My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day — and Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

Issue #520 — September 09, 2021

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My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day mark.mcnally.je \| points: 727 \| comments: 425

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Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate digitalrightswatch.org.au \| points: 727 \| comments: 820

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20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports? ocregister.com \| points: 430 \| comments: 840

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The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why blog.coinbase.com \| points: 420 \| comments: 400

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Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS github.com \| points: 345 \| comments: 204

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Monitoring my home’s air quality with AirGradient’s DIY sensor jeffgeerling.com \| points: 341 \| comments: 148

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Maintain It with Zig kristoff.it \| points: 306 \| comments: 182

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My university sacrificed ideas for ideology, so today I quit bariweiss.substack.com \| points: 304 \| comments: 162

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Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop arstechnica.com \| points: 271 \| comments: 186

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The ’megacomet’ Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the find of a decade space.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 52

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Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works locserendipity.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 76

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If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week? hbr.org \| points: 216 \| comments: 220

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Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse join-lemmy.org \| points: 214 \| comments: 197

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James Webb Space Telescope launch media kit [pdf] esamultimedia.esa.int \| points: 193 \| comments: 124

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Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI fastcompany.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 120

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Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation’s bank account reuters.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 158

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Companies that are avoiding hiring in Colorado coloradoexcluded.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 186

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Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project” blog.archive.today \| points: 169 \| comments: 70

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Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python engineering.atspotify.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 39

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Web3 is a stupid idea timdaub.github.io \| points: 161 \| comments: 158

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