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Commerce Order Bans Differential Privacy for US Census, Reverting to 1970s Methods
A June 4, 2026 Commerce Department directive (DAO 216-26) strips the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis of every modern disclosure-avoidance techniqu
Costco's low-SKU, in-person model is the logistical anti-Amazon
The prevailing vision of retail's future—infinite assortment, agentic AI shoppers, and same-day home delivery of any single item—runs directly counter to how Co
crustc: rustc compiled to C to bring Rust to platforms LLVM forgot
FractalFir has published crustc, a fully functional Rust compiler emitted as C source that builds with nothing more than GCC and make. The generated compiler is
Egg Giants Kept ~1,000x Their Fine After Rigging a LIBOR-Style Price Index
The DOJ Antitrust Division and 18 states settled with the three largest U.S. egg producers — Cal-Maine, Versova, and Hickman's Egg Ranch — over an alleged consp
Exapunks: Zachtronics' 1997-set hacking puzzle game where code is your lifeline
Exapunks is a programming puzzle game from Zachtronics, released in 2018 and set in an alternate 1997. The player is a former hacker infected with a disease cal
"Factories are just rooms": demystifying manufacturing for 7-year-olds
The maker of an AI clock recounts a school visit where he walked a class through how his product actually gets built — from exploratory sketches and CAD to brea
Immich Hits 3.0, Advancing Its Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
Immich, the open-source photo and video management platform, has published its v3.0.0 release. The project is a self-hosted alternative to cloud services like G
Japan's Top Court Rules AI Can't Be Named as a Patent Inventor
Japan's highest court has held that only a human can be listed as the inventor on a patent application, rejecting attempts to credit an artificial intelligence
PostgreSQL, strict memory overcommit, and the kernel bug that faked an OOM
Ubicloud makes the case for running PostgreSQL under Linux's strict overcommit policy (vm.overcommit_memory=2), and the reasoning turns on how Postgres handles
Put your workflow engine inside Postgres and partial failures disappear
DBOS argues that durable workflow systems shouldn't just persist their state in Postgres — they should live in the same Postgres database as the application its
pxpipe: a local proxy that images your LLM context to cut input tokens ~60%
pxpipe is an open-source local proxy that sits between Claude Code and the Anthropic API and rewrites the bulky, static parts of each request — system prompt, t
Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail — And Why That Traps Even Experts
John Salvatier argues that every real-world task hides far more meaningful complexity than it appears to from a distance. Using the example of building basement