Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE — and Is wine fake?

Issue #959 — November 23, 2022

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Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE matthewtejo.substack.com \| points: 946 \| comments: 1267

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Is wine fake? asteriskmag.com \| points: 490 \| comments: 524

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D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source github.com \| points: 483 \| comments: 117

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Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation hacks.mozilla.org \| points: 483 \| comments: 272

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High-documentation, low-meeting work culture tremendous.com \| points: 426 \| comments: 291

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Extremely Linear Git History westling.dev \| points: 415 \| comments: 279

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iCloud for Windows downloading other people’s photos forums.macrumors.com \| points: 367 \| comments: 79

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CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people ai.facebook.com \| points: 324 \| comments: 155

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Oh, the Places Your Apple ID Will Go pxlnv.com \| points: 321 \| comments: 144

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Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year arstechnica.com \| points: 314 \| comments: 340

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Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap wcedmisten.fyi \| points: 277 \| comments: 102

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TinyGL 0.4.1 bellard.org \| points: 275 \| comments: 29

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Moving Away from UUIDs (2018) neilmadden.blog \| points: 272 \| comments: 222

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Mycroft – open source voice assistant mycroft.ai \| points: 246 \| comments: 109

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Kubeshark: The API Traffic Viewer for Kubernetes github.com \| points: 225 \| comments: 15

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Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 275

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Barclays using TeamViewer font to warn customers old.reddit.com \| points: 207 \| comments: 42

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November 2022 Progress Report asahilinux.org \| points: 194 \| comments: 121

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Always use [closed, open) intervals fhur.me \| points: 187 \| comments: 140

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Considering C99 for Curl daniel.haxx.se \| points: 186 \| comments: 129

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