Schools have neglected academically gifted students, dropping programs that cater to their needs. This trend started 15 years ago, but gained momentum in 2021 due to the Black Lives Matter movement highlighting racial disparities in gifted program enrollment.

YC accepts startups with similar products to previous YC grads, often in the same category. YC prioritizes founders over ideas, focusing on individuals with potential to build transformative companies.

The author found the "true onion constant" by using calculus to minimize the variance of onion slices when cutting radially. The optimal depth to cut is 55.73% of the radius below the center.

Dex is building HumanLayer, an API that enables safe deployment of autonomous AI systems by allowing human feedback and approval. The platform provides a free trial, transparent pricing, and supports integration with various AI frameworks and languages.

The author argues that Go is a flawed language that prioritizes ease of use over safety and maintainability, leading to a culture of ignoring problems and pushing complexity onto other developers. The author advocates for a shift towards languages that prioritize type safety and abstractions, such as Rust, to improve the overall quality and reliability of software development.

Malors Espinosa devised a math problem for high school students to prove that all knots can be found inside the Menger sponge. Three students, Joshua Broden, Noah Nazareth, and Niko Voth, successfully solved the problem after several months of work.

ZetaOffice is an open source office suite built on LibreOffice with extended security updates and compatibility with LibreOffice UNO API. It offers web, desktop, and mobile access with self-hosting and CDN options available.

Tesla's Cybertruck has 6 recalls this year due to faulty drive inverters, which can cause sudden loss of torque. The recalls may harm Tesla's brand reputation but won't deter "edgy" consumers who buy the vehicle for its unique design.

Borgo is a language that aims to be fully compatible with the existing Go ecosystem, with features like pattern matching, Option and Result types, and a focus on explicit initialization of values. It also includes features like channels, goroutines, and a spawn keyword, as well as support for interfaces and embedded interfaces.

Turn your ideas into one-of-a-kind chess pieces you can play online with.

D-Link routers with model DSL6740C are vulnerable to multiple critical security issues, including a 9.8 severity score bug allowing password changes. Users are advised to replace the devices or restrict remote access to minimize the risk of compromise.

The author developed a devirtualization approach to deobfuscate virtualized binaries, inspired by taint-based methods, which involves dynamic taint analysis and compiler optimizations. The approach was implemented using LLVM IR and was able to partially deobfuscate binaries obfuscated with the Tigress obfuscator, achieving promising results in terms of speed and modularity.

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The Jekyll generator plugin allows using SQLite databases as data sources, supporting site-level and per-page queries with parameter binding. It generates APIs and websites from databases, with a demo available at northwind.captnemo.in and source code at captn3m0/northwind.

Finland's 1945 policy of cutting banknotes in half, known as setelinleikkaus, was an attempt to reduce inflation by halving spending power, but it failed to work as intended. A more successful example of post-WWII monetary reform was Belgium's Operation Gutt, which reduced the money supply by two-thirds in just a few days, although its immediate effects were unclear.

People altered food through nixtamalisation over 3,000 years ago to unlock nutrients in corn. This process also has implications for understanding organ formation and inflammation causes.

Our DevOps team removed Kubernetes to simplify management, resulting in an 89% increase in deployment success rate and 62% decrease in infrastructure costs. This decision allowed the team to take uninterrupted vacations for the first time in two years.

The Justice Department ordered the DEA to suspend airport cash searches due to civil rights concerns and potential racial profiling. The searches, which were often voluntary but sometimes coercive, led to the seizure of millions of dollars in cash from travelers.

Researchers explored converting hydrocarbons in asteroids to human edible food to reduce reliance on Earth resupply. They calculated that asteroid Bennu could provide enough food for 600-17,000 astronaut life years.

Large language models like Chat-GPT and Claude.ai may be The Future, but building them could be an unprofitable business due to industry structure. Their suppliers, such as NVIDIA, have strong pricing power, and buyers have high power over LLM token prices.

