The Daily Index — Wednesday, March 19, 2025 · TLDR Index

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qawolf.com

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THE SYNCHRONY BUDGET

Services should minimize the number of synchronous requests they make to other services as much as possible. Synchronous calls are costly and impact the availability of services. The more services that an app relies on synchronously, the lower the availability of that app will be. Making a synchrony budget is about being mindful of how communication flows are implemented between services.

morling.dev · 5 min

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HE NERDED OUT OVER PAYROLL TECHNOLOGY. NOW, HE'S ACCUSED OF CORPORATE SPYING

Keith O'Brien, a global payroll-compliance manager at Rippling, a business software startup, has been accused of stealing trade secrets for a rival, Deel, as part of a spying operation. O'Brien allegedly searched for 'deel' an average of 23 times a day across Rippling's internal systems, accessing message boards that had nothing to do with his job in a mode that hid his presence from others. Rippling claims that it set a honeypot trap that proved O'Brien was being directed by Deel's top executives. O'Brien fleed Rippling's offices with his smartphone after being accused of being a corporate spy despite being told that failing to turn over the device violated a court order and could result in imprisonment.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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THE FIRST NEW PEBBLE SMARTWATCHES ARE COMING LATER THIS YEAR

Core Devices, a company by the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, is getting ready to ship two new watches. They will have all of the features of the old Pebble devices and run the newly open-sourced Pebble operating system. The Core 2 Duo will ship in July for $149. It has the exact same black-and-white e-paper display as the old Pebble 2 and even comes in the exact same frame. It has a battery that lasts more than 30 days and an in-device speaker for chatting with AI assistants. The Core Time 2 will ship in December and cost $225 - it will have a touchscreen.

theverge.com · 3 min

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OPENAI'S FIRST STARGATE SITE TO HOLD UP TO 400,000 NVIDIA CHIPS

The construction for the site, which will have a capacity of 1.2 gigawatts of power, will be completed by mid-2026.

finance.yahoo.com · 2 min

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THE REAL FAILURE RATE OF EBS

EBS failure is constant, variable, and all by design.

planetscale.com · 6 min

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THE COMPANY TESTING WALL STREET'S APPETITE FOR A.I. COMPUTING POWER

CoreWeave has filed paperwork for a public listing - if the initial public offering goes ahead, it will be the first prominent AI startup to reach the stock market.

nytimes.com · 6 min

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MAKE UBUNTU PACKAGES 90% FASTER BY REBUILDING THEM

This post shows how to increase jq's performance by 90% by just compiling the package again using the same source package that Ubuntu uses.

gist.github.com · 4 min

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MARK ZUCKERBERG SAYS THAT META'S LLAMA MODELS HAVE HIT 1B DOWNLOADS

Llama has achieved widespread success since launching in 2023, with companies including Spotify, AT&T, and DoorDash using Llama models in production today.

techcrunch.com · 2 min