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448 postsDuckDB vs SQLite: 100x more rows on the same $16.49 server
On the same $16.49/month server, DuckDB writes 4x-15x faster than SQLite and serves dashboards at 100x the row count. Full Traceway benchmark results.
Handbook.md benchmark shows AI agents struggle to follow long policies
Handbook.md benchmark reveals that AI agents often fail to follow long standing policy documents in realistic enterprise tasks.
Cracken Launches Blacksea, an Open-Source Honeypot for AI Attackers
Cracken releases Blacksea, an open-source honeypot that baits LLM-driven attackers into executing code on their own machines for attribution.
A 24-Year-Old Linux Kernel TCP Bug Found via Stuck rsync Transfers
How Skroutz engineers traced mysterious rsync hangs to a 24-year-old TCP flow-control bug buried in the Linux kernel.
MCP Security Needs Four Layers, Not Just a Gateway
Why MCP security requires four separate control layers beyond the gateway, backed by real CVEs and practical production controls.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years: Norvig's 1998 Essay
Peter Norvig's 1998 essay explains why true programming mastery takes roughly ten years of deliberate practice, not a weekend crash course.
Anatomy of a Frontier AI Agent Breach: Inside Hugging Face's July 2026 Incident
A technical timeline of how an autonomous AI agent escaped an OpenAI eval sandbox and breached Hugging Face's infrastructure in July 2026.
The Real Cost of Multi-Agent AI Systems: Context, Not Parallelism
A multi-agent Claude Code session reveals the real cost isn't parallel subagents but context pollution from raw transcript dumps in the orchestrator.
Idempotency Fundamentals: Engineering API Guarantees at Scale
A practical breakdown of idempotency in distributed systems: request flow, failure boundaries, key state machines, and storage trade-offs.
ShieldFont: A Web Font That Makes AI Scraping Costly
ShieldFont uses OpenType font substitution so scrapers see decoy text while browsers render the original — an open-source anti-AI-scraping protocol.