A man of color with an American accent submitted a 20,000-word text to a Sydney newspaper in 1855. The text, titled "The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots," was a scathing critique of the US Constitution and slavery.

Letter carrier Richard Burton in Athens, Ga, received a new electric mail truck with air-conditioning and improved features. The new trucks are part of a 10-year effort to upgrade mail vehicles that were stiflingly hot and prone to breakdowns.

git-crypt is a tool that enables transparent encryption and decryption of files in a git repository, allowing developers to share a mix of public and private content. It uses AES-256 encryption and relies on git filters, but is not suitable for encrypting entire repositories.

A communication shortcomings animation is created using JavaScript and canvas-sketch, with unique abstract letter designs. It requires a desktop browser for interaction, thanks to friend Luca Beurer-Kellner for help.

Premature graying of hair (PGH) is a condition where hair turns gray before the age of 20 in Caucasians and 30 in African Americans. It can affect self-esteem and is associated with premature aging disorders, atopy, and autoimmune diseases.

The author discusses five functional programming concepts: smart constructors, parsing, making illegal states unrepresentable, returning error values, and separating functional core from imperative shell. These ideas can be applied to mainstream programming languages to write simpler, more maintainable code, regardless of whether the language is functional or not.

For typing words, chording technique is superior but not suitable for coding due to punctuation. Ergonomic mechanical keyboards with modtap and non-qwerty layouts offer better alternatives.

Microsoft's Connected Experiences feature automatically gathers data from Word and Excel files to train AI models unless manually deactivated. Users must opt out by disabling the feature in settings, a convoluted process involving seven steps.

Canadian company Sky Global developed encrypted phones used by criminals worldwide, including those involved in drug trafficking and murder plots. Police intercepted over 1 billion messages, leading to 10,000 arrests and 121 tonnes of drugs seized in Europe.

Amazon is changing AWS Cognito prices, introducing a new tier structure with Essentials (up to 10,000 MAU free, then $0.015 per MAU) and increasing costs for large users. This may lead SaaS providers using AWS Cognito to increase their prices.

Ran each three times and used the lowest timing for each. Timings taken on an M3 Macbook pro with 16 gb RAM using the /usr/bin/time command. Input value of 40 given to each. You can find all of the code and the compile / run / cleanup scripts at the GitHub repository.

To prioritize tasks and manage system resources, developers can categorize their app's work based on importance using quality of service (QoS) levels. By assigning a QoS to work, the system prioritizes and schedules it accordingly, ensuring responsiveness and energy efficiency.

William James was a Harvard professor who popularized pragmatism, a distinctly American way of thinking that emphasizes experimentation and action. He wrote influential works such as "The Principles of Psychology" and "The Varieties of Religious Experience," which legitimized faith and encouraged optimism and empathy.

Deno Land petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark ownership due to abandonment and alleged fraud. The petition argues Oracle has not used the trademark since 2009 and that the term is generic, belonging to the public.

Self-tagging is a new approach to object tagging that attaches type info to 64-bit objects without losing data space. It accelerates float-intensive benchmarks by 2.3-2.7 times by unboxing floats in Scheme and JavaScript.

Researchers are developing robots that can learn and adapt like humans, using techniques like imitation learning and reinforcement learning. These robots are becoming increasingly dexterous and can perform complex tasks, such as tying shoelaces and folding shirts, with surprising accuracy.

Warp now allows users to access core features without logging in, with a preview of logged in experience and AI features. Users can try Warp without logging in and decide later if they want to authenticate for more features.

The Java compiler can compile typical Java code at over 100,000 lines per second on a single core, but build tools like Maven, Gradle, and Mill add significant overhead. Mill is the fastest among these build tools, but it still falls short of the snappiness expected from the Java compiler, adding 4x overhead in some cases.

