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96 postsPGSimCity: an explorable 3D city that visualizes PostgreSQL internals
PGSimCity visualizes PostgreSQL internals as an explorable 3D city, covering WAL, checkpoints, autovacuum, buffers and replication in real time.
DuckDB 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.
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.comA 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.
ALIBI: Adversarial Comments Bypass LLM Vulnerability Detectors
ALIBI framework shows LLM-based vulnerability detectors can be bypassed over 90% of the time using adversarial source-code comments.
Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Robot Co-Design
A diffusion transformer that generates and validates complete robot embodiments from motion demos, using unified RoboTokens across robot classes.
Building Reliable Software With Untrustworthy AI Agents
A practical framework for reliable AI-agent coding: context window management, verification layers, CLAUDE.md briefs, and reusable skills.