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The author recommends using uv, a Python project management tool, first due to its ease of use and high value delivery. If it doesn't work, fall back to other tools, but try uv first due to its low cost of adoption and benefits.
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Recently I was called on to explain the ‘XOR’ operator to somebody who vaguely knew of its existence, but didn’t have a good intuition for what it was useful for and how it behaved. For me, this was one of those ‘future shock’ moments when you realise the world has moved on. When I got started in computers, you had to do low-level bit twiddling to get anything very interesting done, so you ...
Pi-hole v6 introduces a new REST API, server-side pagination, and Antigravity allowlists, with a streamlined configuration management and native HTTPS support. The web interface has been overhauled with Basic and Expert modes, and the Docker image is now based on Alpine.
The user describes their workflow for using LLMs in software development, which involves brainstorming, planning, and executing using codegen tools like Claude and Aider. They share their experiences and tips for using LLMs in greenfield development and iterating on established codebases, highlighting the importance of planning, testing, and collaboration.
The author underestimated the time required to install a washing machine in a new house due to unknown unknowns, such as a hole to drill and new hoses to buy. This experience highlights the challenges of software development estimation, where unexpected differences can significantly impact project schedules.
WEST tokamak in France maintained a plasma for 25% longer than previous record at 1,337 seconds. This milestone is crucial for ITER, which aims to sustain fusion plasmas for minutes, not seconds.
Scripton is a Python tool for real-time visualization without notebooks or servers, combining Plotly and Observable Plot capabilities. It supports macOS and requires Python 3.8 or newer, with Windows and Linux support planned.
Alice Hamilton, a pioneering physician, investigated lead-smelting plants in 1911 and discovered workers were getting sick and dying due to poor conditions. She spent her career advocating for occupational health and safety standards, warning about the dangers of lead and other hazardous chemicals.
“It would feel so good to say goodbye, when I’m with you I wanna die!” Typically you would try to time your footsteps to the beat of the song—a permanent habit from your time in a marching band—but the tempo of this one is not compatible with your walking pace. You’re singing at full volume now. “And all that time was such a waste, I never wanna see your face.” You turn to the left, then to ...
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell into an economy run by people that have no concept of labor other than their desperation to exploit or replace ...
Subtrace is a Chrome DevTools for backend tracking API requests to solve production problems quickly. It uses SQL queries to filter and analyze request details like headers, payload, and latency.
The user resigned from their job as a product designer at 18F due to concerns about the new administration's plans to slash the workforce and compromise labor protections. They felt leaving was their best option as a probationary employee with limited protections, and are now advocating for federal workers' rights and against the "wholesale attack on the American safety net".
The setup features a customizable panel layout with drag-and-drop functionality, allowing for easy organization and navigation of files and folders. It also includes advanced features like fuzzy search, file preview, and system actions, with customizable settings and hotkeys for optimal productivity.
Subway Poker is a two-player game played on a subway train where players create poker hands based on passengers in their chosen row of seats. The player with the highest-ranking hand by the end station wins, requiring observation and strategy to succeed.
Acer CEO Jason Chen announced a 10% price hike on laptops in the US due to incoming Trump administration tariffs. The price increase will affect new stock, potentially also older stock, with the Acer Predator Triton 17-inch gaming laptop price rising to $4,178.
HP Inc acquired key AI capabilities from Humane including Cosmos platform and 300+ patents to accelerate AI development in devices. The acquisition forms HP IQ, a new AI innovation lab to create an intelligent ecosystem across HP products and services.
Andrea West's life changed after taking atogepant, a medication that prevents her decades-long migraines. Researchers are working to understand the condition, which is now seen as a treatable and manageable condition.
The author started with Java in 2011, but after switching to Go in 2024, they found it to be a better fit for cloud-native applications and Kubernetes tooling due to its blazing-fast startup times and lower resource consumption. The author now prefers Go's simplicity and flexibility over Java's complexity.
South Korea removed DeepSeek from app stores due to data protection concerns and found a link between the app and ByteDance. The regulator is investigating data sharing between DeepSeek and ByteDance, advising users to exercise caution.
The author reflects on their childhood experiences working with their father, a Colombian immigrant, and how it taught them about the importance of paying attention to details in reality, which is often overlooked. This realization has implications for various domains, including programming, physics, and personal growth, and the author argues that seeking out and noticing details is crucial ...
The author discusses how AI tools are being adopted for creative work, but worries that they're producing "attractive people with heavily vetted idiosyncrasies" rather than true originality.
