The Daily Index — Thursday, June 20, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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WHY DOES SQLITE (IN PRODUCTION) HAVE SUCH A BAD REP?

SQLite, like any other database, has its pros and cons. It's perfect for the majority of applications and scales, and developers can always use PostgreSQL for anything else. Many of the problems SQLite previously had have been fixed. One of the issues with SQLite is that it doesn't allow multiple concurrent writers, but this may not be necessary for all workloads.

avi.im · 2 min

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ASK HN: WHY DO MESSAGE QUEUE-BASED ARCHITECTURES SEEM LESS POPULAR NOW? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

There was a lot of hype around building distributed systems using message queues in the late 2000s and early 2010s. That hype seems to have disappeared. One of the reasons for this is because most companies have realized that they're too small for these 'scalability tricks'. Bigger single machines being available for more reasonable prices means that companies are fine running on less hardware. Most companies are better off building well-componentized monoliths that they can break off into independent services later if there's a reason to do so.

news.ycombinator.com

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INTERNAL SPACEX DOCUMENTS SHOW THE SWEET STOCK DEALS OFFERED TO INVESTORS LIKE A16Z, GIGAFUND

SpaceX allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors around every 6 months. This article discusses an internal document from SpaceX about such a tender offer from 2022. Investors paid $70 per share to employees in the offer, an enormous discount compared to the $270 per share during the primary sale that year. The main reason for the price discrepancy comes from employees owning common stock - investors who buy into primary rounds typically buy preferred stock, which entitles them to dividends and liquidation preferences.

techcrunch.com · 11 min

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I'M THE HACKER THAT BROUGHT DOWN NORTH KOREA'S INTERNET FOR OVER A WEEK. AMA (REDDIT THREAD)

Alejandro Caceres, a 38-year-old Colombian-American cybersecurity entrepreneur, wrote a set of programs that kept every publicly visible website in North Korea offline for more than a week in late 2022. Caceres had been personally targeted by North Korean spies who tried to steal his intrusion tools, but had received no real governmental support despite detailing the targeting to the FBI, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. He was adopted informally by a Pentagon contractor and invited to present his techniques to high-level US defense and intelligence officials following his North Korean cyberattacks.

links.tldrnewsletter.com

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NOT ALL ‘OPEN SOURCE' AI MODELS ARE ACTUALLY OPEN: HERE'S A RANKING

Fully open source models are crucial for efforts to make AI accountable.

nature.com · 7 min

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VALKEY GAINS MOMENTUM WITH BROADENING BAND OF BACKERS

Redis alternative Valkey has new backers including Broadcom, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and Instaclustr by NetApp.

theregister.com · 3 min

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GOOGLE PARTNERS WITH NEVADA UTILITY FOR GEOTHERMAL TO POWER DATA CENTERS

Google has entered into an agreement with Berkshire Hathaway electric utility NV Energy to power its Nevada data centers with advanced geothermal electricity as part of its goal to run on entirely clean energy by 2030.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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CHINA'S DEEPSEEK CODER BECOMES FIRST OPEN-SOURCE CODING MODEL TO BEAT GPT-4 TURBO

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released DeepSeek Coder V2, an open source mixture of experts code language model that supports more than 300 programming languages and outperforms state-of-the-art closed-source models like GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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SEEING LIKE A NETWORK

A lot of our information networks have become more dense, causing us to change the way we see and process information that comes our way and change our culture.

strangeloopcanon.com · 24 min

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FAST CRIMES AT LAMBDA SCHOOL

Lambda school, one of the largest educational startups of all time, was never registered in California and was operating illegally in the state for at least two years.

sandofsky.com · 52 min