Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory
Expat 2.8.1 released, CVE-2026-45186 and CVSS unreliability
Concurrency
Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics
Compliance and Privacy
Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data
Why Cassandra Won’t Let You Change a Column’s Type (And Why That’s a Feature)
I spent some time digging into why Cassandra refuses to let you run a simple ALTER TYPE on existing columns. I used to think it was just a missing feature, but it turns out it’s a fundamental trade-off of the LSM-tree architecture. submitted by /u/mgalalen [link] [comments]
Are AI Agents becoming Autonomous Coworkers?
Autonomous agents are projected to work alongside humans in financial services, healthcare, and other industries in a matter of years.
Agentic Commerce and Payments
Five vertical SaaS insights from Sessions 2026
At Stripe Sessions and our inaugural SaaS Platform Leaders Summit, vertical SaaS leaders shared how they’re staying differentiated as AI raises the bar for software. The takeaways: why payments and financial services create moats that AI can’t easily replicate, how platforms are moving from AI experimentation to monetization, and why platforms are expected to lead the way on agentic commerce.
AWS
Choosing between single or multiple organizations in AWS Organizations
Organizations face critical architectural decisions that can impact their operations for years to come such as: Is it better to maintain a single organization or implement multiple organizations? In this post, I explain the key advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and the scenarios where each model fits best.
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM
Artificial Intelligence
Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon Valley. Contrary to what Big Tech…
Microsoft
Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
Defense Tech
Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation
Zig
Scripty
Privacy
Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?
X / Twitter
How to Leave Instagram
Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale
Netflix
Bravo is creating unscripted microdramas for the Peacock app
Machine Learning and AI
When the sensor starts thinking: SnortML, agentic AI, and the evolving architecture of intrusion detection
Signature-based detection has always known what it was looking for. Machine learning and autonomous agents are changing the question entirely, shifting from "does this match a known pattern?" to "does this actually make sense in context?"
X / Twitter
Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers
Load-Bearing Assumptions: the rxrpc case (CVE-2026-43500) and the constraint that was never there
"Respectful" YAML patching in Rust
Spotify
Nullsoft, 1997-2004 AOL kills off the last maverick tech company (2004)
Data Governance
Building Data 360 Clean Rooms: Zero-Copy Architecture for Privacy-Safe Data Collaboration
In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Soumya KV, Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce, as she leads the team building Data 360 Clean Rooms to enable secure organization collaboration on data-driven insights while maintaining strict privacy, consent, and governance controls over underlying […] The post Building Data 360 Clean Rooms: Zero-Copy Architecture for Privacy-Safe Data Co...
OAuth 2.0 – Device flow explained for Engineers, especially for Backend Engineers
Agentic Commerce and Payments
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Agent Toolkit for AWS, and more (May 11, 2026)
My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building customized systems for billing, credential management, and […]
What's Wrong with AI?
Need Resource For Building MySQL from Scratch
I specifically want implementation-focused coding resources for building a MySQL-like database from scratch. I want to actually code things like a SQL parser, query execution engine, storage engine, B+ tree indexes, transactions/MVCC, WAL/recovery, and maybe even a basic optimizer or replication system. I’m searching for GitHub projects, “build your own database” repos, blog series with step-by-step implementations, source-code walkthroughs, or educational mini database engines. Preferr...
Cryptography
Labyrinth 1.1: Making End-to-End Encrypted Backups Even More Reliable
We’re rolling out version 1.1 of Labyrinth, the encrypted storage system and protocol that secures messages and history on Messenger. Labyrinth 1.1 enhances the reliability of end-to-end encrypted backups with a new sub-protocol that helps messages survive the loss of a device, a switched device, and long gaps between sign-ins. Read our updated white paper, [...] Read More... The post Labyrinth 1.1: Making End-to-End Encrypted Backups Even More Reliable appeared first on Engineering at Meta.
xAI
‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says
AI Psychosis
How are we going to get out of Meta? (Or social media in general)
Show HN: Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site
Homelab & Self-Hosting
Hosting an Open Alternative to Google Docs for Digital Sovereignty
Anthropic
AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says
Fine-tuning and PEFT
Amália and the Future of European Portuguese LLMs
AI Psychosis
What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue
PostgreSQL
SHRIDHAR KHANAL: SSL in PostgreSQL
A beginner’s guide to encrypting your database connections“’SSL is enabled’ and ‘SSL is actually working’ are two very different things.”1. What is SSL, and why does a database needit?SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. Its successor is TLS (Transport Layer Security), but in the PostgreSQL world, and in most documentation, people still call it SSL out of old habit. Don’t let that confuse you. When someone says “SSL” in a Postgres context, they mean modern TLS-based encryp...
Spotify
How the World Became a Casino
The logic behind Polymarket, Kalshi and sports betting apps can be traced back to the inner workings of the slot machine.
Replication
Christophe Pettus: The wal_level You Set Is Not the wal_level You Get
PostgreSQL 19 finally lets wal_level adapt dynamically to your actual replication slots, eliminating the always-on WAL cost of logical standby insurance.
C++
Building a Memory Allocator from Scratch in C
CSS
Create a 90s GeoCities style website in seconds (Python)
OpenAI
The OpenAI Deployment Company
CSS
Out with the JavaScript, in with the HTML
Compile-Time Map and Compile-Time Mutable Variable with C++26 Reflection
Software Engineering
Introducing the Heap, the software engineering blog for everyone
If you’ve got something you’ve been dying to share with the Stack Overflow community but don’t quite have a place to share it, we've got you.
Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig
AI Psychosis
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
AI Inference
The Inference Shift
Artificial Intelligence
Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting with customer needs and working backward to technology solutions. Not prioritizing the customer can create fragmented solutions; disjointed…
Artificial Intelligence
Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance
In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact. The result is a paradox: one of the most tightly regulated functions…
EVs and Transportation
Innovation abounds in device charging
The changes may be less perceptible than in smartphones, tablets, or wearables, but chargers have also been quietly reinvented over the last decade. At one time a bulky mix of tangled cables and connectors, slow to perform and prone to overheating, they’re now smaller, safer, and faster, thanks to a slew of technological advances. These…
JavaScript and TypeScript
I keep tripping over "true, false, true"
AI Psychosis
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
Meta
Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost
Space Tech
There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
Defense Tech
European Money Pours into Palantir
AI Psychosis
Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb
Defense Tech
The Download: the hantavirus outbreak and Musk v. Altman week 2
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak Last week, eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship contracted a type of hantavirus transmitted by rats. Three have…
Software Engineering
From Today, Software Engineering Is Dead
Stripe
Venmo’s biggest makeover in years comes at a very interesting time
AI Psychosis
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Training AI
Startups and Venture
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
AI Psychosis
I knew my writing students used AI. Their confessions led to a teaching moment
AI Coding Tools
PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
Microsoft
Bliss (Photograph)
Ratty: A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars
X / Twitter
Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an online president
Rust
Piping terminal output to the browser using systemfd
Defense Tech
Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
X / Twitter
Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
Security Engineering
Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
Making cross-platform SIMD code pleasant
Generative AI