Data news and analysis on Web Pulse: 577 curated articles tracking the latest Data developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The article describes the development of OkkanaiPai, a free, offline iOS app that predicts dangerous mahjong discards using a rule-based system calibrated against 4.97 million real hands from Tenhou's top competitive tie…
The article introduces AI DB Investigator, a tool designed to help AI systems analyze database problems through a structured, step-by-step investigation process rather than relying on random answer generation. It emphasi…
The article describes a team's failed attempt to scale a treasure hunt engine by adding more MySQL instances behind a load balancer within a single AWS availability zone, which led to disk I/O and CPU bottlenecks. They l…
Based on an analysis of over 5 million votes from 165,510 planning poker sessions, the most common estimate is 3, appearing in about a quarter of all votes. The data shows that teams overwhelmingly prefer small numbers, …
This article provides a tutorial on building a semantic search API in Go using the Fiber web framework and Meilisearch, a typo-tolerant search engine. The architecture includes filter support, configurable typo tolerance…
The article summarizes DigitalOcean's April 2026 tutorials, which focus on diagnosing and fixing common production failures in AI infrastructure, such as RAG pipeline hallucinations and rising inference costs. It covers …
This article explains how to create a live flight radar using a single HTML file that requires no npm, frameworks, or backend. It uses Leaflet.js for the interactive map and a free AirLabs API to display real-time ADS-B …
DuckDB released version 1.5.3, which introduces the Quack client-server protocol as a core extension, enabling multiple concurrent writers to interact with a single DuckDB instance and expanding its use beyond purely emb…
A new Haskell package introduces the `IsText` type class with a `fromText` function to simplify conversion from `Text` to other textual data types like `ByteArray`, `ByteString`, and `OsPath`, using UTF-8 for binary type…
The article describes the creation of "Hengefinder," a tool that calculates when the sun aligns with a street grid (similar to Manhattanhenge) anywhere in the world. The author explains the process involves finding a roa…
Models.dev is an open-source, community-contributed database that provides comprehensive specifications, pricing, and capabilities for AI models, accessible via an API and stored as TOML files organized by provider. The …
The article explains that when using Google BigQuery client libraries in C# applications behind a proxy, authentication and token refresh requests fail because they ignore proxy settings, even when data queries are corre…
The article describes five ready-to-deploy n8n workflow automations designed to replace manual spreadsheet tasks for finance teams and fintech companies, including daily cash flow briefings and invoice processing. It emp…
This article describes a custom C++ memory resource implementation called `monotonic_atomic_buffer`, which provides lock-free, aligned memory allocations from a preallocated buffer using atomic operations. The allocator …
This article summarizes Edward Tufte's data visualization principles from his books *Envisioning Information*, *Visual Explanations*, and *Beautiful Evidence*. It outlines six core analytical principles—such as showing c…
Based on the article, the local implementation of this Enterprise RAG system is fully functional, featuring pre-retrieval access control, citation-backed answers, and a specialized evaluation set, all running without ext…
The article describes the author's experience building AtlasMind, an AI-powered project management assistant designed to simplify data visualization and reporting in Jira. The tool allows users to ask questions in plain …
The article describes LET (Life Events Tracker), a React Native and Expo mobile app built for offline habit, mood, and life event tracking without requiring user accounts or cloud sync. The developer created the app as a…
Based solely on the provided text, the article explains that traditional financial forwards rely on a clearinghouse to guarantee settlement, a model that introduces a trusted intermediary incompatible with autonomous tra…
Bruno Croci migrated his long-running blog from an outdated Ubuntu 16.04 server to a more affordable Hetzner virtual machine running FreeBSD. He chose FreeBSD primarily for its support of ZFS, which is difficult to use o…