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Aphyr vs. the Bullshit Machines: A Distributed Systems Expert Weighs In on AI

Apr 18

▸ Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr), the engineer behind Jepsen's distributed systems tests, has published a sprawling multi-part essay arguing that LLMs are funda...

Career / Industry AI / ML multiple_viewpoints

Artemis II Splashes Down: Humans Flew Past the Moon Again

Apr 18

▸ NASA's Artemis II crew — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — safely splashed down after a ~10-day mission that sent human...

Hardware / Chips Defense / GovTech clear_take

OpenAI's Codex Reboot: From Autocomplete to Autonomous Coding Agent

Apr 18

▸ OpenAI relaunched Codex as a cloud-based coding agent that runs tasks in sandboxed environments — a full pivot from the original 2021 autocomplete API...

AI / ML DevOps / Platform Engineering Startups / Launches explainer

jj Is the Git Replacement That Doesn't Make You Leave Git

Apr 18

▸ Jujutsu (jj) is a new DVCS that combines the best of Git and Mercurial into a simpler, more powerful CLI — and it uses Git as its storage backend so a...

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering explainer

A 3B-Active-Parameter Model on a Laptop Just Out-Drew Claude Opus

Apr 18

▸ Simon Willison ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B locally on his laptop and got better SVG pelican art than Claude Opus 4.7 — a model hundreds of times more expensiv...

AI / ML Open Source clear_take

Claude Opus 4.7: What Practitioners Need to Know Right Now

Apr 17

▸ Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable model to date, with significant gains in agentic coding, multi-step reasoning, and tool use.

DevOps / Platform Engineering AI / ML breaking

Google Killed a 20-Year Gmail Account, Then Gave the Data to ICE

Apr 17

▸ EFF reports Google terminated a long-standing Gmail account without warning and later disclosed its contents to ICE under legal process.

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Backdoored Every One

Apr 17

▸ An unknown buyer acquired at least 30 established WordPress plugins from their original developers, then pushed updates containing backdoor code to ev...

Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

Cloudflare gives agents a real email address — SMTP without the SMTP

Apr 17

▸ Cloudflare Email Service is in public beta: agents can send and receive email via HTTP API and Workers bindings, no SMTP server required.

AI / ML Backend / APIs Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

The case against Ollama: a thin wrapper with thick problems

Apr 17

▸ A widely-shared essay argues Ollama is a thin Go wrapper around llama.cpp that hides its upstream, mislabels distilled models, and routes traffic thro...

AI / ML Open Source clear_take

France Is Moving Government Desktops to Linux. This Time Might Be Different.

Apr 17

▸ France's digital ministry has announced a formal plan to migrate government workstations away from Windows as part of a broader 'digital sovereignty' ...

Open Source Politics / Regulation Defense / GovTech clear_take

Live Nation Loses: The Platform Playbook Just Got More Expensive

Apr 17

▸ A federal jury found Live Nation-Ticketmaster illegally monopolized the US live ticketing market, the biggest antitrust verdict against a consumer pla...

Politics / Regulation Startups / Launches clear_take

AGPL Didn't Protect Cal.com. It Was Never Going To.

Apr 17

▸ Cal.com is closing its code and blaming AI scrapers, but the real story is that AGPL-3 failed at the exact commercial threat it was designed to stop.

Open Source Startups / Launches clear_take

You Can't Opt Out of Flock Safety's 6M+ Camera Surveillance Net

Apr 16

▸ A privacy-conscious user wrote to Flock Safety's privacy contact to opt out of their license plate reader network and documented the resulting runarou...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Anthropic's Silent Cache TTL Cut Is Costing Developers 17% More

Apr 16

▸ Anthropic reduced prompt cache TTL from 1 hour to 5 minutes on March 6, with no changelog entry or advance notice to developers.

Backend / APIs Cloud / Infrastructure AI / ML clear_take

A Spanish Court Blocked Football Piracy. Docker Broke Nationwide.

Apr 16

▸ Spanish ISPs enforcing La Liga anti-piracy court orders blocked Cloudflare IP ranges, causing Docker image pulls, GitLab CI pipelines, and other CDN-d...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Politics / Regulation Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

Servo Hits crates.io: What a 0.1.0 Means for Rust's Web Engine

Apr 16

▸ Servo, the Rust-based web engine originally started at Mozilla, has published its first official release (0.1.0) to crates.io — making it installable ...

Open Source Frontend / UI explainer

Backblaze Quietly Stopped Backing Up Files. Nobody Got an Alert.

Apr 16

▸ A Backblaze user discovered that large portions of their data had silently stopped being backed up — with no warning, no alert, and no error in the da...

DevOps / Platform Engineering Cloud / Infrastructure Security / Privacy clear_take

The $20 Stack: Running Multiple $10K MRR SaaS Products Without AWS

Apr 16

▸ Steve Hanov runs multiple SaaS products each generating $10K+ MRR on a total infrastructure cost of $20/month — a single VPS with no cloud services.

Startups / Launches Cloud / Infrastructure Backend / APIs clear_take

Claude Code Routines: Anthropic Wants to Be Your AI Cron Daemon

Apr 16

▸ Claude Code Routines let you define autonomous AI sessions triggered by schedules, API webhooks, or GitHub events — running on Anthropic's cloud with ...

AI / ML Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering explainer
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