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Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•48s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•2m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
1•ColinWright•4m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•8m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•8m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•9m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•9m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
3•sohimaster•14m ago•1 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
3•harshalone•14m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•19m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•20m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
2•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•22m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•22m ago•1 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
8•c420•23m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•23m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•23m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•25m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
4•surprisetalk•29m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

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4•TheCraiggers•30m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•30m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
14•doener•31m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•32m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•33m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•34m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
4•elsewhen•37m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Linode / Akamai US-EAST is down

https://status.linode.com/incidents/6yw88b0ft94g
30•mherrmann•6mo ago

Comments

dreeves•6mo ago
Is this hard downtime for anyone else? We're not sure what they mean by "emerging service issue" and they haven't replied to our support ticket yet.
upseo•6mo ago
For us too, nothing works at all
mathrawka•6mo ago
Yes, it has gotten worse as time progressed. Some k8s services started to fail, which is how I noticed something was wrong. Then the k8s control plane was up and down. Then k8s control plan completely done. Now I can't even connect to any of my non k8s servers over ssh.
dreeves•6mo ago
Some signs of life from some of our servers now. Still no word from Linode.
basilgohar•6mo ago
Yes, my servers and all associate services are down: DNS, email, websites. It's a major outage at the whole Newark datacenter, which is their main one, no less.
basilgohar•6mo ago
Thankfully all my nodes are back up. But the DNS server as down so long that Namecheap registered it as a personal DNS server, so I am working with them to get it back up.

These are secondary effects of outage, not Linode directly, but caused by the outage itself.

cmg•6mo ago
I woke up to a few hundred messages from Icinga - thankfully my phone is on do-not-disturb overnight. Some of my servers in Newark are up and responding, some are not.

Happy Sunday! Cleaning up the automatically-created maintenance/alert tickets generated by this is going to be a fun time.

dreeves•6mo ago
More assurance that it's not just us: https://downdetector.com/status/linode/

"Mal de muchos, consuela de tontos."

dreeves•6mo ago
Encouraging update on the status page:

"The issue is related to heating/cooling complications in the data center due to a power outage . The power outage has been fixed and we are working quickly to bring our services back online."

skbohra123•6mo ago
We are also impacted. Services still down.
morpheous77•6mo ago
Hey guys I also fall into this issue, have you ever heard about some compensation it's been about 8 hours and problem persists. Good day all
PierreJasmin•6mo ago
It affects the company we use as online license server - lots of worried customers today here...
bobadob•6mo ago
They said it started with a power outage, but I thought Linode data centers ran on UPS and didn't have power outages? And, given the length of this outage, the problem seems more serious.
basilgohar•6mo ago
The power outage affected their HVAC system, so it seems to me like the entire DC had to be shutdown, so bringing everything back up from a black start seems to be the situation.
pupppet•6mo ago
16 hours downtime now, yeesh.
morpheous77•6mo ago
yup, I have one missing for booting...the most important
hecanjog•6mo ago
Our instance just came back up.
ajdude•6mo ago
I'm using a linode VPS as my mail server, this is hurting me badly.
basilgohar•6mo ago
I have a Mail-in-a-Box instance that does DNS as well for all my sites. Still down....
chriskkim•6mo ago
One of the three nodes came back online at 5PM EST, still waiting for the other two at 1AM EST ...
lgeek•6mo ago
Over 22 hours of downtime for the one VPS I have in that region.

My infrastructure is redundant and spread out among hosting providers and DCs so there's no real impact, but I'm pretty sure this is the longest outage I've ever had with any provider. And the communication level has been so dissapointing. 4 hrs to say it's a power / HVAC issue? Updates that basically just say we're still working on it since then.

ajdude•6mo ago
We are approaching 24 hours of downtime, I'm still one of those also affected and I'm starting to wonder if the situation is worse than they are letting on.
lgeek•6mo ago
Update: it's finally up again after around 25.5 hrs of downtime
ajdude•6mo ago
Here's to hoping mine comes up again soon
haik90•6mo ago
It is still ongoing and impacting multiple services and regions. Looking into the status page history, it seems they're facinga different issue on Kubernetes for the last couple of days
cmg•6mo ago
Of 60-something Linodes in Newark across a few accounts (we don't use LKE, Node Balancers, etc)

- Many came back up yesterday. Most of the rest came back up this morning.

- All but two are back online. One of those is "Powered off" but can't be turned on because "Linode busy". The other is online but unreachable, same behavior as most of them during the outage.

- Three required me to put them in Rescue Mode and run fsck.ext4 -F /dev/sda to get them back online.

basilgohar•6mo ago
Thankfully all my nodes are back online and accessible via SSH but there are currently secondary effects due to the length of the outage that I am dealing with, such as my DNS server being deregistered with Namecheap from serving as a personal DNS server (their name for that feature). The consequence of this is also that my email is not currently work, since that affects the hostname the email server operates under serving multiple other domains. I am still grateful that it seems I suffered no data loss, thank God!

Also, I've taken it upon myself to PROPERLY implement a better, redundant backup strategy (since I was mainly relying on Linode's service, but now I feel I should go beyond that). I am using restic backing-up to a Backblaze bucket via the S3 interface. Nice thing is I can put all hosts into the same bucket and restic will organize by host but still full deduplication support. Not sure how much that'll net me but it's nice to have.

ajdude•6mo ago
I'm in the exact same boat- mail server hosted on linode with namecheap as my registrar. I couldn't figure out why my DNS stopped working despite my linode finally coming back up, and... now I know where to look.
mnordhoff•6mo ago
Wait, Namecheap deactivates your domain name if you have a temporary DNS outage?
basilgohar•6mo ago
It seems it did not, but my glue records are no longer propagating. Still debugging until now.