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Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lrc to help devs discover the project. Do give it a try and share your feedback. You've been using the terminal for months/ years. Maybe you cd into a folder, ls around, run your script, and call it a day. That's fine. That's like knowing how to boil water and calling yourself a chef. But the terminal has layers . It's basically an onion that occasionally makes you cry, usually around 12 AM when a script fails silently and you have no idea why. So grab your coffee and let's talk about the command line tricks that actually make your life better. Not the "did you know ls -la shows hidden files" tier tips. Your Terminal Has A Memory. Use It. Most devs mash the up arrow like it's 2007 and they're trying to beat a Flash game. Stop that. Press ctrl-r instead. It searches your command history live. Type a few letters, it finds the last matching command. Press ctrl-r again to cycle back further. Found it? Hit Enter to run it, or the right arrow to drop it into your prompt so you can edit it first. ctrl-r ( reverse-i-search ) ` docker run ` : docker run -it --rm -v $( pwd ) :/app node:20 bash Pair this with ctrl-w (delete last word) and ctrl-u (nuke the line back to the cursor) and you'll start editing commands like you're speedrunning a text adventure. And if you're the type who types a whole essay of a command and then realizes you forgot something at the start, ctrl-a jumps to the beginning of the line and ctrl-e jumps to the end. No more holding the left arrow key like it owes you money. Pro tip: if you're a TUI fan and ctrl-r's default search feels a bit flat, check out McFly xargs Is The Friend Who Actually Shows Up Pipes ( | ) are great. They pass output from one command into another. But sometimes you don't want to pass output as input , you want to pass it as arguments . That's where xargs comes in, and once you get it,

HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.

China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.

Netflix has shows and movies. And video games. And live sports. And podcasts. And also, apparently, YouTube videos? For a company that used to seem like the next big thing in TV, it all feels a little frenetic, and maybe a tad desperate. For a company that sees sleep as its primary competitor, it might […]

Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching "always-on" live channels, giving subscribers something to tune into 24/7.

This week on the Engadget Podcast, we dive into Microsoft's brutal Xbox layoffs with Mike Futter of the Virtual Economy Podcast.

A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.

The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, a new industry-wide initiative aimed at defending the world's most critical open source software against a rapidly evolving generation of AI-enabled cyber threats. By Craig Risi

This week should have been a celebration for Doom developer id Software. The studio just launched Revelations, a meaty expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages that adds a powerful new weapon and more demonic levels to blast through. Even though I hadn't picked up The Dark Ages for more than a year, it only took […]

Introduction If you have been building applications using Vite, you are likely used to a specific workflow: write React components, bundle them with esbuild/Rollup, and serve a single HTML file that fetches a large JavaScript bundle. In this world, everything is a "Client Component." However, as the React ecosystem shifts toward the App Router and React Server Components (RSC), the architecture is fundamentally changing. For developers moving from a Vite-centric mindset to a Next.js framework, the biggest hurdle isn't the syntax—it's the mental model. In this guide, we will break down the core differences between Server and Client components and how to adapt your Vite-based habits to this new reality. The Vite World: Single-Page Application (SPA) Default In a standard Vite + React project, your entire application lifecycle happens in the browser. The browser requests the page. The server sends a nearly empty index.html . The browser downloads the JS bundle. React hydrates the app, fetches data from an API via useEffect , and renders the UI. While this is excellent for developer experience (DX) and highly interactive dashboards, it often leads to "Layout Shift" and slower "Time to Interactive" for content-heavy pages because the client has to do all the heavy lifting. The Shift: Thinking in "Environment Splits" With React Server Components, the paradigm shifts from "Everything happens on the client" to "Compute where it makes sense." 1. What are Server Components? By default, in the Next.js App Router, every component is a Server Component. These components execute only on the server . They never send their code to the client-side bundle. This allows you to: Access backend resources directly: You can query your database or file system inside the component. Keep secrets safe: API keys and sensitive logic stay on the server. Reduce bundle size: Large dependencies (like a markdown parser or date library) stay on the server and only the resulting HTML is sent to the user

GitHub has made the redesigned GitHub Copilot CLI terminal interface generally available. It adds a tabbed layout for sessions, gists, issues, and pull requests; an in-session, form-driven setup for MCP servers, skills, and plugins that avoids hand-editing config files; and a cleaner, theme-aware, more accessible UI with screen reader support. By Mark Silvester

