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On Monday, Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform. This includes open software and a hardware reference design to help keep AI agents within the boundaries set by their operators. Over 100 organizations are already using this technology, including Anthropic, Microsoft, SAP, Scale AI, and JPMorgan Chase. This launch comes
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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“The trace never left my laptop” sounds reassuring. It says nothing about whether the trace is safe to paste into an issue, attach to a pull request, or send to a colleague. Agent traces can contain prompts, model outputs, tool arguments, retrieved documents, URLs, identifiers, credentials, or personal data. A
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SQL performance failures rarely begin as outages. A query that completes in 40 milliseconds can drift toward 400 milliseconds as tables grow, value distributions shift, cache behavior changes, or the optimizer selects a different plan. PostgreSQL’s planner bases decisions on statistics and estimated costs, while EXPLAIN ANALYZE exposes gaps
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The walkthrough we kept coming back to was twenty-five years old. We wanted one that reached the reader on our desk. This is our attempt, including the wrong turns. What this article covers In part one we covered the why: secure elements, threat models, and why TLS dies on a
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The profession of software and product engineering has changed a lot over the last year. We used to have coding tools like Cursor doing small changes to our code, but eventually when Claude Code got really good, most of software engineering became purely knowing how to prompt coding agents well,
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Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? Compatibility-First AI Matchmaking Concierge 2. Why is now the time for your company to exist?
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An AI agent calls send_refund. The payment provider accepts the request, but the response disappears during a network timeout. The runtime sees an exception and retries. The second request also succeeds. The trace now looks reassuring: send_refund attempt=1 timeoutsend_refund attempt=2 successagent run success The customer
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Three numbers from the Texas grid, all from calendar 2025, that only mean something together. The installed battery fleet grew by almost 80%, to more than 17,000 megawatts and 31,500 megawatt-hours. The volume of ancillary services ERCOT procured stayed roughly flat. And the cost of those services to
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A Quick Update on Once Upon Today Before We Get Into the Build Before getting into the local AI pipeline, here is a quick update on where Once Upon Today currently stands. I recently redesigned the app’s logo. The original version was AI-generated, which helped me establish a direction
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New here? I'm building Vesprit in public for Shipaton, a study app that predicts what you're about to forget and brings it back before it's gone. I wrote a full intro to it here. This post is one bug from that build: the week
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* Spider-Man 4's digital release date has reportedly been revealed * It could be available to watch at home in early October * The record-breaking Marvel movie is the highest-grossing film in US history Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set to swing onto premium video on demand (PVOD) platforms very soon.
