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Global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2025/uncertain-future-global-internet
1•pseudolus•1m ago•0 comments

China proposes 5-second 0-100 km/h acceleration limit on vehicles

https://carnewschina.com/2025/11/13/china-proposes-5-second-0-100-km-h-acceleration-limit-on-vehi...
2•doener•2m ago•0 comments

Bangladesh's ousted PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for protest crackdown

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g-s1-98112/bangladesh-sheikh-hasina-verdict
2•donsupreme•3m ago•0 comments

Jeff Bezos takes co-CEO role at secretive AI startup Project Prometheus

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/jeff-bezos-takes-co-ceo-role-at-secretive-ai-startup-project-promet...
2•johanam•4m ago•1 comments

Building Startups

1•Zachabdelilah•5m ago•0 comments

Private Markets Are the New Securities Fraud

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-11-17/private-markets-are-the-new-securities-f...
2•ioblomov•7m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What part of your work do you present?

1•benry1•10m ago•0 comments

Paywall as a Service

1•gethly•11m ago•0 comments

AI Use in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Draws Fire from US Lawmaker

https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-use-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-7-draws-fire-from-us-lawmaker
1•pseudolus•11m ago•0 comments

Embedding Model Leaderboard

https://agentset.ai/embeddings
1•tifa2up•12m ago•0 comments

Ioema: Germany to be reconnected via subsea cable

https://www.heise.de/en/news/IOEMA-Germany-to-be-reconnected-via-subsea-cable-11080868.html
2•i-con•12m ago•0 comments

A Chinese AI model taught itself basic physics – what discoveries could it make?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03659-4
1•eagleislandsong•13m ago•0 comments

Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/why-engineers-must-become-multipliers
1•rbanffy•13m ago•0 comments

The DIY FOSS Cyborg

https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-foss-cyborg/
1•mghackerlady•13m ago•0 comments

IRA Velinsky, industrial designer for Commodore and Atari

https://dfarq.homeip.net/ira-velinsky-industrial-designer-of-the-commodore-64/
1•rbanffy•13m ago•0 comments

Implementing Rust newtype for errors in axum

https://rup12.net/posts/learning-rust-custom-errors/
1•ruptwelve•14m ago•0 comments

Amazon driver may soon deliver with these smart glasses on

https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-amazon-driver-may-soon-deliver-with-these-smart-glasses-on-why...
2•fcpguru•16m ago•1 comments

Strengthening KernelCI: New architecture, storage, and integrations

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/11/17/strengthening-kernelci-new-architecture-s...
1•losgehts•17m ago•0 comments

FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost

https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/14/fmc-gets-feram-cash-to-kill-optanes-ghost/
3•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

Sun-dried and sustainable, Japan's persimmon dye lives on

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/11/01/style-design/persimmon-dyeing-textiles-shiga-crafts/
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

An Anti-License Manifesto (2021)

https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/09/29/anti-license-manifesto.html
1•cprecioso•21m ago•1 comments

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/who_me/
2•fcpguru•22m ago•1 comments

How might a leveraged perpetual-style model impact prediction market efficiency?

1•prophex•23m ago•0 comments

TSA PreCheck Touchless ID

https://www.tsa.gov/touchless-id
2•toomuchtodo•23m ago•0 comments

Remote MCP Catalog

https://mcp-catalog.com/
2•ronkrasn•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built ephemeral authentication – no tokens, just vanishing proofs

https://www.npmjs.com/package/poof-auth-react
1•emphreal_tech•25m ago•2 comments

Why some AI wrappers build billion-dollar businesses while others disappear

https://www.wreflection.com/p/wrapping-my-head-around-ai-wrappers
2•nowflux•26m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Amazon no longer allows review filtering on desktop website

2•benchtobedside•26m ago•0 comments

Evidence builds for disrupted mitochondria as cause of Parkinson's

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-evidence-disrupted-mitochondria-parkinson.html
1•bikenaga•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why All the Indonesian Spam?

4•al2o3cr•27m ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

How when AWS was down, we were not

https://authress.io/knowledge-base/articles/2025/11/01/how-we-prevent-aws-downtime-impacts
23•mooreds•2h ago

Comments

tptacek•58m ago
This is a rare case where the original bait-y title is probably better than the de-bait-ified title, because the actual article is much less of a brag and much more of an actual case study.
dang•54m ago
Re-how'd, plus I've resisted the temptation to insert a comma that feels missing to me.
tptacek•44m ago
"How?! When AWS was down: we were not!"
pinkmuffinere•49m ago
> During this time, us-east-1 was offline, and while we only run a limited amount of infrastructure in the region, we have to run it there because we have customers who want it there

> [Our service can only go down] five minutes and 15 seconds per year.

I don't have much experience in this area, so please correct me if I'm mistaken:

Don't these two quotes together imply that they have failed to deliver on their SLA for the subset of their customers that want their service in us-east-1? I understand the customers won't be mad at them in this case, since us-east-1 itself is down, but I feel like their title is incorrect. Some subset of their service is running on top of AWS. When AWS goes down, that subset of their service is down. When AWS was down, it seems like they were also down for some customers.

PaulRobinson•37m ago
The bulk of the article discusses their failover strategy, where they detect failures in a region and how they route requests to a backup region, and how to deal with data consistency and cost issues arising from that.
loloquwowndueo•36m ago
Depends on what the SLA phrasing is - us-east-1 affinity is a requirement put forth by some customers so I would totally expect the SLA to specifically state it’s subject to us-east-1 availability. Essentially these customers are opting out of Authress’s fault-tolerant infrastructure and the SLA should be clear about that.
dylan604•20m ago
As TFA states, we have to offer services in that region because that's where some users are as well. However, the core of services are not in that region. I have also suggested when the time comes for offering SLAs, that there is explicit wording exempting us-east-1.
dmix•31m ago
The main question is how much more difficult is it to start deploying to two different AWS regions. Assuming you have a heavy duty set up on on East.
sharklasers123•26m ago
Is there not an inherent risk using an AWS service (Route 53) to do the health check? Wouldn’t it make more sense to use a different cloud provider for redundancy?
indigodaddy•9m ago
Back in the day (10-12 years ago) at a telecom/cable we accomplished this with F5 Big IP GSLB DNS as the auth DNS server. (I can't totally remember but I'm guessing we must have had a pretty low TTL for this).

Had no idea that Route 53 had this sort of functionality