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How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32279/how-were-large-unix-installs-managed-in-the-80s-90s
6•SeenNotHeard•1h ago

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PaulHoule•1h ago
I remember using a cluster of RS/6000 (IBM's PowerPC) workstations that had AFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System

DamonHD•50m ago
I was NOT a fan of AFS. NFS was in practice much more reliable when the two were running side by side in my experience. NFS servers don't randomly and silently roll back months of changes for example, which is bad when the file system is holding your primary compiler image!

Design your website like a nice restaurant

https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/design-your-website-like-a-nice-restaurant/
1•paulhebert•1m ago•0 comments

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-tr...
5•taubek•7m ago•0 comments

The New AI Consciousness Paper

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-new-ai-consciousness-paper
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindHalo – macOS study assistant using on-device Foundation Models

https://mindhalo.techfixpro.net
1•aarush-prakash•9m ago•1 comments

Founder of Cincinnati tech firm Rumby admits defrauding investors, repay $7M

https://www.usatoday.com
1•rmason•9m ago•1 comments

Harvard to Admit 50% Fewer PhD Students in Science, Walking Back Deeper Cuts

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/19/fas-science-phds/
2•paulpauper•10m ago•0 comments

Suisun City and California Forever

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/economy/suisun-city-makes-an-offer-to-california-fore...
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

Maker of Onewheel launches wild new electric mini bike self-balancing wheelies

https://electrek.co/2025/11/19/maker-of-onewheel-launches-wild-new-electric-mini-bike-brand-with-...
1•Bender•11m ago•0 comments

Mercedes takes out the trash as German city deploys 18 electric garbage trucks

https://electrek.co/2025/11/19/mercedes-takes-out-the-trash-as-german-city-deploys-18-electric-ga...
1•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

Think you can't interpose static binaries with LD_PRELOAD? Think again

https://balintreczey.hu/blog/think-you-cant-interpose-static-binaries-with-ld_preload-think-again/
2•JNRowe•13m ago•0 comments

New Sturnus Banking Trojan Targets WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal Messages

https://www.securityweek.com/new-sturnus-banking-trojan-targets-whatsapp-telegram-signal-messages/
1•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Storytel-Player – A clean, fast, minimal desktop player for audiobooks

https://github.com/debba/storytel-player
1•debba•16m ago•0 comments

Airlines to ban use of lithium power banks

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/airlines-virgin-australia-qantas-ban-power-banks/106033982
4•mryall•19m ago•0 comments

Comic Code Reviews

https://www.jona.ca/2025/11/comic-code-reviews.html
1•JonathanAquino•19m ago•1 comments

Triton Data Center

https://github.com/TritonDataCenter
1•robertlagrant•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Mgrep – A Semantic, Multimodal Grep

https://github.com/mixedbread-ai/mgrep
1•breadislove•20m ago•0 comments

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-experts-urge-canceling-fossil-fuel.html
3•gpi•22m ago•0 comments

Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human
1•preetamjinka•23m ago•0 comments

It's the 'most important fish in the sea.' And it's disappearing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/20/menhaden-fishing-caps-atlantic-reduction/
2•diogenes_atx•23m ago•1 comments

Windows is getting hardware-accelerated BitLocker in 2026

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-making-a-major-change-to-bitlock...
1•pregnenolone•25m ago•0 comments

South Korea to build nuclear-powered subs in U.S., Trump says

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/asia-pacific/south-korea-us-nuclear-powered-submarines/
1•PaulHoule•26m ago•1 comments

How to fix a typewriter and your life

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/20/us/typewriter-repair-seattle-bremerton.html
1•ripe•26m ago•0 comments

NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook

https://www.city-journal.org/article/nih-jay-bhattacharya-covid-pandemic-lab
2•bilsbie•27m ago•1 comments

Practical Common Lisp (2006) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NO83wZVT0A
1•swatson741•27m ago•0 comments

Redux Critique

https://www.considered-harmful.info/redux/
1•psea•28m ago•0 comments

Up to 1.77M Ukrainians Killed in the War: Forensic Calculations

https://aaronlee.substack.com/p/between-913000-and-1770000-ukrainians
1•aajailee•29m ago•0 comments

(How AI Forced Me to) Relearning how to write: From 3 Fingers to 10

http://blog.dominikrudnik.pl/relearning-how-to-write-from-3-fingers-to-10
1•qikcik•29m ago•0 comments

Musings About Emulating ZX Next

https://solhsa.com/oldernews2025.html#MUSINGS-ABOUT-EMULATING-ZX-NEXT
1•ibobev•30m ago•0 comments

DivX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX
1•doener•35m ago•0 comments

I Built a Lightweight Alternative to VWO for A/B Testing

https://abify.app
2•iraklik•35m ago•1 comments