GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database
A lightweight, decentralized graph database designed for modern web applications, offering real-time peer-to-peer synchronization, WebAuthn-based authentication, role-based access control (RBAC), and efficient local storage utilizing OPFS. Main Features ✅ GenosDB Core Efficient storage in OPFS. Real-time synchronization between tabs and devices. CRUD operations for nodes and relationships. Efficient serialization using MessagePack and compression with Pako. […]
So you’re a manager now
Welcome to the club. You either asked for this, or someone tapped you on the shoulder and said, “Hey, you seem responsible. Wanna be in charge of other humans?” Either way, here you are. Congrats. Or condolences. Maybe both. Being a first-time manager is weird. You go from being great at your job to being […]
Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy
Matrix has long been promoted as the future of secure, decentralized communication. Backed by an open protocol, a vibrant developer community, and bridges to legacy systems, it promises interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in. But when viewed through the lens of EU data privacy law, Matrix, and its commercial champion, Element, poses significant and underappreciated risks.
Helion begins work on Washington nuclear fusion plant
Microsoft-backed nuclear fusion company Helion has begun work on its first fusion power plant in Chelan County in the US state of Washington. The Orion plant is set to deliver power to Microsoft data centres in the state by 2028, should development remain on track. Microsoft signed what it said was the world’s first power […]
Altima NSX
Light in weight. Light in price. Heavy in features. From the May 1991 issue of Byte Magazine The Company The ad should also read “light on company information”. Unfortunately, Altima is one of many computer companies that existed for a short time in the 1980s and then disappeared without a trace. To me, that is […]
Infracost (YC W21) hiring first PM to shift $600B cloud spend to proactive
Overview We were the first to shift FinOps left, and we see a big opportunity to make the $600B/year spent on cloud proactively managed, instead of teams reacting to surprise cost spikes. Reactive is too late, we already tried that approach with our first startup. Join us as our first PM 🚀 This is a […]
Introduction to Computer Music an Electronic Textbook
The Introduction to Computer Music was initially designed as an online text for first-year study of computer music. This e-book aspires to present information in sufficient depth to be useful to composers, beginning audio engineers and other musicians, professional or otherwise, interested in making music with technology. The first edition of this text was begun […]
How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?
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GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu, Noah Ziems, Rishi Khare, Krista Opsahl-Ong, Arnav Singhvi, Herumb Shandilya, Michael J Ryan, Meng Jiang, Christopher Potts, Koushik Sen, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Ion Stoica, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Omar KhattabPaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457 TL;DR What was done? The authors introduced GEPA (Genetic-Pareto), a novel algorithm for optimizing prompts in […]
I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust
“Everything is chrome in the future” was a line said by SpongeBob SquarePants in an episode from 1999, and it turned out to be a prophecy about web browsers. Google Chrome is the world’s most popular browser, and most of its competitors are based on the same Chromium code: Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and […]