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Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial (chrome.com)

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Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (localai.io)

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Birding Like It's 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game (2019) (audubon.org)

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Interspecies Hybrids Play a Vital Role in Evolution (2017) (quantamagazine.org)

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Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)

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South Korean SMR-powered container ship design certified (world-nuclear-news.org)

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Extending MVCC to be serializable, in TLA+ (2024) (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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Why Aren't We SIEVE-ing? (2023) (brooker.co.za)

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Of forks and clones and package management (theconsensus.dev)

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Do data centers only seem bad for the climate because we can see them? (andymasley.com)

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Tensor Is the Might (zserge.com)

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Debunk the myth of "China thinks in centuries, US thinks in quarterly earnings." (twitter.com/kyleichan)

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Multigres Supports Listen/Notify Across Pooled Connections (multigres.com)

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purego: A library for calling C functions from Go without Cgo (github.com/ebitengine)

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GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data (star-history.com)

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The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using Jj (gradle.org)

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The new Teddy Roosevelt library is a gorgeous extension of the prairie (fastcompany.com)

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Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks (danluu.com)

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The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal (theconsensus.dev)

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ScyllaDB's Trie-Based Index Delivers Up to 3X More Throughput (scylladb.com)

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India's Unconvincing Economic Facade (aei.org)

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What can you confidently guarantee about your software? (acm.org)

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How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout (victoriametrics.com)

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Bankruptcy Capitals of America: Where US Small Businesses Are Closing Fastest (samslist.com)

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Call it what it is–the US has lost its hold on measles elimination (umn.edu)

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New Abuse of the ClickOnce Technology (crowdstrike.com)

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Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry (harness.io)

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Enable software developers to compile hotspots into custom hardware accelerators (boolsi.com)

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Better Graph Database Ball (ladybugdb.com)

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Pierre Zemb from Clever Cloud (theconsensus.dev)

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How developers react to AI-scented blog posts (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Formal methods and the future of programming (janestreet.com)

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How ClickHouse Became Fast at Joins (clickhouse.com)

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Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole (theconsensus.dev)

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What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives? (modular.com)

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Why developers use LLMs to write blog posts (writethatblog.substack.com)

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Exploring the Game with Graph Capabilities of LadybugDB, DuckDB and PostgreSQL (theconsensus.dev)

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Supabase Series F (supabase.com)

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Winners and Losers from Stephen Curry's Li-Ning Sneaker Deal (si.com)

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We rebuilt PostgreSQL branch metrics on VictoriaMetrics, per cell (xata.io)

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Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring (theconsensus.dev)

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Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium (theconsensus.dev)

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SQLite affinity is stranger than it looks, a peek inside (theconsensus.dev)

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A quick tour of some of the datacenters in the Salt Lake Valley (discuss.systems)

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Ask HN: Transactional Database Usage Survey

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B-tree based collection types for Go (github.com/tidwall)

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Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB (theconsensus.dev)

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VCV Tower Vertical Construction Starts, Virginia's Tallest Building (constructionreviewonline.com)

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Behavior-Oriented Concurrency in Python: Lockless, Deadlockfree, Ownership-based (microsoft.github.io)

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The Surprising Heart of the Data-Center Boom (city-journal.org)

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Smart Files (theolincke.com)

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Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra (theconsensus.dev)

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GraalVM JavaScript Sandboxing (graalvm.org)

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Xata OSS: Postgres platform with branching, now Apache 2.0 (xata.io)

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Faith-based computing versus the unnatural science (acm.org)

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I quit: the difference in difficulty between Japanese and Chinese is ridiculous (reddit.com)

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The Origins of GPU Computing (acm.org)

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New Mexico governor signs nation's first universal child care law (nm.us)

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More tools for testing SQL dialects (buttondown.com/jaffray)

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Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes (nytimes.com)

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Generating universes within universes with a single seed (andrewheiss.com)

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Why are some startups ignoring the SEC? (2024) (lehigh.edu)

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Maine set to become first state with data center ban (cnbc.com)

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Who Contributed to DataFusion 53 (theconsensus.dev)

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Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report (theconsensus.dev)

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Software You Can Love 2026 tickets are on sale (mattnite.net)

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Every Query Gets a Receipt (theconsensus.dev)

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Fast WHATWG spec compliant URL library written in Go (github.com/ada-url)

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Most GPU Clusters Are Economically Misconfigured (zymtrace.com)

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Situating Virginia's Data Center Alley in a New Era of Tech Power (datasociety.net)

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Mojo's Not (Yet) Python (theconsensus.dev)

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Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon (fb.com)

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Finding the Best Place to Work: A Look at Careers at More Than 1,700 Companies (wsj.com)

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RocksDB development finds a CPU bug (rocksdb.org)

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Simulating Multi-Table Contention in Catalog Formats (cdouglas.github.io)

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Reading Socrates in Silicon Valley (ft.com)

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Graph over Tables: Why We Built a Context Graph Instead of a CMDB (stlabs.com)

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AI Security Startup Xbow Valued at More Than $1B (bloomberg.com)

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Border0 Is Joining Tailscale (tailscale.com)

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Serenely Fast I/O Buffer (With Benchmarks) (serenedb.com)

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A static site generator and website transferring under 20kB (theconsensus.dev)

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Developer Spotlight: Somtochi Onyekwere from Fly.io (theconsensus.dev)

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Arizona Charges Kalshi with Illegal Gambling Operation (bloomberg.com)

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How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1M Concurrent Tasks? (2023) (pkolaczk.github.io)

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The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is simple (2021) (mydistributed.systems)

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Founder Salary Report 2025 (pilot.com)

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Et tu, S&P 500? The SpaceX IPO gamesmanship (ft.com)

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Nscale Raises $2B in Series C – The Largest in European History (nscale.com)

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Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (stanford.edu)

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Scanner Raises Series A Led by Sequoia Capital (scanner.dev)

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Depot Raised a $10M Series A (depot.dev)

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TLA+ as a Design Accelerator: Lessons from the Industry (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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Simulating Catalog and Table Conflicts in Iceberg (cdouglas.github.io)

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Rewriting Our Database in Rust (medium.com/airtable-eng)

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70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) (bookstr.com)

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The disappearing Form D (2018) (techcrunch.com)

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Temporal Raises $300M Series D to Make Agentic AI Real for Companies (temporal.io)

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I Joined the MariaDB Foundation (lefred.be)

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GGML GGUF File Format Vulnerabilities (databricks.com)