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Residential proxies turn millions of hijacked devices into a scraping arms race
LWN reports that the scraping onslaught against websites now arrives as coordinated bursts from millions of unique residential and mobile IP addresses, each tou
Roughgarden's IAS Course Traces the Line Between What Computers Can and Can't Do
A free lecture course from Tim Roughgarden, now a mathematics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, walks through the theoretical spine of computer sci
Running a PgBouncer fleet to 4x connection-pooling throughput
PgBouncer is single-threaded, so one process saturates a single CPU core no matter how large the machine is. On a 16-vCPU box, that one core becomes the through
SpaceX asks FCC to bless 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites and a huge spectrum grab
SpaceX has filed with the FCC for permission to deploy 100,000 third-generation Starlink satellites in very low Earth orbit, a nearly tenfold jump over the roug
The Cavefish Trap: How Winning Companies Lose the Ability to See Good Engineering
The Mexican cavefish keeps its eye genes for a million years after abandoning sight — same species, same genome, but cave-born fish shut down lens development e
US hunts for a cheaper Reaper after Iran downs ~$1B in strike drones
Leaning on MQ-9 Reapers to keep pilots out of harm's way has backfired financially: Iranian air defenses have shot down close to 30 of the hunter-killer drones
War Atlas maps 5,000 years of named human conflict in one interactive timeline
War Atlas is a browser-based data visualization that plots every named war in recorded history onto a single interactive map and timeline. It spans roughly 5,00
Why AI Coding Agents Pushed Scarf Off Haskell After 7 Years in Production
Avi Press, a longtime Haskell advocate and Haskell Foundation board member, explains why his company Scarf is migrating its backend away from the language it ha
Why 'living in Emacs' works: it turns everything into a client-server call
Charles Choi pushes back on the tired claim that Emacs is an operating system, offering a more precise framing: Emacs sits above the OS kernel and orchestrates
Why Striped Floors and Flickering LEDs Give Your Brain a Headache
A large international research team argues in the journal Vision that visual discomfort — headaches, eye strain, nausea, and perceptual distortion triggered by
Your AI-Written Shortcuts Become the Codebase's House Style
Coding with LLMs makes it tempting to skip good engineering hygiene: when the model can regenerate anything on demand, why bother extracting a shared helper ins
Apple commits $30B+ to Broadcom for 15 billion U.S.-made chips
Apple has signed a new multiyear deal with Broadcom worth more than $30 billion to design and manufacture custom silicon and wireless connectivity components in