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The Kentucky school district that filed a social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and other companies is getting $27 million in settlement.

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A few weeks ago I posted about building a desktop app that automates GitHub commits because...

A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.

Keychron's K2 HE Concrete Edition sounds like a cute gimmick, but as I discovered, there's a really solid keyboard beyond the absurd choice of materials.

Kane Parsons was just 16 years old when he created a viral YouTube horror series based on a 4chan meme. Now he’s ready to conquer the big screen.

A practical, slightly opinionated Hermes Agent use case: an always-on chief of staff that remembers your work, schedules itself, uses tools, and reports back with receipts.

With inflation and gas prices rising, I’m trying to save money wherever I can. I tested Tello’s budget cell phone plan, and for me, it turns out prepaid can be just as good.

Plus: A ransomware group is now stealing data in person, BusPatrol wants to hand its license plate surveillance data to the cops, and more.

The biggest risk in using open-ended LLMs for research is their tendency to hallucinate or invent sources. Andrej Karpathy's method of building an LLM Wiki addresses this by creating a closed-loop system: the model is trained only on your trusted raw source docs. This acts as a smart search engine for your own library, grounding all responses in verifiable documents. I've been using Recall, an AI knowledge base, to easily implement this closed retrieval system. It ensures that when Claude answers a question about my research, it's strictly based on the PDFs and papers I uploaded. Does anyone disagree that this closed-system approach is essential for high-stakes research? submitted by /u/AdarshXDD [link] [留言]

Tired of sleeping like a mummy in a bag? Improve your backcountry sleep and carry less weight with an ultralight quilt.

Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Railway's control plane was hosted on GCP. Railway is demoting GCP to backup-only status. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.

22 Astro Best Practices: The Bookmark-Worthy Tips At QuotyAI I'm using Astro to build landing pages and blog posts, so I have hands-on experience how to use it properly and how to vibe-code without headache. Astro is the best framework for content sites right now - #1 in developer satisfaction in the State of JS 2025 survey, with Cloudflare backing it since January 2026. But like any tool, it rewards people who use it the way it was designed. This is the reference I wish I had when I started. Whether you're building your first Astro project or vibe-coding a blog at 2am, these are the habits worth forming from day one. Heads up on versions: This article covers Astro 6.x (released March 2026) and Astro 6.4 (released May 2026). Some APIs from older tutorials are now deprecated - those are called out explicitly below. Always check the upgrade guide when moving between majors. 🖼️ Assets & Media 1. Use <Image /> instead of <img /> Astro's built-in <Image /> component does a lot of work at build time that plain <img> tags leave on the table: it converts images to WebP, generates the right width and height attributes to prevent layout shift, and compresses everything without you touching a single config file. --- import { Image } from 'astro:assets'; import hero from '../assets/hero.png'; --- <!-- ✅ Optimized: converted to WebP, compressed, no layout shift --> <Image src={hero} alt="Hero image" /> <!-- ❌ Skips all of that --> <img src="/hero.png" alt="Hero image" /> For art-direction scenarios (different images at different breakpoints), reach for <Picture /> instead. 2. Use the Astro 6 Built-in Fonts API Almost every website uses custom fonts, but getting them right is surprisingly complicated - performance tradeoffs, privacy concerns, self-hosting, fallback generation, and preload hints. Astro 6 added a built-in Fonts API that handles all of it for you. Configure your fonts in astro.config.mjs : // astro.config.mjs import { defineConfig , fontProviders } from ' astro/conf

Building a Unix-Domain-Socket IPC server for ECS-on-EC2 services that need to talk fast, cheap, and reliably A while back I was looking at a flamegraph of a service that, on paper, should not have been having any performance problems. The producer and the consumer were the same Docker image's worth of trouble — colocated on the same EC2 host, in the same ECS cluster, sharing the same instance type, the same kernel, the same RAM. By every reasonable measure they were neighbours. And yet every event was making a round trip that looked roughly like this: producer → kernel TCP stack → ENI on the producer task → AWS VPC → internal load balancer → ENI on the consumer task → kernel TCP stack → consumer. TLS handshake. HTTP framing. JSON over the wire. Connection pool. Retry policy. The whole circus. I wasn't doing anything wrong. This is what the platform funnels you toward. ECS with awsvpc networking gives every task its own ENI. The default story for "service A talks to service B" is "give B a DNS name, put a load balancer in front of it, configure a security group, point A at the LB." Even if A and B are physically on the same box, the bytes are still leaving the kernel, traversing the VPC, and coming back. There's a fix for this. It's been a fix for fifty-something years. It just hasn't been the default fix, because cloud-native architecture grew up assuming services would be scattered across hosts and the network was the abstraction that mattered. This article is about building a proper IPC server using Unix Domain Sockets, deployed as a sidecar pattern on ECS-on-EC2, with a wire protocol robust enough to ship in production. We're going to design it from scratch — the transport choice, the wire format, the backpressure model, the failure modes, the deployment topology. I'll show you real pseudo-code from the implementation and call out the small number of places where, if you get it wrong, you'll spend a weekend debugging it. The intended outcome is something you coul

