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Scaling Agentic AI – Akka Leads the Way
by DigitalReporter | 2025-08-14 12:55:48+00:00
Most stacks today help you build agents. Akka enables you to construct agentic systems, and there’s a big difference.

In Akka’s recent webinar, what stood out was their focus on certainty, particularly in terms of output, runtime, and SLA-level reliability.

With Orchestration, Memory, Streaming, and Agents integrated into one stack, Akka enables real-time, resilient deployments across bare metal, cloud, or edge environments.

Akka’s agent runtime doesn’t just execute — it evaluates, adapts, and recovers. It’s built for testing, scale, and safety.

The SDK feels expressive and approachable, with built-in support for eval, structured prompts, and deployment observability.

Highlights from the demo: •Agents making decisions across shared memory states •Recovery from failure while maintaining SLA constraints •Everything is deployable as a single binary

And the numbers? •3x dev productivity vs LangChain •70% better execution density •5% reduction in token costs

If your AI use case demands trust, observability, and scale, Akka moves the question from “Can I build an agent?” to: “Can I trust it to run my business?”

If you missed the webinar, be sure to catch the replay.

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by justin66 | 2025-08-14 12:56:05+00:00
Not doing another major release of doesn't exactly rule out keeping it as the reference platform for their core database product.

I guess my question - I honestly have no idea and it's been years since I paid attention to Oracle or Sun's inner workings - is whether they're still developing SPARC hardware? The Google seems to say no, they've abandoned that... so I'm inclined to agree with you guys now.

I don't have a ton of nostalgia left for Sun stuff, but still... what a waste.
by x0z | 2025-08-14 12:56:16+00:00
I took the feedback you all submitted a month or so ago when I first submitted the project, and I've been working tirelessly to try and implement the features requested. Don't get me wrong I have a long way to go, but it's much faster now, got the Docker image to be actually really usable, it can now be network deployed and other users can edit your diagrams. Major UX improvements, added a bunch of panning support, connectors now stay selected when you use them, hotkeys for tools.

Lmk what else is a bugbear when using this, I'm open to criticism. Love ya, -S
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-14 12:56:17+00:00
You wrote than 80% of OpenJDK was written by Oracle employees. That’s patently untrue. Most of OpenJDK was written by Sun employees before Oracle bought Sun.

Your link doesn’t change any of that nor your clearly condescending comment before. You are perfectly aware of the fact by the way and you know exactly what I meant so I don’t really understand the game you are playing.

Oracle can claim Sun contribution as their own as much as they want. It doesn’t change the fact that you would have to be insane to touch anything they do now that it’s Oracle property.
by Stevvo | 2025-08-14 12:56:32+00:00
In the EU we have different liberties to the US. That doesn't necessarily make Europeans less free. For example, wlthe EU has free movement of goods, capital, services, and people across borders. None of which are present in the USA. Does that make Americans less free than Europeans? Some would argue so, but I don't see it.

The UK however, maybe. Brexit was a real dumb idea.
by mystraline | 2025-08-14 12:57:27+00:00
I vouched for this, because there is spirited discussion happening here.

Also, since the UK has now criminalized calling the Gaza situation a genocide under terrorism statutes, the camera vans make sense in driving by peaceful protestors and getting all their faces for arrest later.

For all the Chinese surveillance hatred I've seen over the years, what the UK is doing is loads worse.
by piva00 | 2025-08-14 12:57:34+00:00
The kid is a citizen, they were not there illegally, you are just repeating that sentence as if it was true for all cases when it's not, it's not true, there are American citizens being deported with not judicial review.

The parents were deported while doing a routine check-in with immigration, there are many other stories similar to this: people who had been following the rules and were snatched so ICE can make the numbers the administration wants to.

You are simply inhumane if you cannot see past this bullshit, you are defending the deportation of American citizens, including kids with cancer under treatment, for what exactly? Because your taxes are being wasted anyway, you are paying for this while paying for everything else, including tax breaks for the richest of your society.

