U.S. and Iran discussing ceasefire for reopening strait, officials say Iran has not confirmed the claim.

Anyone know why @axios.com seems to be the one always breaking news like this? I mean I love them but what happened to @nytimes.com and @wsj.com ? U.S. and Iran discussing ceasefire for reopening strait, officials say www.axios.com/2026/04/01/t...

Software engineers design algorithm to solve pizza topping arguments Pizza Voter makes the picking pepperoni, sausage, or pineapple as fair as possible.

Pizza Voter was in Popular Science today! What a slice!!

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IT-Tools brings many useful developer tools into one convenient location IT-Tools is a self-hosted collection of 80+ developer utilities that puts every tool you need in one place — no more hunting.

IT-Tools is a self-hosted collection of 80+ developer utilities that puts every tool you need in one place — no more hunting.

Analysis of Alex Pretti Shooting in Minneapolis YouTube video by Bellingcat

We just posted a quick analysis of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Mineapolis. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkFc...

Makes perfect sense to me. I do a ton of spark SQL but not sure about others. Either way you are the only one I know of still doing this work so Godspeed.

Impressive write up but we’ve been switching to iceberg more on aws. We’ve gotten a lot of weird errors in #hudi that have been hard to debug. Iceberg seems simpler and performant enough. What’s your experience?

Great paper about pruning from Snowflake: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11540

The LIMIT pruning they describe is 🤯 (so clever once you get it)

We have implemented almost all of the techniques in Apache DataFusion, FWIW

continue to love an appreciate your site so much. curious how you decided which new engine to add? Maybe my experience is biased since I'm a data engineer in a corporate environment, but I was happy to see BigQuery and was hoping the next add would be Snowflake or SparkSQL

Trivia: To run modern-sql.com I've currently 195 SQL systems in my lab and 60000+ test cases.

@aendra.com love your news feed. Just an idea for you. I like seeing all the headlines but would love another feed that just included sources that aren’t paywalled. As much as I would love to support journalism, some of us just don’t have the funds for multiple subscriptions. What do you think?

In ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ There’s Something About Mary Every year around this time, we like to revisit this indisputable holiday classic and ask…does anyone really believe Donna Reed’s force of nature would be reduced to nothing without George Bailey? Als...

For fans of #itsAWonderfulLife: #mary is the real star of the show.

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@support.bsky.team any plans to fix this?

Trump's response to Rob Reiner's death drips with a tone of just deserts. It reads like a narcissist’s cackle. It is a grotesque response from a man whose boundless and wholly unearned sense of self-worth long ago crowded out any decency.

My column on a new low:

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Lightning Might Strike - Juliana Hatfield | Album | AllMusic Lightning Might Strike by Juliana Hatfield released in 2025. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

Beloved indie icon Juliana Hatfield emerges from a difficult period with an album that's as melodic as it is poignant.

2025 in Review with Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo Webcast Dec 10: DBMS researchers Mike Stonebraker (MIT / DBOS) and Andy Pavlo (CMU) discuss which data and CS trends are heating up or cooling down heading into 2026.

Do you like databases?
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...

Wow made it quite a few years…

Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible QuantStack, an “almost accidental startup,” is building a serverless distro of JupyterLab for Jupyter’s global adoption.

@quantstack.bsky.social, an “almost accidental startup,” is building a serverless distro of @jupyter.org for Jupyter’s global adoption.

Feat. @sylvaincorlay.bsky.social

Platform Engineering’s True Value Is in Application Development Platform engineering is not only about optimizing operations, but also about ensuring application development produces and delivers tangible value.

Platform engineering is not only about optimizing operations, but also about ensuring application development produces and delivers tangible value.

AWS, Google Build a Multicloud Bridge After years of painful complexity and vendor lock-in fears, cloud rivals AWS and Google Cloud standardize and automate private, high-speed connectivity across their platforms, asking other clouds to join in.

After years of painful complexity and vendor lock-in fears, cloud rivals #AWS and Google Cloud standardize and automate private, high-speed connectivity across their platforms, asking other clouds to join in.

By @joabj.bsky.social

Gaming on Linux? Bazzite Is a Great Place To Start Bazzite is a remarkably solid and fun distribution for running games on a personal computer, and is good for other desktop tasks as well.

Bazzite is a remarkably solid and fun distribution for running games on a personal computer, and is good for other desktop tasks as well.

Ignore Prior Instructions: AI Still Befuddled by Basic Reasoning Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich warns users to know the limits of what LLMs can do, and what they never do. An ACM talk.

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich warns users to know the limits of what LLMs can do, and what they never do. An ACM talk.

When To Log, and When To Shut Up In the end, great logging isn’t about capturing everything that happens. It’s about capturing what matters.

In the end, great logging isn’t about capturing everything that happens. It’s about capturing what matters.

Thanks to @clickhouse.com

AWS, Google Build a Multicloud Bridge After years of painful complexity and vendor lock-in fears, cloud rivals AWS and Google Cloud standardize and automate private, high-speed connectivity across their platforms, asking other clouds to join in.

After years of painful complexity and vendor lock-in fears, cloud rivals #AWS and Google Cloud standardize and automate private, high-speed connectivity across their platforms, asking other clouds to join in.

By @joabj.bsky.social

How Kubernetes Became the New Linux Learn why AWS is building core features instead of competing products in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

ICYMI: Learn why AWS is building core features instead of competing products in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

Combining Rust and Python for High-Performance AI Systems Overcome Python's AI performance bottlenecks. Learn how to integrate Rust for C++-level speed and concurrency without leaving the Python ecosystem.

Overcome Python's AI performance bottlenecks. Learn how to integrate Rust for C++-level speed and concurrency without leaving the Python ecosystem.

The real reason the job market is totally broken Exclusive new data proves it: Applying to a job in 2025 is the statistical equivalent of hurling your resume into a black hole.

God, is it **really** THIS bad right now? #depressing #job_market

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Finally! Now we just need to get it added to the ISO standard.

Market Sentiment (@marketsentiment) Instead of a 2 hour movie, watch this 10-minute video. Part 2 of Ray Dalio, aka Steve Jobs of Investing, with a masterclass on how the economy works:

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ridiculous fold or great lay down in $22k pot? 🤨 #poker #pokerhand #pokerhands YouTube video by hungry horse poker

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Cool Memo app