Xerox to acquire Lexmark(newsroom.lexmark.com)

246 points by taubek 1 year ago | 210 comments

Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails(htxt.co.za)

335 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 240 comments

Hypertext news article reporting on Duolingo's CEO attempting to walk back his comments about the company becoming AI-first.

The Omnichord will be re-produced to commemorate our 70th anniversary(suzukimusic-global.com)

139 points by cglong 2 years ago | 42 comments

Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed(guard.io)

194 points by mindracer 1 year ago | 166 comments

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel(twitter.com)

274 points by mattsterett 2 months ago | 178 comments

Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers(polypane.app)

174 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 109 comments

Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary(blog.redplanetlabs.com)

318 points by adamfeldman 2 years ago | 303 comments

Red Planet Labs blog post by Nathan Marz arguing that traditional databases impose needless complexity and that newer approaches make it unnecessary.

7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025(matt.blwt.io)

380 points by yarapavan 1 year ago | 109 comments

Blog post by Matt Blewitt recommending seven database technologies to study for a week each in 2025, including Postgres, SQLite, DuckDB, ClickHouse, and others.

Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies(build-your-own.org)

386 points by not_a_boat 1 year ago | 48 comments

Blog post from build-your-own.org arguing complex software like databases can be learned by building a small version, introducing a 3000-line, zero-dependency database.

Local AI needs to be the norm(unix.foo)

1767 points by cylo 5 months ago | 699 comments

Blog post on unix.foo arguing that apps should run AI models locally rather than relying on API calls to OpenAI or Anthropic.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)

804 points by sidnarsipur 8 months ago | 436 comments

Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.

I Went to SQL Injection Court(sockpuppet.org)

1162 points by mrkurt 1 year ago | 416 comments

Blog post by Thomas Ptacek about testifying in an Illinois court case over whether public bodies can withhold database schemas from FOIA requests, and pending legislation.