You're getting an "Unauthorized" error when using kubectl with Amazon EKS, likely due to missing AWS credentials or permissions. You need to sign in with an active AWS account or consider an AWS Premium Support plan.
The author is unhappy with Svelte 5 due to its increased complexity and leaky abstractions, which make it harder for developers to understand and debug issues. They feel that the framework's trade-off between performance and developer experience has become too opaque.
Researchers found 20,000 scientists with implausibly high publication and co-author rates, often resulting from 'paper pumping' and low quality co-author practices. They propose renormalising research metrics to remove incentives for quantity over quality.
Working memory is critical for everyday living and conscious thought, but its limited capacity can hinder complex decision-making. Training can improve working memory capacity, potentially raising IQ and enhancing learning abilities.
The author urges users to be cautious of misleading security advice and recommends using Signal and Tor due to their strong security features. The author also emphasizes the importance of verifying security claims made by encrypted messaging apps.
Go 1.24 release maintains compatibility with Go 1.23 and includes improvements in toolchain, runtime, and libraries. It supports generic type aliases, executable dependencies in go.mod, and caching for go run and go tool commands.
The user performed a quick vibe check on Grok 3 and DeepSearch, finding Grok 3 to be around the state of the art territory of OpenAI's strongest models, while DeepSearch is approximately around Perplexity's DeepResearch offering. The user notes that Grok 3's thinking model is impressive, but it still has some limitations, such as struggling with humor and certain complex tasks.
NASA's workforce has shrunk by 10% due to 750 deferred resignations and 1,000 probationary employee cuts. The Trump administration may make further cuts, sparking concerns about the agency's future and its ability to remain on the cutting edge of space exploration.
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User reminisces about Sony Watchman TV and JACKALpoo, a portable TV with cassette recording and shortwave band. They appreciate the design and nostalgia of combining multiple devices in the 70's and 80's.
Kalle Valo, a long-time Linux kernel contributor, is stepping down as sole maintainer of Linux wireless drivers due to health reasons. No immediate replacement has been found, leaving the community to seek a new maintainer for the drivers.
Using Kafka as a job queue can lead to unfair job distribution among workers, resulting in some workers being idle while others handle a large number of jobs. This unfairness can be mitigated by having at least WorstCaseJobsPerConsumer * Consumers jobs in-flight during peak periods to ensure all workers are contributing to clearing the queue.
Protesters across North America demonstrated against Elon Musk and Tesla, disrupting sales and criticizing Musk's politics. Some Tesla employees have expressed concerns about Musk's leadership, with some even suggesting he should resign.
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Cot is a Rust web framework inspired by Django, aiming to provide a batteries-included experience for web development. It's still in its early stages, but already usable, with a goal to fill the gap in the Rust web ecosystem.
The script uses the Buenos Aires constant to generate prime numbers, but due to IEEE 754 arithmetic, it fails around Douglas Adams' favorite number. The series can only generate primes up to the number of primes used to define the constant.
Prithvi and co-founder Frances built Promptless, an AI teammate that updates software docs proactively. It integrates with tools like Jira and Slack, drafting new or updated docs from trigger events like new PRs.
SWE-Lancer is a benchmark of 1,400 freelance software engineering tasks valued at $1 million, testing AI model performance in tasks ranging from bug fixes to feature implementations. The benchmark aims to evaluate the economic impact of AI model development by mapping model performance to monetary value.
Robocode is a Java-based programming game where users develop battle tanks to compete in real-time. It requires JDK 11 or newer and can be downloaded from SourceForge or GitHub.
The author draws parallels between the appeasement of Hitler in 1938 and the current situation with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, warning that appeasement could lead to a world war. Ukraine's resistance has kept the world in a suspended 1938, and appeasing Russia could create conditions for a world war by making it a stronger power.
The user, a high schooler who started coding in 2019, believes that AI dev tooling would have hindered their learning process by fixing trivial errors. They now use AI tools to speed up coding, but still prefer raw, error-prone experiences when building projects from scratch.
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The user is writing a torrent application in C to download and serve torrent files, and is trying to optimize the SHA1 hash verification process at startup, which is currently taking 20-30 seconds with Address Sanitizer enabled. The user has tried various optimizations, including using SIMD instructions, the SHA extension, and parallelizing the hash computation, and has achieved a 10x ...
