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GIMP Development Update

Article URL: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326156 Points: 252 # Comments: 229

ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10054, (Mon, Aug 17th)

On AI regulation and messaging

https://xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325789 Points: 231 # Comments: 494

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

Article URL: https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159 Points: 276 # Comments: 176

New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs

Two product upgrades make it easy for global businesses to manage FX entirely on Stripe. We’re expanding multicurrency settlement to more markets and currencies, and we’re introducing the ability to convert currencies instantly—all on Stripe.

Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E20 - The Developer's Guide to AI with Danny Thompson

What is a data topology?

“Vitess for PostgreSQL” is a useful shorthand for the ambition behind Neki, but it significantly understates the architecture we have built. Neki carries forward what we learned from Vitess in a new sharding architecture designed around PostgreSQL’s internals and semantics from the start. PlanetScale has spent years building and operating Vitess at scale. That experience has shaped how we approach query routing, data placement, and the challenge of making many database servers behave like one. W

powa-archivist 5.3.0 is out!

Tainan, Taiwan - Sun 16 Aug 2026 powa-archivist 5.3.0 The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.3.0 of powa-archivist, the core extension of the PoWA project. PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer) is a performance tool, compatible with all supported PostgreSQL versions. It allows to collect and aggregate metrics gathered from multiple PostgreSQL instances using various extensions covering all parts of PostgreSQL and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and t