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GitLab.com Ties API Rate Limits to Subscription Tier Starting Oct 19
GitLab is restructuring how it throttles traffic to GitLab.com, moving from flat limits to caps that scale with your subscription. The shift lands in two waves:
Gowers breaks with Fields medallists' AI warning, but agrees math faces a crisis
Mathematician Tim Gowers explains why he declined to sign an open letter, endorsed by 25 Fields medallists, that warns AI could harm mathematics. The letter's c
Hister: a self-hosted, full-text search engine for your own browsing and files
Hister is an open-source personal search tool that indexes the full contents of the web pages you visit and the local files you keep, so you can retrieve things
How Salt Caverns Solved the Engineering Problem of America's Oil Reserve
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve has to store roughly 714 million barrels of crude for decades, keep it safe from attack, release it fast during a supply crun
Inside .NET 11: A Year of JIT and Library Performance Gains
Microsoft's annual performance deep-dive is back for .NET 11, framed around the 'these go to eleven' gag from This Is Spinal Tap. Behind the joke is a serious c
New Weight Layout Pushes Ternary LLMs Below the 1.58-Bit Floor
Ternary language models store each weight as -1, 0, or +1, and their memory cost has long been benchmarked against the information-theoretic limit of about 1.58
NVIDIA opens native GPU kernel programming to Rust
NVIDIA is extending CUDA to let developers write GPU kernels directly in Rust, closing the last gap in a stack that has increasingly moved to the language. Rust
Self-Storage: America's $40B Monument to Owning Too Much Stuff
A New Yorker essay frames self-storage as one of the twin pillars of American culture (alongside church), built on a simple national habit: accumulating more po
Show HN: mysetup.ai wants to be the place engineers post their AI workflows
A new community site, mysetup.ai, invites developers to publish the tools, harnesses, and workflows they use to build with AI, and to follow how others' setups
Small open-weights LLM learns to beat Postgres on join-heavy query plans
Query optimizers remain a stubbornly hard problem—join ordering alone is NP-hard, and Postgres can't count actual row cardinalities during planning, so it leans
Stallman's 2001 Warning: Post-9/11 Surveillance Is the Real Secondary Damage
Writing days after the September 11 attacks, Richard Stallman argues that the gravest long-term harm may not come from the attacks themselves but from the refle
Why 'Just Back It Up' Spirals Into Deduplicated, GFS-Rotated Snapshots
A single copy of your data is never enough, and the reasons compound fast. Drives die, get stolen, or silently rot as magnetic domains drift and NAND cells leak