Year: 2026

kedge

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: kedge A lightweight, globally distributed cloud platform. Static sites, serverless functions, full-stack apps and databases, deployed close to your users. echo '# Hello, world!' | ssh kedge.dev The quickstart has more advanced examples. features pricing Billed per-second on actual resources consumed, not allocated capacity. CPU bills only scheduled milliseconds, memory tracks active resident pages, storage only for bytes used. Idle apps scale to zero and pay only for storage. Resource Rate CPU$15 / vCPU-month Memory$5 / GB-month Storage$0.05 / GB-month Egress$0.01 / GB Credits-based billing,…
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Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system

Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system

๐Ÿš€ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system Previous: No, you curate the App Store Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) July 29 2026 I could have terminated the title of this blog post with โ€œApp Storeโ€ but wanted to talk about something specific that came up for me today: App Store user ratings and reviews. This subject is related to yesterdayโ€™s blog post No, you curate the App Store. Despite the fact that Apple employees privately review every version…
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Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches AI-powered browser aimed at cognitive work

Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches AI-powered browser aimed at cognitive work

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Apps,Fundraising,AI browser,Perplexity โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AI browsers were very popular in 2025. Companies large and small tried to build AI-based browsers in an attempt to own the interface that people used to browse the Internet. How are turns scheduled? Today, OpenAI's Atlas is history, and The Browser Company has been sold to Atlassian, with Dia Browser now focused on production use cases. Firefox tried to balance its AI efforts by providing a kill switch, but it got yelled at anyway. This year, the focus has shifted to agents…
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every cliff moved 100x ยท Traceway

every cliff moved 100x ยท Traceway

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Same $16.49/month server, same Traceway binary, two embedded databases. DuckDB writes 4x to 15x faster than SQLite, serves dashboards at 100x the row count, and stores a billion metric points in 10.8 GB. Full numbers and methodology inside.TL;DR I spent six days working on and running a benchmark of observability data on DuckDB. I've done this with SQLite in the last blog post and I really wanted to see how DuckDB compares on a cheap CCX13 Hetzner instance. The way I've done the measurements is…
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After the AI Crash | POTs and PANs

After the AI Crash | POTs and PANs

โœจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Everything I read about the AI industry leads me to think there will be an AI crash. Consider the following: Unsustainable Capital Expenses. Itโ€™s hard to imagine there can ever be enough revenue to pay for the huge capital investments in data centers and electronics. Several analysts have estimated that it will take $2 trillion a year in revenue to pay for the infrastructure that has already been built, and there are no believable forecasts for generating even half that much revenue. The capital needs…
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Spotify is adding a playback mode to its app

Spotify is adding a playback mode to its app

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: TC,Apps,Spotify,running โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Spotify is adding a new mode to its mobile app for people who like to listen to music while running. The new playback mode prepares songs based on different stages of playback, and selects tracks based on your preferences and tempo. Paying subscribers can find the running mode in the Fitness Hub, and can choose from 25 presets. Users can choose their type of exercise from options such as interval running, steady state running, or pyramid running, and can customize the duration, number of beats…
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DJ Kavinsky, known for his track ‘Nightcall’, found dead at his Paris home

DJ Kavinsky, known for his track ‘Nightcall’, found dead at his Paris home

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: By&nbspEtienne Paponaud&nbspwith&nbspAFP Published on 29/07/2026 - 12:04 GMT+2โ€ขUpdated 13:49 French DJ Kavinsky has been found dead at his Paris home, according to local authorities. The body of the 50-year-old, whose real name was Vincent Belorgey, was discovered on Tuesday evening. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Kavinsky was a leading figure of the house music movement, 'French touch', alongside Daft Punk, Justice, Cassius and DJ Mehdi. The Paris prosecutor's office said that "an investigation to establish the causes of death" had been opened, noting that no suspect was found…
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Fast Metals processes waste with more waste to extract important minerals

Fast Metals processes waste with more waste to extract important minerals

โœจ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Climate,critical minerals โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Aluminum has left an indelible mark on the world, with more than 3 billion tons of red clay, a waste product of the refining process, currently stored in open-air vats or piles. But for Sumedh Justo, co-founder and CEO of Fast Metals, there is treasure in caustic waste. โ€œIt's a very rich resource,โ€ he told TechCrunch. โ€œIf you attack with the right chemistry, it can be very profitable.โ€ Justo believes Fast Metals has found that the chemistry, which happens to be partly made up…
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A Whirlwind Tour – SpecForge User Guide

A Whirlwind Tour – SpecForge User Guide

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This section is a quick introduction to SpecForgeโ€™s main capabilities through a hands-on example. Weโ€™ll explore how to write specifications in the Lilo language and analyze them using SpecForgeโ€™s VSCode extension. Lilo is an expression-based temporal specification language designed for hybrid systems. Here are the key concepts: Primitive Types: Bool, Int, Float, and String Operators: Standard arithmetic (+, -, *, /), comparisons (==, <, >, etc.), and logical operators (&&, ||, =>) Temporal Operators: Liloโ€™s distinguishing feature is its rich set of temporal logic…
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OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies

OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company.Hugging Face was thought to be the only victim of the unprecedented hack - but OpenAI now admits its bot attacked several "publicly-available services". The out-of-control AI found four logins online which allowed it to access four separate, unnamed services.Meanwhile, in an emergency briefing with hundreds of cyber security professionals, Hugging Face has described what it was like to be on the receiving end of the world's first fully…
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