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📈 Users spike. Your stress level doesn't have to. (Sponsor)

Traffic surges are supposed to be good news. But when your infrastructure can't keep up, that "we're going viral 🎉" moment can easily turn into “everything is down and needs fixing right now.”👉 Ditch ...

Argo CD v3.4 Release Candidate (4 minute read)

Argo CD v3.4 Release Candidate was announced with support for Microsoft Teams Workflows notification service to replace Office 365 Connectors (retiring March 31), new application list filters includin...

Most CRMs are glorified spreadsheets for sales data. Lightfield puts your data to use (Sponsor)

"Why is our win rate decreasing?"-- Cue manual data export and three hours of analysis."What do our best customers have in common?"-- Impossible to tell."Create a proposal that will help us close this...

OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop ‘Superapp' to Refocus, Simplify User Experience (3 minute read)

OpenAI plans to unify its ChatGPT app, Codex, and browser into a desktop superapp to simplify the user experience. The superapp will feature agentic AI capabilities that can work autonomously on users...

Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion for AI Manufacturing Fund (4 minute read)

Jeff Bezos is in early talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and use AI technology to accelerate their path to automation. The fund will aim to buy compa...

Pardoned for Fraud, a CEO Mounts His Comeback: ‘We Can Trust You Now' (22 minute read)

Trevor Milton was convicted of defrauding Nikola investors in 2022. He faced a four-year prison term, but Trump signed an unconditional pardon. Milton, along with his wife, had donated at least $3.2 m...

Crossplane v2.2 — More Capable, More Reliable, More Observable (5 minute read)

Crossplane v2.2.0 was released with several major updates, including an alpha pipeline inspector feature that intercepts and forwards function requests/responses over gRPC for debugging, and expanded ...

Dogfighting in space won't look like the movies, but this company wants in on it (12 minute read)

A startup called True Anomaly has created a war-ready satellite platform designed for mass production. The Jackal spacecraft is designed for agility and maneuverability and could be used for orbital c...

Unblocked: Context that saves you time and tokens (Sponsor)

Stop babysitting your coding agents. Unblocked gives them the organizational knowledge to generate mergeable code. It pulls context from across your engineering stack, resolves conflicts, and cuts the...

Powering the agents: Workers AI now runs large models, starting with Kimi K2.5 (8 minute read)

Cloudflare launched frontier open-source AI model Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 on its Workers AI platform, featuring a 256k context window and delivering 77% cost savings compared to mid-tier proprietary m...

Read Less, Steer More (3 minute read)

Don't treat AI output as code to read. If something doesn't work, just ask AI to rewrite the code exactly to the specifications. AI should be treated like a fast typist that is carrying out your will....

Introducing Composer 2 (3 minute read)

Composer 2 is now available in Cursor. It is frontier-level in coding, delivering large improvements on all measured benchmarks. The standard model is priced at $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output tokens...

The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After (23 minute read)

AI will eventually exceed human capability across most cognitive domains. It is already able to make engineers significantly more productive. Intelligence is now a commodity on tap. This post looks at...

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming (1 minute read)

Rob Pike's rules emphasize that optimization should be driven by measurement, not guesswork, since bottlenecks are often surprising and premature optimization is usually wasted effort. They also advoc...

China is mobilizing thousands of one-person AI startups (5 minute read)

Chinese cities are offering free apartments to attract 'one-person companies'. The plan also involves converting idle data centers into incubators to help grow the AI industry. Solo founders also rece...

How Slack Rebuilt Notifications 📣 (6 minute read)

Slack rebuilt its notification system from scratch to address overwhelming noise and confusion, unifying four conflicting mental models into one consistent approach across desktop and mobile that sepa...

Automating detection gap analysis with GitLab Duo Agent Platform (5 minute read)

GitLab automated post-incident detection gap analysis using GitLab Duo Agent Platform by combining a built-in Security Analyst Agent with a custom Detection Engineering Assistant. The agents review in...

Google Cloud x NVIDIA: Kaggle Competition (Sponsor)

To enable the community to get hands-on with NVIDIA Nemotron on Google Cloud, join the NVIDIA Nemotron model reasoning challenge on Kaggle, powered by G4 VMs!

Why is your Kubernetes cluster adding nodes when the dashboards look fine? (5 minute read)

Kubernetes clusters can add nodes even when utilization appears low because scheduling and autoscaling rely on declared resource requests, not actual usage. Inflated or outdated requests cause pods to...

We Need to Talk About Agents (22 minute read)

When everything becomes an 'agent,' it's nearly impossible for buyers to tell what any given product actually does, how it fits into existing operations, how they should interact with it, or why it ma...

From Kubernetes Gatekeeper to Full-Stack Governance with OPA (4 minute read)

Pulumi released v1.1.0 of pulumi-policy-opa, making OPA/Rego a fully supported policy language alongside TypeScript and Python, with a new Gatekeeper compatibility mode that lets teams use existing Ku...

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty (7 minute read)

In the worst-case scenario, the projects can be forked, and the community can take over maintenance.

Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase (4 minute read)

Using the right patterns will lead to scalable codebases, which leads to faster iteration cycles and better software.

