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37signals Ditches AWS, Saves $1.3M Annually

2025-05-09
37signals Ditches AWS, Saves $1.3M Annually

Software company 37signals, creators of Basecamp and HEY, has successfully migrated its data from AWS to on-premise storage, projecting annual savings of $1.3 million. This follows a previous migration of compute workloads, resulting in $2 million in annual savings. The company moved 18PB of data from AWS S3 to Pure Storage, with AWS waiving $250,000 in egress fees. Upon completion, 37signals will close its AWS account, saving $1.5 million annually on S3 storage. Overall infrastructure costs will drop from $3.2 million annually to under $1 million on-premise, without additional staff.

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(www.theregister.com)
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LHC Alchemy: Lead Transmuted into Gold!

2025-05-09
LHC Alchemy: Lead Transmuted into Gold!

The ALICE collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has reported the observation of lead nuclei transforming into minuscule amounts of gold during near-miss collisions. Intense electromagnetic fields generated by these high-energy collisions knock out protons from lead nuclei, resulting in the creation of gold. While the amount of gold produced is incredibly small (29 picograms), this achievement fulfills a long-held alchemic dream. The study provides insights into electromagnetic dissociation and improves theoretical models used to understand beam losses in the LHC, ultimately enhancing its performance.

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(www.home.cern)
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Erlang Agent: A Distributed Framework for OpenAI API

2025-05-09
Erlang Agent: A Distributed Framework for OpenAI API

A robust, distributed Erlang framework for seamless OpenAI API integration. Featuring built-in supervision trees, dynamic API client generation, and tool execution, it supports all OpenAI API endpoints and boasts fault tolerance, rate limiting, and streaming support. The hierarchical supervision tree ensures stability and reliability. Developers can easily register and execute custom tools and directly access the OpenAI API via simple function calls.

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(github.com)
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Geometric Frustration: The Secret to the Rose's Shape

2025-05-09
Geometric Frustration: The Secret to the Rose's Shape

Physicists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered the mechanical secret behind the rose's iconic shape. Their research, published in Science, reveals that the unique morphology of rose petals is driven by 'Mainardi-Codazzi-Peterson incompatibility,' a geometric frustration. This incompatibility prevents petals from achieving their ideal smooth curve, resulting in the multiple curls and sharp edges we see. The team used a combination of theoretical analysis, computer modeling, and physical experiments to unravel this mechanism, potentially paving the way for new shape-morphing materials.

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(phys.org)
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The Math Notebook: A Powerful Tool for Kids

2025-05-09
The Math Notebook: A Powerful Tool for Kids

This article explores the surprising benefits of having kids keep a dedicated math notebook. More than just a place to do homework, a well-chosen notebook becomes a record of progress, a repository of solved problems, and a source of encouragement. The author shares practical advice on notebook size, page style, and even naming the notebook to foster a sense of ownership. Beyond the practical aspects, the article highlights the emotional value of tracking a child's mathematical journey, building confidence and a love of learning.

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(kidswholovemath.substack.com)
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20% Productivity Boost: A Real-World Look at AI Coding Assistants

2025-05-08
20% Productivity Boost: A Real-World Look at AI Coding Assistants

A 12-year-old SaaS company with 40 developers experimented with AI coding assistants, Cursor and Claude Code. Eight developers use them almost exclusively, while 11 use them about half the time. Claude excels at writing entire features, while Cursor is better for smaller changes. The AI assistants boosted productivity, particularly in repetitive tasks and understanding unfamiliar code. However, AI-generated code sometimes needs careful review, and the consistent style sacrifices individuality. The author argues mastering AI coding assistants is a crucial future skill, but ultimately, human thought remains paramount in defining software functionality.

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(ghiculescu.substack.com)
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WebAssembly Instruction Set: A Comprehensive Guide

2025-05-09

This exhaustive list of WebAssembly instructions covers everything from basic arithmetic operations to advanced vector operations. Each instruction includes its opcode, input/output types, and descriptions of the validation and execution phases, making it easy for developers to quickly look up and understand them. The list is clearly structured and serves as a convenient reference for WebAssembly development.

