Thursday, December 21, 2023

Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays

Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
527 by waynesoftware | 105 comments on Hacker News.
Thank you for keeping systems available and safe. I've been there many times in the past, including having to fly at the last minute to a non-internet-connected data center in NJ to babysit an emergency production bug fix that took the entire holiday to create, install, verify, and monitor.

ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
495 by programd | 137 comments on Hacker News.


Apple allows applications to track user locations without authorization

Apple allows applications to track user locations without authorization
516 by lloyds_barclays | 152 comments on Hacker News.


Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record

Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record
474 by indosauros | 128 comments on Hacker News.
Is this bad? $ nslookup microsoft.com Non-authoritative answer: Name: microsoft.com Address: 192.168.1.0 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.112.250.133 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.231.239.246 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.76.201.171 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.70.246.20 Name: microsoft.com Address: 20.236.44.162 Name: microsoft.com Address: 192.168.1.1