Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it — I have written a JVM in Rust — and A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis

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Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it webcache.googleusercontent.com \| points: 770 \| comments: 439

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I have written a JVM in Rust andreabergia.com \| points: 602 \| comments: 126

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A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis linyangchen.com \| points: 457 \| comments: 129

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Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers news.unl.edu \| points: 444 \| comments: 315

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Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it addyosmani.com \| points: 306 \| comments: 249

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Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age nature.com \| points: 301 \| comments: 97

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In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights" alessiofanelli.com \| points: 287 \| comments: 185

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Oxide Computer: Docs docs.oxide.computer \| points: 284 \| comments: 135

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Python Cheatsheet gto76.github.io \| points: 279 \| comments: 40

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Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common evanjones.ca \| points: 273 \| comments: 230

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Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG primocms.org \| points: 271 \| comments: 100

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Crockford on JSON license (2011) gist.github.com \| points: 244 \| comments: 59

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‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense forbes.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 124

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Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences home.cern \| points: 221 \| comments: 155

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Web Environment Integrity API Proposal github.com \| points: 203 \| comments: 158

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An invitation to a secret society experimental-history.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 96

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Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home forums.macrumors.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 186

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Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation github.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 66

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90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president arstechnica.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 107

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Lit: Simple, fast web components lit.dev \| points: 194 \| comments: 137

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