Year: 2026

In praise of memcached

πŸš€ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: If you happen to find yourself in a sysadmin position, or a position where you just so happen to maintain someone’s infrastructure, chances are that at some point in time the topic β€œwe need a cache” comes up. You think for a moment and reach out for Redis, because you’re used to it, it’s fully featured, and it works! You remember it being a good, solid cache, and you wonder which new features recent releases have brought, and head to its homepage: Your agents aren’t…
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Playlist: Big tech layoffs in 2026 as employers cite AI

Playlist: Big tech layoffs in 2026 as employers cite AI

πŸ”₯ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,TC,Layoffs βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Oracle revealed on Monday that it has reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees over the past 12 months, a 13% decrease, meaning more cuts than previously known, including jobs eliminated due to artificial intelligence. β€œThe adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations has led, and may continue to cause, reductions in our workforce,” the company said in an annual financial regulatory filing. The revelation puts new numbers on what to many in the tech industry looks like an epidemic: companies are reporting record…
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ytr: YouTube radio for Emacs

ytr: YouTube radio for Emacs

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OpenAI is launching a new initiative to help find and fix open source bugs

OpenAI is launching a new initiative to help find and fix open source bugs

✨ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,open source software,OpenAI,Trail of Bits πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday aimed at helping the open source community up its cybersecurity game and fend off bugs. "Patch the Planet" (a not-so-subtle reference to "Hack the Planet", the catchphrase from the 1995 film Pirates) will see OpenAI team up with security company Trail of Bits to help open source maintainers secure their projects. OpenAI said security staff from Trail of Bits will work directly with open source maintainers to review potential code issues. OpenAI's security…
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Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

πŸš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Everyone worries about the apps on their phone. Almost no one looks at the ones on their TV. We scanned 6,038 of them across LG and Samsung; 2,058 were selling your IP address.On screen, it's a relaxing fish tank. Or a clock. Or solitaire. Or puppies. Under the hood, it is a residential proxy: software that can send other people's internet traffic out through your living room. And we found it everywhere.Why TVs are differentSmart TVs are almost ideal proxy hosts. They sit on the…
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Tesla retracts Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash

Tesla retracts Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash

πŸš€ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Autopilot,FSD,Tesla πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: A fatal weekend crash in which a Tesla crashed into a brick home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old woman, has raised alarms about the company's driver-assistance technology. By Monday afternoon, Tesla was pushing back against that framework. The accident occurred Friday night when a Tesla Model 3 driven by Michael Butler ran off the road and crashed into the home of Martha Avila, who was airlifted to the hospital and later pronounced dead. Butler told Harris County sheriff's deputies the vehicle was on Autopilot…
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Job application asked for my SAT scores – Mr. Market

Job application asked for my SAT scores – Mr. Market

πŸ’₯ Read this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: 20 Jun, 2026 Yesterday I was looking at YC jobs to see if there were any interesting small startups hiring in my area (while I otherwise love my current fully-remote job, I'm looking for hybrid). I found one that advertised an opening they called "GTM". I thought that was cool re: no specific scope, just someone who could make their product attractive to buyers however they can. Product seemed good (ETL type of tool). Everything was about what I expected, until the blurb at the…
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World Cup 2026: Lionel Messi sets more records for defending champion Argentina

World Cup 2026: Lionel Messi sets more records for defending champion Argentina

πŸš€ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Even in failure, Messi breaks records.He will get the headlines for his prowess in front of goal, but there have also been some unwanted records.Argentina won a penalty kick after obstructing Lautaro Martinez, but Messi shot the penalty wide of the goal.Messi said: β€œThere was a moment when I felt very angry about the penalty kick, because I missed it and executed it very poorly.” β€œFortunately we were able to turn the situation around, take the lead and get the three points.”He became the…
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Head of Engineering at Kyber

Head of Engineering at Kyber

πŸ”₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 18 months, we’ve: >40x’d revenue and are profitable. Landed multiple six and seven figure, multi-year contracts with leading insurance enterprises. Launched strategic partnerships with industry leading…
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The world of artificial intelligence has become β€œcomplex”

The world of artificial intelligence has become β€œcomplex”

✨ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: AI,TC,agentic ai,boris cherny βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: On Friday, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny appeared at Meta's @Scale conference, and surprisingly the first question from the audience was about loops. The questioner asked: β€œAre the episodes the next hype cycle, or are they real?” He said Cherney's answer was emphatic: "Yes, it's real." "Two years ago, we wrote source code by hand. We started moving to agents writing the code. Now we're moving to the point where agents are asking agents to write the code next," he continued. β€œDespite the…
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