Agent memory as a file format(calpaterson.com)

141 points by ingve 1 month ago | 73 comments

Why I love NixOS(birkey.co)

411 points by birkey 7 months ago | 277 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.

Secure Computing with Zymbit's D35(jeffgeerling.com)

17 points by ingve 3 years ago | 2 comments

Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1(jepsen.io)

203 points by aphyr 1 year ago | 78 comments

OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 is finally available for hobbyists(raymii.org)

116 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 36 comments

Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It(evanjones.ca)

184 points by r4um 2 years ago | 259 comments

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past(btrblocks.com)

56 points by tkhattra 1 month ago | 61 comments

Blog post by Viktor Leis arguing that S3-centric cloud data architectures rest on hardware assumptions that are becoming obsolete.

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left(fourlightyears.blogspot.com)

808 points by andrewstuart 5 months ago | 574 comments

Personal blog post by a former early AWS advocate explaining the frustrations that led them to leave AWS and why returning reminded them of those issues.

A year of funded FreeBSD development(daemonology.net)

370 points by cperciva 1 year ago | 121 comments

Colin Percival's blog post reflecting on a year of Amazon-sponsored work on FreeBSD, including EC2 support and release engineering duties.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket(tracebit.com)

546 points by tracebit 2 years ago | 199 comments

Tracebit blog post by Sam Cox describing a technique to find the AWS account ID owning any S3 bucket, public or private.

Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)(aws.amazon.com)

500 points by Sirupsen 1 year ago | 146 comments

AWS announcement that Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes using ETags (put-if-match) to prevent concurrent overwrites of objects.