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lsr: ls with io_uring

https://rockorager.dev/log/lsr-ls-but-with-io-uring/
244•mpweiher•6h ago•136 comments

Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix
91•todsacerdoti•3d ago•18 comments

CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download
189•rbanffy•9h ago•86 comments

How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too)

https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/
6•itzlambda•46m ago•2 comments

Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/
62•rrampage•1h ago•33 comments

Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy

https://www.biocentury.com/article/656520/third-death-from-a-sarepta-gene-therapy
8•randycupertino•56m ago•0 comments

Mango Health (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mango-health/jobs/3bjIHus-founding-engineer
1•zachgitt•44m ago

Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-section-174-is-reversed
40•jawns•1h ago•13 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

119•proberts•4h ago•181 comments

How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

https://hakibenita.com/django-foreign-keys
17•Bogdanp•3d ago•1 comments

When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-immutable-system-logs/
119•todsacerdoti•10h ago•40 comments

CoCo1 composite video

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/07/15/tandy-trs80-coco-composite-mod-aquarius.html
20•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

https://100r.co/site/home.html
174•0xCaponte•4d ago•40 comments

HathiTrust Digital Library

https://www.hathitrust.org/
46•djoldman•3d ago•15 comments

LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-calls-out-microsoft-for-using-complex-file-formats-to-lock-in-office-users/
60•bundie•2h ago•31 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-geometry-for-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-20250716/
18•jandrewrogers•4h ago•0 comments

Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page

https://imgur.com/a/2H7HVcU
129•Alex3917•3h ago•23 comments

The Art of Roland-Garros

https://www.garros.gallery/
45•pentagrama•3d ago•3 comments

Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5367557/
225•Bluestein•8h ago•215 comments

15 Years of Building Jefit

https://www.jefit.com/our-story
43•jasong•3d ago•29 comments

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

201•_false•6h ago•154 comments

Exposed MCP servers across the internet

https://www.knostic.ai/blog/mapping-mcp-servers-study
54•gepeto42•5h ago•23 comments

Row Polymorphic Programming

https://www.stranger.systems/posts/by-slug/row-polymorphic-programming.html
37•todsacerdoti•4d ago•22 comments

The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

https://www.salon.com/2002/05/07/students/
15•georgecmu•1h ago•1 comments

Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences

https://ansi.tools
91•webpro•3d ago•46 comments

DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/18/dhs-filming-cops-ice-officers-is-a-violent-tactic/
5•mdhb•6m ago•1 comments

Lookism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookism
3•gmargari•9m ago•0 comments

Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

https://bozmen.io/fhe
391•barisozmen•15h ago•183 comments

Ask HN: GCP Outage?

71•grilledchickenw•3h ago•33 comments

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/duckduckgo-now-lets-you-hide-ai-generated-images-in-search-results/
125•moose44•2h ago•50 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: GCP Outage?

71•grilledchickenw•3h ago
Status page is, as expected, all green, but anyone noticing anything unusual? Services on cloud run timing out for me.

Comments

staletofu•3h ago
Can't login with google to langsmith at the moment and gcp login is loading either. Seems like there is something afoot.
jeanlucas•3h ago
Some issues here in Brazil
hu3•1h ago
One of my multi-region clients is also affected by Brazil GCP.
tosh•3h ago
Firebase Firestore is either down or very high latency in us-east1
ghxst•3h ago
Multiple people within our company reporting issues. Mostly from US, us in the EU still seem fine as of right now.

edit: Never mind, it's down for me now as well.

archiolidius•3h ago
YouTube API partially down
romanzubenko•3h ago
We first noticed google login issues with our app, can't login with google anywhere now, Google Analytics is down as well.
jeanlucas•3h ago
Multiple people in Brazil reporting:

- SSO issues;

- Google workspace tools not loading;

current time: 2025-07-18T15:35:43+00:00 12h35 GMT-3

ChrisArchitect•3h ago
https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/oFcAZT...
dondraper36•3h ago
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...

Seems to be some hardware problem at least in us-east1

jbreckmckye•13m ago
Someone unplugged the Big Router
palcu•3h ago
There is an external incident now.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...

lebski88•3h ago
Our VPN restarted about an hour ago and caused a bit of excitement, on the whole it's been a lot less _interesting_ than the last one thankfully.
dangoodmanUT•3h ago
Reminder that multi cloud >>> multi region

Anyone who says otherwise is selling availability theater

Too many whole-cloud outages due to a bad config in the last 2 months (GCP x2, cloudflare x2)

jonathaneunice•2h ago
And also that effort(multi cloud) >>> effort(multi region)
18172828286177•2h ago
This isn’t a whole-cloud outage. It’s not even a whole-region outage.

Whole-cloud outages are pretty damn rare. The recent GCP issues are an exception to the general rule.

I’d posit that the complexity of a multi-cloud setup is generally going to reduce your service’s reliability more than relying on a single cloud does.

remram•2h ago
Whole-zone outages are also rare...
dangoodmanUT•1h ago
Not about regions, it’s about services
JohnMakin•2h ago
I've maintained a large multi-cloud architecture in the past. The problem is they really hit you hard on egress costs. Of course the motivation is obvious, they want to keep you locked in to their vendor. I did like that it gave a stronger leverage in contract renewals, but that was about it. The IAC was much more complicated and required more people/areas of knowledge. So it's definitely a tradeoff.

You are correct that it's "better" though if your goal is to have as many 9's of uptime as possible.

mads_quist•1h ago
I currently have the strong opinion that for many mid-sized orgs with 250+ engineers it can be more resilient if you go back to bare metal or at least VM only in two or three local date centers. Yes, you need to know that they do their job well. But it will probably also reduce a lot of devops overhead...
dilyevsky•1h ago
There are multiple companies that help you with that by running tunnels via Direct Interconnect (Direct Connect in AWS) so that you "only" pay 2c/G egressing data out of VPC via this tunnel
Ironlink•3h ago
Our system in EU observed some slowness and a few 500 and 503 responses from `identitytoolkit.googleapis.com` over a period of about 10 minutes.
blitzar•2h ago
Systems down, heading to the pub.
ge96•2h ago
Every time pager duty hits, take a shot
mbf•1h ago
I forgot all about pager duty... been retired over a year now. I don't miss pager duty.
CoastalCoder•1h ago
> I forgot all about pager duty

Probably because it's hard to form long-term memories when you're sleep-deprived :/

blitzar•49m ago
or 8 shots in
dijit•2h ago
Maybe centralising all our IT infrastructure wasn't a good idea after all.
kenmacd•1h ago
I dunno. If just your employers site is down then you'll be expected to fix it, whereas if everyone is down there's less pressure.
dpkirchner•59m ago
yup. I figure I'm basically a free-rider (except I am paying a relatively small amount.)
dijit•48m ago
Nobody who talks to actual stakeholders can use this as a defence.

B2B customers don’t care if the other sites are also down, your SLA is affected with them, and they will want compensation.

freedomben•1h ago
Definitely been seeing a handful of 50x errors this morning. Fortunately seems like a partial outage but definitely annoying (and can sometimes indicate worse trouble coming)
abhisek•10m ago
Yes. Many times. Kubernetes upgrade during maintenance schedule borks up entire cluster, yet everything is green on status page. Support case under enterprise support plan took almost 6 hours to get it resolved.