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21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/21-years-and-counting-of-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing/
23•teleforce•3h ago

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jrpelkonen•1h ago
In this instance latency must’ve been 10 years, per my memory this paper came out in 1994
zephen•54m ago
On the one hand, the list isn't wrong.

On the other hand, more fortunes have been made by assuming that physics will catch up (closely enough, anyway) to computational needs, than by assuming that every byte and every cycle and every nanosecond matters.

shermantanktop•20m ago
Making money and being highly available are different goals.

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253•sohkamyung•4h ago•104 comments

Write for One Person

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126•evakhoury•2d ago•43 comments

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

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434•tamnd•10h ago•96 comments

Bitsy

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55•tosh•3d ago•3 comments

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/21-years-and-counting-of-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing/
23•teleforce•3h ago•3 comments

Firewood Splitting Simulator

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684•memalign•4d ago•222 comments

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

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296•unrvl22•11h ago•157 comments

Why Your CPU Is Fast but Your Program Is Slow: Understanding the Memory Wall

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23•prawns_1205•3d ago•5 comments

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113•AG342•1d ago•45 comments

Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

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3•signa11•59m ago•0 comments

Chaosnet (1981)

https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/amber.html
69•RGBCube•8h ago•7 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

169•david927•11h ago•641 comments

Formal methods and the future of programming

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213•eatonphil•14h ago•76 comments

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

https://github.com/meta-pytorch/torchcodec/releases/tag/v0.14.0
29•scott_s•4d ago•3 comments

A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)

https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2012/a-short-history-of-cerro-torre/
6•joebig•4d ago•0 comments

Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)

https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/
65•unexpectedVCR•3d ago•14 comments

Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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68•octopus143•9h ago•18 comments

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

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140•hollylawly•3d ago•51 comments

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

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104•wglb•7h ago•66 comments

Perlisisms (1982)

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
100•tosh•12h ago•49 comments

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

https://su3.io/posts/zeroserve-caddy-compat
160•losfair•13h ago•49 comments

Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function

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30•denismenace•4d ago•4 comments

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

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38•thunderbong•2h ago•13 comments

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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120•josephcsible•5h ago•46 comments

FarOutCompany

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107•bookofjoe•13h ago•17 comments

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

299•iliashad•12h ago•73 comments

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

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225•tacoda•3d ago•63 comments

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

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216•subset•14h ago•124 comments

USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits

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37•mooreds•3d ago•81 comments

How to earn a billion dollars

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487•kingstoned•15h ago•1462 comments