2026-04-03

The Cost of Compute: Architecting High-Performance SQL in Distributed Lakehouses

In modern lakehouses like Snowflake and Databricks, inefficient SQL directly increases compute costs. This article breaks down advanced optimization techniques—from partition pruning and broadcast joins to clustering and caching—that reduce...

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2 months ago

Listen to Gryffindor

Lesson: The enemy is compliance, and the solution is courage. (This post uses the Hogwarts houses as an evocative lens. See the footnote [1] if you are unfamiliar.) Behaviour: You're...

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Monitoring Essential Metrics for Cloud Native Systems - Part 1

Monitoring Essential Metrics for Cloud Native Systems - Part 1

Dashboards don’t make systems observable. True monitoring requires the right signals: latency, traffic, errors, and saturation. This article explains why traditional metrics fail, how observability fills the gap, and why...

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Spider-Man/Superman 2026 crossover exclusive — a shocking new team-up revealed

Spider-Man/Superman 2026 crossover exclusive — a shocking new team-up revealed

Marvel and DC are joining forces with Spider-Man/Superman #1. Polygon can exclusively show a page from a story starring Ghost-Spider and Supergirl.

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2 months ago

Free VPNs vs Paid VPNs: What Are You Actually Paying For?

Free VPNs aren't free. Someone pays for every server, every IP address, every gigabyte of traffic. When you don't pay with money, you pay with your data, your bandwidth, or...

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Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its head of AI

Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its head of AI

Luke Dicken, who previously spent a decade with Zynga, says his time with the company "has come to an end".

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2 months ago

Apologia: The Truth Behind the Crime

In the “Apologia” chapter, Dr. Sheppard reflects on his meticulous planning of Roger Ackroyd’s murder, using a dictaphone and strategic timing to mislead others. He confesses in a manuscript meant...

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2 months ago

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food Bork!Bork!Bork!  It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on...

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Książka "Bootblock Rebels" dostępna w przedsprzedaży | PPA.pl

Zbiórka funduszy na Kickstarterze dotycząca powstania książki o amigowej scenie crackerów istniejącej w latach 80. i 90. poprzedniego wieku zakończyła się sukcesem. "Bootblock Rebels - The Hidden Stars of the...

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2 months ago

WM Studio

Craft campaign ready content with a digital twin Discussion | Link

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Detecting collusion through multi-agent interpretability

Detecting collusion through multi-agent interpretability

TL;DRPrior work has shown that linear probes are effective at detecting deception in singular LLM agents. Our work extends this use to multi-agent settings, where we aggregate the activations of...

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2 months ago

“There is no alternative”

TINA! This is what Margaret Thatcher said about her draconian free market policies. It’s an easy thing to tell ourselves about compliance to any dominant system. But it’s incomplete. The...

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Retro Soundtrack Collection Pre-order

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Retro Soundtrack Collection Pre-order

The new Super Mario Galaxy Movie is sure to be one of the year’s biggest hits, and as fans have started making their way into movie theatres, iam8bit has put...

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2 months ago

RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.

RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.

The post RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work. appeared first on ProPublica.

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Razing Core - This Vertical Shoot 'Em Up for the Sega Master System looks incredible

Searching through the depths of itch io looking for any interesting games to write about, and I've come across a new update for the work in progress shooter for the...

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2 months ago

Faahh

Slap your desk. Unplug distractions. Get back to focus. Discussion | Link

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Chicken Coop Door Performs in Harsh Environment

Chicken Coop Door Performs in Harsh Environment

One of the pitfalls of modern engineering is that it’s entirely possible to end up in a situation where a product or solution has been designed by someone who has...

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KREV

AI creative agents for ecommerce brands Discussion | Link

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The Specialist’s Dilemma Is Breaking Scientific AI

Intern-S1-Pro challenges the idea that AI must choose between general reasoning and scientific specialization across multiple domains.

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The Missing Data Problem Behind Broken Computer-Use Agents

Sparse screenshots miss the motion, recovery, and reasoning computer-use agents need to navigate pro desktop software effectively.

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