<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>NVIDIA ProRL Agent fixes the AI training bottleneck</strong>: NVIDIA researchers discovered that the performance ceiling in AI agent training wasn’t model capability, but a fundamental infrastructure flaw where I/O-intensive rollouts fight GPU-intensive optimization. By decoupling rollout into a standalone service, the ProRL Agent framework nearly doubled Qwen 8B’s performance on SWE-Bench and jumped GPU utilization from 42% to 78%. This architectural shift suggests the industry has been wasting half its compute budget on blocking shell commands and environment setup. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/EZUyZh56r" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Node.js ships custom hash to thwart HashDoS</strong>: Following CVE-2026-21717, Node.js has implemented a 3-round xorshift-multiply permutation to protect V8’s array index strings from deterministic hash flooding. The engineering challenge required a hash that is both resistant to collision attacks and efficiently reversible for V8’s integer recovery, as detailed by the Node.js core team. The fix maintains near-zero performance impact while closing a vulnerability that allowed trivial CPU exhaustion via unseeded hashes. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/mP9ljnS5L" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL goes serverless in seconds</strong>: AWS announced an express configuration for Aurora PostgreSQL that bypasses traditional VPC requirements and enables database creation in under a minute. The update includes IAM-based passwordless authentication by default and a new internet access gateway for secure external connections, significantly lowering the friction for serverless application backends. It is now available on the AWS Free Tier and integrates directly with Vercel and Kiro IDE via a single CLI flag. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MjUWMvC5e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloudflare one-liner saves 600 engineering hours</strong>: Changing the Kubernetes fsGroupChangePolicy to OnRootMismatch reduced Atlantis restart times from 30 minutes to 30 seconds by skipping recursive chgrp operations. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ABmTacu8j" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>S3 finally solves the global bucket naming collision</strong>: AWS introduced account-regional namespaces for S3, allowing bucket names to be scoped to specific accounts and regions to eliminate ‘BucketAlreadyExists’ errors in IaC. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/8bZsUijKD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RustFS emerges as a community-friendly MinIO alternative</strong>: As MinIO deprecates open-source features, developers are successfully migrating to RustFS for Kubernetes-native object storage with minimal configuration overhead. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hp0sRpJKU" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Inertia.js v3.0 drops Axios for a native XHR client</strong>: The major release adds first-class optimistic updates, a new useHttp hook for non-navigation requests, and SSR support within Vite dev mode. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WWmxp0DEw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel Xe driver gains 7x speedup for SVM workloads</strong>: Enabling Transparent Hugepages for device pages in Linux 7.1 significantly reduces CPU overhead during page faults for Shared Virtual Memory tasks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U9fHRQhXE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Materialize introduces self-correcting materialized views</strong>: A new continuous diffing buffer prevents output drift during version upgrades and allows in-place SQL definition evolution without rebuilding dependencies. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/6leNCC2Gz" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu switches to Rust-based NTP implementation</strong>: Canonical plans to replace Chrony and LinuxPTP with ntpd-rs starting in Ubuntu 26.10 to improve memory safety and security. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/MuH00Ge5n" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The vendorization of the soul</strong>: Industry voices are now framing the death of internal tool teams as a ‘natural evolution’ toward specialized vendors, conveniently ignoring that this is just a massive transfer of leverage to SaaS providers. While Erik Bernhardsson argues this mirrors supply chain specialization, it’s mostly a way for VCs to justify why every startup now has a $50k/month bill for ‘observability’ and ‘AI APIs’ before they even have a customer. It’s not efficiency; it’s just outsourcing your technical debt to someone else’s balance sheet. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a5rbOtmsv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI as a culture diagnostic tool</strong>: There’s a growing narrative that AI ‘exposed’ bad engineering cultures rather than creating them, which is a clever way for leadership to blame developers for using the tools they were forced to adopt. The idea that a ‘junk drawer with a CI/CD pipeline’ is the developer’s fault ignores that most teams are incentivized for speed over the ‘rigorous judgment’ these articles suddenly demand. It’s a classic pivot: when the AI-generated code is garbage, it’s your culture that’s broken, not the LLM. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/eYrc9sF1z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Playing Doom over DNS for no reason</strong>: Someone encoded the entirety of DOOM into 1,964 DNS TXT records because apparently, we’ve run out of actual problems to solve in networking. While technically impressive to stream a WAD file into memory via PowerShell queries, it’s the ultimate ‘just because you can doesn’t mean you should’ project that will inevitably be used by some script kiddie to bypass corporate firewalls. It’s a fun hack, but let’s not pretend it’s anything other than a very elaborate way to make your sysadmin cry. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/d2obb9tWI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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