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Neki puts a Postgres-wire router in front of shards that are just plain Postgres, so your drivers and ORMs keep working. It's in platform preview, and PlanetScale says don't run production on it yet.
Cloudflare turned on post-quantum DNSSEC validation at 1.1.1.1, forcing the DNS ecosystem to confront 2,420-byte signatures and a downgrade path that RFC 6840 quietly permits.
Hugo Vergnes trained a 3.8B-parameter Llama-style model on 65B tokens in 43 hours on 8x B200s for under a grand. The writeup is a rare, honest log of what actually moved the needle.
Spring Tools 5.4.0 brings new validations and quick fixes for modern Spring annotations, plus enhanced Claude Code integration and performance improvements.
A security engineer argues that the industry's obsession with finding and patching bugs—whack-a-mole—is a losing strategy. The real goal should be building systems that are robust by design, using bug bounties as a diagnostic, not a cure.
An engineer rebuilds an AI comment classifier on public data, hits 77% balanced accuracy, and shares the painful data-collection mistakes that tripled the cost.
Cloudflare has rebuilt the module registry in workerd, its Workers runtime, to be faster, more standards-compliant, and more closely aligned with Node.js. The new implementation treats module specifiers as URLs, supports import.meta APIs, and enables lazy compilation and cache sharing.
smolts is a browser-based IDE for teaching programming languages, stepping through S-expression SMoL programs with live views of continuations, environments, and stores.
European startup Desert Ant Labs releases 18 specialized on-device models for audio, vision, and text, claiming they outperform cloud APIs on speed, quality, and cost. The models run on devices as old as five-year-old phones and are free up to 100k monthly active devices.
Lee Holloway, Cloudflare's co-founder and the engineer behind its Anycast network and Cell architecture, was forced out by frontotemporal dementia. This is the story of his technical legacy and the tragedy that ended his career.
A museum investigation reveals that the iconic Iskra Delta Partner microcomputer case was actually a British off-the-shelf product from Peerless Foam Moulding, used by multiple manufacturers—a window into 1980s OEM hardware.
An interactive web tool renders classic topological surfaces like Boy's surface and Morin's surface with hand-hatched, pen-and-ink style strokes, all computed in real time in the browser.