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Vercel Sandbox is now available in all regions

can now run in all 20 , up from four. Vercel SandboxVercel compute regions Running sandboxes closer to the databases, storage, and other services they access reduces latency. Teams can also keep sandbox workloads in approved regions to support data residency and regional processing requirements. remains the default region. Region selection is available on every plan. iad1 Pro and Enterprise teams can also configure failover regions. If Vercel can't create a sandbox in the primary region, it tri

A Bootiful Podcast: Netflix's Paul Bakker

The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query

Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636283 Points: 429 # Comments: 316

I Built a Website Crawler Because “It Works in the Browser” Isn’t Enough

When you build a website, one of the easiest things to assume is: If the page looks fine in the browser, the website is fine. But a browser session only shows you one path through the application. A website can look completely normal while still having broken links, missing metadata, invalid structured data, crawlability problems, or performance issues across pages you never opened. That was the idea behind a project I’ve been building called sitebot. As a frontend developer, I spend a lot of ti

Google’s 2026 Updates Separate Content Quality From AI Search Destination Signals

Google’s 2026 search changes require website owners to separate two related but different visibility problems. The February 2026 Discover Core Update focused on the quality and relevance of content shown in Google Discover. The May 2026 core update, alongside changes that made preferred sources available in AI Mode and AI Overviews, points to a second issue: how Google chooses sources to surface in AI-assisted search experiences. That distinction matters because the response is not identical. A

Signup Abuse Defense: When CAPTCHA Gates Creation and Risk Signals Catch Up

Signup protection works best as a sequence, not a single verdict: use CAPTCHA before account creation when the request already looks automated, then apply risk scoring after signals from the attempted signup are available. That placement preserves a clean audit trail and keeps a suspicious attempt from becoming a durable credential. The decision is about bot resistance, not about making every honest person solve a puzzle. The invariants are straightforward. No account is created before the pre-c

Your Git History Is a Story. I Wrote the Algorithm That Finds It.

Every repository has a moment nobody talks about. Not the first commit. Not the launch. Not the sprint where everything clicked. The moment I keep coming back to — the one that made me build this thing — is the gap. The silence. The chapter where nothing happened and everyone pretended it didn't exist. When I ran Commit Canvas over Flask's history, it found six chapters. Five were predictable. The sixth stopped me: The Silence: 31 days of nothing. November 28, 2024 → January 1, 2025. A changelog