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(www.w3.org)
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FleursDuMal.org: A Comprehensive Online Resource for Baudelaire's 'Flowers of Evil'

2025-05-09

FleursDuMal.org is a dedicated online resource for the works of Charles Baudelaire, specifically his seminal collection, *Les Fleurs du mal* (Flowers of Evil). This site boasts a comprehensive collection of poems from various editions, along with numerous English translations. Notable translations by Edna St. Vincent Millay are featured. Launched in 2004 and maintained by Supervert, the site also includes works from other translators but reserves the right to reject submissions. Newcomers to Baudelaire are encouraged to begin with the 1861 edition's table of contents.

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(fleursdumal.org)
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Hydra: Postgres Performance Boosted 5X - User Testimonials

2025-05-09
Hydra: Postgres Performance Boosted 5X - User Testimonials

Hydra, an open-source Postgres-based database solution, is receiving rave reviews. Users report exceptional performance requiring no tuning for over a year, with data compression rates reaching 5X, significantly reducing storage costs. Its well-documented nature and highly engaged community, with quick responses from the team, make implementation and support seamless. Easy onboarding and reliable performance make Hydra an ideal choice for large-scale data analysis.

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(www.hydra.so)
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Chromium Memory Leak: A Bug Report from a Construction Robot

2025-05-09

A construction robotics company, Monumental, discovered a memory leak bug in their Chromium-based Electron application. The app uses Rust WASM code, managing memory via wasm-bindgen. The issue is that the JS engine sometimes stops calling finalizers in FinalizationRegistry, leading to runaway WASM memory growth. The author created a minimal reproduction and filed a bug report. This bug manifests as persistent memory leaks after multiple refreshes, requiring window closure to resolve.

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(bou.ke)
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Rollstack: Automating Data Reporting with AI

2025-05-09
Rollstack: Automating Data Reporting with AI

Rollstack, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is revolutionizing data reporting automation. They connect BI tools (like Tableau, Looker) with content platforms (like Google Slides), using AI-powered automation (OpenAI, Gemini, etc.) to solve the 'last-mile' problem of data presentation. Serving clients like SoFi and 1Password, Rollstack offers a remote-friendly workplace and competitive compensation. They're currently hiring experienced software engineers proficient in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Prisma.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
Development Data Reporting Automation Modern Data Stack

SpaceX Explosion: The FBI Investigation That Went Nowhere

2025-05-05
SpaceX Explosion: The FBI Investigation That Went Nowhere

The 2016 SpaceX rocket explosion prompted widespread concern. SpaceX attributed the incident to possible sabotage, submitting evidence to the FAA and FBI. However, the FBI investigation found no evidence of criminal activity. Although the failure of the Amos-6 mission briefly threatened SpaceX's financial viability, the company quickly rebounded, achieving remarkable success in subsequent years and ultimately surpassing ULA in the commercial launch market.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Tesla's RoboTaxi Trademark Rejected

2025-05-09
Tesla's RoboTaxi Trademark Rejected

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's vision of an AI and robotics future, including a sub-$30,000 driverless two-seater dubbed "robotaxi," has hit a snag. The USPTO rejected Tesla's trademark application, citing the term's generic and descriptive nature, lacking originality. This setback complicates Tesla's marketing plans, requiring them to demonstrate their product's unique features to avoid renaming or further legal challenges. This isn't Tesla's first trademark dispute; they previously faced a lawsuit over vehicle design similarities with Blade Runner 2049.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Deep Dive into Zig's Memory Safety Mechanisms

2025-05-10
Deep Dive into Zig's Memory Safety Mechanisms

Memory safety is a cornerstone of Zig's design. This article delves into Zig's sophisticated approach to preventing common memory-related errors while retaining the performance benefits of manual memory management. Features explored include eliminating hidden control flow, comprehensive error handling, compile-time safety checks, runtime bounds checking, the `defer` statement, optional types, build modes, and advanced features like sentinel-terminated arrays and explicit allocators. Zig's comptime system allows for compile-time function evaluation, enabling powerful metaprogramming while maintaining safety. These mechanisms significantly reduce risks associated with memory leaks, buffer overflows, and dangling pointers, making Zig a robust choice for systems programming.

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(gencmurat.com)
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Coconut Action Party: Uncovering the Secrets of Malaya's WWII Stamps

2025-05-09
Coconut Action Party: Uncovering the Secrets of Malaya's WWII Stamps

Lin Yangchen's 'Coconut Action Party' delves into the unique coconut-themed postage stamps of Malaya during World War II. The book covers the design, printing, wartime forgeries and usage, and post-war stamp issues across various colonies and Malay states. Through meticulous analysis of materials, colors, designs, and security markings, it reveals the unique postal system and social changes of this historical period. The book also utilizes advanced technology, such as scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, for in-depth stamp analysis, offering invaluable resources for collectors and history enthusiasts.

