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Cloudflare has quietly expanded how developers control caching with its new Cache Response Rules, a rules engine that fires after an origin server responds but before content gets written to Cloudflare's cache. Previously, rules only evaluated incoming requests — now the response itself gets a second look, giving engineers far more precise control over what actually gets stored.
Shifting from infrastructure to something more philosophical, a piece titled The End of Mathematics is circulating on Hacker News and generating early conversation. Written by mathematician Daniel Litt, the essay appears to wrestle with what artificial intelligence means for the practice of mathematics itself — a question that feels increasingly urgent as proof-generating tools grow more capable, and the line between discovery and automation gets harder to draw.
And on a lighter note, Lego has unveiled its largest Hubble Space Telescope model yet, built roughly at minifig scale and significantly bigger than the version bundled with its Space Shuttle Discovery set. Reviewers are calling it an otherwise excellent build — though more than one has noted that an awful lot of grey plastic is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here, and a little more color variety would not have gone amiss.
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