How a shared filesystem became the cheapest, fastest outbox I've ever built — and why FSx for OpenZFS is the version of that idea that finally scales I was staring at an AWS bill last quarter where a single Kinesis Data Streams line item was costing more than the entire S3 footprint sitting behind it. The events on that stream had a useful lifetime of about ninety seconds. They were written by one service, read by another, processed, and dropped. We were paying full streaming-bus price for bytes that barely outlived a TCP timeout. That bill is what got me thinking about transitional data as a category that deserves its own architecture, and about why every "use the right tool" instinct I had — Kinesis, Kafka, MSK — was the wrong tool for this particular shape of work. The right tool, it turns out, is a filesystem. Specifically, AWS FSx for OpenZFS, used as an outbox between producers and consumers, with only a tiny pointer message traveling through whatever messaging bus you already have. This article is the case for that pattern. It's also the design, the failure modes, the code, the cost math, and the honest list of when not to do it. I'll walk you through the architecture from first principles, show you the safe-write protocol that makes it correct under crashes and concurrent retries, compare the cost against Kinesis, MSK and EFS at a realistic petabyte-class workload, and explain why the recent addition of FSx Intelligent-Tiering changes the cost story in a way that makes the pattern attractive even for teams that don't ingest petabytes. If you've ever felt the queasy sensation of paying twice for the same bytes — once to land on a stream, again to land in storage — this is for you. What "transitional data" actually means Most data falls into one of two cleanly shaped buckets. Durable data is the stuff you keep — user records, orders, financial events, audit trails. It needs to live for years; you pay storage costs for those years and you get value over those y

This article will teach you how to export any list into Excel in C# using the ClosedXML library. Steps to complete Create the data model with dummy data that we'll export into Excel. Create ExportExcel interface methods that accept any type of List (using IEnumerable<T> ) and a Dictionary List and export a byte array. Create extension methods and convert the provided data into rows and columns (using DataTable ). Create a service class that implements the interface methods and export the data table into a Memory Stream (byte array) using ClosedXML . Create one API endpoint that exports data in memory into Excel. Create another endpoint that exports incoming (custom) request data into Excel. Wire up dependencies. Project structure ├── Program.cs ← Project startup & dependency injection │ ├── controllers / │ └── ExportToExcelController.cs ← API entry point ├── services / │ ├── IExportToExcelService.cs ← Export Excel interface │ └── ExportToExcelService.cs ← Export Excel concrete class │ ├── models / │ ├── Car.cs ← Car class definition & dummy data │ ├── ExcelResponse.cs ← Wrapper class for excel file name and data │ └── ExportExcelRequest.cs ← Request class for that accepts any kind of list that will be exported │ └── extensions / └── IEnumerableExtensions.cs ← Extension methods for List<T> and List<Dictionary> 1️⃣ Data model I've created the dummy data model to demonstrate the dynamic implementation. public enum FuelType { Petrol, Diesel, Electric, Hybrid } public class Car { public Guid Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string Manufacturer { get; set; } public int YearProduced { get; set; } public string Color { get; set; } public FuelType FuelType { get; set; } public int HorsePower { get; set; } public int NumberOfDoors { get; set; } public bool AutomaticTransmission { get; set; } public double AverageFuelConsumption { get; set; } public int MaxSpeed { get; set; } public decimal Price { get; set; } public static List<Car> GetCars() { ... } }

It is straightforward to configure a minimal API to produce an OpenAPI document at build time . This runs the API during build, requests the OpenAPI document from it, and saves it to disk. The slightly trickier part is to put checks in Program.cs to exclude any startup code that cannot run at build time. This is typically done because configuration key/value pairs are not available at that time. For example: if (! isBuildTime ) { connString = builder . Configuration . GetConnectionString ( "AppDB" ) ?? throw new InvalidOperationException ( "Connection string 'AppDB' is not configured." ); builder . Services . AddDbContext < AppDbContext >( options => { options . UseNpgsql ( connString ); } ); } The question is how to deduce that the API has been launched at build time, i.e. isBuildTime should be true? The official way of doing this is to check that the assembly that invoked the API is "GetDocument.Insider" : var isBuildTime = Assembly . GetEntryAssembly ()?. GetName (). Name == "GetDocument.Insider" ; GetDocument.Insider.dll is the command line tool that automatically runs during build of the API if the .csproj includes the following reference: <PackageReference Include= "Microsoft.Extensions.ApiDescription.Server" Version= "10.0.7" > ... </PackageReference> This package is a shim. It only provides build targets and props and hooks into the build of the API to run the command-line tool dotnet-getdocument . This tool in turn runs the command line tool GetDocument.Insider that we check for. This is a pretty convoluted sequence: Microsoft.Extensions.ApiDescription.Server provides targets that run during build of the API. One of those targets runs the command line tool dotnet-getdocument That in turn runs the command line tool GetDocument.Insider That in turn runs the API and fetches the /openapi/v1/json (or other configured endpoint) to get the OpenAPI document and saves it to disk. Checking in Program.cs if the API was invoked by the assembly GetDocument.Insider.dll t

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