Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
NATS is a popular streaming system. Producers publish messages to streams, and consumers subscribe to those streams, fetching messages from them. Regular NATS streams are allowed to drop messages. However, NATS has a subsystem called JetStream, which uses the Raft consensus algorithm to replicate data among nodes. JetStream promises “at least once” delivery: messages may […]
Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding
I’ve spent the last 48 hours completely falling down the rabbit hole of NVIDIA’s Q3 Fiscal 2026 earnings report. If you just skim the headlines, everything looks perfect: Revenue is up 62% to $57 billion, and Jensen Huang is talking about a “virtuous cycle of AI.” But I wanted to understand what was really happening […]
Quanta to Publish Popular Math and Physics Titles by Terence Tao and David Tong
Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by mathematician Terence Tao and theoretical physicist David Tong. Six Math Essentials will be Tao’s first math book written for a popular audience. In the book, Tao — a recipient of the Fields Medal and one of the world’s top mathematicians — will explore six […]
AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
07 Dec 2025 AI should only run as fast as we can catch up. The story of Daniel and Eric Recently I have spoke with two of my friends who all had fun playing with AI. Last month, I met with Eric, a fearless PM at a medium size startup who recently got into vibe […]
Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
Create a stream processor that reads data from Kafka in less than 5 minutes. Getting Started Get started by running a stream processor that executes SQL against a kafka stream and writes the output to the console. What you’ll need cd path/to/turbolytics/sql-flow/github/repo && pip install -r requirements.txt The turbolytics/sql-flow docker image docker pull turbolytics/sql-flow:latest Kafka […]
Legion Health (YC S21) is hiring a founding engineer (SF, in-person)
Legion Health (YC S21) operates a psychiatric practice and is building the AI-native operations layer for mental health care. We focus on the operational backend: scheduling, intake, documentation, billing, and care coordination. These workflows—not diagnostics—are the main bottlenecks in mental health delivery. We run our own clinic, so the systems you build ship directly into […]
Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products
If there’s one thing that typifies Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella‘s tenure: it’s a general inability to connect with customers. Microsoft shut down its retail arm quietly over the past few years, closed up shop on mountains of consumer products, while drifting haphazardly from tech fad to tech fad. From blockchain to “metaverse” and now […]
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you’re not familiar with the field. We will look at 4 demos: […]
Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down and I probably have more questions than answers, but I still wanted to document what I […]
Let’s put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
“It’s a rite of passage to run Tailscale on weird devices.” So writes Mitanshu Sukhwani on his blog, detailing the steps for getting Tailscale onto a jailbroken Kindle. Getting there, and seeing a kindle entry with a satisfying green dot in your Tailscale admin console, takes some doing. But take the trip, and you’ll end […]