(fabiensanglard.net)

369 points by atan2 3 years ago | 135 comments

Fabien Sanglard article explaining how Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Refresh scrolling technique worked on EGA hardware, and what the second trilogy used instead.

No one wants to talk to your chatbot(lucas-mcgregor.medium.com)

354 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 170 comments

A Medium essay by Lucas McGregor arguing that users don't want to interact with company chatbots.

Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X(leteyski.com)

297 points by ericthegoodking 3 years ago | 165 comments

Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?(scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)

292 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 319 comments

LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT(tatsu-lab.github.io)

275 points by georgehill 3 years ago | 110 comments

How to check if two SQL tables are the same(github.com)

243 points by remywang 3 years ago | 108 comments

Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin(twitter.com)

238 points by jacooper 3 years ago | 293 comments

Annual EFF Awards: Alexandra Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal(eff.org)

233 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 20 comments

Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way(eupnea-linux.github.io)

231 points by lwhsiao 3 years ago | 99 comments

Launch HN: PeerDB (YC S23) – Fast, Native ETL/ELT for Postgres

224 points by saisrirampur 3 years ago | 81 comments

MacOS in QEMU – ARM edition [pdf](kvm-forum.qemu.org)

204 points by watusername 3 years ago | 82 comments

Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow(jlericson.com)

194 points by jlericson 3 years ago | 177 comments

KernType – A Letter Spacing Game(type.method.ac)

193 points by antidnan 3 years ago | 41 comments

Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed](techdirt.com)

189 points by lehi 3 years ago | 142 comments

Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law(techdirt.com)

178 points by rntn 3 years ago | 89 comments

Data diffs: Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset (2022)(blog.marcua.net)

177 points by winkywooster 3 years ago | 18 comments

How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success(vox.com)

160 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 241 comments

LLMs Unleashed: The Power of Fine-Tuning(lucaspauker.com)

155 points by lucaspauker 3 years ago | 75 comments

EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling(theverge.com)

153 points by rntn 3 years ago | 142 comments

Faster filesystem access with Directfs(gvisor.dev)

153 points by jhalstead 3 years ago | 42 comments

An Internet Canvas(paper.mmm.dev)

150 points by antidnan 3 years ago | 39 comments

DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables(unix.stackexchange.com)

150 points by timost 3 years ago | 91 comments

Insect memories may not survive metamorphosis(quantamagazine.org)

147 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 85 comments

How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

142 points by tuxguy 3 years ago | 30 comments

Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites(theregister.com)

137 points by mikece 3 years ago | 30 comments

Austral Programming Language(austral-lang.org)

136 points by frutiger 3 years ago | 103 comments

Graphite: Open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor(graphite.rs)

136 points by davikr 3 years ago | 46 comments

List of APIs that require declared reasons(developer.apple.com)

132 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 56 comments

Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why(caltech.edu)

130 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 57 comments

SQLite Begin Concurrent(sqlite.org)

122 points by fauigerzigerk 3 years ago | 38 comments

Kill dwm.exe on Windows for less input lag and better performance(github.com)

117 points by CppPro 3 years ago | 86 comments

LeMUR: LLMs for Audio and Speech(assemblyai.com)

114 points by ramie 3 years ago | 22 comments

Intel returns to profitability after two quarters of losses(cnbc.com)

110 points by bluedino 3 years ago | 17 comments

Epilogue of my time working at Twitter(esthercrawford.medium.com)

109 points by tonystubblebine 3 years ago | 64 comments

eSIM is altering how consumers interact with operators(opensignal.com)

100 points by signa11 3 years ago | 116 comments

Google Med-Palm M: Towards Generalist Biomedical AI(arxiv.org)

98 points by panabee 3 years ago | 79 comments

How to use a Python multiprocessing module(developers.redhat.com)

97 points by unripe_syntax 3 years ago | 40 comments

Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source(spectrum.ieee.org)

95 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 85 comments

Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for the first time(japantimes.co.jp)

92 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 70 comments

Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (2017)(cambridge.org)

90 points by pepys 3 years ago | 30 comments

Namibian fairy circle debate rages on: Sand termites or Turing mechanism?(arstechnica.com)

87 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 37 comments

Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat(seas.harvard.edu)

86 points by geox 3 years ago | 7 comments

This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years(cnn.com)

83 points by rntn 3 years ago | 82 comments

The Design Thinking Movement Is Absurd (2018)(sts-news.medium.com)

81 points by Lutzb 3 years ago | 60 comments

The moral character of cryptographic work (2015)(web.cs.ucdavis.edu)

76 points by TheBigRoomXXL 3 years ago | 38 comments

Slack Is Down(status.slack.com)

75 points by enescakir 3 years ago | 56 comments

WebArena: A realistic web environment for building autonomous agents(webarena.dev)

71 points by jeron 3 years ago | 8 comments

Understanding battery performance of IoT devices(interrupt.memfault.com)

71 points by tyhoff 3 years ago | 32 comments

LK-99(en.wikipedia.org)

70 points by bilsbie 3 years ago | 34 comments

'First Amendment Auditor' Sues NYPD over Right to Record in Police Stations(reason.com)

68 points by jawns 3 years ago | 49 comments

Visa-free travel to Europe for U.S. citizens to end in 2024,requiring ETIAS form(npr.org)

68 points by drubio 3 years ago | 49 comments

Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble?

66 points by stevefan1999 3 years ago | 37 comments