Why Is SQLite Coded in C and not Rust
Why Is SQLite Coded In C Table Of Contents Note: Sections 2.0 and 3.0 of this article were added in response to comments on Hacker News and Reddit. Since its inception on 2000-05-29, SQLite has been implemented in generic C. C was and continues to be the best language for implementing a software library like […]
Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
On October 4, independent developer Theo Browne published a series of benchmarks designed to compare server-side JavaScript execution speed between Cloudflare Workers and Vercel, a competing compute platform built on AWS Lambda. The initial results showed Cloudflare Workers performing worse than Node.js on Vercel at a variety of CPU-intensive tasks, by a factor of as […]
AppLovin nonconsensual installs
See important disclosures including my related financial interests. Mobile adtech juggernaut AppLovin recently faced multiple allegations of misconduct. Allegations run the gamut—privacy, ad targeting, even national security and ties to China. I was among the researchers consulted by skeptical investors this spring, and I was quoted in one of their reports, explaining my concerns about […]
Show HN: Wispbit – Keep codebase standards alive
Rules combine determinism + LLMs for high accuracy and >80% resolution rate Rules are added and kept up to date automatically based on feedback and code changes Runs anywhere – CLI, IDE, Pull Requests, Background Agents Automates boring human repetitive work
Your data model is your destiny
Product market fit is the startup holy grail. “Product” and “market” are essential, but a startup’s data model is the dark matter that holds them together. “Data model” refers to what a startup emphasizes in its product, i.e., which parts of reality matter most in how the product represents the world. It’s the core concepts […]
Show HN: An open source access logs analytics script to block bot attacks
Block users by JA5T, JA5H, or IP based on Tempesta FW access logs stored in the ClickHouse database. WIKI Requirements: Python 3.12
What do Americans die from vs. what the news report on
HomeCauses of Death What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on? Acknowledgments For this work, we relied on Media Cloud, an open-access platform for media analysis. We would like to thank their team, particularly Emily Boardman Ndulue and Fernando Bermejo, for making this invaluable […]
Why your boss isn’t worried about AI – “can’t you just turn it off?”
(a note for technical folk)1 | read as pdf When it comes to understanding the dangers of AI systems, the general public has the worst kind of knowledge: that what you know for sure that just ain’t so. After 40 years of persistent badgering, the software industry has convinced the public that bugs can have […]
New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells
University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development – including the production of blood stem cells. Human blood stem cells, also known as hematopoietic stem cells, are immature cells that can develop into any type of blood cell, including red […]
Intel and AMD standardise ChkTag to bring Memory Safety to x86
ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety Memory safety violations due to programming errors have long afflicted software. Industry and academia have been searching for solutions to this problem. As first noted in August 2025 posts by Intel and AMD x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group (EAG) leaders [1, 2], Intel and AMD are working together, along with their ecosystem […]