FirstMark Growth led the Series B for the New York agent-cloud startup, which sells sandboxed Linux, Windows, macOS and GPU environments for long-running agents. Angels include Patrick Collison, Tobi Lutke and Aravind Srinivas. On the day OpenAI said its own models cannot be trusted with an open network, sandbox infrastructure looks like a good business.
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Torsten Slok points to flat revenue per worker and flat margins across the S&P 493, while the Magnificent 7 keep climbing, and sees no AI lift in productivity growth yet. It was one of the most argued-over threads on Hacker News this weekend.
ApolloLuu argues that AI coding tools have made database rewrites, regex engines and faster ripgrep forks feasible for one person in hours, and that most of us still carry outdated cost models. The catch, he says, is to pick targets where testing and benchmarks can check the result.
danluu.comClickHouse's Alexey Milovidov removed pgrust, a project Luu cites as an example of ambition, from ClickBench. The PR alleges hand-written kernels for each of the 43 queries, an always-on result cache, and refusals of slightly altered queries. The thread revived this week after pgrust's author responded on Hacker News.
GitHubPhilip O'Toole maps the three design paths replicated SQLite has taken since he put a Raft log in front of it in 2014: consensus clusters, streaming backups and merge-based multi-writer systems. It is a useful guide before you choose one.
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