A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage(ngrok.com)

64 points by EndEntire 4 months ago | 16 comments

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose(maxcountryman.com)

35 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 0 comments

How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

275 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 225 comments

Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem(pckt.blog)

131 points by jcalabro 6 months ago | 64 comments

Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

508 points by brk 9 months ago | 59 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airfoils generate lift by examining the forces created by airflow around aircraft wings.

Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning(trevorlasn.com)

98 points by doppp 2 years ago | 93 comments

Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer(darkhorizons.com)

74 points by xoxxala 1 day ago | 93 comments

News article reporting that Microsoft declined a $500 million, seven-year Netflix offer to adapt Xbox game franchises into shows and films.

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360(kennedn.com)

155 points by kennedn 13 days ago | 42 comments

A personal blog post recounting the author's years-long effort to hack an Xbox 360 using a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D glitcher modchip.

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership(popcar.bearblog.dev)

594 points by popcar2 3 months ago | 452 comments

A blog post arguing that the debate over physical versus digital games is really about ownership, prompted by PlayStation ending disc production for new games.

I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone(idiallo.com)

447 points by firefoxd 10 months ago | 418 comments

Blog post by Ibrahim Diallo complaining that Microsoft won't let him dismiss Windows 11 upgrade prompts on a laptop that lacks TPM 2.0.

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.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.