Founder @ alias-research | cargo-rail | rscrypto | privacy advocate | Member @ Zed Guild 🦀
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The way we develop has to evolve. I’m so tired of following these legacy standards or systems when none of it applies to our actual experience anymore.
Software is in a super cool place. We can basically start over and learn from our mistakes. We can develop three iterations at once and toss the failures.
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USearch v3 is ready for a design-partner preview!
3 years ago, I released USearch v2. It became my first widely deployed piece of software.
It grew to over 4’000 GitHub stars, a number unimaginable to me back then. Together with my complementary projects, that’s 17’000 stars today. The open-source infrastructure behemoths shipping these libraries by default, like ClickHouse & ScyllaDB, collectively account for over 550’000 stars. Almost 800’000 including opt-in integrations 🤯
Thank you to everyone who shipped, starred, or argued with this code! I know I can be slow to respond, and I appreciate your patience.
With help from AI agents, compute from neocloud partners and a lot of user feedback, USearch v3 finally has a release candidate. Only 1’000 days of work later 🫠
USearch v3 stays open-source, Apache 2.0, free for everyone, from open-source giants to neolabs, hyperscalers, government agencies, & even mobile publishers!
Still, I’ve seen many times how paying for an integrated software experience can work better and cost less than getting the software for free — and be in everyone’s best interest. So I want to take a page from ClickHouse and Databricks, two organizations that reshaped commercial analytics infrastructure over the past decade by building businesses around open-source foundations.
I want to do the same for Search: keep the infrastructure open and productize the experience around it.
Before putting a major breaking release on “main” branch and launching an integrated offering around it, I want to make the transition as smooth as possible for my users.
So I’m inviting a few design partners to join me in final benchmarking and help shape the UX and C ABI before the public release. Your workloads should have a say in what ships.
I have no doubt USearch v3 will be a “scale unlocker” for many organizations reliant on Search. With a little creativity and collaboration, it can become a “capability unlocker” as well.
If you’re working at a frontier intelligence lab, in autonomous driving, or in life sciences, and managing 100+ TB of data, DM me with a brief description of your workload. I’d love to collaborate!
ALT github.com/unum-cloud github.com/ashvardanian
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I spent some time off reading some papers and thought that I could improve upon what was previously the world's fastest CRDT
Introducing eg-strider: a set of improvements on top of Eg-walker that result in significantly better performance on every measurable axis
jzhao.xyz/posts/eg-strider
github.com/jackyzha0/eg-stri…
(now featuring exclusive twitter language balls benchmark visualizations)
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Vector has redeveloped its IEEE 11073 SDC stack in Rust, for medical device networking. 🦀
SDC, Service-oriented Device Connectivity, is a family of standards within IEEE 11073. It lets point-of-care medical devices from different vendors discover each other, exchange measurements, states and alarms, and expose their functions as standardized services.
Vector unveiled what it calls the first Rust-based SDC stack at its Medical Engineering Symposium on October 15. It is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2027.
Why Rust, as Vector puts it:
→ Memory and type safety help prevent common memory-handling errors during development
→ That can reduce certain causes of runtime errors and memory-related security vulnerabilities
→ For safety-critical devices, it is described as a solid foundation for reliability and cybersecurity requirements
On integration:
→ The stack can be used from C and C++ applications through a foreign function interface
→ Manufacturers do not need to port existing application software to Rust
→ The architecture is designed to work across different hardware and operating systems
On performance, Vector claims significantly better results, credited to optimized XML message processing and more efficient management of the device data structure. No numbers were given.
A few things worth noting:
→ Vector's press release does not mention any certification or regulatory approval. One trade-press headline says the stack "qualifies for medical devices", but its text does not name a qualification either
→ The stack is not released yet
→ All claims are the vendor's own. No benchmarks, customers or toolchain details were given
Still, a notable signal: a long-established automotive and medical tooling vendor is choosing Rust for a protocol stack intended to run inside medical devices.
🔗 vector.com/en/company/press/…
#RustLang #MedTech #Embedded #Safety
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How to find ALL PHP bugs:
1. Compile code (e.g. to RISC-V, x86, LLVM IR)
2. Vibe prove ASAN and non-ASAN versions have same behavior across all inputs. Hard, but Claude can do it!
3. Find a LOT of bugs
Super proud of our work. A big step towards finding ALL memory safety bugs
New on our Frontier Red Team blog: using Claude to formally verify software at large scale.
Formal verification can prove that code is free of certain bugs, but historically it has only been feasible for small codebases (or required a lot of expert time).
With AI models, however, this is beginning to change. In collaboration with @theoremlabs, we used Claude to prove security properties in over one hundred real-world open-source libraries over the span of a few weeks.
Read our research in full here: anthropic.com/research/forma…
The most vulnerable companies in software today are those selling pure convenience. If you ship an abstraction on top of AWS, Azure, GCP, or an OSS database... you are vulnerable.
You should be actively deploying capital to get off the hyperscaler needle (be brave) and funding research to ship a genuinely novel product.
I'd go as far as saying you're already seeing it on the books.
AI is going to remove the willingness to pay for that abstraction.
I see it. I can see it. The vision is there.
- Data Infra via the plane
- Dev Infra via the ADE
- Compute/Hardware Infra via campuses
- Manufacturing via grit/determination
- SMR Power via lobbying/determination
I don’t really believe in coincidence when it hits over and over and over.
There is something going on with these vulnerabilities.
I’m starting to feel like it’s not the thing we should be worried about, but rather a distraction to the thing we should be worried about.
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The obvious lesson is CA certificates need to leave the Stone Age and move to threshold ECDSA signatures. The root programs need a blanket policy of only accepting certs with secret sharing between multiple independent HSMs.
Crypto custodians figured this out years ago. When you have really important private keys that require resistance to nation state actors, the only solution is combining multiple independent sources of entropy
‼️ BREAKING: 8 Private keys belonging to eMudhra intermediate certificate authorities (CA) have been compromised.
Chrome and Firefox blocked the affected certificates within hours. Go, NSS, and other software have issued fixes.
Full details - thehackernews.com/2026/10/ei…
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1. What does "Code Is Cheap" mean? How does it interact with open-source projects?
2. When code is cheap, is open-source (collaboration) still necessary?
3. What can we do to better maintain open-source projects today?
I think like 90%, conservatively, of the companies that exist in tech today are dog shit and will die in the next few years.
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Unfinished coding side projects are now way easier to complete than unfinished blog posts.
I’m perfectly OK with AI writing my code, even the docs.
But I flinch at the idea of AI writing my blog posts, which feels like an egregious violation of a fundamental ethnical contract.
I need an angel that wants to change the world. My tech is validated. I need to hire a few people. I need to sharpen the UX and infra.
I have a really extensive, wildly challenging test suite for validating my data infra against CXL and RDMA. I mean, I’ve been working on it and thinking about it everyday for two years.
Today, it is green and I’m using no coherence protocol or locks.