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kotnikon Awesome repositories are no longer awesome

I still find a lot of interesting resources and ideas on Awesome List trackers like this: https://www.trackawesomelist.com.

kotnikon Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

I am using Baserow (https://baserow.io/) happily.

kotnikon My Homelab Setup in 2026

Yet another state of homelab post.

kotnikon Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?

A while ago I saw Linux kernel people[0] using Writefreely[1] so I tried it and I've been using it ever since.

It's a bit clunky, initial Docker based deployment is not straightforward, but I like it. It's using Markdown, supports ActivityPub out of the box, and has static blog feeling even though it's not.

[0] https://people.kernel.org/

[1] https://writefreely.org/

kotnikon Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22

What I really, really, like is location of all the public toilets. This is precious information while exploring big cities.

kotnikon Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation

They are not struggling with QC, they are cutting corners and trying to sell cheap parts under a big markup.

Please remember that this is the same Lenovo that had issues with installing spyware to muzzle change from their own customers.

I was 10+ years Thinkpad user, bought T480s (over 2.5k euros) that had failing keyboard. I sent it back, and after 6 weeks got the same keyboard, only the key 9 is now collapsed, and as a bonus I can not enter BIOS anymore: computer just happily reboots now.

I believe that this will be studied in schools as a lesson on good brands being destroyed for short term profits.

kotnikon Chromium Re-Enables HTTP/2 Over NPN

It's been reverted: https://codereview.chromium.org/1472743002/

kotnikon [dead]

For at least half of an hour, most requests failed with 503.

kotnikon 16 bit signed int overflow brings air traffic control to standstill

"The agency said it had now added more flight-processing memory to the computer system."

int32_t to the rescue!

kotnikon MongoDB climbs to rank 6 in the DB-Engines Ranking of 189 DBMS's

Says the company specialized in MongoDB training.

kotnikon Ask HN: What's the oldest piece of software still in use?

Canadian nuclear industry has committed to continue the use of PDP-11 until 2050. I guess they have some software there running from 70s. Here's a recent ad for PDP-11 assembly coders they're in dire need of:

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?37827...

kotnikon GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

It was a DDoS attack. Nothing to do with their infrastructure.

kotnikon Why I Left OpenBSD

"Jonestown-like atmosphere of OpenBSD."

Wow.

kotnikon What really happened to the software on the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft?

For a (much) more detailed story, go here: https://www.cs.duke.edu/~carla/mars.html

kotnikon Why You Should Be Excited About the New Record for the Largest Prime Number

Picture overlaps text, in my version of Chromium.

kotnikon Undirect - Chrome extension that removes Google redirect search result

One alternative is GSanitizer extension.