Why TDE SQL Server Restores Fail on Amazon RDS
Who this is for: anyone migrating an on-premises SQL Server database that has Transparent Data Encryption turned on to RDS for SQL Server, and wants to understand why the restore fails before hitting it in a maintenance window.A colleague on our infrastructure team...
Introducing “Token Proof of Work”
For fifteen years, every contact form, every submission box, every "get in touch" widget on the web has run on one quiet assumption: a person is typing on the other end. That assumption is running out of runway fast, and most of the web isn't ready for it.Agents are...
I Built a Dream Journal for My Oura Ring — Here’s What an n=1 Sleep Experiment Looks Like
Sleep tech gives you a score. It doesn't ask what you dreamed. I connected Oura, Supabase, and a lightweight AI layer to find out if that gap is actually worth closing. The gap nobody's building for Sleep tech has split into two camps that never talk to each other....
Chatbots Remember Facts. I’m Building One That Remembers Becoming
I’m building an AI companion system that treats memory not as a list of facts, but as a developmental history that researchers may eventually be able to study. Most AI memory systems answer a fairly simple question: What should this chatbot remember about you? Your...
The Absurdity of High Commissions: Why Marketplaces Need to Move Beyond the Transaction Fee
Remember when ordering a taxi meant calling a dispatcher?A real person would pick up the phone, ask where you were, find an available driver, pass the request along, and sometimes even help resolve a disagreement between the driver and the passenger. Today, almost all...
When Random Bugs Point to a Bigger Product Problem
For a long time, I treated bugs as a list of work: close the ticket, investigate the support request, handle the incident, fix the flaky test everyone has learned to rerun. Mobile development doesn’t work without that mode. But the queue has a trap: tasks move on,...
Release Engineering for AI Features: Rollouts, Rollbacks, and Runtime Risk
Shipping ordinary software rests on a useful assumption: the artifact you test is mostly the artifact your users receive. A container image can be pinned, a database migration can be reviewed, and a feature flag can be switched off when a release goes wrong. AI...
Your AI Video Model Just Got Retired. Here’s How to Keep Your Pipeline From Breaking Next Time.
Providers update AI video models on their own schedule, not yours. The habits that keep a filmmaking pipeline from breaking when they do. On July 30, 2026, Runway pulled the plug on two of its own models. Gen-3 Alpha Turbo and Gen-4 Aleph were simply gone from the...
DevOps Metrics That Actually Matter: DORA, MTTR, and Beyond
Why Engineering Metrics Matter Every engineering organization measures something. The problem is that many teams measure the wrong things. Counting commits, pull requests, story points, or hours worked creates a distorted picture of engineering effectiveness. These...
OpenSpec Wasn’t Enough: How AIDLC Fixed Our AI Coding Workflow
No new commands to learn, just pick it up and use it By this August, our team had been writing code with AI for more than half a year. The biggest thing I noticed during this time was that our development speed went up, but code quality stayed pretty rough....
AI Made Coding Faster—So Why Did Software Delivery Get Slower?
AI made the coding stage faster. That does not make the system faster. It raises the arrival rate at whatever stage comes next, and for most teams that stage is human review. Here is where the bottleneck actually went, and what to measure instead of coding speed. The...
Seven Sign-Ups, Zero Catches: What My Fishing App Launch Taught Me
On 2 September my fishing app went live on Google Play in 177 countries. Version 1.0.0, after eight weeks of building in public, a lawyer-reviewed set of terms, and a paywall I had argued with myself about for a month.I had a launch banner ready. I did not have a plan...
NeoHorse-1-4B: A 4B Model Built for AI Agents and Tool Use
OverviewNeoHorse-1-4B is a 4B-parameter causal language model from TokenRhythm, derived from Qwen3.5-4B and adapted through routing-guided agentic post-training for text-based agent harnesses, tool use, coding, and instruction following. Its key distinction is not a...
Silent HMAC Key Contamination: Uncovering a Logic Flaw in Burp’s JWT Editor Extension
How a failing Web Security Academy lab led to a root-cause analysis of a hidden bug JWT Editor was shortlisted for “Best Auth & Access Control” in PortSwigger’s 2026 Burp Suite Extension Awards. This is the story of finding a silent bug inside it. Usually, when...
AppleCare One now has a $50 tier per month for families
AppleCareOne Family insurance will cover all eligible devices for up to six members.
Which GPU Do You Need for AI? A Practical VRAM Guide
Open models have made it much easier to build products around language, image, audio and video generation. Running those models still involves a less straightforward decision: choosing the GPU that can handle the workload without making every test or inference request...
German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration
Zeiss Group has ditched plans for a greenfield ERP migration to latest S/4HANA platform from SAP following years of struggle trying to move off an ageing R/3 system. The industrial optics company with revenue of around €11.896 billion said it was seeking to “realign”...
I think I hate the internet
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Show HN: Botbin.io – pastebin for AI agent artifacts
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Personal Brand Special Report: 207 insights and ideas to grow your brand and career
In the summer of 2021, Eric Pacifici started living a double life. By day, he was one of thousands of associates at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the largest corporate law firms in the world. Outside work hours, though, he was moonlighting on Twitter as @SMB_Attorney,...
This free tool is a doomscrolling escape hatch
We all have that one app or website that wastes too much time. Whether it’s TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, or something else entirely, it’s easy to get sucked in—even when you only intend to kill a spare minute or two. You might even find yourself opening a certain social...
Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI
Bill Gates is sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence. “Is this the greatest problem humanity has ever faced?” Gates asked the Telluride Film Festival this past weekend. “That is just a fact.” The panel, titled “AI AI AI,” was held in conjunction with the...
Why solopreneur AI projects fail (and how to get better results)
When ChatGPT was first released in 2022, I, like many people, gave it a try. I was mesmerized by how quickly it could generate a poem about my morning bagel. However, after giving it a few work-related tasks, I abandoned it. Not for me, I thought, finding the output...
CrowdStrike’s CEO says AI agents can hack like nation-states. Can his company stop them?
Model developers are selling agentic models to enterprises on the promise that they can work through problems without asking permission at every step. This summer, the cybersecurity industry got a disturbing demonstration of what can happen when that autonomy outruns...
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers
After years of governments and tech vendors banging the digital sovereignty drum, most large organizations have concluded that true technological independence is beyond their reach. That's according to new research from Capgemini, which found that 59 percent of...
Enterprise AI is waiting for its iPhone moment
I still remember where I was when Steve Jobs walked onto the stage at the Moscone Center in January 2007. I was watching the livestream, and somewhere around the first demo I had the distinct feeling that the ground had shifted. Not because the iPhone invented...
America has millions of open jobs. So why can’t people find work?
This article is written by Tina Hamilton, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Philadelphia and the founder and CEO of myHR Partner, a human resources outsourcing firm that manages HR for small and midsize businesses throughout the United States. The company...
Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example “sk-1234” Admin Key
Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that Wiz Research scanned in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key in LiteLLM's own setup guide. LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway, the software a company puts between its applications and the...
Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agents. The...
How B2B and E-Commerce Companies Can Predictably Scale Revenue with Google Ads
In the modern digital landscape, one of the most frequent challenges for business leaders is managing paid advertising budgets without a clear view of bottom-line returns. Many companies spend thousands of dollars on Google Ads campaigns each month, generating a...