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Moving crontab schedules to Databricks and EventBridge: what changes in the expression

0 9 * * 1-5 means 09:00 Monday–Friday in a crontab. Paste it into Databricks (Quartz) or AWS EventBridge and it is either rejected or runs on the wrong days. A quick demo with the free DevToolBox Cron Converter : From (Unix) To Result Outcome 0 9 * * 1-5 Quartz 0 0 9 ? * 2-6 conditional (same timezone) 0 9 * * 1-5 EventBridge cron(0 9 ? * 2-6 *) conditional (rules run in UTC) 0 9 1 * 1 Quartz β€” unsupported: Unix runs on the 1st ...
An Offline RAG based Voice Assistant Built for a Friend
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An Offline RAG based Voice Assistant Built for a Friend

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built Fieldmate , a local voice assistant with document retrieval, for my friend who works as a nurse. The problem I wanted to solve was simple: help them look things up in their documents, remember an ongoing conversation, and capture notes and tasksβ€”even when an internet connection is unavailable. Fieldmate brings those activities into one interface: Talk or type: u...
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Why Prompts Fail as AI Agent Guardrails (And How to Fix It)

Deploying an AI agent in a test environment is easy. Putting it in production with access to live APIs, customer databases, or real money is where things break down. If you rely on prompt engineering to keep your agents safe, it will fail. Prompting an LLM to "be careful with refunds" is probabilistic. Production systems require deterministic rules, hard limits, and human fallback triggers. Here is how to structure production-grade guardrails outside the LLM layer. The Core Rule: Con...
What Is an AWS Builder ID?
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What Is an AWS Builder ID?

yeah... you've probably heard of an " AWS Builder ID " but you're not quite sure what it means. I'm going to break it down nicely so you have a good idea of what it is. You may or may not have an AWS Builder ID, if you're reading this on builder.aws.com you do πŸ˜‰, but today is your chance to create one, stick around til the end. tl;dr : One personal login (your email) for AWS tools. In the new AWS experience , it's also your AWS sign-in and billing identity. No root user or IAM user ...
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The Legend of von Neumann [pdf]

Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933235 Points: 103 # Comments: 53
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We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI

Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/were-missing-a-key-reason-why-americans Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933819 Points: 11 # Comments: 11
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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

Article URL: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/10/02/big-tech-ruined-the-cloud-so-were-renaming-ours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934228 Points: 112 # Comments: 35
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AI Makes Me Sad

Article URL: https://mondobe.com/ai-makes-me-sad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934487 Points: 80 # Comments: 66
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Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

Article URL: https://support.soloist.ai/doc/solo-shutdown-faq Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934502 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
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The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

Article URL: https://distantprovince.substack.com/p/the-four-horsemen-of-agentic-coding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934511 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
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Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/02/power-approval-set-to-delay-oracles-wisconsin-ai-datacenter/5300832 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934569 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking

Article URL: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202610/america-gov-launches-with-privacy-pledge-as-login-gov-code-raises-tracking-questions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934631 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
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Supabase Is Acquiring Turso

Article URL: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934784 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
When AI Makes Things Up: The Hallucination Problem in Financial Reporting
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When AI Makes Things Up: The Hallucination Problem in Financial Reporting

Large language models are being used in financial reporting, but they often produce "hallucinations" - factually incorrect information that sounds plausible. This can lead to significant risks, including SEC enforcement and reputational harm, and requires careful deployment and oversight to mitigate.
How MSPs Can Vet Outsourced Technical Support Providers for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and Client Access
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How MSPs Can Vet Outsourced Technical Support Providers for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and Client Access

Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found that third parties played a role in 48% of breaches, up from 30% the year before. ISO 27001 requires certified companies to manage that risk through their suppliers, and guidance for its Annex A 5.21 control carries those security requirements past a company's vendors to their subcontractors. When an MSP outsources support, the outside engineers who log into a client's systems join that chain. The client has no contract with the outsourci...