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AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

christhecaribou — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:31:58 +0000

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026-05-07

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/aws-warns-of...

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-clou...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058197

Points: 234

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New comment by christhecaribou in "California fire wipes out toilet paper warehouse"

christhecaribou — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:05:26 +0000

This is the world capitalists are building.

Amazon says AWS' Bahrain region 'disrupted' following drone activity

christhecaribou — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:55:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazon-says-awss-bahrain-region-disrupted-following-drone-activity-2026-03-24/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499027

Points: 27

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New comment by christhecaribou in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

christhecaribou — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:04:53 +0000

“Gemini Rue” and “Technobabylon” were my favorites, but they recently released a new title about time travel called “Old Skies”.

It actually made me cry and email the studio director. It was a masterpiece.

Amazon bungles Wednesday layoff plan with misfired internal email

christhecaribou — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:08:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-bungles-wednesday-layoff-plan-with-misfired-internal-email-2026-01-28/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790139

Points: 23

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New comment by christhecaribou in "Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say"

christhecaribou — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:16:25 +0000

The first level or two of management are completely useless and operate more as “slave drivers” than engineers.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say"

christhecaribou — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:51:25 +0000

> Yeah but they wouldn't risk disruption.

Funny, they said the same thing about AWS before layoffs last year.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say"

christhecaribou — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:49:57 +0000

Because investors aren’t actually very intelligent, beyond some vague desire to “make my money bigger”.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say"

christhecaribou — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:55:22 +0000

Right after that egregious U.S.-east-1 outage?

New comment by christhecaribou in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

christhecaribou — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:23:03 +0000

There’s clear data that shows an increase in the frequency and severity of LSEs post RTO3 in 2023, and it looks like RTO5 has accelerated that trend.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

christhecaribou — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:13:52 +0000

“Little evidence?” If the “aws” partition doesn’t actually exist when IAD breaks, Amazon hasn’t even discovered how to make multi-region cloud infrastructure. That’s a big deal.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

christhecaribou — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:11:59 +0000

The real story from this incident is that Amazon’s “aws” partition doesn’t actually have multiple regions - effectively, it’s all IAD in a trench-coat.

This is a big deal. My employer has already started to look at bringing back our old racks from storage and switching back to on-premises. Cannot imagine he’s alone in that.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

christhecaribou — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:50:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265462

Points: 232

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New comment by christhecaribou in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

christhecaribou — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:30:41 +0000

It just makes me sick growing up in the USA, hearing about the beauty of “competition”, and then growing up to see that not only does it not exist… they cannot even be bothered to pretend.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

christhecaribou — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:24:04 +0000

Especially when big employers all collude in the open.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

christhecaribou — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:23:23 +0000

And yet here you are, perpetuating the “crabs in a bucket” mentality that continues to be a blight on our industry.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Microsoft Mandates a Return to Office"

christhecaribou — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:08:46 +0000

Great time to be a recruiter in Seattle outside AMZN and MSFT.

New comment by christhecaribou in "Microsoft sets new RTO policy, requiring employees in the office 3 days per week"

christhecaribou — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:08:14 +0000

Asinine opinion.

If they were going to outsource, why haven’t they already?

In fact, the tech industry has tried continuously to outsource and it always gets rolled back for shoddy work.

What’s the secret sauce this time?

New comment by christhecaribou in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

christhecaribou — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:46:19 +0000

Microsoft is committed to becoming as terrible as Amazon, I guess.

New comment by christhecaribou in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

christhecaribou — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:04:37 +0000

I’m so sick of seeing people justify why we cannot have nice things, as though it were a fact of nature.