Researchers discovered that adding full storage space can make computers more powerful through catalytic computing, a theoretical framework. This breakthrough helped prove a startling result in computer science, potentially resolving a major open question about memory in computation.
Opsmaru platform requires infrastructure monitoring, so we extended the Uplink module to collect system metrics from LXD clusters. We used Elixir's Broadway library to collect metrics, process data, and ship it to Elastic Stack for analysis and visualization.
Append-only programming forces you to define interfaces before implementations and encourages small functions, but it's not forgiving and can be tedious. It's a fun challenge, but not a practical way to write software due to difficulties in troubleshooting and revising code.
The Nordic Semiconductor Thingy:91 X IoT prototyping platform supports Wi-Fi, but its resource consumption on the host MCU is a concern due to the nRF9151's limited RAM and flash size. A fix was found by disabling the nrf_modem_lib, which allows the platform to successfully connect to a local Wi-Fi network and free up some RAM.
The data industry is witnessing a shift towards open, multi-engine data lakehouses, with AWS announcing Iceberg-based S3 Tables and Snowflake donating the Polaris Iceberg catalog to open source. A realistic, open, multi-engine-capable lakehouse can be built using a minimal number of components, including a cloud storage service and a metadata change coordinator.
User created an open-source JS library called Forms.md for creating multi-step forms and surveys, licensed under Apache-2.0, and is considering a $25/month business model for branding removal. User is unsure if this model is viable and seeks feedback on whether to add more features or make the library entirely free.
The Coral USB Accelerator adds an Edge TPU coprocessor for high-speed machine learning inferencing via USB. It supports Debian Linux, macOS, and Windows 10, with no need to rebuild models.
DRI and GFF sued X for refusing to provide publicly accessible data on social media reach and engagement. The Berlin Regional Court ruled in favor of DRI, enforcing a new DSA provision requiring platforms to grant researchers access to data.
Abseil's Swiss tables provide optimized hash table performance through dense metadata and SSE instructions. They offer improved lookup and insertion operations, and separate value and init types for efficient insertions and copy/move operations.
Electric vehicles have higher upfront costs but lower operating costs, with a typical break-even point of 140,000 kilometers. They offer significant long-term savings, making them a smart choice for those seeking financial benefits and a greener option.
iText releases iText 9.0 and iText Suite 9.1 with new features and improvements, celebrating its 25th anniversary. The release includes significant performance increases for table rendering and SVG implementation.
Cot is a Rust framework for building production-ready web apps with top-notch security and speed. It offers a type-safe API, integrated ORM, and built-in admin panel for effortless development and security.
Gravelmap updates include enhanced filter controls, route list view, and advanced surface detection for smoother route planning. The platform now offers a fresh homepage look and easier route creation and management.
The serde library in Rust has a limitation where it stops deserialization as soon as an error occurs, which can lead to a poor developer experience. The eserde library addresses this issue by reporting multiple errors at once, reducing the number of API interactions required to converge to a well-formed payload.
Researchers introduced Tensor Evolution, a framework for analyzing and optimizing tensor expressions in high performance computing and machine learning. It extends Scalar Evolution theory to tensors, enabling optimization and analysis in compilers.
Perplexity open-sourced R1 1776, a version of DeepSeek-R1, to provide unbiased and accurate information. The model was post-trained to address censorship issues, particularly those related to the Chinese Communist Party.
Web Awesome Pro is a customizable UI library with a low, guaranteed price for a limited time. It's an open-source project with a free core, fueled by community contributions and designed to be inclusive and usable by everyone.
Ever found yourself scrolling through ringtones on your brand-new phone, only to realize you can't find one that wouldn't make you and everyone around you cringe? On Sober Ringtones you can find a humble and modest ringtone for your phone calls and notifications.
HTTL provides a CLI from version 0.1.7 for running queries in terminals or CI/CD pipelines. It supports HTTL features and offers formatted output, available as a global npm package.
Hello! My name is Sarah and I love London transport. Because I am a very cool and interesting person, for a long time I’ve thought it might be fun to see how many different types of London transport I can take in a 24-hour period: bus, tram, tube, train, ferry, etc. The trip outlined below took me (and the lucky man I invited on this date) on 25 different forms of London transport in one ...
The author benchmarked an optimized version of the increment() function and found that inlining it made it 5 times slower due to branch prediction issues. Using the Zig toolchain instead of Clang fixed the issue, but the problem was later found to be a regression in Clang 19.
