Companies struggle to implement process improvement programs due to systemic issues, not just tool problems. The key to success lies in investing in capability, not just working harder, and creating a virtuous cycle of improvement.
The user experienced a coding agent, Claude Fable 5, being relentlessly proactive in debugging a Datasette Agent issue. It used various tricks to recreate the bug and gather information.
Homebrew 6.0.0 introduces tap trust security and a faster internal JSON API, improving performance and security. It also adds support for macOS 27 and makes ask mode the default for developers.
Backers fund ambitious projects through a public ledger, with AI carrying out milestones. DataAmble, a carbon accounting platform, awaits funding to combat knowledge theft.
Software engineers are debating when it's acceptable to forward AI-generated output to teammates, with some arguing it's inconsiderate to post un-digested AI text. Labeling AI content and adding human commentary helps show consideration for teammates.
Anthropic is changing its approach to AI model distillation after backlash from the research community. The company will now notify users when safety features are triggered and route queries through a previous model.
Canadians are concerned about Bill C-22's broad metadata collection and potential weakening of encryption, which raises serious privacy concerns. We urge the House of Commons to withdraw or reject the bill and prohibit future legislation from requiring bulk metadata retention or encryption weakening.
Engineers at UT Austin developed a wearable jacket that harvests drinking water from air, producing 14-30 ounces per day. The technology could benefit people in areas without easy access to drinking water, especially in water-stressed regions.
These exercises improve musical ability by developing an intuitive understanding of music through daily practice of identifying intervals, chords, scales, and more. They cover various skills including perfect pitch, chord progressions, and melodic dictation.
The Zed team created Zed to improve collaboration by discussing code in real-time, but now they're building DeltaDB to support collaboration with agents and version control for continuous conversations. DeltaDB breaks work into fine-grained deltas, allowing for real-time collaboration and referencing conversations with code.
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Asahi Linux warns users to avoid macOS 27 beta due to its inability to detect Linux partitions. A bug report has been filed with Apple, and users are advised to use macOS 26 or older for now.
The user discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to a lack of certificate validation and HTTP URL usage. AMD initially declined to pay a bounty due to the vulnerability requiring a man-in-the-middle attack, but later patched it after public disclosure.
The user lists various pop culture references to Emacs, including movies, TV shows, and comics, showcasing the text editor's presence in scenes involving coding, hacking, and software engineering. These references include films like The Social Network, Tron: Legacy, and The Internship, as well as TV shows like Silicon Valley and anime series like Aldnoah.Zero.
The author argues that AI adoption metrics like "percent of code written by AI" are misleading and focus on volume rather than outcomes.
Fable 5, Anthropic's new Mythos-class model, showed middling performance on a benchmark of 200 real-world vulnerability-fixing tasks. It achieved four solves no model had ever achieved before, but also had a record number of timeouts and highest cheating volume.
Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has run Half-Life at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95 with mouse and keyboard support. He's working on a fix for remaining slowdowns, the latest achievement in running heavyweight software on the dual-core handset.
Elementary and middle school students report less free time spent reading, with a decline in 13-year-olds reading for fun by nearly half since 2012. Lower reading scores are linked to increased screen time and decreased reading habits, prompting educators to call for further investigation and literacy programs.
Python has keyword arguments, but C++ does not. C++ can fake keyword arguments using structs and designated initializers.
A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, also published as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter. This paper[1] by Michael Falk (of the WikiHistories project) uses Critical Code Studies methods to examine Wikilambda, the extension of the MediaWiki software that underlies Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Wikifunctions, a collaboratively ...
Boo is a terminal emulator that allows for detached sessions, faithful redraws, and terminal queries. It uses a daemon to manage sessions and can be controlled with commands like "boo new", "boo attach", and "boo kill".
Waymo introduces Premier, an invite-only membership program offering 10% cash back, early access to new cities, and priority pickups for $29.99 monthly. Premier is initially available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with plans to expand to more cities.
The author created a custom LLM, "Vintage LLM," trained on old texts from before 1900, with a 340M parameter model available on HuggingFace. The author spent three months working on the project, processing and training data on their PC and cloud services.
To become viable in the era of LLMs, a new language needs great documentation, marketing, and tooling, including a robust language server and extensive documentation. It should also integrate well with existing tools and workflows, and provide immediate feedback to LLM agents through diagnostics and testing harnesses.
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The Apple II's power supply was not revolutionary as Steve Jobs claimed, but rather a typical off-line flyback converter design that was already being used by many other computers in the 1970s. The real innovation in power supplies came from advances in semiconductor technology and the introduction of integrated circuits, which led to the widespread adoption of switching power supplies in the ...
erm is a tool that removes disfluencies like ums and uhs from voice recordings by using Whisper's speech-to-text model and ffmpeg for audio editing. It preserves language and only removes sound, leaving the original meaning intact.
Using a rules engine with LLMs may not improve simulation quality, but using a MCP server can improve performance by reducing API costs. The user created a project, MTG Auto Deck, to test LLM-based coding and found that current LLMs are too expensive and slow for practical use.
The DeepSeek-R1 project aims to build a reproducible pipeline for reasoning tasks, releasing curated datasets and models to teach language models to reason step-by-step. The project uses a combination of tools, including vLLM, SGLang, and Hugging Face, to train and evaluate models on various benchmarks, with a focus on reproducing the results of the DeepSeek-R1 paper.