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HTML over WebSockets: The Web's Quiet Move Back to the Server

WebSockets Web Development Developer Tools

LiveView, Hotwire, Datastar, and Blazor all push rendered HTML over a persistent connection instead of JSON. Here's why the pattern keeps resurfacing, what changed in 2026, and what it costs you when you test it.

Best Remote IoT Device Management Software in 2026: 5 Platforms Compared

IoT Device Management Remote Access

A technical comparison of remote IoT device management software in 2026: balenaCloud, AWS IoT Device Management, SocketXP, RemoteIoT and Dataplicity. Real pricing, agent architecture, NAT traversal, OTA updates and what each one gets wrong.

What Y Combinator Is Funding in 2026: A Data Breakdown of 208 Startups

Y Combinator YC Batch Startups

We pulled every company in YC's Summer 2026, Fall 2026, and Winter 2027 batches from the official directory and classified all 208 of them. Here are the real themes, the numbers behind them, and how they compare to YC's own Requests for Startups.

Best Minecraft Server Hosting: Five Providers Worth the Whitelist

Minecraft Gaming Comparison

Five Minecraft hosts compared on CPU clock, data centre locations, control panel and support: Godlike.Host, Nodecraft, Pine Hosting, GG Servers and Kamatera. Plus the free option of running the server on your own machine behind a tunnel.

Inside Kitesurf: Cloudflare Built a Browser Engine Just for AI Agents

Cloudflare AI Agents

Cloudflare shipped Kitesurf, a browser engine written from scratch to run in V8 isolates on Workers instead of Chromium. Here's how it works, the real CPU and memory numbers, what it still can't do, and how to point it at an app running on your own machine.

Jeff Dean Left Google After 27 Years to Automate the Scientific Method

Jeff Dean Google

Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le just quit Google to found Discovery Loop, a startup betting that the entire cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and evaluation can be run on a loop, at scale, by machines. Here's what it actually is, and what's still unproven.