Bitcoin Hits 100k, AWS S3 Tables, GPS-free Nav 🚀

Andrew Pierno

Andrew Pierno

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Bitcoin Hits 100k, AWS S3 Tables, GPS-free Nav 🚀

Welcome to The Compiler, a daily curation of tech news.

🤔 QUOTE OF THE DAY

"The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language." - Alan Kay

🗞️ IN THE NEWS

  • Backdoor in popular code library drains $155k from wallets. Check your deps ASAP. Read more
  • Linus slams "completely broken" x86_64 feature levels. Kernel devs scrambling. Read more
  • Bitcoin hits $100k. HODLers rejoice, skeptics in shambles. Read more
  • Wubuntu: Unholy Windows/Ubuntu hybrid emerges. Purists grab pitchforks. Read more

📦 DEPLOY NOTES

AWS S3 Tables bring native Apache Iceberg support. No more messy ETL jobs - query directly on S3. Early benchmarks show 10x faster analytics on large datasets. Watch out for breaking changes if you're using custom Iceberg implementations. Full details here

🔍 UNDER THE HOOD

  • GPS-free nav uses terrain "fingerprints". Works when signals jammed. Game-changer for aviation. Read more
  • Amazon Nova LLMs: 32k context, multimodal, dirt cheap. OpenAI sweating. Read more
  • Telegram finally tackles CSAM. Privacy purists rage, but long overdue. Read more

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🧵 REPO OF THE WEEK

Chainalysis' blockchain analysis tools: Now open-source after CEO shakeup.
Peek inside how they track crypto transactions:
const tx = new Transaction(rawTx); const traceResult = await tracer.followMoney(tx); console.log(traceResult.suspiciousAddresses);
Read about the leadership change

🤔 SHOWER THOUGHTS FOR DEVS

If code comments were honest: "I have no idea why this works, but don't touch it."

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