I believe you just don't have any empathy, no society survives without it, yours is about to find that out the hard way.

And by the way, immigrants in that status also pay taxes while not having access to most of the services provided by taxes since they are not legal residents, good luck taking out a good chunk of your workforce doing basic necessities for society while losing on that tax base, you are about to find out these holes won't ever be patched just by your native population...

Edit: ah, lol, you look exactly how I'd picture someone swallowing and spewing this rhetoric would look like, good luck, mate.
by WJW | 2025-08-14 12:57:35+00:00
So the miners safeguard your money (hopefully), they are also responsible for actually transmitting your money (hopefully), and you don't take any deposits or make loans to customers.

You don't hold your own money, you don't manage transferring your own money, you basically don't do any of the things a bank does. How does that make you your own bank exactly?
by belter | 2025-08-14 12:57:54+00:00
It’s not an integrity breach, it’s a code review fail. Doesn not matter if the code came from a junior, a senior, or an LLM. Actually, you should distrust LLMs more, because they fail in sneakier, more nuanced ways. Maybe it just learned some “malicious compliance” pattern after being trained on too many Reddit threads...
by slightwinder | 2025-08-14 12:59:57+00:00
> Let's say bad coorporations somehow prevented it?

How?

> On the other hand, sharing information is easy.

Not in the way we are talking about.

> The hard part is in trusting that information in the time and age of spam

No, it's not. We're talking here about moderated Knowledge bases. Of course, if it's a poor or even unmoderated wiki, this would be a problem. But I've never got the impression that Arch-wiki had this problem.

> don't want to share too much by default for other reasons.

Sharing what? This is about open source? Is this AI-slope? O_o

> Also it is way easier just do something to your own wiki, than coordinate with dozens of others where you share something.

I don't think Arch-Wiki has only one maintainer.
by securesaml | 2025-08-14 12:59:58+00:00
It's usually the more user-facing products that can thrive on this freemium model (probably full web apps or a lot of code). For example, laravel might get a lot of funding from this.

However, the underlying infrastructure libraries, will not get any funding from this, even though they have much more users. For example, libxml2, xzutils, http parser ...

You can't build any product off of an infrastructure library, purchasing support doesn't make sense, and there are little bonus features to be made.

One way to remedy this, is to have well funded open source projects take ownership of its dependencies.
by sestep | 2025-08-14 13:00:30+00:00
I tried going back to change my Dockerfile to see if that would work, and it did not:

RUN eval $(opam env) && opam pin add dune 3.7.0 && opam install --yes dune

Similar error to before:

[ERROR] Package dune has no known version 3.7.0 in the repositories

You're right that I could change it to grab directly from GitHub, but at that point I can also just change it to a different version of Dune, as I said above. None of this negates my original point.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-14 13:00:34+00:00
> No you was not part of the family. And this was not part of the family thing either. It was more of the sweetshop with workers who have no choice thing.

Name it part of the household then. In a modern sweetshop you get some money (or not) generally too less to pay for food and other things. Nobody cares if you die or just don't show up the next day.

As a prentice, you don't get money, but you also don't buy food and you don't pay for a roof. Your master can not afford for you to not show up or be invalid for work, because he can only afford to house and teach so many prentices. He also can't afford you producing low-quality goods, because the goods get sold in his name.

> You were not given choice to shop around or change up however you wanted.

I think this conflicts with that you were required to have served multiple masters as part of your education. When a prentice shows up to a new master, it means the new master gets an already trained workforce while not having to pay for the expenses of the education. Your old master will not be willing/able to afford that loss, so you need to mess up some money before you get kicked out.

> Your master was not your security net. You would be kicked off

When you become invalid indefinitely, yes. When you get sick for some days, your master will get you back to work as soon as possible.

> expected go back to your actual family.