Bonus round. Parts 1–3 covered why Node exists, what's happening inside it, and the full request journey. This part mops up the pieces that didn't fit anywhere else — the Express plumbing, error handling, and a checklist to test yourself against. Saturday, Round 4 Nephew: Uncle, one more round? I promise this is the last one for a while. Uncle: pours chai — you said that last time too. Fine, what's bugging you now? Nephew: Small things, actually. express.json() , cookie-parser , express.Router() — I use all of them, copy-pasted from old projects, but I couldn't explain any of them if you asked me directly. Uncle: That's exactly the right instinct — the things you copy-paste without understanding are always the things that break at 2 AM. Let's fix that. Part 4.1 — Two Directions Node Never Confuses Uncle: Before plumbing, one small but important idea that ties Parts 2 and 3 together. Everything Node does falls into exactly two directions . DIRECTION 1 — Incoming Events "The outside world is telling Node something happened" OS → libuv → Event Loop → Your JavaScript Examples: HTTP request arrives, TCP connection opens, WebSocket message arrives DIRECTION 2 — Outgoing Async Operations "Your JavaScript is asking Node to go do something" JavaScript → libuv → Worker Thread → OS → Disk/DB ↓ result comes back through libuv → Event Loop → your callback Examples: fs.readFile(), crypto.pbkdf2(), dns.lookup() Nephew: So an incoming HTTP request and a fs.readFile() call both eventually pass through libuv and the event loop — but they enter from completely opposite directions? Uncle: Exactly. One is the world pushing something at Node. The other is Node reaching out to go get something. Same event loop handles both, but the journey to get there is different — an HTTP request never touches the thread pool; a file read almost always does. Incoming HTTP Request: File Reading: Browser JavaScript | | OS libuv | | libuv Worker Thread | | Event Loop Operating System | | JavaScript Disk |

Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.

Netflix is thinking about adding always-on channels that would stream specific shows and movies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move sounds like a Netflix version of always-on services like Pluto TV and Tubi, except the big hook for those is that they're free - because of the ads you have to watch. Netflix […]

If Homo floresiensis wasn't a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought.

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.

Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."

Over the past week, two narratives have been colliding everywhere I look. On one side, there's panic. AI is expected to replace marketers, engineers, and entire categories of knowledge work almost overnight. On the other, there are quieter but far more consequential signals: enterprise teams discovering their AI infrastructure is burning through API budgets far faster than expected. This isn't because the underlying models are weak, but because the systems built around them are fundamentally inefficient by design. These aren't separate stories. They're the same failure showing up in different places. A conversation with another developer made that gap visible in real time. He argued that auditing a 150,000-line codebase requires feeding the entire repository into a model in one single, massive pass. It's still a common assumption in mainstream tech: that an LLM works like a giant biological brain that you must fully load with raw text before it can begin to think. But that assumption is already outdated. Modern AI systems don't scale through brute-force context. They scale through structure. And that shift changes everything. Key takeaways Bigger context windows did not solve AI. Treating a frontier model as a monolithic processor that re-reads an entire system on every query is wasteful, dilutes attention, and hides bugs under raw volume. ARC-AGI-3 makes the gap stark: frontier models scored under 1% on interactive reasoning tasks that untrained humans solve at nearly 100%. The gap is architecture, not memory. The teams pulling ahead treat the model as one narrow component inside a larger system: intelligent routing, task decomposition, retrieval, and only the minimum necessary context. The next advantage is not the biggest model or the longest prompt. It is the system designed around the model. Prompting was the first generation; systems architecture is the next. The Myth of the Infinite Context Window When context windows expanded into the hundreds of thousands o

Judge reluctantly approves $1.5M settlement with SEC over Twitter stock violation.

I recently commented on Jonathan Lewis’s blog, Savepoint Funny , where I compared how PostgreSQL handles uniqueness differently: “PostgreSQL resolves uniqueness through heap tuple visibility". This deserves a more detailed explanation. In Oracle, unique indexes store unique entries because the B-tree key is the index key, preventing duplicates. Non-unique indexes add the ROWID to ensure that all entries are physically unique, even when indexed column values are duplicated. In PostgreSQL, all indexes, even unique ones, created explicitly by CREATE UNIQUE INDEX or implicitly to enforce a unique constraint, behave like non-unique indexes by appending the TID (tuple ID, similar to Oracle's ROWID) to the index key. This indicates that the index itself doesn't guarantee physical uniqueness, allowing multiple entries to have identical logical keys but point to different heap tuples. The actual uniqueness verification occurs at the heap level, not within the index entries. Initially, this might seem unusual—a unique index that permits duplicates. However, PostgreSQL requires this because of its MVCC system. MVCC allows duplicate entries to coexist in an index, since they can represent different versions of the same logical row. Still, PostgreSQL must guarantee that no MVCC snapshot views two rows with the same index key. Oracle doesn't face this issue because its MVCC implementation also versions index blocks, allowing a single index version to maintain unique keys. Let’s show that. Page inspect In PostgreSQL, the heap contains the table data, and index entries point to heap tuples. Visibility depends on the heap header, especially the transaction information. Index scans often visit the heap pages to check visibility, except for index-only scans, which use the heap's visibility maps as an optimization. B-tree indexes can store entries for multiple versions of the same logical row, including versions that are no longer visible to current snapshots. To ensure uniqueness, the