Composition Shouldn’t be this Hard
I’ve spent over a decade building data infrastructure: observability systems at Twitter, streaming data processing systems at Google, declarative data processing systems at Snowflake. From the beginning, I noticed a strange gap between the conceptual elegance of programming languages and databases, and the reality of developing and operating real systems using them. That reality is […]
Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
My thoughts on why enterprise knowledge systems have failed for sixty years, and what might finally replace them. A couple of weeks ago I demoed one part of what I have been building to a senior exec at a global enterprise – someone who had been asked to lead and guide AI adoption in their […]
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Released
Ubuntu 26.04 (”Resolute Raccoon”) LTS has been released on schedule. This release brings a significant uplift in security, performance, and usability across desktop, server, and cloud environments. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS introduces TPM-backed full-disk encryption, expanded use of memory-safe components, improved application permission controls, and Livepatch support for Arm systems, helping reduce downtime and strengthen system […]
Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
Abstract Coffee influences multiple physiological processes, including gut function, stress, cognition, and the microbiome. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects remain poorly understood. In this study, we examined coffee’s impact on the microbiota–gut–brain axis—a bidirectional communication pathway between the gut microbiome and the brain—and assessed whether these effects occur independently of caffeine in healthy participants. […]
A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?
When Anthropic published its Mythos announcement, it really seemed impressive at first, almost worrying. But when reading thoroughly, the public evidence is less clean than the headline effect. The often-cited ”under $20,000” figure does not mean Mythos casually found one devastating bug for that price; in Anthropic’s own writeup, that budget covered a large search […]
DeepSeek v4
import osfrom openai import OpenAIclient = OpenAI( api_key=os.environ.get(’DEEPSEEK_API_KEY’), base_url=”https://api.deepseek.com”)response = client.chat.completions.create( model=”deepseek-v4-pro”, messages=[ {”role”: ”system”, ”content”: ”You are a helpful assistant”}, {”role”: ”user”, ”content”: ”Hello”}, ], stream=False, reasoning_effort=”high”, extra_body={”thinking”: {”type”: ”enabled”}})print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Why I Write (1946)
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U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Info to Profit from Prediction Market
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Kash Patel, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today the unsealing of an […]
Show HN: Tolaria – open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
Tolaria is a desktop app for Mac for managing markdown knowledge bases. People use it for a variety of use cases: Operate second brains and personal knowledge Organize company docs as context for AI Store OpenClaw/assistants memory and procedures Personally, I use it to run my life (hey 👋 Luca here). I have a massive […]
US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened an account in late December on Polymarket, one of the best-known prediction markets. […]