When you show up broke after years, I bet you get kicked out there also. You have better choices moving to a new city or living off the streets.

> That was definitely not a thing either. They would vet you and your character with where you came from. There was a lot of suspicion about new people. You would have quite a difficult time to establish yourself or even find a living. Being banished was a punishment for a reason - and other village you go to will be very aware newcomer might be a troublemaker they did not wanted elsewhere.

Having an influx of new people from the landscape were how the cities operated. Having more people made the city richer and more powerful. It really depended on how skilled you were. If you can claim to be able to do X and you are able to show it, than you have a good chance to find work. If you don't, then good luck dying in the streets.

> That is significantly easier now.

Being a criminal and trying to flee? Good luck with that in the time of surveillance and world-wide police cooperation. Nowadays you can pretty much only double down on being criminal, be convicted or flee to a third-world country, where you will probably die soon/ have a way lower living standard. In the past you also had the opportunity to just switch jurisdiction and stop being a criminal, while not having a different living standard.
by vinc | 2025-08-14 13:00:45+00:00
Yes there's indeed a lot of doc available, but the main issue I discovered is figuring out what's still relevant when you mostly come from a Linux background.

Thanks for the PDF suggestion, I didn't think about looking for a book to get more context!

I learned a lot about Plan 9 by following a boot camp ran by SDF, I wish there was something like that to promote Illumos distributions
by Telaneo | 2025-08-14 13:00:51+00:00
Do they even talk to their phones? The most prolific use of speech I can see in users around me are voice memos being sent as messages, which I can kinda get. It's like a better, asynchronous phone call. I prefer text to speech, but for people who prefer speech over text, this seems very useful. But that's not really talking to your phone in any meaningful sense.

The people when have Alexa and the like in their house tell me they only use it to set timers and play music (and even then, it's 'play my playlist' or something similar. They know it's going to trip on 'play Völlig losgelöst', or even just 'play Peter Schilling' is not unliktly to fail).

Computers have more potential, but if they can't reliably recognise what you say, we've failed before we've even started. And I have little faith that they can reliably act on what you said, never mind what one might have meant.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-14 13:01:06+00:00
It doesn't matter what you think such a restriction means. What matters is what politicians would use it for. That's why this is such a beautifully ironic quote, because when I say the right to ban such speech would open the door to abuse, I don't need to draw on hypotheticals.

The quote is literally part of the government's [successful] argument that their right to imprison somebody for shouting fire in a crowded theater naturally grants them the right to imprison somebody for handing out informative fliers that run contrary to warmonger interests.

There's no stronger argument for free speech means free speech than the quote you chose.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-14 13:02:39+00:00
What is pathetic is the quality of your answers, who do you think has written the code between Java 6 and Java 24?

I wonder what magic pixie dust has been writing Java code since 2013, those Sun employees have been working really hard on their ghost offices, surrounded by Oracle daemons, down in the dungeons.

I am playing the FACTS game.
by gruez | 2025-08-14 13:02:52+00:00
As much as I don't like facebook as a company, I think the jury reached the wrong decision here. If you read the complaint[1], "eavesdropped on and/or recorded their conversations by using an electronic device" basically amounted to "flo using facebook's sdk and sending custom events to it" (page 12, point 49). I agree that flo should be raked over the coals for sending this information to facebook in the first place, but ruling that facebook "intentionally eavesdropped" (exact wording from the jury verdict) makes zero sense. So far as I can tell, flo sent facebook menstrual data without facebook soliciting it, and facebook specifically has a policy against sending medical/sensitive information using its SDK[2]. Suing facebook makes as much sense as suing google because it turned out a doctor was using google drive to store patient records.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/55370837/1/frasco-v-flo...

[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.37... page 6, line 1
by cgravill | 2025-08-14 13:03:22+00:00
Is there an intention to bring the auto backend selection to the non-pip interface? I know we can configure this like you show https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/ but we have folks on different accelerators on Linux and remembering ‘uv sync --extra cu128’ at the right time is fragile so we just make cpu folks have the CUDA overhead too currently.

