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otabdeveloper4on Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

> Saying Apache is where software go to die is just wrong.

...and yet you proceeded to list all the ways that dead projects are being kept undead by Apache? I'm getting conflicting vibes here from your post.

otabdeveloper4on Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

Don't worry about it, Apache is the hospice where software projects go to die.

otabdeveloper4on TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

"Database" implies there's some sort of data aggregation or query primitive under the hood.

otabdeveloper4on TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

dbm isn't a database either, and people who call it that are simply wrong.

otabdeveloper4on TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

A file-backed hashtable isn't really a DB.

otabdeveloper4on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

Erm, but what about saying mean hateful words??

That makes them, like, the bad guys, don't you think?!

otabdeveloper4on AC2 Protocol: The missing security layer for AI agents

Do I understand this right?

As long as you can prove that a real human "approved" sharing the God-mode long-lived token with the keys to kingdom with an LLM, it's all good and we're secure?

This is the state of the art of computer security?

otabdeveloper4on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

It came to me in a dream.

otabdeveloper4on AWS Acquires DuckLabs

Wow, that sucks balls.

otabdeveloper4on The End of Programming

There's zero evidence to support the notion that LLMs help deliver software quicker.

otabdeveloper4on The End of Programming

Source code transpilers were a thing since forever.

We'd guess that LLMs probably make them cheaper, but there's no real world data on this.

otabdeveloper4on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

Egyptian and Sumerian writing predates oracle bone script by about 2000 years.

otabdeveloper4on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

1. Whatever was happening in Zhou. (Not sure it was really a "dynasty" pe se.)

2. Proto-Indo-European and Ancient Egyptian cultural norms and patterns are still very much alive in "Europe" today, so probably the invention of the wheel in the early Bronze Age is a good start.

otabdeveloper4on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30T in potential revenue

$30T seems like a lot, but Anthropic and OpenAI will need to be making ten times that to match investor expectations.

otabdeveloper4on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

> A timely reminder that, damn, China is olllldddd.

China proper starts about 1000 BC, so China is quite a bit younger than Europe. (Whatever "Europe" is.)

otabdeveloper4on New MCP Roadmap

Are you reinventing SPIFFE here?

otabdeveloper4on New MCP Roadmap

Don't worry about it, the very best Claude tokens designed, implemented and tested it.

What are you, some sort of luddite?

otabdeveloper4on Felony Bench

> In regard to “cyber”, there is, IMO, no valid reason whatsoever to train a model to autonomously create exploit chains.

Field testing is a real thing in literally all industries.

Except, apparently, the software industry. When it comes to software security and protecting your sensitive data, the solution is "trust me bro, I got my team of the best lawyers on it".

otabdeveloper4on Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

You're confusing "ally" and "vassal". Allies are countries that send troops to help you in war.

otabdeveloper4on Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

MIDI is a protocol, and it's not ever going away or being replaced.

Some protocols (like I2C or MIDI) are gonna be with humanity forever, probably.

otabdeveloper4on If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast

> I tried running a smaller model locally, and it's not usable for me.

Probably a skill issue on your part.

otabdeveloper4on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

> Games were still being released for the SNES at this point, so imagine the contrast!

SNES games aged a lot less than those silly DOS games.

(I mean that SNES games look more sleek and "modern" today.)

otabdeveloper4on Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

> how many companies would be OK with that?

That ship sailed long ago when you sold your soul to Claude.

otabdeveloper4on HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons

Yes, the modern pointy-haired boss thinks he's the next Steve Jobs visionary and will pitch his shitty internal ERP automation tool project as "the next sleek iPhone-like UI".

(Wish I was joking.)

otabdeveloper4on What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

LLMs are next token predictors. They predict the next most likely token given the previous context window of N tokens.

This means not giving an answer is not a technically possible option. Best you can do is force it to output a magic "stop speaking" token, but this is a vastly different training problem than getting it to not know something.

People naively expect LLM outputs to have some sort of confidence value when predicting, but the technology just doesn't work that way.

otabdeveloper4on Gloomberb

Don't worry about it, it was code reviewed by Claude.

otabdeveloper4on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

If k8s works for you, then go for it.

But k8s was invented so that "dev" and "ops" teams could play nicely when they are different org structures, with their own budgets, deadlines, etc.

If it solves some technical issue then that's incidental.

otabdeveloper4on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

Kubernetes doesn't solve any technical problem, so the language it's written in is irrelevant.

otabdeveloper4on Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slop

> broadly : a product of little or no value : rubbish

otabdeveloper4on Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

It's a reaction. Nobody would be "anti-AI" if AI wasn't being shoved into everything while at the same time shaming you like you're stupid for not enjoying literal slop.