10.20.25 | AWS outage, Andrej's success advice, Space Elevator

Hacker News Highlights · Oct 20, 2025 · 11m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Oct 20, 2025.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - Major AWS Outage Happening

(01:15) - Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

(02:23) - Space Elevator

(03:28) - Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

(04:33) - Airliner hit by possible space debris

(05:32) - Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)

(06:38) - DeepSeek OCR

(07:43) - AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1

(08:47) - Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a…