Hacker News on Friday, 19 July 2024

CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops(old.reddit.com)

4367 points by BLKNSLVR 2 years ago | 3677 comments

Reddit r/crowdstrike thread reporting Windows blue screens and boot loops after a CrowdStrike update; the captured page shows a Reddit network security block.

FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges(worthrises.org)

944 points by Avshalom 2 years ago | 408 comments

Worth Rises press release on the FCC's unanimous vote to cap prison phone and video call rates and ban related fees, estimated to save families $500 million annually.

I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century(roadway.report)

678 points by Bencarneiro 2 years ago | 382 comments

Roadway Report, an interactive nationwide map of US traffic deaths in the 21st century framed around Vision Zero road safety.

Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues(afr.com)

631 points by raasdnil 2 years ago | 368 comments

Australian Financial Review news article reporting a global IT outage on July 19, 2024 that hit banks, airlines, miners and media companies.

Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease(johnfactotum.github.io)

580 points by ingve 2 years ago | 128 comments

Project homepage for Foliate, an open-source Linux eBook reader supporting EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FB2, CBZ, and PDF with customizable reading layouts.

Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage(garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)

457 points by n3t 2 years ago | 116 comments

Homepage of Garage, an open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting, with download and getting-started links.

Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests(washingtonpost.com)

401 points by perihelions 2 years ago | 161 comments

Washington Post news article on Bangladesh imposing a curfew after dozens were killed in anti-government protests, with schools closed and mobile internet cut.

Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer

390 points by samdung 2 years ago | 85 comments

Show HN post introducing Sendune, an open-source, lightweight drag-and-drop HTML email designer that outputs pure HTML templates usable with any email provider.

Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage(nytimes.com)

313 points by panarky 2 years ago | 89 comments

Multisatellite data depicts a record-breaking methane leak from a well blowout(pubs.acs.org)

302 points by belter 2 years ago | 207 comments

Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern(hallofshame.design)

255 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 241 comments

AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point(batchmon.com)

253 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 203 comments

The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters(twitter.com)

251 points by behnamoh 2 years ago | 267 comments

What happened to BERT and T5?(yitay.net)

218 points by fzliu 2 years ago | 63 comments

A search engine by and for the federal government(search.gov)

213 points by pajtai 2 years ago | 50 comments

Debugging an evil Go runtime bug: From heat guns to kernel compiler flags (2017)(marcan.st)

188 points by goranmoomin 2 years ago | 43 comments

Playing guitar tablatures in Rust(agourlay.github.io)

175 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 75 comments

The Later Years of Douglas Adams(filfre.net)

175 points by doppp 2 years ago | 54 comments

Ruby methods are colorless(jpcamara.com)

174 points by pmontra 2 years ago | 180 comments

Kompute – Vulkan Alternative to CUDA(github.com)

173 points by coffeeaddict1 2 years ago | 36 comments

NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock(jpl.nasa.gov)

167 points by Ozarkian 2 years ago | 93 comments

CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there(arstechnica.com)

162 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 155 comments

Never Update Anything(blog.kronis.dev)

145 points by generatorman 2 years ago | 93 comments

Building the new hypermedia systems(dz4k.com)

126 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 27 comments

Professional poker players know the optimal strategy but don't always use it(scientificamerican.com)

125 points by alexahn 2 years ago | 70 comments

The European Union must keep funding free software(pad.public.cat)

111 points by tr4656 2 years ago | 25 comments

Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF(coroot.com)

104 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 27 comments

What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it(devblogs.microsoft.com)

104 points by luu 2 years ago | 141 comments

74935 viewing Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks(bbc.co.uk)

99 points by larard 2 years ago | 16 comments

Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans(sciencedaily.com)

92 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 31 comments

Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

89 points by franze 2 years ago | 53 comments

Postgres vs. Pinecone(lantern.dev)

88 points by diqi 2 years ago | 13 comments

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal(nasa.gov)

84 points by NaOH 2 years ago | 9 comments

Academics shocked after T&F sells access to their research to Microsoft AI(thebookseller.com)

79 points by chbint 2 years ago | 51 comments

Radxa X4 low-cost, credit card-sized Intel N100 SBC goes for $60 and up(cnx-software.com)

67 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 40 comments

Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configuration change(bleepingcomputer.com)

67 points by doener 2 years ago | 20 comments

FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans(theregister.com)

64 points by openrisk 2 years ago | 10 comments

Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say(theguardian.com)

61 points by daegloe 2 years ago | 22 comments

CLI tools to build, browse, and blend your media library(github.com)

57 points by xk3 2 years ago | 7 comments

End Poem by Julian Gough(theendpoem.com)

55 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 20 comments

Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'(theregister.com)

54 points by tocs3 2 years ago | 24 comments

Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 min(9to5mac.com)

53 points by miles 2 years ago | 23 comments

62 Minutes could bring your business down(crowdstrike.com)

53 points by lazycrazyowl 2 years ago | 4 comments

It's not just CrowdStrike – the cyber sector is vulnerable(ft.com)

47 points by jmsflknr 2 years ago | 54 comments

Rare footage of largest uncontacted tribe in the world: 'disaster in the making'(youtube.com)

46 points by quantisan 2 years ago | 33 comments

Modeling study proposes a diamond layer at the core-mantle boundary on Mercury(phys.org)

46 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 20 comments

Nearly all of Bangladesh is offline(ant.isi.edu)

43 points by jheidemann 2 years ago | 3 comments

Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark(github.com)

42 points by thegoodduck 2 years ago | 17 comments

CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars(old.reddit.com)

42 points by argiope 2 years ago | 10 comments

Deletion of Il11 extended the lives of mice by 25%(nature.com)

40 points by Nazzareno 2 years ago | 6 comments

Bubble Sort: An archaeological algorithmic analysis (2003) [pdf](users.cs.duke.edu)

40 points by aragonite 2 years ago | 7 comments

Ask HN: How to finish last 30% of a side project?

37 points by HowToFinishP 2 years ago | 39 comments

TradingView's Emotional Subscription Cancellation(hallofshame.design)

37 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 10 comments

Continuously shorting IT stocks overnight and buying back at market open(blog.abctaylor.com)

33 points by arcza 2 years ago | 9 comments

Why didn't Rome have an industrial revolution?(maximum-progress.com)

32 points by shaftoe444 2 years ago | 17 comments

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide(theregister.com)

28 points by rntn 2 years ago | 6 comments

Deutsche Telekom issued invalid certificates, hasn't revoked them since 6 months(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

26 points by MaKey 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Plague of Lust: A History of Venereal Disease in Antiquity (1901 Edition)(publicdomainreview.org)

25 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 4 comments

Life was dirty, difficult, and dangerous for almost everyone who ever existed(freethink.com)

25 points by elashri 2 years ago | 12 comments

2024 CrowdStrike incident: The largest IT outage in history(en.wikipedia.org)

24 points by AbuAssar 2 years ago | 4 comments