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2695 postsMultigres Brings Listen/Notify to Pooled Postgres Connections
Multigres uses a shared listener connection and a two-level fan-out to make Postgres listen/notify scale cleanly across pooled connections.
React useCallback vs useMemo: When Do You Really Need Them
Wrapping every function in useCallback can hurt performance instead of helping. Learn a profiler-first approach to knowing when useMemo and useCallback actually matter.
Foreman: A Self-Hosted, Cost-Aware LLM Gateway for Coding Agents
Foreman is an open-source, self-hosted gateway between coding agents and LLM providers that routes by cost, preserves prompt caching, and logs every spend.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comRefactyl's verifier had more bugs than the code it checked
Refactyl's Vue 3 migration gate silently rejected valid code due to an AST reuse bug. A case study on why verifiers must check the exact artifact that ships.
MailKite: A Gmail API Alternative for Autonomous AI Agents
MailKite replaces Gmail API's OAuth, CASA review, and 7-day Pub/Sub renewal with a simple signed webhook for autonomous AI agent inboxes.
KubeSwift: Kubernetes-Native VM Orchestration on Cloud Hypervisor
KubeSwift defines VMs as Kubernetes CRDs and runs them on Cloud Hypervisor with GPU passthrough, live migration, and OCI image distribution.
Limn Engine: display.perform() and the hidden fake canvas
Limn Engine's advanced guide explains display.perform(), the dual-canvas rendering pipeline, and why TileMap rendering depends entirely on it.
Building Governance Into Autonomous Security Agents
A four-layer architecture separates reasoning from the underlying model, making autonomous security agents auditable, model-agnostic, and ready for emerging AI regulation.
BrAIn: Reactive AI Agent Nodes on a NATS Bus
BrAIn replaces the chat-loop agent model with reactive, long-lived nodes on a NATS pub/sub bus. ROS-like architecture, token-efficient design, and distributed execution for LLM agents.
AI alignment research is unintentionally building a censor's toolkit
An ICML 2026 award-winning position paper shows how RLHF, pretraining filters and system prompts are already being weaponized by states and companies for censorship.