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AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Article URL: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703258 Points: 222 # Comments: 75

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Workers - Workers fetch requests now support cf.vary

Workers fetch() requests now support the cf.vary request option. Use cf.vary to control how Cloudflare caches origin responses with a Vary header for a single subrequest. JavaScript export default { async fetch(request) { return fetch(request, { cf: { vary: { default: { action: "bypass" }, headers: { accept: { action: "normalize", media_types: ["text/html", "application/json"], },

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pgtt v4.5 has been released

Bangkok, Thailand - June 21, 2026 PostgreSQL Global Temporary Tables pgtt is a PostgreSQL extension to create, manage and use DB2 or Oracle-style Global Temporary Tables. Once created the use is just like with the other RDBMS. pgtt v4.5 has been released, this is a maintenance release to add support to PG 19 and add support to CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. and fix issues reported by users since last release. Fix -Wmissing-variable-declarations warnings by making globals static. Remove use of the re

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The Codebase Is the Prompt

The database analogy is usually wrong when people use it to explain AI. A language model is not a database full of facts, documents, or answers. When you ask it a question, it is not looking up a record and returning the matching row. There is no table called “JavaScript bugs” or “how to design an API” hidden inside the model. But the analogy is not useless. It is just usually applied at the wrong level. The prompt is not a key that retrieves a stored answer. It is more like a fuzzy query into a

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Keyless by Default: Securing FarmOps Desk without a Single Static Secret

Part of the H0: Hack the Zero Stack submission. See the project on Devpost. Every hackathon submission that uses AWS from Vercel usually starts the same way: "paste your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID into Vercel's environment variables." It's easy, and it works. It's also the single most common cause of cloud supply-chain attacks. Major breaches like SolarWinds or the Toyota customer leak often start with a static credential that someone forgot to rotate, or accidentally checked into a code repository. Fo

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When the Free Executor Cost More: 40 Trials on Opus + Local Qwen Ended Up the Most Expensive Cloud Arm

"Use a strong model to orchestrate, a cheap model to execute." This is now the default cost-aware recipe for agentic coding. I believed it and ran the experiment. Opus 4.7 as the orchestrator, locally-hosted Qwen 3.5-9B (zero token cost) as the executor. This should beat running Opus alone on cost. Has to. It did the opposite. The supposedly "free" configuration (Opus + Qwen) came out as the most expensive cloud arm on all three of the code-repair tasks I ran. Higher than Opus solo. Higher than

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How FinTech APIs Are Powering Africa's Digital Payment Revolution

A developer-focused guide to the APIs quietly powering Africa's rapidly growing digital payment ecosystem. Every time you pay with your phone, fund a digital wallet, or receive an instant payment confirmation, dozens of systems communicate behind the scenes in milliseconds. At the center of that communication is one technology: the Application Programming Interface (API). Across Africa, fintech APIs have become the invisible infrastructure connecting banks, mobile money providers, fintech startu

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