Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2
MariaDB is a popular open source SQL database which began as a fork of MySQL. MariaDB Galera Cluster is an active-active replication system for MariaDB which allows reads and writes on every node. In 2015 this author analyzed MariaDB with Galera Cluster and found that although Galera claimed to offer Snapshot Isolation, Codership Oy intentionally […]
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of communication goes up with the square of the number of members, or maybe it was n log n, or something […]
Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
Video encoding and decoding on the internet is largely a solved problem for everyday users. Most consumer devices now ship with dedicated hardware accelerator chips, to which APIs like the Vulkan® Video extensions provide direct access. Meanwhile, newer codecs are increasingly royalty-free with open specifications — or simply age out of licensing restrictions — making […]
Show HN: Trackm, a personal finance web app
Most finance apps make money by analysing your spending. Trackm cannot — your data is encrypted with a key only you hold. 🔐 Per-user encryption Each account has its own randomly generated data key, wrapped with your password. No shared keys, no shared risk. 🗄️ Isolated databases Your budget data lives in its own encrypted […]
AnswerThis (YC F25) Is Hiring
Who we are Trillions of dollars flow into global R&D every year, and a massive share of it goes to researchers manually reading papers, writing literature reviews, and assembling evidence packages. This is the work that decides whether a new drug or medical device reaches patients, and almost all of it is still done by […]
Mistral Releases Leanstral
AI agents have proven to be highly capable tools at code generation. Yet, as we push these models to high-stakes domains, ranging from frontier research mathematics to mission-critical software, we encounter a scaling bottleneck: the human review. The time and specialized expertise required to manually verify become the primary impedance of engineering velocity. We envision […]
Beyond Meat CEO ’It’s Just Not the Moment for Plant-Based Meat’ After Rebrand
Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown has said, “It’s just not the moment for plant-based meat,” following the company’s recent rebrand. Beyond Meat rebranded as Beyond The Plant Protein Company last week, amid what Brown described as a “period of confusion” around plant-based proteins. Read more: Tesco Reports Plant-Based Growth Led By Health-Conscious ‘Scratch Cooking’ In […]
Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
NVIDIA Vera CPU Delivers the Highest Performance and Energy Efficiency for Data Processing, AI Training and Agentic Inference at Scale News Summary: The NVIDIA Vera CPU delivers results with twice the efficiency and 50% faster than traditional CPUs. Customers collaborating with NVIDIA to deploy Vera CPU include Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, along […]
FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), like many others, received a notice regarding settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic. It is a class action lawsuit claiming that Anthropic infringed copyright by downloading works in Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror datasets for purposes of training large language models (LLMs). According to the notice, […]
Jemalloc Un-Abandoned by Meta
Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and modernize the codebase while continuing to evolve the allocator to adapt to the latest hardware and workloads. We are committed to continuing to develop jemalloc development with the […]