Oxy is Cloudflare’s Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy – our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language. Oxy is a foundation of several Cloudflare projects, including the Zero Trust Gateway, the iCloud Private Relay second hop proxy, and the internal egress routing service. Oxy leverages our years of experience building high-load […]
We built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds
đź‘‹Â Hi, I’m Eric. I work on systems and product at Modal. We recently launched Modal Notebooks, a new cloud Jupyter notebook that boots GPUs and arbitrary custom images in seconds, all with real-time collaboration. I want to share some of the engineering that made this experience possible. This post isn’t about features, but about the […]
Facts About Throwing Good Parties
For New York’s No 1 Socialite, Angela. 1) Prioritize your ease of being over any other consideration: parties are like babies, if you’re stressed while holding them they’ll get stressed too. Every other decision is downstream of your serenity: e.g. it’s better to have mediocre pizza from a happy host than fabulous hors d’oeuvres from […]
The foods that make you smell more attractive
Other vegetables have a very unique effect on our smell. The asparagus plant produces a compound called the asparagusic acid and, when it’s digested by your body, it releases sulphur compounds too. It’s these chemicals, such as methanethiol and dimethyl sulphide, that make your sweat and your pee smell a certain way. Sulphur compounds are […]
FurtherAI (Series A – A16Z, YC) Is Hiring Across Software and AI
FurtherAI (Series A, a16z + YC) is hiring Software Engineers, AI Engineers, and Forward-Deployed Engineers. We’re building AI Agents for the insurance industry and are already post-PMF with strong enterprise adoption. Highlights: – $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) – > 10Ă— revenue growth this year – Seed -> Series A in under […]
Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It (2020)
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy Igorevich Rybtsov, a 41-year-old from the Russia-controlled city of […]
Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980)
LISP-NOTES ON ITS PAST AND FUTURE-1980 Next: Introduction John McCarthy Computer Science Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 [email protected] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec , :< 10 0 Abstract: LISP has survived for 21 years because it is an approximate local optimum in the space of programming languages. However, it has accumulated some barnacles that should be […]
Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
It finally happened. Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark. The trend has been clear for sometime, and with Windows 10 ending support, it was quite likely this was going to be the time for it to happen as more […]
Reproducing the AWS Outage Race Condition with a Model Checker
Oct 30, 2025 AWS published a post-mortem about a recent outage [1]. Big systems like theirs are complex, and when you operate at that scale, things sometimes go wrong. Still, AWS has an impressive record of reliability. The post-mortem mentioned a race condition, which caught my eye. I don’t know all the details of AWS’s […]