Code output up 17%. On-call headcount up…3% (Sponsor)

AI coding is driving a major capacity gap for SREs, and it's set to reach 41% next year. Read the full research by RunLLM →

Stop Hard-Coding “Local IP” in Terraform: Lock Down Firewalls Dynamically (4 minute read)

The Build5Nines/myip/http Terraform module automatically retrieves the public IP of the machine running Terraform and uses it for firewall allowlisting.

Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and LiDAR, still undercuts Tesla (4 minute read)

Xiaomi's SU7 electric sedan, which starts at around $33,000, has up to 902 km of CLTC range, standard LiDAR across all trims, and an 897V charging architecture on the top model.

World Models: Computing the Uncomputable (112 minute read)

This is a comprehensive guide that covers the history, theory, progress, and potential of World models.

Inside Reddit's IT playbook for AI and scale (Sponsor)

Under pressure to modernize and get AI-ready fast, but unsure where to start? In this fireside chat, Reddit CISO and Head of Corporate Engineering Sean Joerg shares the playbook his team used to unify...

Stitch by Google (5 minute read)

Stitch is a vibe design tool with an AI-native canvas that can hold and reason across images, code, and text simultaneously. The design agent understands users' entire canvas context, allowing them to...

Amazon says US Postal Service ‘walked away at the eleventh hour' in negotiations (3 minute read)

Amazon's contract renewal negotiations with the US Postal Service have fallen apart. The company plans to sharply reduce the number of packages it sends through the Postal Service when the contract ex...

Why is Starlink on planes so good? (6 minute read)

Starlink is a true technological leap over every other form of airline Wi-Fi. The older forms of satellite Wi-Fi are fundamentally constrained by the laws of physics. Starlink's network can provide gl...

A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid (4 minute read)

TransAstra, a Los Angeles-based company, plans to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a safe gathering point near Earth. One of its cust...

Get the CRM that automatically captures every email, call, and meeting — FREE for 3 months (Sponsor)

Every deal you've lost to a forgotten follow-up was preventable. Lightfield is the first AI-native CRM with complete customer memory — it updates itself, drives next steps, and answers questions so yo...

Machine Payments Protocol (Website)

The Machine Payments Protocol is an open protocol for machine-to-machine payments. It allows developers to charge for API requests, tool calls, or content. Agents and apps pay per request in the same ...

How OpenAI Codex Works (12 minute read)

OpenAI Codex is a coding agent that can write features, fix bugs, answer questions about codebases, and propose pull requests. Each task runs in its own isolated cloud sandbox, and users can assign mu...

Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days? (Hacker News Thread)

The field of computer science is changing as AI is now able to perform many of the tasks expected of junior developers. This is causing some students to feel apathetic about their career potential in ...

The Robotic Tortoise & the Robotic Hare (1 minute read)

Local models can often run faster than large proprietary models, and without much decline in performance. Faster responses mean quicker and more revision cycles. Some tasks need the increased performa...

6 Hidden Productivity Gaps Costing You 30% Dev Capacity (Sponsor)

Your metrics may look healthy, but hidden inefficiencies are slowing your team down. Download the guide

We've been building an internal Claude Code plugin system (4 minute read)

Intercom's internal Claude Code plugin system has 13 plugins, over 100 skills, and hooks that turn Claude into a full-stack engineering platform.

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel (1 minute read)

Sashiko ingests patches from mailing lists, analyzes them using AI-powered prompts, and provides feedback to help maintainers and developers ensure code quality and adherence to kernel standards.

A sufficiently detailed spec is code (11 minute read)

Coding agents can't reliably fill in missing clarity and detail as they aren't mind readers, and even if they were, there's not much they can do if your own thoughts are confused.

We Have Learned Nothing (28 minute read)

Any time someone insists on a method for how to build a successful startup, you should do something different.

Software is eating itself (3 minute read)

Software has always wanted to be free, and it eventually will be, so the business of software needs a different approach.

Meta will pay Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube creators with big followings to post on Facebook (2 minute read)

Meta's new Creator Fast Track program offers creators with an established following guaranteed monthly payments and increased reach on Facebook.

75% of developers believe AI reduces toil—but the data suggests a new reality. (Sponsor)

There is a new "velocity tax" in software development. As AI adoption grows, your teams aren't necessarily working less—they are spending 25% of their week fixing and securing AI-generated code. This ...

MiniMax launches M2.7 model on MiniMax Agent and APIs (1 minute read)

MiniMax's M2.7 model is now publicly available via the MiniMax Agent and the MiniMax API Platform. It supports complex workflows in software engineering, office productivity, and research environments...

How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas (4 minute read)

China aggressively promotes OpenClaw, a popular AI assistant, through public events organized by major tech firms like Baidu and Tencent. This AI tool enables personal automation, supporting China's v...

Xiaomi stuns with new MiMo-V2-Pro LLM nearing GPT-5.2, Opus 4.6 performance at a fraction of the cost (10 minute read)

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro is a 1-trillion-parameter foundation model with performance approaching that of models from OpenAI and Anthropic but at a fraction of the cost. The model uses a sparse architectur...

GPT 5.4 is a big step for Codex (7 minute read)

GPT 5.4 brings a ton more simple usability and 'agentness'. It is the first OpenAI agent that feels like it can do a lot of random tasks. The instruction following of the model is precise, and the mod...

What 81,000 people want from AI (35 minute read)

Anthropic conducted a large-scale study with 80,508 global participants to understand their hopes and fears about AI usage. Key desires include professional excellence and life improvements, while mai...