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Location: Riga, Latvia (EU) Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, TypeScript/Node, React, Go, Elixir, OCaml, Postgres, Kubernetes, NATS, gRPC, LLM/ag…

is there a reason to still pick PgBouncer over these newer ones? Or is PgBouncer mostly the default because everybody runs it

I did not know this before... Google protobuf is not one thing, it is three! Same import, but: * old C++ extension * upb * pure Python upb parses FAST, but then every access is sti…

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I did not know this until today... vision models don't hunt for the white space between letters like old OCR does. They just chop the whole image into a fixed grid of equal squares…

I always used memcached without knowing how it stores things.. never knew about the slab thing. It is more sophisticated than grab memory per item. This helped be to understand it …

actually local MCP just spawns a subprocess and talks via stdin/stdout.. same as CLI tool. Extra layer is only for remote case. This might help if interested - https://vectree.io/c…

You are right, PRs are not in git. format-patch and request-pull are originals designed for mailings lists. Github just put UI on top. Interesting that DAG model means any branch f…

The ETH article title is actually fine - "a new trick brings stability." The hype is in the HN title.

true, but reading this made me learn something new. Turns out HashCash (system Bitcoin borrowed), was originally built to fight email spam in 1977 - https://vectree.io/c/hashcash-t…

I like the garden analogy. Writing online used to bring you readers. Now it trains model, which answers the same questions without sending anyone to your site.

really cool, data pipeline alone sounds like fun challenge

better tooling and integration

Did you try increasing protein intake during the cut?

I found it interesting, that Git itself has built in similarity notion... when it packs objects, it groups files by path+size, runs delta cmpression to find which are close. Very d…

Do you have a link to the paper showing the 20x improvement?

Such a simple trick, but effective!

Right, the default boxes into heap, but unions are different. Some languages pack them as a flat struct (tag + payload, no allocation). Here is visual layout if anyone is intereste…

Backwards compatibility point is interesting. Found this visual breakdown of IPv4 -> IPv6 transition. Dual stack and tunneling sections show how much complexity came from not havin…

100% true, but method still matters

I am with you here.. there is actually name for why companies do this. They are not pushing app because it is better, but because browser tab cannot lock you in. Mapped it out here…

This confused me at first as well.. inactive experts skip compute, but weights are sill loaded. So memory does not shrink at all. I found this visualisation helpful - https://vectr…

100% There is genuine demand for physical AI in Japan, there are not enough humans to hire. I bet, EU will start long debates wether to automate or not :) Japan already skipped tha…

exactly, the simplicity is its beauty! A single data structure (tables), no built in OOP (you build it with metatables). Coroutines instead of threads. I was curious and explored i…

or rather "move when?" Moving 1,400 tonnes might take years. The window to act is closing.