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RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible (Financial Times)

A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world

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ListingForge: a local Gemma tool that drafts shop listings from product photos

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built ListingForge helps a small online seller turn photos of one product into a first draft of a shop…

  • ListingForge is a local web app for small online sellers
  • Uses Gemma 3 vision model to create listings from photos
  • Runs locally on user's computer without account or cloud

Exponential Backoff Isn't Enough: The Retry Storm Hiding in Your Recovery Path

The problem A dependency blips for 400ms — a deploy, a GC pause, a brief network partition, doesn't matter which. Every client with an in-flight request fails at roughly the same instant.

  • Exponential backoff alone fails to prevent synchronized retries.
  • Introducing jitter spreads out retries, reducing storm severity.
  • Maximum retry limit prevents indefinite retry cycles.

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