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hacker_newzon Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

Because open-sourcing and publicizing a tool with no valid use-case comes off silly.

hacker_newzon Retina – eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes

If the only explanation someone can provide is that "a cluster is slow", the issue isn't with network observability. They need to do at least the minimum level of analysis before escalating.

hacker_newzon How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale

If tenants are on separate databases how would that be an issue?

hacker_newzon California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]

You trust an entity you can't interact with over a human being?

hacker_newzon I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021)

I was expecting a Game of Life implementation.

hacker_newzon I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021)

Why?

hacker_newzon The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta

God this process sounds awful. Why would anyone want to work for a company like that?

hacker_newzon How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket

That is not how s3 buckets work.

hacker_newzon Cloud Egress Costs

Your Google Fiber IP is part of a residential network with a completely different service agreement and larger limitations than Google Cloud.

hacker_newzon Cloud Egress Costs

Oracle does not deserve a shout out for charging market rate for their service.

hacker_newzon TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out

Why the past tense?

hacker_newzon NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network

In practice nothing should work without the source of truth being updated.

hacker_newzon Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

How does the cat tracking work?

hacker_newzon What's that touchscreen in my room?

Nice write-up, I wish my apartment had this.

hacker_newzon Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi

What are "the right datadog dashboards and splunk queries"?

hacker_newzon If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers

> used two levels of caching (Redis and a typical relational DB) to subvert rate limiting/IP blacklisting

How do those subvert rate limiting / blacklisting?

hacker_newzon Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features

You might want to provide evidence for "usually".

hacker_newzon SVB insider says employees are angry with CEO

Were you living under a rock in 2008?

hacker_newzon 30 Days of Python

What's with all the spam issues?

hacker_newzon NYC Slice

You're about a decade behind in neighborhood stereotypes there boomer.

hacker_newzon LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack

The KeePass Ui is terrible.

hacker_newzon Serverless DNS: Self-hosted DNS resolver at the edge

Why on earth would you want serverless dns?

hacker_newzon Show HN: Lldap, a Simplified LDAP Server

Just about every major enterprise in the world?

hacker_newzon ZeroStableCoin is out from stealth mode

How'd you figure that one out?

hacker_newzon Why aren't fentanyl test strips more widespread? (2021)

Want to cite sources?

hacker_newzon GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

Why did I have to find this out from Twitter rather than Google?

hacker_newzon $3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse

This really doesn't add to the discussion. Can you provide a more nuanced take other than 'crypto is a scam'?

hacker_newzon Snap launches its first drone

That color is just awful.

hacker_newzon Snap launches its first drone

A camera company with terrible camera quality.