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AWS outage caused by latent race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-this-weeks-aws-outage-caused-by-major-dns-failure/
4•AckermannN•2h ago

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panny•2h ago
Notice how they never explain how the problem was called "fully mitigated" early in the day, only to persist for many hours afterward. Ass kissing made it all the way out to corporate press release and into a forbes article before it became apparent that, no, it is not mitigated, at all.

How bugs made me believe in TDD

https://patrickm.de/why-tdd/
1•sneakyPad•51s ago•0 comments

What Does a 'Sovereign Cloud' Mean?

https://www.techpolicy.press/what-does-a-sovereign-cloud-really-mean/
1•ireflect•2m ago•0 comments

Tiny sugars in the brain disrupt emotional circuits, fueling depression

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-tiny-sugars-brain-disrupt-emotional.html
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

Tales from Toddlerhood

https://waitbutwhy.com/2025/10/toddler.html
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

CSS Terrain Generator

https://terra.layoutit.com
1•FromTheArchives•3m ago•0 comments

Automating Sparkle Updates for macOS Apps

https://cindori.com/developer/automating-sparkle-updates
1•wahnfrieden•3m ago•0 comments

ASK HN: How to Make Connections?

1•Tanishmittal•5m ago•0 comments

Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2102061118
1•Marshferm•6m ago•0 comments

Why every website you used to love is getting worse

https://www.vox.com/technology/465922/enshittification-cory-doctorow-amazon-google-facebook
1•raw_anon_1111•7m ago•1 comments

Believability in Practice (2021)

https://commoncog.com/believability-in-practice/
1•cjbarber•7m ago•0 comments

A Bootable Greeting for the Xenomorph in Your Life

https://hackaday.com/2019/10/07/a-bootable-greeting-for-the-xenomorph-in-your-life/
1•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RightMindMath and Arithmetic Fluency

https://rightmindmath.com/
1•ruralfam•9m ago•1 comments

Random Spherical Coordinates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/22/random-spherical-coordinates/
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

RAII to remedy a defect where not all code paths performed required exit actions

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251017-00/?p=111698
1•ibobev•12m ago•0 comments

Language agents for optimal conversation stopping

https://stoppingagents.com/
1•emaadm•14m ago•0 comments

Windows Runtime design principle: Properties can be set in any order

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251023-00/?p=111716
1•ibobev•14m ago•0 comments

Gambling Is Bad

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/10/24/gambling-is-bad.html
1•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

Getting Started with the Swift SDK for Android

https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/swift-sdk-for-android-getting-started.html
1•tosh•15m ago•0 comments

Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it

https://ourworldindata.org/material-footprint-limitations
1•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

US-East-1: All for One, One for All

https://boehs.org/node/us-east-1
3•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

Microsoft threatens to RAM Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/copilot_exchange_server/
1•01-_-•19m ago•0 comments

It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo
2•rene_d•20m ago•0 comments

To solve the benchmark crisis, evals must think

https://blog.fig.inc/to-solve-the-benchmark-crisis-evals-must-think/
2•hsikka•20m ago•0 comments

Celebrating 25 years of Google Ads

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-ads-turns-25/
1•sarimkx•24m ago•0 comments

The System Skill Pattern

https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/the-system-skill-pattern
1•jakedahn•26m ago•0 comments

A man who changes the time on Big Ben

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/meet-man-who-changes-time-32715300
1•simmerup•26m ago•1 comments

Pypi.guru: Search Python packages at the speed of thought

https://pypi.guru/
1•fbrdm•28m ago•0 comments

IBM's Unsettling Dawn of Quantum Supremacy

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=466
2•01-_-•29m ago•0 comments

Under President Trump's Direction, Scientific Protections Are Disappearing

https://blog.ucs.org/science-blogger/under-trumps-direction-scientific-protections-are-disappeari...
3•giuliomagnifico•30m ago•0 comments

Lying Lawyers

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/25/lying-lawyers/
1•leephillips•31m ago•1 comments