Weekly news | 2025-09-24
news
- Introducing Notion 3.0
- PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
- Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
- OpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems
- Deprecation of Node 20 on GitHub Actions runners
- Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
- Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech
- Libghostty Is Coming
- Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads
- Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
- Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
- AI:
- Qwen3-Omni: a natively end-to-end, omni-modal LLM developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, capable of understanding text, audio, images, and video, as well as generating speech in real time
- Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD
- Qwen3-VL launch
- AWS:
- Amazon Keyspaces now(), uuid() functions in SELECT and Duration data type
- AppStream 2.0 fractional GPU instances
- AWS FIS inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes
- Bedrock
- Budgets custom time periods
- CloudWatch Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization
- Connect Cases date range filters in the case list view
- Connect search contacts using agent hierarchy filters
- EC2 detailed performance stats on all NVMe local volumes
- End User Messaging supports CloudFormation for SMS
- EventBridge extends Customer Managed Key support to rule filter patterns and input transformers
- EVS HCX migration over public internet
- Lex
- Network Firewall enhances console, monitoring, and security features
- OpenSearch Ingestion cross-account ingestion
- OpenSearch Serverless Disk-Optimized Vectors
- OpenSearch Service
- Open Source Corretto 25 |
GA - Organizations
- Parallel Computing Service EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML
- Q Developer CLI remote MCP servers
- RDS for MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
- Redshift Multidimensional Data Layouts |
GA - S3 Batch Operations managing buckets or prefixes in a single step
- S3 conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets
- SageMaker HyperPod
- SiteWise MCP Server for Simplified Modeling
- Step Functions
- Storage Gateway supports IPv6
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- CompileBench: Benchmark of LLMs on real open-source projects against dependency hell, legacy toolchains, and complex build systems. Compare top models by success rate, cost or speed
- npm-security-best-practices: How to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks
- TernFS
- WeUseElixir: Elixir project directory
- MapSCII: The Whole World In Your Console
- Zedis: A Redis clone written in Zig
- Math2Text: Convert handwritten math and complex notes to LaTeX text
- cachey: Read-through cache for object storage
- sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
- Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis
- Strata by Klavis AI: One MCP server for AI agents to handle thousands of tools
- better-curl-saul: a lightweight API testing CLI focused on UX and simplicity
blogs
- Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
- Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News
- How can I influence others without manipulating them?
- Testing is better than DSA
- OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don’t
- Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks
- The best YouTube downloaders for Windows (and beyond)
- Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years
- how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
- How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts