We’re open-sourcing the successor of Jupyter notebook
Let’s be frank the single‑player notebook has felt outdated for a while now. We’re open‑sourcing its successor. Jupyter belongs in the hall of great ideas — alongside “Hello, world.” and “View Source.” However, it fails modern data teams, data agents, and… data itself. Teams need notebooks that are reactive, collaborative, and AI‑ready. If your workflow […]
Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
“Your code is your understanding of the problem you’re exploring. So it’s only when you have your code in your head that you really understand the problem.” — Paul Graham Software development only becomes engineering with understanding. Your ability to reason through your most challenging coding tasks is constrained by your mental model of how […]
Michael Burry a.k.a. “Big Short”,discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
Spotify notches another quarter of strong active user growth and improved profitability Spotify shares are up 3.25% as of 6:45 a.m. ET as investors digest the streaming giant’s Q3 earnings, in which the company reported that it added more than 70 million monthly active users, posted revenues that were up 7% from last year, and […]
NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware
⚠️ WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE This project is currently in the experimental/testing phase. Do NOT use this firmware on any thermostat that is critical for your heating or cooling needs. Flashing this firmware may brick your device or cause unexpected behavior. Only proceed if you have a backup thermostat or can afford to have your device […]
Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a foundational technology that could reshape our world, driving new scientific discoveries and helping us tackle humanity’s greatest challenges. Now, we’re asking where we can go to unlock its fullest potential. The Sun is the ultimate energy source in our solar system, emitting more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total […]
Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access
pg_lake integrates Iceberg and data lake files into Postgres. With the pg_lake extensions, you can use Postgres as a stand-alone lakehouse system that supports transactions and fast queries on Iceberg tables, and can directly work with raw data files in object stores like S3. At a high level, pg_lake lets you: Create and modify Iceberg […]
Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers
The DRAM supply chain is choking, and server memory is taking the first hit. According to DigiTimes, major U.S. and Chinese hyperscalers are now receiving just 70% of the server DRAM they order. That’s despite agreeing to contract price increases of up to 50% for Q4, well above the 30% hike many buyers had budgeted […]
This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours
This week in 1988, Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet. The wave of infections grew to 10% of the entire Internet within 24 hours, causing astronomically expensive damage for the time. However, the pioneering Morris worm malware wasn’t made with malice, says an FBI retrospective on the “programming […]
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
Datalog primer and a neat data structure Optimizing Datalog for the GPU Yihao Sun, Ahmedur Rahman Shovon, Thomas Gilray, Sidharth Kumar, and Kristopher Micinski ASPLOS’25 Datalog Primer Datalog source code comprises a set of relations, and a set of rules. A relation can be explicitly defined with a set of tuples. A running example in […]
Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator
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