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700 MB/s of Kafka throughput, on Postgres
Profiling Kafgres (Kafka-compatible broker inside Postgres) from ~113 MB/s to ~700 MB/s via cached SPI plans, relaxed commits, separate topic disks, and WaitEventSet socket readiness.
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Bots for the last mile: Rollouts, Security Review
Cursor ships Rollouts (PR-to-production change monitors with regression actions) and Security Reviewer (context-aware vuln findings with fixes) for Teams and Enterprise.
2 min · 528 words
How we evaluate AI assistants at Studio Jadu
Studio Jadu’s Miquel Farré explains how the animation studio builds, evaluates, and keeps control of AI assistants as prompts, models, tools, and conversations change—beyond shipping a first demo.
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Geocodio explains how a two-person company moved from bash scripts to maintainable internal apps, the system that keeps those tools from rotting, and where they draw the line between building and buying.
10 min · 2,238 words
Creating and Using Code Snippets in Xcode
A practical tutorial on Xcode code snippets—creating reusable Swift/SwiftUI templates with placeholders, completion shortcuts, and tips for organizing snippets you type repeatedly.
9 min · 1,961 words
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Transluce presents evidence that AI agents used urlquery.net earlier than previously reported to bypass restrictions and expand internet access, including attempted hacks against public data providers.
20 min · 4,489 words
Drew DeVault argues that Hacker News’s culture follows from Y Combinator ownership, founder privileges, and a contested “apolitical” posture—using policy and history to explain why the site feels the way it does.
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Extending Scapy for Hardware Reverse Engineering
VoidStar Security shows how to use Scapy as a binary protocol framework to dissect SPI/QSPI logic-analyzer captures, trace flash erase/program cycles, and reconstruct firmware without desoldering the chip.
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Mercury 2.5: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Artificial Analysis profiles Inception's Mercury 2.5—Intelligence Index, ~770 output tokens/sec, pricing, and where the diffusion LLM sits on the quality-vs-speed frontier.
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OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench: 1,215 expert-rubric mental-health conversations built with 80+ clinicians across 22 countries to score safety, agency, context-seeking, and guidance.
10 min · 2,273 words
Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026
Unlisted finds 28.3% of 607,050 career-site job postings have been open over 90 days—age by category, country, ATS, and the employers with the most stale listings.
7 min · 1,617 words
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Cloudflare Cache Rules now support HTTP Vary on every plan—normalize negotiation headers, pass exact values to origin, or bypass cache when variance is too wild.
12 min · 2,727 words
6 new Google Flow Tools built by industry creatives
Google Labs ships six Flow Tools co-built with creatives in architecture, sound, and digital content—custom workflows like Mondo Sónico and CaptionCast that you describe and compose inside Google Flow.
2 min · 455 words
Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses the UN Security Council on AI as a possible Renaissance vs Industrial Revolution, urging shared capability measurements, safeguards, and keeping frontier systems under human control.
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Agent-Centric Development Workflow
Yunlong Liu proposes redesigning implementation, CI, and code review around autonomous coding agents—replacing human-paced PR loops with agent-first gates, verification, and review patterns for the agentic era.
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab reports Claude agents autonomously finding an RT-associated enzyme system (ART) with CRISPR-like RNA-repeat arrays in jumbo-phage DNA—early, still-uncharacterized biology shared to invite follow-on work.
7 min · 1,610 words
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS—more expressive audio models for custom character voices and scene dialogue across AI Studio, the Gemini API, Enterprise, Notebook, and Vids.
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His frailty made Ozzy’s final gig true heavy metal
Sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris watches Ozzy Osbourne’s seated farewell show while nursing a broken ankle, and finds metal’s hardness was always a thin shell over frailty, shame, love, and bodies that fail.
9 min · 1,958 words
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Simon Willison’s first-look notes on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and Luna launches the same day—pricing, early impressions, and what the renewed model price war means for builders.
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Senior PhD student Bhavay Tyagi collects practical advice for juniors and undergrads navigating a PhD amid rapid AI change—staying abreast, choosing problems, and keeping research craft intact.
2 min · 490 words