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A Central Bank Just Chose a Grocery Chain's Cloud Over AWS

May 9

▸ De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) is migrating off AWS to STACKIT, a cloud platform built by Schwarz Group — the parent company of Lidl and Kaufland.

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

PostgreSQL RCE via COPY FAIL: What CVE-2026-31431 Means for Your Stack

May 9

▸ CVE-2026-31431 exploits a flaw in PostgreSQL's COPY sub-protocol, where a malformed CopyFail message triggers memory corruption during the COPY state ...

Open Source Backend / APIs Security / Privacy breaking

Cloudflare Is Eating Itself: Why They're Rebuilding on Workers

May 9

▸ Cloudflare is migrating its own core services onto the Workers platform — dogfooding at infrastructure scale.

Cloud / Infrastructure Backend / APIs explainer

Google Is Quietly Bricking the 'Open' in Open Source Android

May 9

▸ The Keep Android Open campaign is rallying developers against Google's accelerating lockdown of Android via Play Integrity API enforcement and sideloa...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

GitHub Copilot Kills Flat-Rate Pricing — What Your Bill Actually Looks Like Now

May 9

▸ GitHub is replacing Copilot's $10/month individual and $19/month business flat-rate plans with a usage-based model that meters premium model requests ...

Career / Industry DevOps / Platform Engineering AI / ML clear_take

Ghostty Leaves GitHub: When 25K Stars Aren't Enough to Stay

May 9

▸ Mitchell Hashimoto is migrating Ghostty — one of the most-starred terminal emulators on GitHub — to a self-hosted forge, citing platform limitations t...

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

Async Rust at 6: The Code Patterns That Still Break

May 8

▸ Tweede Golf's viral post (352 HN points) catalogs the async features Rust still hasn't shipped — but the real story is in the workarounds production t...

Backend / APIs Open Source multiple_viewpoints

Malicious 'Shai-Hulud' Package Found Hiding in PyTorch Lightning's Dependency Tree

May 8

▸ Semgrep researchers discovered a malicious dependency in the PyTorch Lightning AI training library, themed after Dune's sandworms ('Shai-Hulud').

Open Source Security / Privacy AI / ML breaking

Germany's .de TLD Goes Dark: A DNSSEC Failure Takes Down 17M Domains

May 8

▸ Germany's .de zone — the world's largest country-code TLD with ~17 million domains — suffered a DNSSEC validation failure, causing SERVFAIL responses ...

Cloud / Infrastructure Security / Privacy breaking

Mercedes Admits What Devs Already Knew: Touchscreens Were a UX Regression

May 8

▸ Mercedes-Benz is officially bringing back physical buttons after years of customer backlash against touchscreen-dominated cockpits.

Career / Industry Hardware / Chips Frontend / UI clear_take

China Blocks Meta's Bid for Manus AI — A New Front in the AI Cold War

May 8

▸ China's regulators have blocked Meta's attempted acquisition of Manus, the Chinese AI agent startup that went viral in early 2025.

AI / ML Startups / Launches Politics / Regulation breaking

Uber Burned Its Entire 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code by April

May 8

▸ Uber exhausted its full-year 2026 AI developer tooling budget in roughly four months, driven by aggressive Claude Code adoption across engineering.

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

The Library of Congress Just Told You to Use SQLite

May 8

▸ The U.S. Library of Congress added SQLite to its Recommended Formats Statement as an approved archival format for datasets — the same list that blesse...

Data / Analytics Open Source clear_take

Firefox Now Runs Brave's Ad-Block Engine. Yes, Really.

May 8

▸ Firefox has integrated Brave's open-source adblock-rust engine into its content blocking stack, replacing parts of its legacy filtering system.

Open Source Frontend / UI Security / Privacy clear_take

The Redis Creator Wrote a DeepSeek Inference Engine in Pure Metal

May 8

▸ Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), creator of Redis, released ds4 — a from-scratch local inference engine for DeepSeek models targeting Apple Metal GPUs.

AI / ML Open Source Hardware / Chips clear_take

Zed 1.0: The Atom Team's Rust-Powered Bet Against VS Code

May 8

▸ Zed 1.0 ships as a fully open-source (GPL v3) code editor built in Rust with GPU-accelerated rendering, delivering sub-frame input latency (~8ms vs VS...

Open Source Frontend / UI clear_take

pgbackrest Goes Unmaintained — PostgreSQL's Backup Story Just Got Complicated

May 7

▸ pgbackrest, the de facto standard for PostgreSQL physical backups, is no longer being actively maintained — a single-maintainer risk that the communit...

Open Source Data / Analytics DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

GoDaddy Handed a Domain to a Stranger. No Docs Required.

May 7

▸ A domain owner discovered GoDaddy transferred their domain to an unknown third party without requiring any identity verification or transfer authoriza...

Security / Privacy DevOps / Platform Engineering Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

Aphyr Says the Future Runs on Lies. He's Tested Enough DBs to Know.

May 7

▸ Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr), creator of Jepsen, argues that AI-generated content and benchmarks are eroding the already-fragile trust layer that software e...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Online Age Verification Is a Surveillance Architecture in Disguise

May 7

▸ Age verification laws now active or pending in 20+ US states and the UK force websites to collect government IDs or biometric scans — creating a de fa...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take
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