Thundering herd problem: Preventing the stampede 10 months agoUber built Kraken to solve the same problem with distributing images: https://github.com/uber/kraken 0ThreadHN
Stripe is just trying to do layoff without paying severance 4 years agoIs there any difference between this and the kind of forced attrition that Meta and Google have also signaled recently? 0ThreadHN
Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019) 5 years agoNot to be confused with Uber's Zanzibar: https://github.com/uber/zanzibar 0ThreadHN
[dead] 5 years agoThis reads like an April 1st gag. Is there a corroborating account from a different, reliable source? 0ThreadHN
English as She Is Spoke 6 years agoThe podcast Futility Closet had an entire episode on the book: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/05/18/podcast-episode-58... 0ThreadHN
Ask HN: What podcast(s) changed your life? 7 years agoRevolutions by Mike Duncan. I've always been interested in History, but Revolutions has really deepened my understanding of how our nations and political philosophies came to be, and what could have been.https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ 0ThreadHN
Posters of the golden age of Soviet cosmonauts 11 years agoThere's a good interview with the curators of the museum here: http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4654. 0ThreadHN
The Hacker News of Cryptocurrency 12 years agoProbably worth pointing out that the website a forked version of Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ 0ThreadHN
Ask HN: What is HN reading? 12 years agoHouse of Leaves - Mark Z. DanielewskiVery similar style to Infinite Jest, but the story seems much more sinister. 0ThreadHN