"You are sheltering a Mythos-level model in your server room, are you not?"

For enterprise pricing it's already there. Which is why they're realizing that open weights models exist that can do 90% of the work for 20% of the cost. Just like you don't make a principal level engineer do work a junior could do.

An engineer from Charlotte, North Carolina sat down in the spring of 2000 to write software for guided missile destroyers in the United States Navy. The ships needed a database that did not require a system administrator on board. So he wrote one himself. 26 years later that database, SQLite, runs inside every iPhone on Earth, every Android phone, every Mac, every Windows machine, every major web browser, every airplane cockpit avionics system, and most of the cars built in the last decade. It is the most widely deployed software in human history. He still maintains it from his home in North Carolina. His name is D. Richard Hipp. Most people call him Richard. Here is the story, because the engineer behind the most replicated piece of code on the planet is a man almost nobody can name. Richard was born in Charlotte on April 9, 1961. He grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta. He graduated from Stone Mountain High School in 1979 and went to Georgia Tech, where he earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering by 1984. He spent three years at AT&T Bell Labs working in Unix and C. Then he went back to school at Duke University and earned a PhD in Computer Science in 1992. His dissertation was on spoken natural language dialog processing under Alan W. Biermann. He could have stayed in academia. He told one interviewer the market for PhDs was saturated with better qualified candidates. He started a software consulting company instead. He married a musician and author named Ginger G. Wyrick in 1994 and renamed the firm Hipp, Wyrick and Company. Then in 2000 he picked up a contract through General Dynamics to write software for the US Navy. The target was the Aegis class guided missile destroyer. The original system ran HP-UX with an IBM Informix database backend. The whole stack required a database administrator on board. The Navy did not want a database administrator on board. Richard's job was to make the database administrator unnecessary. The design goals were simple. The database had to be self-contained. It had to run inside the application. It had to have zero configuration. It had to be transactional and reliable. It had to require no separate process. It had to be small. On August 17, 2000 he released SQLite 1.0. He wrote it in C. The whole thing fit in less than a megabyte. The license he chose was the most extreme one possible. He released the source code into the public domain. No copyright. No royalties. No restrictions. Anyone could use it for anything forever. The decision changed software history. SQLite spread quietly. Mozilla adopted it for Firefox. Apple put it inside iOS. Google put it inside Android. Microsoft started shipping it inside Windows. Chrome, Safari, and Edge all use it. Photoshop uses it. Skype used it. Every major operating system you have ever touched runs SQLite somewhere underneath. The Airbus A350 uses it for flight software. Every Boeing 787 has SQLite onboard. By 2026 SQLite was estimated to be running on more than 1 trillion devices. It is the most replicated piece of software ever written. Richard has personally turned down what is almost certainly hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties over the past 26 years by keeping it public domain. The SQLite team is tiny. Richard and a small group of core contributors. He maintains a separate version control system he wrote himself called Fossil. He maintains a parser generator he wrote himself called Lemon. He maintains a diagram language he wrote himself called Pikchr. He is a member of the Tcl core team and has been for over 25 years. He answers questions on Hacker News under the username SQLite. The project's public commitment is to support SQLite through the year 2050. A Christian engineer from North Carolina wrote a small database for missile destroyers and released it for free. It is now running inside every device in your house.

This man loves his rum.. and it comes through in every podcast Imagine a normal person going to a candy store *No candy stores or normal people involved though

Open Weight models moving quick, that chart is already out of date with Kimi 2.7 being released few days ago...

for thirty years the advice was simple: don't poll, sleep until the interrupt. then NVMe and 100GbE got fast enough that the interrupt path became a noticeable part of the cost. so now NAPI polls, io_uring can poll, and NVMe queues can poll. what's interesting is that hardware didn't just make things faster it changed which tradeoff makes sense. a lot of things we treat as rules are really just ratios that happened to be true at the time.

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Cool mammatus clouds and orange glow at sunset in Columbia MD. @capitalweather

This is straight out of Parks & Rec.

Mulan for Americans

After all the Stargate chaos of the last week, I stopped and watched "Window of Opportunity" and 200 last night Window was their take on Groundhog's Day and so much fun seeing them change and grow over the months(?) of loops. The kiss was gold 200 had so much winking at/trolling the fans, it was great. The "modern take" is what it appears Amazon wanted.. amusing that the writers called that shot 20 years ago We may not have something new but we still have tons of awesome from a series that seemed to appreciate the fans throughout

This take is spot on I love listening to "entrepreneurship" professors who have never done it.. they've just interviewed successful ones. Cool to have access*but* that's survivorship bias and many things you have to do, get some bruises, or be in the thick of to really understand One of the good ego checks in startups is working with truly excellent people with valuable specializations.. and then you realize that they inherently look at situations differently so they're starting with a fundamentally different understanding of constraints and resources available But yes, if professors haven't done/worked closely with the thing you need, be skeptical of their students

This is Ramsey. He is a mail delivery dog. Shipping is free, and while packages might not be handled with care, they are handled with enthusiasm. 14/10

We've updated /fork in Claude Code /fork now runs a background agent with your exact context (system prompt, tools, history, model) and prompt cache. The result gets returned to your session. /branch (the old /fork) still copies the transcript to a new session you drive.

How much do you love your dog? This much:

No one: Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its lack of content. Pull one, and the other goes inert. That’s the structural spine.

The EU age verification app is presented as “completely anonymous”. But the risk is that member states (the countries are supposed to create their own versions of the open-source EU app) use it to introduce identity verification that makes it impossible to post anonymously on social media. The idea behind “completely anonymous” is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time. This means that the EU could decide at any time that ZKP may no longer be used, and in one stroke the app would fall back to its default mode, meaning that every post on social media carries an ID tag. By that point, an infrastructure will already have been rolled out; people will have gotten used to it, and it will be harder to roll it back. More details on mullvad.net/blog/age-verific…

Traits in #PHP aren't delegated. They're literally memcpy'd into the class. The engine copies each zend_function entry into the consuming class's function_table. "insteadof" picks the winner. "as" creates an alias to the same oparray. After resolution? The trait is gone. Zero runtime cost. The class thinks it wrote those methods itself!

We're very excited to have PHP Architect Joe Ferguson as a release manager for PHP 8.6. Joe cares deeply about PHP and the PHP Community. We are very lucky to have him on the team. Thanks to everyone who volunteers their time to make PHP the best it can be. phpa.me/release-managers

Even if the right image were real, she had a gastric sleeve surgery, not Ozempic.