How Untracked On-Call Burdens Silently Drive Away Top Engineers

A firsthand account by engineer Serguey Shinder reveals how a seemingly balanced on-call rotation masked a damaging reality for three senior engineers. Despite a formal schedule, complex incidents consistently fell on the same few people who truly understood the systems, whether or not it was officially their week. This invisible workload never appeared in any schedule, so its true cost went unaccounted while uptime metrics remained strong. The warning signs were subtle — slower responses, terse code reviews, and eventually quiet conversations with recruiters. Shinder now advocates treating actual page distribution as a core operational metric and spreading system knowledge broadly so on-call duties can be genuinely shared.

UN Weather Agency Warns of Unusually Strong El Niño With Global Economic Impact

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued a warning about a potentially powerful El Niño weather event on the horizon. The natural climate phenomenon, described as 'supersized', is expected to cause significant disruption across the world. Countries are already taking preparatory measures to mitigate the anticipated effects. El Niño typically triggers extreme weather patterns including droughts, floods, and heatwaves in various regions. The WMO's alert underscores concerns about the event's potential to destabilize global economies.

1Password Users Weigh Alternatives After $300K Donation to Controversial Project

A Hacker News user is seeking advice on migrating away from 1Password after learning the company donated $300,000 to a project associated with a controversial figure. The post has sparked discussion among users sharing their experiences switching to alternative password managers. Several respondents offered recommendations and practical migration tips for both personal and business use cases. The original poster also expressed interest in finding an alternative that supports enterprise-level controls, with the goal of potentially convincing their employer to switch.

WMO Warns 2026 El Niño Could Persist Until February With Severe Global Impact

The World Meteorological Organization has issued a warning about an intensifying El Niño event expected to last at least until February 2026. The climate phenomenon is causing abnormally elevated temperatures across the Pacific Ocean. Forecasters describe the event as growing in scale, raising concerns about its amplified effects on global weather patterns. The prolonged duration of this El Niño is expected to drive increasingly severe meteorological consequences around the world.

Gold prices dipping but analysts recommend buying on dips this week

Gold and silver prices are currently on a downward trend in the Indian market. Abhilash Koikkara, Head of Forex and Commodities at Nuvama Professional Clients Group, has shared his outlook on the precious metals. Despite the fall, Koikkara recommends a buy-on-dips strategy for gold this week. Investors are closely watching whether gold could slide to the Rs 1.4 lakh per 10 grams level.

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How Kubernetes CPU Throttling Causes Latency Spikes Even at Low CPU Usage

Kubernetes enforces CPU limits through the Linux kernel's Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) in 100-millisecond windows, which can freeze containers even when average CPU usage appears low. A container hitting its quota early in a window may remain frozen for the rest of it, causing latency spikes invisible to standard monitoring dashboards. SREs are advised to track the CFS throttling ratio metric rather than raw CPU usage, flagging applications where over 15–25% of scheduler windows are throttled. Runtime misconfigurations in Java and Go can worsen throttling by spawning threads based on host core counts rather than container limits, a problem addressable via UseContainerSupport and Uber's automaxprocs library. For latency-sensitive workloads on bare-metal nodes, assigning pods to the Guaranteed QoS class with integer CPU values allows Kubernetes to bypass CFS quotas entirely by pinning containers to dedicated physical cores.

SpiceJet adds Boeing, Airbus muscle for winters

Delhi Couple Killed After Thar SUV Rams Into Their Motorcycle

A couple in Delhi was killed on the spot after a Thar SUV collided with their motorcycle. The incident resulted in both victims dying at the scene of the crash. Authorities have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fatal accident. Police are currently reviewing CCTV footage from cameras installed in the area to determine how the collision occurred.

AgentGPT 2026 Pricing: $40/Month Pro Plan Comes With a 25-Loop Ceiling

AgentGPT, the open-source autonomous AI agent platform maintained by Reworkd, offers three pricing tiers in 2026: a free trial at $0, a Pro plan at $40 per month, and a custom-priced Enterprise tier. The Pro plan includes 30 agents per day, access to GPT-4, unlimited web search, and a cap of 25 loops per agent. Each loop represents one think-act-observe cycle, meaning agents have a fixed runway of 25 steps to complete any given task before stopping. At $40 per month, AgentGPT sits more than double the $19 median price among productivity software plans, according to ToolFi's 2026 dataset of 469 priced tools. The platform has gained significant community traction, with its GitHub repository accumulating around 36,300 stars and 9,270 forks as of September 2026.

