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  • Slashdot: The EFF’s ‘Certbot’ Now Supports Six-Day Certs

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/14/0356212/the-effs-certbot-now-supports-six-day-certs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The EFF’s ‘Certbot’ Now Supports Six-Day Certs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolution of TLS certificate lifetimes, particularly the shift towards shorter certificates initiated by Let’s Encrypt. This trend emphasizes enhanced security through automation and reduced risk associated with compromised private keys,…

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus: the secret ingredient in Rapid Storage’s high performance

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-the-colossus-stateful-protocol-benefits-rapid-storage/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus: the secret ingredient in Rapid Storage’s high performance Feedly Summary: As an object storage service, Google Cloud Storage is popular for its simplicity and scale, a big part of which is due to the stateless REST protocols that you can use to read and write data. But…

  • The Register: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/googles_7thgen_ironwood_tpus_debut/ Source: The Register Title: Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons Feedly Summary: Sure, we’re doing FP8 versus a supercomputer’s FP64. What of it? Cloud Next Google’s seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216…

  • Hacker News: Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1

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    Source URL: https://jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503170800-search-engine-part-1/ Source: Hacker News Title: Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the development of a cross-platform search engine that incorporates encryption capabilities, focusing on the storage challenges and the technical implementation using the File System API of…

  • Hacker News: Sharding Pgvector

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    Source URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-pgvector Source: Hacker News Title: Sharding Pgvector Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation of a sharding strategy for handling vector indices in the pgvector database, focusing specifically on large-scale embeddings. It highlights the challenges of scaling vector searches and presents an approach using two indexing…

  • Hacker News: Sharding Pgvector

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    Source URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-pgvector Source: Hacker News Title: Sharding Pgvector Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation of a sharding strategy for handling vector indices in the pgvector database, focusing specifically on large-scale embeddings. It highlights the challenges of scaling vector searches and presents an approach using two indexing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding, but vibe coding rocks

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding, but vibe coding rocks Feedly Summary: Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the…