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(www.linyangchen.com)
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Microsoft Engineer Creates Windows 11-like Linux Distro

2025-05-08
Microsoft Engineer Creates Windows 11-like Linux Distro

Anduin Xue, a Microsoft software engineer, has developed AnduinOS, a Linux distribution designed to resemble Windows 11. Built on Ubuntu with minimal modifications beyond the UI, AnduinOS is a personal project with no current plans for commercialization. Xue dedicates only a few hours monthly to maintenance. Despite its origins in China, the open-source nature of the code mitigates backdoor concerns. With Microsoft ending mainstream support for Windows 10 in October, AnduinOS offers a viable alternative for those unable to upgrade to Windows 11.

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(www.neowin.net)
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Graphcore Unveils Pizza-Box-Sized AI Supercomputer: The M2000

2025-05-09
Graphcore Unveils Pizza-Box-Sized AI Supercomputer: The M2000

UK AI chip startup Graphcore has announced its second-generation AI processor, the GC200, and its accompanying computing platform, the M2000. The M2000 is touted as the first AI computer to achieve a petaflop of processing power in a pizza-box-sized form factor. Each GC200 chip boasts 59.4 billion transistors, and the M2000 utilizes four of these chips. Graphcore claims scalability up to 64,000 IPUs, resulting in a potential 16 exaflops of computing power. The M2000 is currently shipping to early access customers and is expected to see broader deployment by the end of the year across various AI applications in finance, healthcare, technology, and more.

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(www.graphcore.ai)
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Linux 6.15 to Drop Support for 486 and Early Pentium Processors

2025-05-08
Linux 6.15 to Drop Support for 486 and Early Pentium Processors

The Linux kernel is about to reach a significant milestone: Linux 6.15 will drop support for the 486 and early Pentium processors. This decision stems from the fact that these processors are practically obsolete in modern systems, and maintaining compatibility consumes valuable development resources. While this means some ancient systems won't run the latest Linux kernel, it will simplify the kernel code, improve performance, and reduce maintenance overhead. For most users, this change will be completely transparent, as 486 processors have long since faded into history.

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(www.zdnet.com)
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Rust Dependencies: A 3.6 Million Line Code Nightmare

2025-05-09

The author loves Rust, but its dependency management is causing concern. A simple web server project, after depending on several crates, ballooned to 3.6 million lines of code, mostly from dependencies. This raises concerns about code auditing and dependency maintenance. The author tried code counting and vendoring, but the problem persists. The article explores the challenges of Rust's dependency management and how to balance performance, safety, and code size.

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(vincents.dev)
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Paris Crypto Kidnappings: A Series of Brutal Ransom Schemes

2025-05-08
Paris Crypto Kidnappings: A Series of Brutal Ransom Schemes

Paris has seen a string of brutal kidnappings linked to cryptocurrency. Criminals are targeting family members of those wealthy in crypto, cutting off fingers to demand multi-million euro ransoms. Police have successfully rescued hostages and arrested suspects, utilizing phone signals and other investigative techniques. These incidents highlight the security risks associated with cryptocurrency wealth and the audacity of the criminal gangs involved.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Hyper: A Standards-First React Alternative (Developer Preview)

2025-05-09
Hyper: A Standards-First React Alternative (Developer Preview)

Hyper is a standards-first markup language for building UIs, offering a clean syntax for creating complex interfaces. Unlike React's monolithic architecture, Hyper prioritizes separating logic, structure, and styling, returning to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript standards. This results in simpler, more scalable, and maintainable UIs. The article compares Hyper and React in building simple and complex components, highlighting Hyper's decoupled design system. Future plans include full-stack applications and generative UIs, challenging React's dominance by focusing on simplicity and web standards.

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(nuejs.org)
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Cogent Core: Write Once, Run Everywhere

2025-05-09
Cogent Core: Write Once, Run Everywhere

Cogent Core is a free and open-source framework for building powerful, fast, and elegant 2D and 3D applications that run on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web from a single Go codebase. This 'write once, run everywhere' framework boasts extensive documentation and interactive examples directly editable and runnable on its website, which is itself a Cogent Core app running on wasm. Installation instructions must be followed before development.

