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Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations (slashdot.org)

2026-05-09 | get Fiber Optic Eavesdropping Kit → | tags: fiber optic cables, distributed acoustic sensing, european geosciences union

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Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | get 128-bit UUID Generator → | tags: signoz, trace-id, distributed systems

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Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get CodeMirror 6 Editor → | tags: codemirror, collaborative editing, operational transformation

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Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get CodeMirror Collaborative Plugin → | tags: codemirror, collaborative editing, operational transformation

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Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | by Arthur Douillard | get Distributed AI Training Kit → | tags: diloco, llms, data centers

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Google’s Gemini can now run on a single air-gapped server — and vanish when you pull the plug (venturebeat.com)

2026-04-22 | get Air-Gapped Server Security Kit → | tags: google cloud, gemini model, cirrascale

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Laws of Software Engineering (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-21 | by Dr. Milan Milanović | get Software Engineering Book → | tags: conway's law, hyrum's law, cap theorem

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Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service (engadget.com)

2026-04-20 | get DDoS Protection Service → | tags: mastodon, ddos attack, mastodon.social

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Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | get OpenTelemetry Collector Plugin → | tags: opentelemetry, retroactive sampling, victoriametrics

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Google and Pentagon in talks to run custom AI chips inside classified environments — Google pushes for tight controls for TPUs surrounding use for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-17 | by Luke James | tags: google, tensor processing unit, google distributed cloud

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Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages (engadget.com)

2026-04-17 | get DDoS Protection Service → | tags: bluesky, ddos attack, social media

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Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get GitHub Desktop → | tags: artifacts, git, source control

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Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | by Kiran Gopinathan | get Distributed Systems Development Kit → | tags: multi-agent systems, choreographic language, large language models

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Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | by Lindsey Kuper | get Causal Ordering Message Queue → | tags: causally ordered messaging, distributed programming, choreographic programming

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The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | tags: raft, consensus algorithm, distributed systems

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through "Mean Girls" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get Raft Consensus Algorithm T-Shirt → | tags: raft consensus, mean girls, distributed systems

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The solution to America’s energy crisis starts with homes (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-09 | get Smart Home Energy Monitor → | tags: residential solar, battery storage, winter storm fern

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Hackers steal and leak sensitive LAPD police documents (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-08 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get LAPD Police Document Scanner → | tags: lapd, distributed denial of secrets, world leaks

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Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | get Dropbox Sync Service Guide → | tags: dropbox, distributed sync, testing

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Mysteries of Dropbox: Property-Based Testing of a Distributed Sync Service [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | get Dropbox Sync Service Guide → | tags: dropbox, property-based testing, distributed sync

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Why AI Systems Fail Quietly (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-04-07 | by Varun Raj | get AI Failure Detection Kit → | tags: distributed ai platform, autonomous systems, language model

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Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | by Stephen Diehl | tags: antimemetics, distributed systems, data loss

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Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | by Stephen Diehl | tags: antimemetics, sam hughes, qntm

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Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | get Home Server Rack → | tags: distributed data centers, hot water heating, basement servers

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A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-22 | by Bram Cohen | get GitHub Desktop → | tags: crdt, version control, manyana

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Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects (2014) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-20 | by Martin Fowler | tags: microservices, distributed objects, enterprise application architecture

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Language model teams as distributed systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | get Distributed Systems for AI → | tags: language models, distributed systems, team collaboration

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Language Model Teams as Distrbuted Systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | get Distributed AI Model Server → | tags: language models, distributed systems, team collaboration

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Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months — Lightsonic tech detects underground vibrations, machine learning isolates the source (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Lightsonic Pipe Leak Detector → | tags: fiber optic cables, distributed acoustic sensing, lightsonic

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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-21 | by Anthony Ha | get Archive.org → | tags: ddos attack, wikipedia, archive.today