Allahabad HC Frees Woman, Orders Rs 5 Lakh Compensation After Quashing NSA Detention

The Allahabad High Court has cancelled the detention of 25-year-old Aakriti Chaudhary, who was held under the National Security Act (NSA), calling the grounds for her detention a concocted story. The court ordered her immediate release, provided she is not required in any other case. Additionally, the state government was directed to pay her a compensation of Rs 5 lakh. The ruling highlights judicial scrutiny over the use of preventive detention laws in the state.

Developer shares five hard-learned lessons building a Cardano-Midnight USDM bridge app

A developer building cross-chain USDM transfer tools between Cardano and Midnight's testnets documented five undocumented pitfalls encountered during the process. One key issue is that USDM sent from Midnight to Cardano lands at an enterprise address not monitored by the Lace wallet, making funds appear lost when they are not. VIA's block explorer also requires different transaction hash formats depending on the source chain, and defaults to Mainnet view, causing completed testnet transfers to appear nonexistent. The developer built two working applications — Tender, a browser-based transfer app, and Privoice, a private invoice contract — completing eight transfers and one deployed contract. The findings are shared as practical guidance for others building user-facing applications on the VIA cross-chain infrastructure.

From boxing medals to 147 wickets: Manipur's Konthoujam rewrites his story

Bishworjit Konthoujam from Manipur began his sporting life as a boxer, winning medals at school and state level before switching to cricket. Growing up, he had no formal experience with leather-ball cricket and would simply ask other players for a chance to bowl. Despite this unconventional start, Konthoujam has gone on to claim 147 first-class wickets. His journey gained fresh attention after he dismissed teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi during the Duleep Trophy. His story stands as a rare example of a self-made cricketer who crossed sporting disciplines to reach the top level of the game.

Tamil Nadu CM to move resolution seeking Tamil as official language in Madras HC

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister is set to introduce a resolution urging the Central government to recognise Tamil as a principal language in the Madras High Court. The proposal aims to allow legal judgments and orders to be issued in Tamil, reinforcing its status as a classical language. The move is expected to draw on technological tools and existing legal frameworks to support the case. This effort mirrors a similar resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu assembly back in 2006.

Maharashtra College Student, 19, Dies After Falling From Hostel Third Floor

A 19-year-old female student in Maharashtra died after falling from the third floor of her college girls' hostel. The student was a resident of the hostel at the time of the incident. Authorities recovered a suicide note from her belongings, suggesting the death was not accidental. The note has been taken into custody as part of the ongoing investigation. Police are currently probing the circumstances surrounding her death.

Researcher Builds Wazuh SIEM Lab to Test Real-World Attack Detection Gaps

A security researcher configured a Wazuh SIEM environment using a Dockerized Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) to evaluate how well the platform detects real attacks. The setup involved custom container log ingestion, where an initial permission misconfiguration silently blocked the Wazuh agent from reading Apache access logs until directory permissions were corrected. Three live attack scenarios were then executed, including Nmap and Nikto reconnaissance scans, which triggered over 380 events and activated Wazuh rules for scanner activity and web errors. An OS command injection payload submitted through DVWA successfully ran system commands in the browser, revealing a key gap where web-layer logs captured the attack but the host operating system remained blind to the actual commands executed. The experiment highlights that effective SIEM deployment requires deliberate visibility engineering, not just tool activation, to correlate application-level and OS-level telemetry.

How a Love Fortune App Can Enable Sharing Without Storing Personal Data

A Japanese-style love fortune application called 恋みくじ poses a unique privacy challenge: enabling shareable results without exposing users' personal emotions or relationship details. The proposed architecture separates data into three categories — public content, private context, and operational data — ensuring only public fortune identifiers appear in shared URLs. A safe shareable link contains only a result ID tied to the app's public catalog, never the visitor's name, question, or relationship history. Common pitfalls like embedding sensitive details in query strings are highlighted, as such data can leak through browser history, server logs, and link preview services. The article also warns that long, random-looking URLs do not guarantee privacy if they point to database records storing personal user data.

How ScribeToAny Runs Whisper GPU Jobs on Modal via Cloudflare Workers

A developer building ScribeToAny, a transcription web app, solved a fundamental incompatibility between Cloudflare Workers and Modal's GPU infrastructure by treating Modal as an HTTP endpoint rather than a Python SDK. Since Workers cannot sustain long-running GPU jobs or open gRPC connections, the architecture was redesigned so the browser uploads media directly to Cloudflare R2, bypassing the Worker entirely. The Worker's role is limited to three fast operations: presigning upload and download URLs, writing a job record to the database, and firing a single POST to Modal's web endpoint to spawn the transcription job. Once the GPU finishes processing, Modal sends a signed webhook callback to the Worker, which updates the job status so the frontend can reflect completion. The design also accounts for real-world edge cases such as abandoned uploads, duplicate webhook deliveries, and lost callbacks through atomic database guards and scheduled cron sweeps.