Brazilian police claim the mayor's fake assassination attempt was staged to gain sympathy and win re-election. The plan backfired, and the mayor lost the election, with police now investigating the alleged hoax.
SWE-Lancer is a benchmark of 1,400 freelance software engineering tasks valued at $1 million, testing AI models on independent and managerial tasks. It maps model performance to monetary value, enabling research into AI's economic impact.
Google billionaire Sergey Brin's airship company LTA Research successfully tested its Pathfinder 1 airship in an untethered flight. The achievement marks a significant step towards reviving the airship industry, which has been plagued by safety concerns and technological challenges.
AMD's Strix Halo APU features 16 cores, 32 threads, and a 40 CU iGPU based on Zen 5 architecture. It includes 8 memory ICs, 32MB L3 cache, and a large I/O die with a 40 CU iGPU and XDNA 2 NPU for AI performance.
DotSlash is a command-line tool that converts heavyweight executables into small text files for efficient storage in source control. It facilitates reproducible builds by reducing dependencies on the host environment.
Thinking Machines Lab aims to make AI more accessible and customizable through collaboration and open research. They focus on human-AI collaboration, model intelligence, and infrastructure quality to unlock transformative applications.
The author, a bilingual American, moved to Paris and found her English speech changing due to her increased French usage. She struggled to pronounce the "r" sound and found herself speaking with a French accent, blurring the lines between her two languages.
PG&E reported a $2.48 billion profit in 2024, up from $2.24 billion in 2023, with predicted 2025 profits to outpace 2024. Critics argue the profits come at the expense of customers facing high utility bills, prompting state lawmakers to consider measures to control shareholder profits.
Jean Hilliard's car crashed on an icy road in 1980, and she was found frozen in a yard, but miraculously revived at a local hospital. She has no lingering health issues and now lives a normal life, working at Walmart.
Charge-trapping defects in crystalline solids play important roles in applications ranging from microelectronics, optical storage, sensing and quantum technologies. On one hand, depleting trapped charges in the host matrix reduces charge noise and enhances coherence of solid-state quantum emitters. On the other hand, stable charge traps can enable high-density optical storage systems. Here we ...
Henri Bergson was a famous philosopher in the early 20th century whose ideas on time and change remain relevant today. His philosophy, which emphasized the importance of intuition and the fluidity of reality, was misunderstood and eventually forgotten, but his ideas are now being rediscovered as a response to modern crises.
NVIDIA GPU performance under Linux has been compared across multiple generations from Maxwell to Blackwell. The testing focused on GPU compute performance and power efficiency, using various graphics cards and Ubuntu 24.10 with Linux 6.11 kernel.
Rust does not prevent memory leaks but makes it difficult to unintentionally leak memory, focusing on memory safety by preventing data corruption and arbitrary memory access. Memory safety and memory leaks are distinct concepts, with Rust's design prioritizing the former to prevent common programming errors like null pointer dereferencing and buffer overflows.
Titans is a groundbreaking AI architecture that combines short-term, long-term, and persistent memory modules to process long sequences of data. It enables real-time learning and adaptation at test time, addressing computational and memory limitations, and achieves superior performance in various tasks.
Type systems can model closed, semi-open, or fully open universes of choices, with closed universes being fixed and open universes changing over time. The choice of type system approach depends on the situation, with simple enums suitable for closed universes, non-exhaustive enums for semi-open universes, and traits or string representations for fully open universes.
SpaceX's strategy is to focus on immediate obstacles and solve them from first principles. Long-term space habitats require a different approach, involving multiple iterations and widespread testing.
Bryan Johnson's "Don't Die" mission grabs attention with its bold claim and extreme lifestyle. He uses a memorable slogan and social media handle to reinforce his message and polarize people, gaining a small but dedicated fan base.
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An 85-year-old roboticist has a favorite puzzle where he wants to divide a square into five rectangles with no two sharing a side, and then divide an 11x11 square into five rectangles with side lengths from 1 to 10.
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Huawei launched its trifold smartphone Mate XT outside China with a 3,499 euro price tag. The device will be a test of Huawei's appeal outside China, despite lacking Google's Android operating system.
South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron died at 24, sparking calls for change in how celebrities are treated on social media and in the public arena. Critics blame harsh online comments and sensational reporting for contributing to her death.
Researchers have developed a new algorithm to organize books on a shelf efficiently, reducing the time it takes to add a new book from n to (log n)1.000...1. The algorithm combines randomness and limited history dependence to achieve this improvement.