A user on Slashdot questioned Douglas Adams about the perceived nihilism in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, specifically Arthur Dent's character. The user suggested a cultural divide between England and the US in viewing failure as a heroic trait.
The user discusses the limitations of design thinking and its over-promotion, highlighting the need to understand its core values and principles. They recommend several books that explore design thinking from different perspectives, including "The Design Expertise", "Frame Innovation", and "The Design of Everyday Things", to help readers develop their design ability and improve their ...
The curl project accepts security reports with no rewards but offers gratitude and public acknowledgments. It bans and ridicules reporters of low-quality reports.
Sweep Next-Edit predicts your next code edit before you make it. It runs locally on your laptop in under 500ms (with speculative decoding) and outperforms models over 4x its size on next-edit benchmarks. The model uses a specific prompt format with file context, recent diffs, and current state to predict the next edit. See run_model.py for a complete example.
iText is upgrading PDFs with Brotli compression, delivering 15-25% smaller files with zero quality loss. The Brotli encoder is integrated into iText, allowing developers to create smaller PDFs, but compatibility limitations exist until the PDF Association finalizes the spec.
Doctors in Brazil are testing tilapia skin as a bandage for second- and third-degree burns due to a lack of human skin alternatives. The sterilized tilapia skin has shown promising results in reducing healing time and pain in patients.
Professor Alan J. Perlis advocates for APL as the first language for a computer science course due to its terseness, flexibility, and composability. APL allows students to develop an excellent set of exercises and model a computer's components within a manageable program size.
ReactOS celebrates 30 years since its first commit, aiming to deliver Windows apps and drivers in an open-source environment. The project has overcome challenges and milestones, including slow progress, audits, and freezes, to continue developing a functional operating system.
A study on LLM-assisted essay writing found that users exhibited weaker brain connectivity and lower cognitive activity when using LLMs. Long-term reliance on LLMs may have negative educational implications, including underperformance and decreased neural engagement.
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Flowtel is a hospitality OS company using AI agents for booking, room service, and more. It offers senior engineer and ex-founder-level positions with competitive salaries and equity.
North Korean threat actors have been using Visual Studio Code task configuration files to deliver malware, with recent evolutions including obfuscated JavaScript and a backdoor implant providing remote code execution capabilities. Jamf Threat Labs recommends enabling Threat Prevention and Advanced Threat Controls in Jamf for Mac and advises developers to be cautious when interacting with ...
eBay updated its User Agreement to prohibit AI "buy for me" agents and LLM scraping bots without permission. The update also expands arbitration clause to exclude group legal actions and clarifies arbitration opt-out process.
The author bought a 3D printer in 2025 after improvements in technology made it affordable and reliable. They use it to print useful items like custom hooks, storage solutions, and repair parts for household items.
This tutorial explains the concept of unikernels, a highly specialized type of kernel that is tailored for running one application, and guides the reader through building an Nginx web server as a Unikraft unikernel from sources. The tutorial covers the process of configuring and building the unikernel, running it as a virtual machine using QEMU, and packaging it as an OCI image using the Bunny project.
Google's monopoly on search has stifled innovation and access to information, prompting a US court to rule against Google and order open index access. The ruling aims to create a more competitive search market, enabling companies like Kagi to provide ad-free search experiences and promote a non-commercial baseline for information access.
Anthropic has published Claude's constitution, a document outlining the AI model's values and behavior, to cultivate good values during training. The constitution is a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is, and it will be used to train future versions of Claude.
ChartGPU is a TypeScript charting library built on WebGPU for smooth rendering. It creates a chart instance with a render coordinator that handles layout, scales, data upload, and render passes.
Skip is now completely free and open source, allowing developers to create native cross-platform apps without compromises. The platform's future is sustained through sponsorships and community support, ensuring its long-term success.
Professor Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, considering contemporary investigations into resuscitation, galvanism, and the possibility of states between life and death. Far from the fantastic and improbable tale that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein now seems to us, the novel was declared by one reviewer upon publication to have “an air of reality ...
The author disagrees with Mike Arnaldi's statement that software development is dead, arguing that the role of software engineers has shifted to reviewing and assessing AI-generated code. The author believes that reviewing is crucial to ensure accountability and prevent bugs.
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Researchers developed binary fuse filters for fast approximate set membership with low memory usage, outperforming xor filters and other alternatives. Binary fuse filters are within 8% of the storage lower bound and can be faster to construct than xor filters.
Lix is a universal version control system that understands file structure and semantics, not just line-based diffs. It adds version control to SQL databases via plain SQL queries.
Iran has been experiencing a severe internet blackout for nearly two weeks, with authorities restricting communications amid a violent nationwide crackdown on protests. The shutdown is one of the most severe in history, with international voice calling and domestic communication services also blocked.
Curl 8.19.0 will ship in March 2026 with added MQTTS support, increasing transfer protocols to 29. MQTTS is a secure, lightweight protocol for IoT devices with resource constraints.
AdGuard is open-sourcing its VPN protocol, TrustTunnel, a secure and mobile-optimized VPN protocol. TrustTunnel is now free to explore, audit, and use in own projects, aiming to change the status quo in VPN protocols.
USDA projects per-acre production costs for nine principal row crops to rise in 2026, driven by inflated operating costs and limited relief. Many farmers may operate below breakeven for another year, with estimated losses exceeding $50 billion over three crop years.