100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
02 Dec 2025 SQLite doesn’t have MVCC! It only has a single writer! SQLite is for phones and mobile apps (and the occasional airliner)! For web servers use a proper database like Postgres! In this article I’ll go over why being embedded and a single writer are not deficiencies but actually allow SQLite to scale […]
School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement (NBER Digest)
Two years after the imposition of a student cell phone ban, student test scores in a large urban school district were significantly higher than before, David N. Figlio and Umut Özek find in The Impact of Cell Phone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida (NBER Working Paper 34388). The study examines data from one […]
Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
“Dear people at Huckleberry’s… Please don’t ever close – we need you… I love you all for just being there. Melissa” March 1969 I’ve been reading Season of the Witch, a fantastic book on the history of San Francisco from the 1960s through the 80s. Somewhere in the middle, there’s a chapter on Huckleberry House, […]
Poka Labs (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer
The Opportunity The $6 trillion chemicals industry runs the physical economy but still relies on spreadsheets and legacy systems. It is responsible for 25 percent of global emissions and is one of the least digitized sectors in the world. AI can transform how this sector operates. We are building the intelligence layer for the process […]
4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda’s 7-Year Malware Campaign
Koi researchers have identified a threat actor we’re calling ShadyPanda – responsible for a seven-year browser extension campaign that has infected 4.3 million Chrome and Edge users. Our investigation uncovered two active operations: A 300,000-user RCE backdoor: Five extensions, including the “Featured” and “Verified” Clean Master, were weaponized in mid-2024 after years of legitimate operation. […]
Removed Rust to Gain Speed
Designed for the future In December 2024, we published our vision for the future of Prisma ORM along with the steps we planned to take to achieve it. This was not just a set of ideas. It was a clear commitment to how we want Prisma ORM to evolve and how we intend to support the community […]
Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python
In my previous post, I wrote about how I’ve saved some AV1-encoded videos that I can’t play on my iPhone. Eventually, I’ll upgrade to a new iPhone which supports AV1, but in the meantime, I want to convert all of those videos to an older codec. The problem is finding all the affected videos – […]
Mistral 3 family of models released
Today, we announce Mistral 3, the next generation of Mistral models. Mistral 3 includes three state-of-the-art small, dense models (14B, 8B, and 3B) and Mistral Large 3 – our most capable model to date – a sparse mixture-of-experts trained with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All models are released under the Apache 2.0 license. […]
OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race
Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off. Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off. by Robert Hart Dec 2, 2025, 11:40 AM UTC Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and […]
Show HN: Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch)
Discover any data asset across your entire org in seconds Open-source catalog for all your data assets. Search everything – tables, topics, queues, buckets, and more. Documentation • Live Demo • Quickstart What is Marmot? Marmot is an open-source data catalog designed for teams who want powerful data discovery without enterprise complexity. Built with a […]