Announcing DuckDB 1.5.2 The DuckDB team · 3 min TL;DR: We are releasing DuckDB version v1.5.2, a patch release with bugfixes and performance improvements, and support for the DuckLake v1.0 lakehouse

When browsing Hacker News, I noticed that many Show HN projects now have a generic sterile feeling that tells me they are purely AI-generated. Initially I couldn’t tell what it was exactly, so I wonde

Fifteen years ago, when some colleagues and I were building Heroku’s V3 API, we set an ambitious goal: the public API should be powerful enough to run our own dashboard. No private endpoints, no escap

CUPERTINO, CA — In a move executives described as “a minor system update,” Tim Cook announced he will step down as CEO of Apple, to be replaced by a near-identical successor who insiders confirm is “b

A project can be obviously important, technically sound, budgeted, and still go nowhere. I don’t mean slowness. I mean the weird kind of stalled where everyone involved can point to work, meetings, ap

UNIVERSITY PARK — In a converted 2013 Toyota Sienna affixed with a hand-built telescopic weather device protruding from the roof, Penn State experts in meteorology and atmospheric science made their w

PI Dashboard A web-based dashboard for monitoring and interacting with pi agent sessions from any browser, including mobile. Website: blackbelttechnology.github.io/pi-agent-dashboard — animated tour

If you wanted Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird back when it first released in the summer of 1960, a hardcover copy would have set you back $3.95. J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring came out

Palantir announced a $300 million deal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which will use the software company's technology to manage farmland as geopolitical risks threaten global supply chains.

Another Day Has Come It’s a profoundly different feeling today than the last time Apple’s CEO announced his transition to chairman of the board, and his chosen successor was promoted to replace him a

At Google, our TPU design philosophy has always been centered on three pillars: scalability, reliability, and efficiency. As AI models evolve from dense large language models (LLMs) to massive Mixture

Data centers carry a hidden cost that dwarfs their price tag, according to new research. It’s not money. It’s the health of Americans living near them. In North America, the sprawling server farms us

I used to write a lot of JavaScript like this: const result = users .filter(user => user.active) .map(user => user.name) .sort() .slice(0, 5); Nothing here is wrong. I wrote code like this all the t

Something I didn't understand for a while is that the process of turning row-oriented data into column-oriented data isn't a totally bespoke, foreign concept in the realm of databases. It's still of t

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Today at Google Cloud Next, we are introducing the eighth generation of Google's custom Tensor Processor Unit (TPU), coming soon with two distinct, purpose-built architectures for training and inferen

For half a century, neoliberalism was the undisputed creed of the global elite. Born from the ashes of Bretton Woods, it sanctified the emancipation of financial capital from the regulatory shackles o

In October, I reviewed the Ground-Mounted Solar Energy in the United States (GM-SEUS) dataset. This dataset attempted to outline the majority of solar farm arrays and panels across the US. Version 1 o

Uber has rewritten its ledger systems five times in the last ten years. And at least one of those rewrites, if not all, could have been avoided. That’s because the root of each generation of money so

Telemetry GitHub CLI sends pseudoanonymous telemetry to help us improve the product. We want you to understand what is being sent and why. Why we collect telemetry As agentic adoption of GitHub CLI

New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permi

Iranian state media has alleged that equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik failed during U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran. The report, which claims that “American ‘bla

Few things in a professional environment are more important than a lasting impression; be it for building trust or conveying unappreciated quality, it is often what kills any system: people lose confi

Encrypting an external device with LUKS I, like many other folks out there, use a small USB drive to store personal documents and other files. It works as a useful backup in case my system fails or g

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why. Cal.com have announced they’re cl

In 2022, I came across a quirky behavior on media.discordapp.net when I miskeyed a space character into an attachment link: a 502 bad gateway. After some fiddling I realized that this was caused by a

If you are fortunate enough to tour the Fort Worth campus of the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, you’ll get a primer on the techniques the BEP uses to make it difficult to replicate U.

Hi folks! As a bonus update ahead of the main September post I want to switch things up a bit and introduce you to an experimental new feature landing in the Ubuntu 24.10 dailies soon. Permissions pr

In a previous post about AI-discovered bugs in Vim and Emacs, we looked at how seemingly harmless workflows could cross a surprising line into code execution. This time we wanted to push that idea eve

Analysis of the leakd Anthropic's Claude Code AI agent revealed three critical command injection vulnerabilities affecting the CLI, agent, and SDK. These flaws allow attackers to run arbitrary command

Request rate is the number of requests that arrive, or are serviced, or leave, during some period. It’s surprisingly common for people to speak of a request rate without specifying what the length of

We’ve identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems. We are actively investigating, and we have engaged incident response experts to help investig

TLDR: Layer your defenses and don’t trust any single control. Use Ruff with security rules to catch bugs in your code before they ship. Pin all your dependencies with cryptographic hashes using uv loc

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Sandboxing GraalVM allows a host application written in a JVM-based language to execute guest code written in Javascript or WebAssembly via the Polyglot API. Configured with a sandbox policy, a secur