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Microsoft puts durable execution inside Postgres

Jun 6

▸ Microsoft dropped pg_durable, an Apache-2 Postgres extension that runs Temporal-style durable workflows as a database operator — no separate cluster, ...

Backend / APIs DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source clear_take

Anthropic admits the loop is closing: AI is now building AI

Jun 5

▸ Anthropic published a framework treating recursive self-improvement (RSI) as a near-term operational problem, not a 2030 thought experiment.

AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

Cloudflare Just Bought The JavaScript Build Chain

Jun 5

▸ Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the Evan You–led company that maintains Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and oxc — the core of modern JS tooling.

Open Source Frontend / UI clear_take

The throughput trap: why 'AI makes me 10x faster' is the wrong metric

Jun 5

▸ Nolan Lawson argues AI made him a better engineer precisely because he stopped trying to use it to go faster.

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

Red Hat's npm packages got popped. Cooldowns would've caught it.

Jun 5

▸ Multiple @redhat-cloud-services npm packages were compromised, joining axios, TanStack, and a growing list of 2025 supply chain hits.

Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

Meta's glasses now ID strangers in real time. The opt-out is theater.

Jun 5

▸ Meta shipped facial recognition to Ray-Ban Display glasses behind a feature flag called 'Familiar Faces' — on-device matching against a user-built con...

Hardware / Chips Security / Privacy clear_take

Starship v3 flies: SpaceX's third-gen vehicle clears its first real test

Jun 5

▸ SpaceX launched its Starship v3 prototype — the first flight of the redesigned third-generation vehicle, with stretched tanks, upgraded Raptor 3 engin...

Defense / GovTech Hardware / Chips clear_take

U.S. export rules now reach into research papers — co-authors are the catch

Jun 5

▸ New Commerce Department interpretation extends export-control rules to academic publishing when foreign co-authors from restricted countries are invol...

Open Source Politics / Regulation clear_take

Trump Mobile's auth-free API leaked customer addresses and phones

Jun 5

▸ Trump Mobile confirmed an exposed API endpoint leaked customer names, phone numbers, and home addresses to anyone who knew the URL.

Backend / APIs Security / Privacy clear_take

Lumafield's CT scans reveal how BYD actually builds cars cheaper

Jun 5

▸ Lumafield ran industrial CT scans on BYD components and found integration, not corner-cutting, is the cost advantage.

Career / Industry Hardware / Chips clear_take

Uber's $1,500/mo per-dev AI cap sets a real market price

Jun 5

▸ Uber capped employee AI tool spending at $1,500/month per person — the first concrete enterprise number we've seen for what 'unlimited' actually costs...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Anthropic's $965B mark prices in AGI — or a brutal correction

Jun 4

▸ Anthropic closed a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation — roughly 5x its early-2025 mark.

AI / ML Startups / Launches clear_take

Your speakers are a USB keyboard now: inside the Katana BadUSB attack

Jun 4

▸ Researcher demonstrated that audio signals played through stock PC speakers can reprogram certain USB audio devices into HID keyboards, then type atta...

Hardware / Chips Security / Privacy explainer

Elixir 1.20 makes the BEAM gradually typed — without annotations

Jun 4

▸ Elixir 1.20 ships set-theoretic gradual typing that infers types from pattern matches and guards — no annotations required.

Backend / APIs Open Source clear_take

When the AI solves your open problem before lunch

Jun 4

▸ At a May DeepMind workshop, o4-mini cracked problems that had stumped working mathematicians — including one researcher's unpublished result.

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Lombardy triples the cost of building datacenters on farmland

Jun 4

▸ Lombardy, Italy's industrial heartland, will charge up to 200% more in construction fees for datacenters built on green or agricultural land.

Cloud / Infrastructure Politics / Regulation clear_take

Anna's Archive writes a letter to the LLMs scraping it

Jun 4

▸ Anna's Archive — the shadow library mirror of Library Genesis and Sci-Hub — published a page explicitly addressed to LLM crawlers, asking them to inge...

AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

HN's June 2026 hiring threads: 213 vs 132 says the market flipped back

Jun 4

▸ June 2026's 'Who is hiring' hit 213 points on HN. 'Who wants to be hired' got 132. That gap is the leading indicator nobody's pricing in.

Startups / Launches Career / Industry clear_take

Flipper One needs a lifeline: the indie hardware tax is real

Jun 4

▸ Flipper Devices is publicly asking the community for help getting Flipper One to market — a rare admission from a company that shipped 500k+ Flipper Z...

Security / Privacy Hardware / Chips clear_take

Seattle's cop-corp Slack: Amazon, Meta, FBI in one chat room

Jun 4

▸ Seattle Shield Initiative links SPD, FBI, and private security teams from Amazon, Meta, Expedia, and Nordstrom on a shared intelligence platform with ...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take
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