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Shopify moved inventory reservations from Redis to MySQL—and it held at peak
Shopify's oversell protection places a short hold on inventory the moment a buyer starts payment, then permanently deducts it once the charge succeeds. Getting
Speed Up A* by Fixing the Heuristic, Not the Queue
Most A* optimization effort goes into the priority queue or map representation, but the heuristic function is where the biggest wins often hide. The standard st
Study abstract: melatonin may dull morning cognition in healthy young adults
A 2023 abstract in a SLEEP journal conference supplement reports that melatonin supplementation was associated with impaired cognitive performance the following
Tim Berners-Lee's 1998 Case for URIs That Outlive Their Servers
This W3C essay argues that a well-designed web address should still resolve decades after it was created, and that broken links are almost always a failure of o
Triton brings native DirectX 11 acceleration to Windows guests in QEMU
The team behind UTM has released Triton, a Windows graphics driver that delivers full DirectX 11 acceleration inside QEMU virtual machines. It builds on Neptune
Word 1.1a Reborn: Original 1990 Source Ported to Native 64-bit Windows
A developer has taken the source code Microsoft released for Word for Windows 1.1a — the 1990 release once codenamed Opus — and gotten it building and running a
AI Firms Reportedly Buy Up All 2027 DRAM and HBM Capacity, Deepening RAM Crunch
A Digitimes report, surfaced by TweakTown, claims Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have collectively pre-sold their entire 2027 DRAM and HBM output to AI companies
AI scraper bots overwhelm Gentoo's Bugzilla, forcing it offline
Gentoo has taken its Bugzilla bug tracker offline after a flood of AI scraper traffic overwhelmed the service. The announcement, posted by a Gentoo developer, p
An Engineering Leader's 'Required Reading' List for Better Software
Carl Kolon, an engineering leader, has published the curated list of technical essays he sends his team as "required reading." The collection spans coding pract
Ancient Library puts 1,060 classical texts online with click-to-parse for every word
Ancient Library is a web-based reader for the classical canon that turns close reading of Greek and Latin into a point-and-click exercise. Clicking any word in
Apple's App Store Rejects Astronomy App as 'Astrology,' Then Invents a Tarot Feature
Developer Terry Godier submitted Dark Hours, a polished native iOS app built around his astronomy website for casual stargazers. Apple's App Review rejected it
Cyber Command Investigates Suicide Cluster Amid Surging Hacker Workloads
US Cyber Command is examining an abnormally high number of suicides among its personnel over a roughly month-long span this summer, according to government offi