(As always, big fans of Astral’s tools. We should get on with trying pyx more seriously)
by automatic6131 | 2025-08-14 13:04:02+00:00
Usually they choose a deliberately stupid measurement such as "household income below a percentage of the median wage".

This is stupid for many reasons, including (but not limited to): non-monetary, in-kind benefits being excluded, perverse outcomes such as a decline in median wages "reducing poverty" and just about guaranteed continuation of this "poverty". So left wing politicians LOVE it. It's an everlasting cudgel that can never be fixed.
by tucnak | 2025-08-14 13:04:29+00:00
You're not missing anything; it's not really a party in the first place. Like one big expo, obnoxious kids (the wrong kind) and they all clap to some nonsense. Outside of select villages, not much diversity anyway. They worship Doctorow and man-babies like him. The same stupid jokes, think Hitchhiker's references, and they don't even do dress-up right :-)

I guess, it's obnoxiously "American," if that makes sense.
by jefftk | 2025-08-14 13:04:41+00:00
I did read that link before commenting, and there's nothing in there about users damaging Daniel's reputation after he declines to do free work for them?

> there'll be always someone who will accept exposure as a valid form of payment either being very rich or being desperate or not caring

Why is this, especially in the cases of being rich or not caring about compensation, a problem? I have done a lot of Open Source work for free, and a lot of Open Source work while paid by companies, and I don't feel like I've been exploited or otherwise mistreated in either case.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-14 13:04:44+00:00
Interestingly the Bloom study (1984) that describes the "two sigma problem" looked at three types of learning.

a) Group Instruction: Baseline

b) Mastery Learning, ensuring students master the material before moving on: One sigma improvement (outperform 68% of students in group setting)

c) 1 on 1 Tutoring: Two sigma improvement (outperform 98% of students in group setting)
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-14 13:04:48+00:00
Personally I expected prosecutions for sabotage rather than for terrorism.

The UK has very broad terrorism legislation, but conventionally terrorism is something directed at civilians, and it's not something we usually tar, for example, resistance groups with.

I think you even have to be able to kill people in internal political conflict without being called a terrorist. There are many circumstances during which such things are necessary.
by octopoc | 2025-08-14 13:05:17+00:00
I was listening to a podcast the other day where Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed about Gen AI, and his take on Gen AI is that it will make the Internet a lot funnier[1].

I guess he finds this funny.

Edit:

Also, it looks like this was originally deliberate:

> Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children.

[1] https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-2
by nickjj | 2025-08-14 13:05:44+00:00
This is mostly why I run nginx outside of Docker, I've written about it here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/why-i-prefer-running-nginx-on...

I keep these things separate on the servers I configure:

- Setting up PKI related things like DH Params and certs (no Docker) - My app (Docker) - Reverse proxy / TLS / etc. with nginx (no Docker)

This allows configuring a server in a way where all nginx configuration works over HTTPS and the PKI bits will either use a self-signed certificate or certbot with DNS validation depending on what you're doing. It gets around all forms of chicken / egg problems and reduces a lot of complexity.

Switching between self-signed, Let's Encrypt or 3rd party certs is a matter of updating 1 symlink since nginx is configured to read the destination. This makes things easy to test and adds a level of disaster recovery / reliability that helps me sleep at night.

This combo has been running strong since all of these tools were available. Before Let's Encrypt was available I did the same thing, except I used 3rd party certs.
by securesaml | 2025-08-14 13:06:16+00:00
I agree MSFT should have paid way more.

My point is if that FFmpeg, tried to raise more awareness of the issue, say talk to news outlets, they could get much more funding from MSFT.

