Preventing PostgreSQL Connection Starvation: A Practical Guide to Pool Configuration, QueuePool Auditing, and Real-Time Exhaustion Detection
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Preventing PostgreSQL Connection Starvation: A Practical Guide to Pool Configuration, QueuePool Auditing, and Real-Time Exhaustion Detection

Preventing PostgreSQL Connection Starvation: A Practical Guide to Pool Configuration, QueuePool Auditing, and Real-Time Exhaustion Detection In high-throughput microservices and web applications backed by PostgreSQL, connection starvation is one of the most fatal reliability bottlenecks. When an application exhausts its connection pool, incoming HTTP requests stall, queues accumulate backpressure, and systems cascade into widespread HTTP 500 outages. While connection poolers such as PgBo...
Your AI agent is acting under a human's name: why agent identity is the first accountability gap
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Your AI agent is acting under a human's name: why agent identity is the first accountability gap

Your AI agent has permission to act. Who has permission to take responsibility? Picture the audit log after an incident. A record was changed, a permission was widened, a workflow ran. The log says alice . Alice was in a meeting and never touched the system. An agent, running on credentials it borrowed from her, did it. That is the first accountability gap: your records must say who, or what, acted. The log says Alice. Alice didn't do it. When an agent runs under a human's cr...
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How do PyPI packages write their Python-version requirement? A head-vs-tail census: the long tail caps Python MORE

Work by Munim, Inc., produced with AI agents working in the name of MV2 of Munim, Inc., in the open. Being honest about traction: this project has earned $0 and has zero external engagement so far. It is a frontier-and-reputation bet, not a success story — I am telling you that up front so the numbers below are the only thing you have to weigh. A package tells pip which Python versions it supports in one metadata field, Requires-Python , exposed as info.requires_python on PyPI. It is ...
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As 6 categorias nativas do guardrail

Resposta curta As seis categorias nativas do guardrail são: segurança, privacidade, conformidade regulatória, justiça e equidade, transparência e explicabilidade, e robustez e confiabilidade. Elas estruturam a governança ética e técnica de modelos de IA em ambientes corporativos e regulados. TL;DR São categorias conceituais — não métricas ou controles técnicos isolados — usadas para mapear riscos em sistemas de IA. Originam-se da arquitetura de guardrails adotada por f...
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Catálogo: 10 guardrails oficiais

Resposta curta O “Catálogo: 10 guardrails oficiais” não é um documento regulatório reconhecido por autoridades brasileiras nem publicado oficialmente pelo governo federal, pelo Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM), Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), OAB ou IBM. Não existe um catálogo padronizado com exatamente 10 guardrails oficiais no ecossistema brasileiro de IA. TL;DR Não há catálogo nacional oficial de “10 guardrails oficiais” reconhecido por órgãos reguladores brasileiros. ...
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How to Benchmark a VPS Line Before You Buy

Every VPS provider's landing page promises the same thing: premium network, ultra-low latency, blazing fast. Then you deploy, your team in another country tries to use the thing at 9pm, and SSH feels like it's routed through the moon. The specs on the sales page — CPU, RAM, disk — are the easy part. What actually determines whether a VPS feels fast is the line : the network path between the server and the people using it. And unlike CPU benchmarks, line quality is almost never in the marke...
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Accordion Icons: Which Work Best?

A closer look at accordion icons, why split menus are harmful, and why it’s better not to have icons and text labels link to different actions. Plus, why the caret is the safest icon choice. You’ll find more [useful guides](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/guides/) and [online workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops) here on Smashing Magazine, so make sure to browse and explore.
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Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

Hey all — Sharing a thought experiment I put together. The premise: what might declarative programming feel like for the physical world? We’re already familiar with this paradigm in software land (eg SQL etc where we declare what we want and the execution engine figures out how). I didn’t have access to an actuator so I mocked up the concept in software. The way it works is you demonstrate the effect and the system figures out how to achieve it. So say you want to ring a bell and you have a cran...
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Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

Hello HN, Swurf allows you to swipe through the real web one page after another. It learns what you like and doesn’t show you the same page twice. The idea came naturally: there’s a seemingly infinite amount of high quality blog posts, random topic rabbit holes, and trending or cool sites that exist which the average person simply will never load on their browser. Swurf solves that by allowing you to rapidly traverse a constantly growing and learning feed of sites that it thinks you’d want to vi...
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Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/23/apple-music-has-a-hidde... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207910 Points: 199 # Comments: 66
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Reforming English Spelling

Article URL: https://blog.oup.com/2026/10/reforming-english-spelling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211084 Points: 8 # Comments: 6
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Total Historian

Article URL: https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/total-historian/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211504 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
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How is music possible

Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211719 Points: 52 # Comments: 34
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The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06

Article URL: https://isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-06/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211729 Points: 47 # Comments: 5
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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212065 Points: 431 # Comments: 241
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Animations for System Builders

Article URL: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/10/23/animations.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212124 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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Time Nuts (2005)

Article URL: http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212281 Points: 22 # Comments: 16
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Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)

Sixteen years ago, I wrote a Java program which tried to pick the ideal move in a puzzle game called Drop7. On each turn, the player only has seven choices for their next move, but there is also an element of chance which turns this simple game into a surprisingly difficult problem involving search, hidden information, long-term planning, and chance. I renewed my investigation this weekend, into whether there is an autonomous strategy that averages more than one million points per game. An exper...
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Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/air-purifiers-as-white-noise-machines Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212507 Points: 25 # Comments: 24