Researchers at NVIDIA created Fugatto, a generative AI model that can transform and generate sound using text prompts. It can create new sounds, modify voices, and combine different audio elements, offering users fine-grained control over the output.

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Software development is stuck in a suffocating mess of meaningless rituals and bureaucracy, stifling creativity and progress. It's time to empower skilled engineers to lead and adapt to a rapidly changing tech landscape.

The James Webb Space Telescope revealed a new image of the Sombrero galaxy, showing its smooth inner disk and intricate dust clumps. The galaxy's outer ring and supermassive black hole were also studied, providing insights into star formation and the galaxy's properties.

Google introduced Page Annotations on iOS, which highlights interesting entities on third-party websites and creates links to Google Search results. Website owners can opt-out through a form, but it may take up to 30 days.

jsontr.ee is a lightweight JavaScript library that transforms JSON data into beautifully rendered, interactive tree diagrams using SVG. Designed for simplicity and flexibility, it supports both arrays and nested objects, ensuring clear and intuitive visualizations of complex data structures.

The author argues that H.G. Wells was unfairly portrayed as a snob and a socialist by critics, particularly Henry James, who was a snob himself. Wells's novels are about the search for true relationships and the human condition, not social reform.

Unexpected CPU usage in Go workload due to GOMAXPROCS not being set, causing runtime functions to use excessive CPU time. Setting GOMAXPROCS to a reasonable value using Kubernetes Downward API resolved the issue.

Kim Dotcom, a New Zealand resident, has suffered a serious stroke and is hospitalized. He is fighting extradition to the US on copyright infringement charges.

AI's impact on the workforce is uncertain, but collecting and sharing information can help workers and decision-makers adapt. Access to continuing education and AI-enhanced learning environments will be key to enabling workers to adapt to changing job demands.

Data modeling is a crucial aspect of software architecture that plays a significant role in achieving functional, usability, and maintainability goals. Sums and products are fundamental concepts in data modeling that help architects create ergonomic, powerful software, durable architectures, and maintainable code, and are supported by various programming languages.

User refreshed their knowledge of Bluetooth LE Communication by reverse engineering a BLE lock's API. They found a SQLi vulnerability in the API, affecting not just locks but also other products like cameras.

The Supreme Court may take up a case involving Internet service providers and copyright infringement, with Cox Communications seeking to overturn a finding of willful contributory infringement. The case could determine whether ISPs must terminate users accused of copyright infringement.

cleanmac.sh is a shell script that cleans unnecessary macOS files, freeing up disk space and improving performance. It removes cache, logs, and temporary files based on user-defined days to keep.

Vitest is a fast-growing JavaScript testing framework that outperforms Jest in many areas, including ES module support and developer experience. Vitest is a good successor to Jest, offering a streamlined setup, intuitive UI, and experimental features that simplify testing.

The FCC grants SpaceX authorization to operate up to 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites in the United States and abroad, subject to conditions, including physical coordination with NASA to protect the International Space Station. The authorization also includes the use of V-band frequencies and the operation of very high frequency beacons at altitudes below 400 km.

Apple's Rhapsody operating system combines Apple and NeXT technologies, with a dual OS strategy allowing customers to migrate at their own speed. Rhapsody's architecture includes a blue box for Mac OS compatibility, a yellow box for OpenStep technology, and a core OS with Mach kernel, I/O services, and networking protocol stacks.

The author experienced a decline in Stack Overflow's usefulness due to community issues, not just AI. They had a problem with VSCode that AI couldn't solve, but a human on Stack Overflow did.

The user argues that Java is underrated due to its strong type system and ease of learning, but its ideology is often overlooked. They see Go as a simpler language that sacrifices safety for ease of use, but believe a stronger type system is needed for complex systems.

Enter your date of birth, your life expectancy, and choose a film to see your progress. Expected Lifespan

Researchers proposed semantic regular expressions to query external oracles like databases and LLMs. A two-pass NFA-based algorithm determines string matches in O(|r|^2 |w|^2) time, outperforming a dynamic programming baseline.