Furthermore, big companies like Google, Microsoft care a lot about security. So they could raise money for security engineering like fixing memory corruption issues. Of course, FFmpeg could complain Google, Microsft doesn't care about all the high severity vulnerabilities in FFmpeg. That would be much more of an eye catcher.
by miningape | 2025-08-14 13:06:29+00:00
"I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the BBC or that comes out of Starmer or Blair's mouth."

How about instead of attacking credentials we attack the arguments, you know, with evidence? Or, if your best defence is saying "your ideas/evidence come from unsavoury sources (to me)" maybe your positions are more reflective of your own biases than reality.
by rockmeamedee | 2025-08-14 13:06:49+00:00
Yeah, uv is cool and a step above conda, but that business model doesn’t look very profitable…

They did say they want their thing to have understanding of the code, so maybe they’ll sell semgrep-like features and SBOM/compliance on top. Semgrep is ok popular, but if it maybe bundled into something else (like the package registry itself) that might get enough people over the line to buy it.

Private registries and “supply chain security” tools individually aren’t the hottest market, but maybe together the bundle could provide enough value. Let’s see how it goes.
by const_cast | 2025-08-14 13:06:52+00:00
The trouble is people want to smoke and drink, too.

The human mind is more easily exploitable than any computer.

Of course people want to see divisive content. Divisive content is engineered to trigger large emotions, which humans naturally respond to. That's what heroin exists - it feels good. Really, really good. Of course you don't need only good feelongs, bad feelings can shape behavior too.

The problem comes in when we start shifting from making products that simply cause these behavior changes to instead making products engineered to elicit the biggest response possible.

Its very easy to do, too. Want to sell more cigarettes? Add butane to the wrapping so it burns better. Concentrate the nicotine. Do all the obvious stuff. The more bad you make it, the better it will sell.

Same thing with, say, Facebook. Want people to use Facebook more? More doomerism, more lies, more misinformation, more Jesus Christ, more click bait. People want the addictive stuff, that's why we call it addictive.

So yes, social media apps without these tools are unpopular and generally fail. In the same way a nicotine-free cigarette would fail.
by jsiepkes | 2025-08-14 13:07:04+00:00
> You live in a tech bubble if you really think this is the case

Everyone can operate a flipper zero with a custom firmware which provides a three step process:

* Select car make. * Press button A to unlock doors. * Press button B to start car.

> Attacking a lock cylinder is a lot lower-skill

All "recent" cars (as in everything from about 2000 and up) have an immobiliser. It's even mandatory in some countries since about 2000 [1]. Meaning the key "talks" to the car when you turn it in the lock cylinder. Locking picking the lock or hot-wiring the car isn't going to start the car. And that's not even taking into account the car alarm will go off if you just lock pick a lock on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser
by nspattak | 2025-08-14 13:07:08+00:00
i am laughing and crying at the same time...

a couple of decades ago, I was still a lowly applied mathematics (and aspiring programmer) student when i proposed to a professor to change the compiler options from O2 to O3 to gain performance (reducing run time by a significant percentage like 50% or more...) only to be disregarded by saying "no, compiler optimizations break numerical accuracy".
by moron4hire | 2025-08-14 13:07:12+00:00
"It's impossible to prevent an AI from doing harm" is probably a really good reason to ban them completely.

We have pretty strict regulations on recreational drugs. We prevent children from using them. We prevent their use in a wide variety of scenarios. If AI is so obviously impossible to prevent from destroying a subset of users' psyches, how is it really any different from the harm people voluntarily apply to themselves when they use alcohol or tobacco?
by skyzouwdev | 2025-08-14 13:08:15+00:00
That sounds like a practical take on LLM memory — especially the block-level deduplication part.

Most “memory” layers I’ve seen for AI are either overly complex or end up ballooning storage costs over time, so a content-addressed approach makes a lot of sense.

Also curious — have you benchmarked retrieval speed compared to more traditional vector DB setups? That could be a big selling point for devs running local research workflow