Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Loss

Tell HN: Check your old YouTube videos (ycombinator.com)
If you're someone who has uploaded videos to youtube in the past, and don't want to lose them, give them a quick look now.

YouTube, Social Media, Content Management, Data Loss

11 points by phendrenad2 23 days ago | 3 comments

How Bad Is Link Rot? (brainbaking.com)
There’s no denying that online content disappears. Depending on the type and thoroughness of the study, reports claim that 38% to 66.5% of webpages that existed a decade ago are dead. Sometimes we’re treated with a 3xx redirect code but more often than not they’re simply gone forever if it wasn’t for the Internet Archive.

Internet Archive, Web Content, Data Loss, Online Content

17 points by ZacnyLos 27 days ago | 6 comments

Cloudflare Experiences Major Incident in November, Resulting in Log Loss (infoq.com)
Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost.

Cloud Computing, Security, Data Loss, Internet Infrastructure

6 points by belter 39 days ago | 0 comments

Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing (nature.com)
Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives.

Science, Research, Data Loss, Digital Archives

6 points by XzetaU8 47 days ago | 0 comments

OpenZFS Horror Stories – Klara Systems (klarasystems.com)
Join the Klara team, including co-founder Allan Jude and solutions engineer JT Pennington, as they share spine-chilling Halloween stories of near disasters with data loss. Discover what to avoid and learn why having well-tested backups is absolutely essential.

OpenZFS, Data Loss, Backups, Storage, Software

51 points by rodrigo975 58 days ago | 0 comments

Data Lifeboat (flickr.org)
What should we do when a digital service sinks?

Data Loss, Digital Preservation, Digital Services

63 points by duck 87 days ago | 7 comments

Man locked out of Google Drive and loses 9 year old photos after SIM Swap attack (bbc.co.uk)
A man says he has lost files, business records and all his online photos after "failings" by his mobile phone provider allowed fraudsters to take control of his phone.

Cybersecurity, Data Loss, Mobile Security, Google Drive

32 points by microsoftedging 88 days ago | 19 comments

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft has notified customers that it’s missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without critical data for detecting possible intrusions.

Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Data Loss

295 points by alephnerd 89 days ago | 158 comments

Twitter blog posts from 2019-2024 appear to be missing from Internet Archive (twitter.com)

Social Media, Data Loss, Internet Archive

34 points by ryzvonusef 90 days ago | 11 comments

We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.

Internet Archive, Digital Preservation, Web History, Data Loss

55 points by yamrzou 122 days ago | 8 comments

We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it? (bbc.com)
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.

Internet Archive, Digital Preservation, Web History, Data Loss

6 points by redbell 123 days ago | 0 comments

20% of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed (tomshardware.com)

Storage, Hardware, Technology, Data Loss, 90s

7 points by rbanffy 127 days ago | 3 comments

PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts (gingerbeardman.com)

Internet Archive, Data Loss, User Accounts, Online Services, Glitches

110 points by reaperducer 169 days ago | 32 comments

PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts (gingerbeardman.com)

Data Loss, Internet Archive, User Accounts

18 points by msephton 169 days ago | 13 comments

Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet (chinamediaproject.org)