The Daily Index — Friday, May 30, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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BUILDING A DISTRIBUTED CACHE FOR S3

Clickhouse built a distributed cache for cloud object storage - a shared, low-latency layer that gives all compute nodes fast access to hot data. This post looks at how hot data caching worked before, why object storage made it hard, and how the new architecture fixes it. It includes benchmarks.

clickhouse.com · 25 min

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PATTERN MATCHING 20 HABITS OF EXCEPTIONAL STARTUPS

Exceptional startups do things very differently from the median startup. This post looks at habits that these startups tend to have. Exceptional startups beat and raise expectations, recruit top talent obsessively, ship product incredibly fast, and obsess over product quality. These traits, along with many others, make them great places to work and invest in.

tylerhogge.com · 11 min

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KNOWLEDGE WORK IS DYING—HERE'S WHAT COMES NEXT

Before AI, knowledge set people apart - knowing more meant earning more. AI models can swallow entire fields overnight. This makes it more important to have wisdom. This article looks at how to develop abilities in areas that AI can't replicate. It teaches leaders how to lead from a deeper place of wisdom.

every.to · 20 min

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THE CASE FOR USING A WEB BROWSER AS YOUR TERMINAL

Tweety is an integrated terminal for the browser that minimizes context switching by allowing developers to interact with their terminal directly from their browsers.

blog.pomdtr.me · 4 min

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META AND ANDURIL DEFENSE STARTUP PARTNER ON VR, AR PROJECT INTENDED FOR U.S. ARMY

Meta and Anduril have formed a partnership to create virtual and augmented reality devices intended for use by the US Army.

cnbc.com · 3 min

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APPLE'S US APP STORE TOPPED $400B IN DEVELOPER BILLINGS AND SALES IN 2024

The figure has nearly tripled in size since 2019.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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HUMAN CODERS ARE STILL BETTER THAN LLMS

While current-level AI is useful, it is still very much behind human intelligence.

antirez.com · 4 min

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YOU'LL NEVER BE READY FOR ANYTHING THAT MATTERS

You'll never be ready for the big things in life, so just start doing them anyway.

taylor.town · 1 min