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Rust reimplementation of Postgres clears all 46,000 regression tests — but isn't usable yet

pgrust is a from-scratch reimplementation of PostgreSQL in Rust that now reproduces Postgres 18.3's expected output across more than 46,000 regression queries —

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tech-culture

Solo dev's Running Train hailed as the most beautiful train sim ever made

Running Train, an Early Access train simulator built entirely by one-person studio Novatetsu Games, is drawing near-unanimous praise on Steam for its realism. S

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tech-cultureprivacy

Sony's EU terms let it delete your PlayStation account—and games—after 3 years idle

Sony is under fire after gamers highlighted a clause in PlayStation's European terms of service that allows the company to close accounts inactive for 36 months

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tech-cultureprivacy

Study: Parents Distracted by Phones Linked to Insecure Teen Attachment

Researchers set out to measure how a parent's smartphone distraction shapes their teenager's sense of security in the relationship. The behavior has names in th

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policytech-culture

The 1965 billing rule that makes US ambulance rides cost thousands

Roughly three million privately insured Americans take an emergency ambulance ride each year, and about half get hit with an out-of-network 'surprise' bill afte

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supply-chaintech-culture

The Bronze Age Collapse: How an Interconnected World Came Apart

Around the 12th century BC, the network of powerful states across the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East — Mycenaean Greece, the Hittite Empire, Egypt's New

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open-sourcedevops

TypeScript 7 ships: Go rewrite makes the compiler roughly 10x faster

Microsoft has released TypeScript 7, a ground-up native port of the compiler and language service rewritten in Go. Rather than reinventing the type system, the

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devopscybersecurity

Valid TLS for internal services: split-horizon DNS plus a VPN-bound WAF

Serving internal web apps over HTTPS usually forces an awkward choice: use a private TLD like .internal with self-signed certificates that every client must be

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open-sourcetech-culture

Why Lisp Is Worth the Steep Climb: Macros, Homoiconicity, and a New Way to Think

Lisp confronts newcomers with a wall of parentheses and inverted syntax, but the author argues the payoff justifies the steep learning curve: the language rewir

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aitech-culture

A Developer's Case of 'LLM Burnout': Sick of the Same Hallucinations and Emojis

A software developer who leans on Claude Code and Codex for hours daily describes a creeping fatigue with LLM output. His workflow has inverted over the past ye

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tech-cultureprivacy

Apple's Hidden Assistive Access Turns a Spare iPhone Into a Free Kids' Dumb Phone

A parent hunting for a locked-down first phone for his son discovered that Apple's standard Screen Time controls can't fully block Safari — kids route around ap

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open-sourcedevops

Bun is being rewritten from Zig to Rust to kill memory-safety bugs

Bun, the JavaScript runtime now downloaded over 22 million times a month and used as the engine behind tools like Claude Code and OpenCode, is moving off Zig an

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