Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit
Crypto’s most infamous collapse is back in the spotlight, and this time the blast radius reaches deep into Wall Street. A new lawsuit doesn’t just revisit the $40 billion Terra-Luna meltdown; it questions whether one of the world’s most sophisticated trading firms saw the collapse coming and moved first. If the allegations hold up in […]
Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts
Ultra memory-efficient LLM inference engine. ZSE is designed to run large language models with minimal memory footprint while maintaining high performance. Our key innovation is the Intelligence Orchestrator that provides smart recommendations based on your available (not total) memory. Key Features 🧠 zAttention: Custom CUDA kernels for paged, flash, and sparse attention 🗜️ zQuantize: Per-tensor […]
Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied into Doing Surveillance
The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their technology to be used in the two ways they […]
Go-Native Durable Execution
Introduction Building a workflows library that feels natural and familiar to Go developers is trickier than it sounds because while Go has some great features (language support for context.Context, an incredible async runtime) it also has some brutal limitations for library builders (particularly its limited type system). In this blog post, we’ll look at what […]
Banned in California
Building an EV requires metal forging, battery manufacturing, painting, and chip fabrication — all processes that drove Tesla to build in Nevada and Texas. Tesla’s Fremont factory was the former NUMMI plant (GM/Toyota, operating since 1962). It was grandfathered in. When Tesla needed to expand battery production, they built the Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada — […]
Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory
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How Will OpenAI Compete?
As we all know, OpenAI has been running around trying to join the club, claiming a few months ago to have $1.4tr and 30 gigawatts of compute commitment for the future (with no timeline), while it reported 1.9 gigawatts in use at the end of 2025. Since it doesn’t have the scale of cashflows from […]
Making MCP cheaper via CLI
Every AI agent using MCP is quietly overpaying. Not on the API calls themselves – those are fine. The tax is on the instruction manual. Before your agent can do anything useful, it needs to know what tools are available. MCP’s answer is to dump the entire tool catalog into the conversation as JSON Schema. […]
Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer
5 min read Rohan S. Puranik is an edge-computing architect and company founder. Jimi Hendrix used a chain of components to modulate sound, controlling a feedback loop by positioning the guitar with respect to his amplifier’s speaker. James Provost 3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the […]
Google API keys weren’t secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
tl;dr Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that’s no longer true: Gemini accepts the same keys to access your private data. We scanned millions of websites and found nearly 3,000 Google API keys, originally deployed for public services like […]