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Put your workflow engine inside Postgres and partial failures disappear

DBOS argues that durable workflow systems shouldn't just persist their state in Postgres — they should live in the same Postgres database as the application its

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aiopen-source

pxpipe: a local proxy that images your LLM context to cut input tokens ~60%

pxpipe is an open-source local proxy that sits between Claude Code and the Anthropic API and rewrites the bulky, static parts of each request — system prompt, t

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Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail — And Why That Traps Even Experts

John Salvatier argues that every real-world task hides far more meaningful complexity than it appears to from a distance. Using the example of building basement

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aipolicy

"Right to Local Intelligence" — a landing page with no retrievable content

The linked page at righttointelligence.org resolves to little more than a heading and contains no article body, argument, or supporting detail that can be summa

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policysupply-chain

Screwworm returns to the US as a forgotten eradication triumph quietly unravels

On June 3, a flesh-eating screwworm larva turned up in a calf near La Pryor, Texas — the first real infestation on US soil since the 1980s, followed by dozens m

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policyai

Spain Bars Palantir From State-Linked Firms Over Data Sovereignty Fears

Madrid has begun ordering companies under the state holding company SEPI to stop signing new contracts with Palantir, the U.S. data-analytics and AI firm, citin

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The Oven Startup: A Parable of How Half-Baked Products Get Shipped

A fable dressed as a business case study, this piece follows a charismatic non-technical founder who spots a spreadsheet opportunity — capture 10% of Spain's ov

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aidevops

The 'Short Leash' Method: Expert Devs Beat Frontier AI by Never Looking Away

A maintainer of security-critical software at okTurtles lays out a workflow for using AI coding agents without surrendering code quality or your own understandi

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open-sourcetech-culture

Valve releases MIT-licensed 'Inkterface' plans for a DIY Steam Machine e-ink front plate

Valve has published everything needed to build an e-ink display for the front of the upcoming Steam Machine, but it won't sell the part itself. The design—dubbe

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Virginia bans selling location data — but its narrow 'sale' definition leaves a gap

Virginia has become the third state to prohibit selling consumers' geolocation data. Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 on April 13, 2026, amending the

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open-sourcetech-culture

Wordgard: ProseMirror creator ships a new schema-based rich-text editor

Marijn Haverbeke, the developer behind ProseMirror and CodeMirror, has released Wordgard, an open-source JavaScript library for building in-browser rich-text ed

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tech-cultureai

A graphics programmer's roadmap: master the GPU, the CPU, and write your own path tracer

Modern rendering splits into two hard-to-learn-simultaneously halves: the CPU side (explicit APIs like DirectX12, Vulkan, or Metal, plus the engine plumbing to

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