Thread: ‘Red One’ down: How Dwayne Johnson’s tardiness led to a $250 million runaway production

‘Red One’ down: How Dwayne Johnson’s tardiness led to a $250 million runaway production (thewrap.com)

~ 22 pts 25 comments by unknown Apr 30, 2024 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Threat Stack vs. RedHat AuditD Showdown (blog.threatstack.com)

L 5 pts 2 comments by byoung Aug 21, 2014 security Security / Privacy thread

Gitorious is being acquired by GitLab and gitorious.org will shut down end of May (about.gitlab.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by cnst Mar 4, 2015 culturedevopsvcs Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Via [YC](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138419).

How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names (jordan-wright.com)

L 9 pts 1 comments by pushcx Oct 11, 2015 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Down the Rabbit Hole of The Ol' Reddit Switcharoo (imgur.com)

L 21 pts 2 comments by pushcx Oct 12, 2015 visualization Design / UX / Visualization Internet / Digital Culture thread

What Is a List? The Ultimate Predicate Showdown (in Clojure) (bytopia.org)

L 3 pts 5 comments by dotemacs Mar 14, 2016 visualization Programming Languages / CS Theory Design / UX / Visualization thread

Why Reddit was down on Aug 11 (reddit.com)

L 10 pts 5 comments by tedu Aug 16, 2016 devops Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

Since autoscaler reads from Zookeeper, we shut it off manually during the migration so it wouldn’t get confused about which servers should be available. It unexpectedly turned back on at 15:23PDT because our package management system noticed a manual change and reverted it. Autoscaler read the parti...

Minimum Karma Now Required to Downvote Comments on Lobsters (github.com)

L 35 pts 15 comments by dix Nov 11, 2016 meta thread

Looks like this policy is now in effect? It would be nice to get announcements of changes like this. Led to some confusion for me this morning when someone said that downvotes were back, but I couldn't see them.

A formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown (githubengineering.com)

L 44 pts 15 comments by pushcx Mar 14, 2017 programming Programming (General) thread

Unordered Lists in Markdown (daringfireball.net)

L 12 pts 4 comments by calvin Jul 26, 2017 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Meltdown patch reduces mkfile(8) throughput to less than 1/3 on macOS (blog.metaobject.com)

L 15 pts 2 comments by GeoffWozniak Jan 13, 2018 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Snap misses on earnings after rough redesign rollout, shares down 16% after-hours (axios.com)

~ 5 pts 0 comments by unknown May 1, 2018 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

A pilot study conducted on r/politics on Reddit found that removing downvote buttons did not offer substantial benefits (civilservant.io)

~ 11 pts 11 comments by unknown Jun 9, 2018 ~science Science / Math / Physics Internet / Digital Culture thread

Backdoored images downloaded 5 million times finally removed from Docker Hub (arstechnica.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by fs111 Jun 15, 2018 practicessecurity Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy Productivity / Career / Business thread

redo: a top-down software build system (designed by djb) (github.com)

L 45 pts 33 comments by bert Nov 6, 2018 programming Programming (General) thread

Really nice design and implementation, and apenwarr’s generally enjoyable writing to boot. djb’s original design is here: http://cr.yp.to/redo.html I don’t see a “build systems” tag; maybe we should start a meta thread to add one?

My colleague designed/engineered a hydraulic "Drop Down Truck" for wheelchair users (dropdowntruck.com)

~ 10 pts 4 comments by unknown Dec 20, 2018 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Taking back Taksim: Everyday life vs. top-down redevelopment (failedarchitecture.com)

~ 6 pts 1 comments by unknown Jan 18, 2019 ~design Design / UX / Visualization thread

Microsoft Outlook and Office 365 DOWN: Hundreds report login and server connection issues (express.co.uk)

L -1 pts 2 comments by bon Jan 24, 2019 windows thread

Red Bull Music Academy and Radio to shut down (pitchfork.com)

~ 7 pts 0 comments by unknown Apr 5, 2019 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Boris Johnson has been ordered to appear in court over claims he lied by saying the UK gave the EU £350m a week (bbc.com)

~ 11 pts 0 comments by unknown May 29, 2019 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Large tornado touches down near Kansas City; at least twelve injured (npr.org)

~ 5 pts 1 comments by unknown May 29, 2019 ~enviro Science / Math / Physics thread

Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down, owner citing burnout and disillusionment with Reddit as a platform (github.com)

~ 56 pts 57 comments by unknown Jun 3, 2019 ~comp Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Internet / Digital Culture thread

reStructuredText vs Markdown for documentation (zverovich.net)

L 14 pts 1 comments by calvin Jun 13, 2019 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Wind-Powered Car Travels Downwind Faster Than the Wind (2010) (wired.com)

L 4 pts 3 comments by weakforce Jun 21, 2019 artperformancescience Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Reddit's redesign has been down all day, however mobile apps work, and old reddit works. Does reddit not use the same public API for the redesign?

~ 13 pts 6 comments by unknown Jul 11, 2019 ~comp Programming (General)Internet / Digital Culture thread

‘Do not mistake our aloha for weakness’: Fourth day of Native Hawaiians protecting of sacred land and yet action is not slowing down (intercontinentalcry.org)

~ 13 pts 3 comments by unknown Jul 22, 2019 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

Iceland's central bank is prepared to cut interest rates again as an economic downturn is nearing a bottom amid a collapse in its tourism industry (bloomberg.com)

~ 5 pts 0 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2019 ~finance Productivity / Career / Business thread

Stockholm court has acquitted police officers who fired twenty-five shots at a man with Down's syndrome while he played with a toy gun (theguardian.com)

~ 6 pts 6 comments by unknown Oct 4, 2019 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

GameRankings.com will shut down on December 9, replaced with a redirect to Metacritic (gamerankings.com)

~ 6 pts 1 comments by unknown Dec 5, 2019 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Cooly Skunk: An unreleased Super Famicom game miraculously recovered twenty-four years later via a romhack of a satellite-downloaded demo (eurogamer.net)

~ 6 pts 0 comments by unknown Jan 30, 2020 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread