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x86a··on Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions
This is such a myopic take
x86a··on CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
Go take a flamegraph of your most CPU-bound system and optimize the most expensive function
x86a··on Let’s Encrypt – Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident
They had scheduled maintenance a few hours ago, https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/maintenance/55957a99e800...
x86a··on MIT undergraduate admissions in the wake of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling
My assumption is that they exist, but are now competing in a larger pool of asian and white applicants - who may have better access to extracurricular opportunities that are still considered in admissions decisions - and therefore are less likely to be admitted.
x86a··on Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder
So, Grafana? ;)
x86a··on GitHub was down
That is very unrealistic. Infrastructure monitoring at that scale won't even be collecting metrics at that interval.

And simple HTTP monitoring would be too flappy for a public status page.

x86a··on GitHub was down
This is intentional. It's mostly a matter of discussing how to communicate it publicly and when to flip the switch to start the SLA timer. Also coordinating incident response during a huge outage is always challenging.
x86a··on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
Maybe I've been ruined by the internet, but a grandma didn't write this.
x86a··on Photo-sharing app BeReal acquired by Voodoo for €500M
https://archive.is/oxIuk
x86a··on API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
I don't think this is ever a good idea. Even for non-enterprise use cases, you wouldn't want some public hotspot to be able to inject random garbage into responses, even if not done with malicious intent.
x86a··on 'Millionaires tax' has already generated $1.8B this year for Massachusetts
As a solidly-middle-class tech worker in Massachusetts, your stance hurts a bit.

I'm a life-long renter with a family and elderly mother to support, and an IPO windfall would give me some much needed breathing room.

I don't know who you picture when you think of a windfall recipient, but I can assure you I am not lighting any cigars with $100 bills.

x86a··on Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
Possibly, but we are paying enterprise customers (but not using HCP) and this still isn't possible. Seems like an obvious thing they could have at least offered to vault enterprise or TF enterprise customers years ago.
x86a··on Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
I'm really excited to see the end-to-end state encryption. I've always thought it was bizarre that Hashicorp didn't prioritize this.
x86a··on Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach
Same here, and my personal email is also not in the list.

However, my former work email, that I used to sign up for both U-verse fiber and a corporate mobile account, is on the list. I suppose that all happened in 2016-2018.

x86a··on New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)
take the L
x86a··on E3 Is Officially Dead
To add a datapoint, I also gamed a lot (18 and younger) but quit when I started my SWE career some 15 years ago. Have not had a desire to play since then.
x86a··on Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust
We are influxdb enterprise customers and looking to do the same thing. They've kept their enterprise offering on 1.x, which has kept us mostly happy, but seeing what's going on in their OSS stuff is horrifying and we're looking to avoid the crash and burn at the end of the tunnel.
x86a··on How Equifax Was Breached in 2017
using wget here does not make it more embarrassing as its user agent was almost certainly randomized to look like normal web traffic. Normal traffic downloading lots of 10MB files... well, yeah that's not great.
x86a··on Let's Encrypt issues 35 certs every second
To be fair, I doubt bandwidth has ever been a significant cost driver for CAs
x86a··on US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circumvent tinted windows
The owner of the Google Doc is Orin Kerr (Prof. at UC Berkeley) if it makes you feel any better or worse https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/1681018140724166657
x86a··on LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets
Same here, but I would gladly pay 1Password to support this model again.
x86a··on I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup
Is Grafana (the product) really that bad? we've been using it for years with hundreds of dashboards and have never had any complaints*

*until recently... the new "time series" panel is a disaster

x86a··on Salary Transparency
yeah, this. It is very tone deaf to assume someone cares enough to contribute a typo fix to your personal blog.

A better response would have been "whoops, fixed! thanks for pointing that out"

x86a··on Salary Transparency
dude, seriously?
x86a··on Ask HN: Do you pull and run code as part of code review?
"MR" so probably Gitlab