KVM changes in Linux 6.13 enhance virtualization stack with improved security and performance. Key updates include refcounted page fixes, ARM PSCIv1.3 support, RISC-V acceleration, and x86 jitter reduction.

Google made significant changes to comply with the Digital Markets Act, including redesigning features and removing others in Europe, but some businesses are still negatively impacted. Google will run a test in Germany, Belgium, and Estonia to remove free hotel features from Google Search to better understand the impact on user experience and website traffic.

Researchers in Arizona found a 1539-1542 bronze cannon linked to the Vázquez de Coronado expedition, the oldest US firearm. The cannon was discovered in a Spanish structure in Arizona and provides new insights into early Spanish-Native American interactions in the Southwest.

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General Motors fired 1,000 employees, including 38-year veteran Adam Bernard, with a heartless email message. CEO Mary Barra's leadership is criticized for prioritizing speed and excellence over employee well-being and ethics.

People are not as scared of global conflict as they used to be, possibly due to the bombardment of information and the feeling of powerlessness to prevent it, and instead are more concerned with everyday problems and economic issues. The current global conflict is a complex issue with multiple factors at play, including war profiteering, the struggle for spheres of influence, and the ...

Leica Camera achieved its highest revenue in history with 14% growth to 554 million euros in 2023/2024. The company's success is driven by cameras, with the Leica Q3 being a potent revenue driver.

Fabrizio is now the lead documentation engineer Tinybird, a data platform for user-facing analytics. Get started with their docs or explore their blog.

Tesla is hiring a software engineer for a custom teleoperation system, signaling the company's seriousness about deploying robotaxis on public roads. This move deviates from Tesla's previous emphasis on self-sufficiency through neural network training and camera-based perception.

A South Korean court sentenced two men to suspended prison terms for trying to dodge military service by one of them gaining excessive weight. The men, aged 26, were found guilty of violating the Military Service Act in South Korea.

German intellectuals, including Adorno, Benjamin, and Sohn-Rethel, visited Italy in the 1920s, where they were influenced by the country's unique culture and way of life. Their experiences in Naples and Capri shaped their critical theory and writings, particularly their views on capitalism, modernity, and the social whole.

The person has had multiple careers, including grocery, digital marketing, business, tech, and clinical mental health, and is now a stay-at-home dad. They think changing careers every 10-15 years could lead to happiness through learning new skills and working on different problems.

The global laptop market is expected to grow by 4.9 percent in 2025 due to commercial upgrade cycles and Windows 10 end of life. Shipments are forecast to reach 183 million units, driven by a moderate recovery in commercial demand.

CEO Baldvin Oddson fired 99 out of 110 employees via Slack for missing one meeting. He claims the move strengthened his company, which relies on unpaid remote interns.

Philosopher Derek Parfit's life and work are examined in a new biography, revealing his struggles with self-regulation, perfectionism, and difficulties in managing disagreement, which likely influenced his philosophical ideas. Despite his significant contributions to ethics and moral philosophy, Parfit's psychological limitations and narrow focus may have limited his philosophical scope and ...

The Secrets of Rust: Tools is an Early Access book that teaches designing production-ready command-line tools in Rust. It includes free updates for life and helps readers master software engineering with Rust.

OpenAI's Sora model, a text-to-video generator, was leaked due to dissatisfaction among testers over unpaid labor and lack of recognition. The leak highlights the need for ethics and fair compensation in AI development, sparking debates on copyright, intellectual property, and the value of creative labor.

Newborn babies are highly vulnerable to infections due to underdeveloped immune systems. Parents should ask visitors to avoid kissing or touching their child to prevent serious infections.

Christina Assi, a 28-year-old photojournalist, was injured in a tank shell explosion while covering clashes in Lebanon. She suffered severe leg injuries and multiple infections, including a possible fungal pathogen.