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The idea is for you to be able to publish a stateful app 'everywhere' that moves with your workload without micro-managing regions or resources, like a traditional CDN does for sta…

Pretty much! It's not dynamic memory hotplug or resizing, just dynamic billing. Usage is based on the actual RSS used by the app so you can think of the VM's defined size as just a…

Thanks! Yes, the write-replication part is syzy, which hooks into the standard unmodified sqlite engine that reads and writes normal sqlite db files locally - syzy just keeps multi…

These are both later-stage detail questions for when this project is further hardened for production workloads, but here's where each of these currently stands: - Yes, there is a p…

Thanks for the kind words! > I didn't immediately spot the durability contract for volumes -- local NVMe like Fly, or sitting on some underlying system like EBS? Persistent volumes…

Thanks! I tried to make the sandbox-eval stdin interface as simple as possible so you could easily plug it anywhere. The executable docs run an actual full shell in a VM, since the…

> although why would you use it for evil I couldn't help it! Ben Johnson recently wrote a Litestream post touching on this topic [1]: > multiple-writer distributed SQLite databases…

I'm building Kedge, a globally distributed platform for stateful serverless apps. Here's how you make a simple static site: `echo '# Hello world!' | ssh kedge.dev` I helped build F…

> As such, if you pirated a book and had to pay $3000 for that one instance, I don't think you'd like it if I said you should have paid $30K or $300K instead. If you pirated a book…

Your 'with 1m context window' implied that some manually-curated task 'chunks' would overflow smaller context windows (eg 200-400k tokens). If you're instead curating chunks small …

> With 1m context window there is no reason for a single task to require compaction Only if money is no object. Cache reads are cheap (10% of uncached input costs) but definitely n…

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Looks like a more detailed followup statement was just posted today: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi...

That's a perfectly cromulent meaning of the word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin The argument, as I understand it is that the "theft" is in quotes because it's not literally copyright infringement, but fair use of an old pu…

Don't miss related HN threads from the original authors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28861204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086249

A real example, from Facebook's 2021 outage [1]: > Our primary and out-of-band network access was down, so we sent engineers onsite to the data centers to have them debug the issue…

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/minimizing-linux-boot-times/

Thanks for the extra details, the frontrun benchmark numbers seem compelling for various cold-read use cases. A system that combines both WAL frames with cold-read-optimized groupe…

Nice set of experiments! I appreciate that you're running benchmarks on real object storage setups to validate rapid design variations. (Meta-note: I love how agents have recently …

Anthropic uses it across all their websites, here's a typical example where the effect is obvious as you scroll down: https://claude.com/solutions/agents I could be wrong, but my s…

Sounds like a promising idea, but a blog post with bits of implementation code is not a "Show HN", there's nothing to try out here. See the guideline [1]: > Off topic: blog posts, …

Yeah, the article showed that the high-dose intervention (modeled after von Noorden's famous century-old 'oat cure') is most effective. A large bowl of oatmeal (100g) all 3 meals f…

It's well known that an oatmeal diet lowers cholesterol (the article itself cites a 1907 'oat cure' in its intro). The new finding here is insight into the exact mechanism- a short…