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Redis → Valkey: the exodus has begun — and it's bigger than a database migration
The moment the dam broke
On March 20, 2024, Redis Ltd. announced that Redis would no longer be released under the BSD license. Future versions would use a dual license: the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and the Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The blog post framed it as a natural …
Stop speaking Claudish, Claude — a plugin that translates AI verbosity into plain English
The problem everyone feels but nobody names
There’s a moment in every Claude Code session where I want to throw my laptop out the window. It’s not when Claude gets something wrong — errors are fine, errors are fixable. It’s when Claude gets something right but takes three …
The hand-crafted transformer that beats frontier models at arithmetic — no training required
The experiment that broke my brain
There’s a paper that’s been circulating on r/MachineLearning this week — 206 upvotes, not the biggest number, but the kind of upvotes that matter. The kind where every comment is from someone who clearly read the whole thing, stayed up late thinking …
Amazon dismantled its AI division — and nobody should be surprised
The news that landed like a shrug
This week, Futurism reported that Amazon is gutting its AI division — specifically the Nova model family, the company’s answer to GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini. The division is being dismantled after “sustained failure.” 196 upvotes on …
The LuaJIT bug that silently poisoned hot loops — and the Lua community that won't move forward
The bug
Here’s a sentence that should terrify anyone who writes performance-sensitive code: a function that never executes can slow down a completely unrelated hot loop by 20x.
That’s not a hypothetical. That’s what was documented this week in an investigation on r/programming — …
The Open Source Endowment — a $750K bet that FOSS doesn't need VC money
The problem we’ve been pretending doesn’t exist
Open source has a funding problem. Not a small one. A structural one.
The numbers are absurd. cURL — probably the most deployed HTTP client in human history, running on billions of devices — was maintained by one person, Daniel Stenberg, …
Bad Apple in a 3MB neural network, and the NeurIPS reproducibility crisis
The 3MB neural network that plays Bad Apple
Two things happened in the ML world this week that seem unrelated but aren’t.
First: someone on r/MachineLearning posted a project where they compressed the entire Bad Apple!! music video — all 1,745 frames of shadow-art silhouettes — into a …
Rust banned LLM-generated code — and it's the right call
The news
On August 5, 2026, five teams in the Rust project adopted a policy governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust. The TL;DR: LLMs are fine for asking questions, analyzing, distilling, reviewing. But not to create.
The policy doesn’t ban LLMs …
The Assembly Hall of Shame — or why making CPUs slow is an art form
The project that asks: how slow can a single instruction be?
There’s a GitHub repo that’s been making the rounds on r/programming this week: asm-hall-of-shame, by the legendary xoreaxeaxeax (the same person behind the Movfuscator — a compiler that produces binaries using only mov …