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(github.com)
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Sorbet's Ugly Syntax: A Necessary Evil for Ruby Type Checking?

2025-05-09

Sorbet, Stripe's Ruby static type checker, has a famously clunky syntax. In this talk, Jake explains the trade-offs behind Sorbet's design choices. While the syntax isn't pretty, semantics (what the types mean) are arguably ten times more important. Sorbet wasn't built to force static typing, but rather to address Stripe engineers' needs for improved productivity and code maintainability. The talk traces Sorbet's history, exploring various design approaches before settling on a DSL extension of existing Ruby. Future improvements are discussed, including refinements to the current syntax and integration with Ruby's RBS standard, aiming for greater ease of use and power.

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(blog.jez.io)
Development Static Type Checking

eBPF, .NET 5, and the Mystery of IPv4 Disguised as IPv6

2025-05-09

This post details a debugging odyssey involving eBPF, .NET 5's DualMode sockets, and IPv4 masquerading as IPv6. The author used an eBPF program to redirect DNS requests on port 53, but encountered unexpected behavior with .NET 5 applications. .NET 5's SocketsHttpHandler uses DualMode sockets, sending IPv4 traffic over an IPv6 socket using IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses. This tricked the eBPF program into blocking the IPv4 traffic as IPv6. The solution involved checking `skb->protocol` instead of `skb->family` to differentiate between true IPv6 and IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses.

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(blog.gripdev.xyz)
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BlenderQ: Command-Line Blender Render Queue Manager

2025-05-09
BlenderQ: Command-Line Blender Render Queue Manager

BlenderQ is a terminal UI tool for managing a queue of local Blender renders. Add multiple .blend files to a queue and monitor their progress from your terminal. Built with Node.js and Ink, it supports themes and Nerd Fonts icons, making installation quick and easy. The author chose Node.js over Python or Go due to readily available components that met the project's requirements, enabling faster delivery of a functional and maintainable TUI.

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(github.com)
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Real-Time Rendering Architectures: A Call for Maturity

2025-05-09

The real-time rendering field is maturing, and this article calls for a shift away from flashy demos and towards a focus on fundamental architectural design. The author argues for a taxonomy of real-time rendering engines, proposing a three-dimensional framework encompassing product characteristics (users, platforms, scalability), production processes (content abstraction, iteration speed, user types), and technological requirements (latency, dynamics, streaming). The article emphasizes that optimal architectural choices, such as threading models, APIs, and data structures, depend heavily on context. This nuanced approach is crucial for efficiency and meeting the diverse needs of a growing industry.

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(c0de517e.com)
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Sep 0.10.0: CSV Parsing Hits 21 GB/s with AVX-512 Optimizations

2025-05-09

Sep 0.10.0 achieves a blistering 21 GB/s CSV parsing speed on the AMD 9950X, a ~3x improvement since its initial release in 2023! This blog post delves into the suboptimal AVX-512 code generation in .NET 9.0 and how Sep's performance was boosted by circumventing mask register issues. The new AVX-512-to-256 parser outperforms both AVX2 and the older AVX-512 parsers. Multi-threaded benchmarks show Sep parsing a million rows in just 72ms on the 9950X, reaching 8 GB/s.

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(nietras.com)
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Washington State Law Sparks Church-State Showdown Over Confession Confidentiality

2025-05-09
Washington State Law Sparks Church-State Showdown Over Confession Confidentiality

A new Washington state law requiring clergy to report child abuse confessions to authorities has ignited a clash between the Catholic Church and the state government. The Church argues the law violates religious freedom and doctrine, infringes on the sanctity of confession, and threatens excommunication for priests who comply. Supporters contend it's a crucial step to protect minors. The Department of Justice is investigating whether the law infringes on First Amendment religious protections. This conflict highlights the tension between religious freedom and the state's duty to protect children, and its outcome could impact similar laws nationwide.

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(www.newsweek.com)
Misc religious freedom legal conflict

Gmail to Drop Support for 3DES Encryption in SMTP Connections

2025-05-08
Gmail to Drop Support for 3DES Encryption in SMTP Connections

Google announced that it will stop supporting the Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) for incoming SMTP connections starting May 30, 2025. After this date, email systems using 3DES will be unable to deliver emails to Gmail accounts. This change improves security by mitigating vulnerabilities associated with outdated encryption. All sending systems should be configured to use modern, secure TLS ciphers. See the Gmail Help Center for details.

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(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
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