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Spontaneous combustion[1] at scale

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion

>> Weights helped me draft and proof this story.

Nice touch !

count me in !

Spaniard here. The 'siesta' is just to combat - avoid - midday heat, specially in southern regions.

I thought that biphasic sleep was a fact, since there is plenty of evidence of ‘first sleep’ and ‘second sleep’ in doctors’ prescriptions from the pre-industrial era.

You are missing some context. Full quote below.I believe it is just a fancy way to say that the are rebuilding their backend to make it more scalable

>>5a/ Machine-scale infrastructure.

>> Others are bolting AI onto platforms built for human-rate commits. Git itself wasn't designed for agent-rate work.

>> We're rebuilding the underlying infrastructure for machine scale: a generational rebuild of git, the monolith giving way to composable, monetized services with agent-first APIs.

>> should-be-illegal process of putting debt on the acquired company's balance sheet

This is a basically a leveraged buyout (LBO). All private equity works this way. Yes, it should be illegal, or at least heavily limited.

I highly recommend this book: "Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America"

They were onto something

April 1st, 2026 Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

>> In the last week we received ~470000 crash reports, these do not represent all crashes because it's an opt-in system, the real number of crashes will be several times larger

Having the number of unique machines would be great to see how skewed this estimate is.

It might have a place in its current state,as far as write speed goes

war and peace[1] is 3.2 MB in the plain text version, so it will take less than a second to store it.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600

>> Already, the average ChatGPT Enterprise user says AI saves them 40–60 minutes a day

If this is what AI has to offer, we are in a gigantic bubble

cute ad. Too bad wolves are hypercarnivores. They won't survive without a heavy-meat diet

$MU, another ticker to short

>> Apple, run your own RCS servers.

I believe they can't. RCS is implemented over IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), part of the mobile carrier infra and tightly tied to them (SIM card auth, APN settings pushed from the operator, etc)

... unless they become a mobile operator

a routine configuration change we made

Every.Single.Time

[1] https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646

The whole damn internet now depends on them. I guess I am bullish for $NET

Could you please elaborate on 1. ?

Slighthy offtopic, but I have been using xmlui[1] (paired with Flight PHP framework [2]) lately for some internal tools and it has worked really well.

[1] https://www.xmlui.org/ [2] https://docs.flightphp.com/en/v3/

From the actual report[1]

>> Despite persistent material uncertainty around the global macroeconomic outlook, risky asset valuations have increased and credit spreads have compressed. Measures of risk premia across many risky asset classes have tightened further since the last FPC meeting in June 2025. On a number of measures, equity market valuations appear stretched, particularly for technology companies focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves equity markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic.

Actually, the quoted 'sudden correction' is not referring specifically to AI, but the market in general

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/financial-policy-committee-r...

According to some reports, sales of Synology’s 2025 NAS models dropped sharply in the months after the restriction was introduced. What did NAS customers purchase instead?

I honestly can’t believe anyone at Synology thought this would turn out differently.

"If you hold it, it just feels right. And with the movement on a boat, it feels so alive" Jony Ive

I felt some secondhand embarrassment, but I guess the guy earned his right to say whatever he wants

From a really quick read, good advice and a great read — though, as he admits in the introduction, luck played its role in how things turned out:

>> That I’d survived thus far, scathed but in happy circumstances, was thanks neither to grit, determination, nor wise counsel, but mostly luck.

Would things have been different if he’d lived by his own advice earlier? Maybe. But it’s impossible to know. Pushing back a little: don't underestimate luck. It can be deeply unfair, and it can distort our sense of what is deserved or earned.

This is not to say that principles, effort, wisdom don't matter. But so does the randomness of where, when, and under what conditions we live and act.

>> Luau interpreter can be competitive with LuaJIT interpreter depending on the program

To me, this is the more interesting bit of luau

The performance page[1] contains a pretty good explanation of the work they have done. Pretty impressive engineering if you ask me.

[1] https://luau.org/performance

There are some missing y-axis labels that would be interesting to see

I have a w245, 410.000 Km. Still going strong

Rarely in software does anyone ask for “fast.”

It is implicit, in the same way that in a modern car you expect electric windows and air-conditioning (yes, back in the day, those were premium extras)

The law: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

>> she turned on wifi calling on her phone. now she could receive SMS messages from friends and family, but 2FA codes still weren't coming through.

Completely different beasts. One is P2P, the other is A2P

>> I really wish that were illegal. A phone number is a phone number.

European speaking. For completeness:

Financial directive PSD2[1] allows to use an SMS as a 2FA only because there is an KYC already done for that number (anon SIM are no longer allowed in the EU)

Also note that the 2FA is not the OTP code you receive. This code is just a proxy for probing "something you have", with the "something" being the phone number which, again, is linked to a physical person/company.

I have commented this several times, but as of today, SMS is the only 2FA method that can be easily deployed at scale (all demographics, all locations, compatible with all mobile devices)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive

And JetStream[1] adds persistence to make it more comparable to Kafka

[1] https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream