In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact by actually increasing water for local communities. The company laid out five commitments around water use in a new blog post published Wednesday, including a goal to replenish more water […]

After migrating Spark pipelines to Azure Kubernetes Service, two infrastructure settings interacted destructively: spark.kubernetes.local.dirs.tmpfs=true backed shuffle spill with RAM instead of disk, and a hard podAffinity rule forced all executors onto one node. Together, they caused repeated OOM kills invisible to standard diagnostics. By Pranav Bhasker

Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling.

Hey everyone, I recently landed a freelance gig to build out a complete SaaS platform from scratch. The client is incredibly generous and is treating this as an opportunity for me to learn and implement things as we proceed with development. I want to make sure I choose the right architecture from day one. I can't reveal the exact idea, but it functions as a two-sided platform connecting service providers with end-users. I need to pick a tech stack that plays to my strengths while keeping infrastructure costs as close to zero as possible. Here is my profile and the project constraints: - My Background: I am a frontend-heavy developer. My backend knowledge is only "okay-ish," so I’m looking for a stack that minimizes complex backend boilerplate and dev-ops headaches. - Timeline: I have 4 to 5 months maximum to build and fully deploy the MVP. - Strict Budget: The monthly budget for deployment, database, and any necessary transactional emailing cannot exceed $40/month for the MVP phase. - Expected Scale: To start, the web app needs to comfortably sustain 100 service providers and roughly 1,000 active users. - Payments and subscription : Stripe - Team Size: It's just me (Solo dev). Based on current trends, I've been leaning toward a meta-framework (like Next.js) paired with a BaaS (like Supabase or Firebase), but I’d love to hear from folks who have recently shipped something similar. Questions for the community: What specific tech stack would you recommend that allows a frontend dev to move fast without getting bogged down in backend setup? - Are there specific databases, ORMs, or auth providers you'd suggest that will confidently keep me under that $40/month limit for my expected user count? - Any hosting or deployment "gotchas" I should watch out for when launching a two-sided platform on a shoestring budget? Appreciate any guidance you can share! Note : Used AI for articulation. submitted by /u/chutneypow [link] [留言]

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used […]

MiniMax released M3 today and the API is already live. Worth separating what comes from their own official model page versus what comes from the launch announcement, because some of the numbers are sourced differently. From the official model page: BrowseComp 83.5, ahead of Claude Opus 4.7 at 79.3. PostTrainBench 37.1, which ranks third behind Opus 4.7 at 42.4 and GPT-5.5 at 39.3. From the launch announcement: SWE-Bench Pro 59.0%, Terminal Bench 2.1 66.0%, MCP Atlas 74.2%. The headline "beats Opus" is BrowseComp-specific, not a general capability claim across all dimensions. The context window is up to 1M tokens, implemented through their in-house MiniMax Sparse Attention architecture. They state 512K as the guaranteed minimum with 1M as the ceiling. The model was trained on 100T+ tokens and is natively multimodal rather than vision being added after the fact. Open-weights release is coming to HuggingFace and GitHub but listed as "coming soon." API access is available now through several paths, including OpenAI-compatible endpoints, while the weights are still pending. The model also supports native MCP tooling, which is where the 74.2% MCP Atlas number comes from. The demo claims are the part worth being skeptical about. A 12-hour autonomous ICLR paper replication run and a CUDA kernel optimization loop reaching 9.4x speedup are impressive if real, but these are curated showcase demos that are hard to evaluate from a screenshot. Whether sparse attention holds up at 900K+ tokens in practice rather than in controlled benchmarks is an open question. submitted by /u/Drysetcat [link] [留言]

Google has released 2D CAD drawings of the Fitbit Air.

Every impressive agent demo skips the same three things: Auth. The demo target is open. The real one has a login and a 2FA prompt. Identity. The demo agent acts as the developer. The real one needs its own email, accounts, and a place to keep secrets. State. The demo is one clean run. The real one has to remember what it did last time and resume. These are not AI problems, which is exactly why they get skipped in AI demos. But they are most of the work to go from "cool clip" to "thing that runs unattended." The model is increasingly the easy part. The unglamorous identity-and-state layer around it is where products actually live or die. Curious whether people think this layer gets commoditized into the foundation models, or stays a separate thing you assemble. submitted by /u/kumard3 [link] [留言]

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Operator perspective. I use AI daily across three companies and I am bullish on it, but the gap between what gets shouted on stage and what the data shows is enormous. Best measured number across hundreds of engineers is about 7.8%, and 66% of the people who hit a peak gain saw it fade the next quarter. At the same time, people are being pushed onto it under threat of their jobs while the return is not even proven to the people mandating it. My read is the anger is not really “AI is bad,” it is “my boss profits from me using it and I do not.” Where do you land - is the resistance cognitive (it erodes skill) or economic (the gain is not shared)? submitted by /u/Alternative_Letter72 [link] [留言]

I’ve been using AI pretty heavily for the past few months — quick research, rewriting emails, brainstorming ideas, even helping outline stuff I need to write. It saves so much time and the output is usually decent. But lately I’ve noticed something weird: I’m second-guessing myself way less. I’ll get an answer from it and just kind of roll with it instead of thinking it through like I used to. Yesterday I asked it about something I already had a rough opinion on, accepted its take, and only later realized I didn’t even challenge any part of it. It feels convenient as hell, but also a little unsettling. Like I’m outsourcing the actual thinking part. Is this normal? Or am I slowly losing the habit of thinking deeply on my own? Anyone else feeling this? submitted by /u/pen-pineapple-apple [link] [留言]

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Online it feels like every company is fully embracing AI. In reality, most organizations I interact with are still trying to figure out where it fits into existing workflows, processes and software. The interesting conversations aren't usually about models anymore. They're about trust, reliability, permissions, governance and how AI fits into the way people already work. The gap between AI demos and real-world adoption still feels larger than most people realize. submitted by /u/Bladerunner_7_ [link] [留言]

Hi r/webdev , As web developers, we frequently get stuck fighting the tools we use for e-commerce. You find a great framework, but it forces you to use a specific database, or it only deploys nicely to one cloud platform. I built Storecraft to solve this frustration. It is an open-source, headless e-commerce core that treats both the database and the runtime hosting environment as completely swappable dependencies. Why it makes building easier: Deploy Anywhere: It runs identically on traditional servers (Node), modern runtimes (Deno, Bun), or lightweight edge infrastructure (Cloudflare Workers). Choose Your DB: Switch between Postgres, MongoDB, or SQLite by simply changing your driver configuration. Purely Headless: Connect it to any frontend stack you prefer via a clean, predictable API. Whether you are building a small storefront for a local client or a globally distributed edge application, the engine adapts to your infrastructure—not the other way around. Repository link: https://github.com/store-craft/storecraft website: https://storecraft.app/ I'd love to get your feedback on the setup ergonomics. What are the biggest pain points you usually hit when deploying open-source e-commerce backends for your clients? submitted by /u/hendrixstring [link] [留言]