California has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, as he warned of the threat posed by President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the tech powerhouse’s fast-growing wealth.

Update April 25: This post is being discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs, and /r/apachekafka


The last few days I spent some time digging into the recently announced KIP-1150 ("Diskless Kafka"), as well AutoMQ’s Kafka fork, tightly integrating Apache Kafka…

Updated May 1, 2025: CNCF and Synadia have come to an agreement to ensure that NATS continues to thrive as a healthy open source project within CNCF, with Synadia’s continued support and involvement.

How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

Magical Rust patterns laid out and simplified. Contribute to alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns development by creating an account on GitHub.

A faster FaaS platform with full wasi-http compliance - fourlexboehm/faasta

Petition to Open Source Initiative to publish 2025 Board election results. Sign using pull request (see below).

An exploration of web security mechanisms and their unexpected consequences

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An idea for knobs for synthesizers.

Would you buy a truck this bare-bones?

HiddenLayer’s latest research uncovers a universal prompt injection bypass impacting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more, exposing major LLM security gaps.

Rust debugger for Linux x86-64. Contribute to godzie44/BugStalker development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nature - Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.