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Using AWS ECR as a universal OCI repository

AWS ECR is an OCI repository supporting different types of artifacts, from Docker images to machine learning models, allowing for simplified management and unified access. Users can interact with ECR using CLI tools like ORAS, Helm, and Terraform, providing integration with CI/CD pipelines for effic..

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Node.js v22.18.0 (LTS) is out

Node.js just got spicier. You can now runTypeScript files out of the box—no transpile step, no weird configs. It’s experimental, and only supports a trimmed-down syntax, but still: big move. Elsewhere, it’s tacklingburst fs eventswith AsyncIterator support, tightening upCJS/ESM cycle resolution, an..

Node.js v22.18.0 (LTS) is out
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GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team

GitHub just lost its autonomy. Microsoft is folding it into theCoreAIdivision, where it’ll now march in step with Redmond’s broader AI play. CEO Thomas Dohmke is out. No replacement named. Bigger picture:Why now? Copilot hit general availability, and GitHub’s becoming less a platform, more a provin..

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team
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Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs

A search service (Marginalia Search) gutted its old index internals and dropped memory-mapped B-trees. In their place: adeterministic, block-aligned skip listtuned fordirect reads on NVMe SSDs. It runs on128KB block sizes, usescustom buffer pools, and leans hard onio_uringfor async position lookups..

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The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States

High-tech manufacturing used to employ 2.8% of U.S. workers back in 1990. Now it’s down to 1.3%. The sharpest losses hitcomputers, electronics, and aerospace—industries that once defined the future. Onlypharma and med devicesmanaged to buck the trend, adding 189,000 jobs while the rest bled over a ..

The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States
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LLM Evaluation: Practical Tips at Booking.com

A new LLM evaluation framework taps into an"LLM-as-judge"setup—think strong model playing human annotator. It gets prompted (or fine-tuned) to mimic human scores and rate outputs from other LLMs. It runs on a tightly labeledgolden dataset, handles both pointwise and head-to-head comparisons, and sh..

LLM Evaluation: Practical Tips at Booking.com
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No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Claims of 10–100x dev speed from AI tools skip the hard parts—code reviews, bug queues, flaky tests. In practice, AI helps with the small stuff: one-off scripts, throwaway glue code, basic scaffolds. But scaling that help across big, messy codebases? Still a pipe dream. Too much context lost. Too ma..

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When Did AI Take Over Hacker News?

A fresh dive into 24,910 top Hacker News posts since 2019 shows that AI chatter didn’t blow up with ChatGPT—it took off afterGPT-4 landed in early 2023. The study used OpenAI’s Batch API and a lean GPT-5-mini to crunch the numbers. Turns out,52% of the AI talk was positive, and the busiest stretch?..

When Did AI Take Over Hacker News?
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Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s API Access to Claude, Alleging Violation Ahead of GPT-5 Launch

Anthropic just yanked OpenAI’s API access to Claude. Reason? Alleged violations of terms that forbid using Claude to train rival models—like GPT-5. Windsurf, an OpenAI acquisition target, got the boot earlier too. Spot the pattern: tighten access, box out competitors. System shift:APIs aren’t just ..

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s API Access to Claude, Alleging Violation Ahead of GPT-5 Launch
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Fueling the Agentic Web Revolution with NLWeb and PostgreSQL

Microsoft just leveled upNLWeb. The open-source project now plays nice withPostgreSQLandpgvector, bringing scalable vector similarity search straight into your database. No need for a separate vector DB—run natural language interfaces right on your existing Postgres stack. System shift:This is more..

Fueling the Agentic Web Revolution with NLWeb and PostgreSQL