A 10x Faster TypeScript

1781 DanRosenwasser 2025-03-11 14:32:23 UTC 906 devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share

TypeScript is improving performance with a native port of the compiler and tools, expected to reduce build times by 10x and improve editor startup. This native implementation will also enable faster command-line builds and deeper insights for AI tools.

Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

1400 btilly 2025-03-11 14:14:35 UTC 271 twitter.com/garrytan Full Share

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Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories

737 noddybear 2025-03-11 12:02:02 UTC 207 jackhopkins.github.io Llama Share

Researchers introduced the Factorio Learning Environment (FLE) to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in long-term planning, program synthesis, and resource optimization. FLE tests LLMs in open-ended and exponentially scaling challenges, revealing limitations in spatial reasoning and error analysis.

Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

719 mklyons 2025-03-11 01:05:10 UTC 348 seven39.com Full Share

Social media that's only open from 7:39pm to 10:39pm EST

The Startup CTO's Handbook

618 simonebrunozzi 2025-03-11 22:18:42 UTC 205 github.com/zachgoldberg Prefix Share

The publisher and the author make no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this book or its contents, and assume no responsibility for errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or any other inconsistencies herein. At the time of publication, the URLs displayed in this book refer to existing websites owned by the author and/or the author's affiliates. WorldChangers Media is not ...

Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library

483 rossant 2025-03-11 16:33:24 UTC 178 medium.com/@caitlin9165 Llama Share

Fastplotlib is a powerful tool for scientific visualization that provides an easy-to-use and intuitive API for creating high-level interactive plots, driving scientific discovery through data exploration and analysis. It leverages modern graphics hardware and abstracts away lower-level rendering engine details to allow users to focus on their data and interact with it easily and intuitively.

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)

403 homarp 2025-03-11 10:07:17 UTC 367 seeinglogic.com Llama Share

The user investigated the factors that make code difficult to read and found 8 visually observable patterns that can help determine why certain code is harder to read, including line/operator/operand count, novelty, grouping, conditional simplicity, gotos, nesting, and variable usage. These patterns can be used across languages and code formats to provide objective measures for discussions ...

New tools for building agents

382 meetpateltech 2025-03-11 17:04:57 UTC 153 openai.com Llama Share

OpenAI releases new building blocks for developers to build reliable agents, including the Responses API, Agents SDK, and integrated observability tools. These tools simplify agent development, enabling developers to create autonomous systems that deliver real-world impact across various industries.

Show HN: We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls

301 coleashman 2025-03-11 15:48:33 UTC 477 pilaenergy.com Llama Share

Pila is a smart battery system that stores solar or utility power and optimizes energy for outage protection and bill savings. It provides effortless control over home energy with smart alerts, outlet control, and automation.

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

268 pseudolus 2025-03-11 14:24:48 UTC 183 bbc.com Llama Share

Ocracoke Island in North Carolina has a unique dialect called Hoi Toider, blending English, Irish, and Scottish influences. The dialect is slowly fading away due to modernization and tourism, but the island's culture remains strong in other ways.

America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1

261 lasermatts 2025-03-11 11:25:13 UTC 411 semianalysis.com Full Share

Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997)

237 wizardforhire 2025-03-11 00:11:33 UTC 56 fourmilab.ch Prefix Share

One of the things I detested about being a little kid was that every time I thought of something really cool to do, I was invariably thwarted by my little brother shouting, “Mom! Kelvin's mixing rocket fuel in the bathtub again!” or “Mom! Kelvin's making a submarine out of the old refrigerator!”. Well, middle age has its drawbacks, but at least you can undertake a project like this ...

Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels

231 suraci 2025-03-11 05:19:50 UTC 233 economist.com Llama Share

A writer visited a small village in northern India and found poverty and deprivation, with villagers recalling harsh conditions from their past. The article discusses economic nationalism and its origins, noting it may have been an American invention.

ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air

223 iamflimflam1 2025-03-11 08:21:59 UTC 89 developer.espressif.com Llama Share

Espressif has addressed claims of a potential "backdoor" in ESP32 Bluetooth controller, stating undocumented HCI commands are for debugging and pose no security threat. A software fix will remove access to these commands and document all Vendor-specific HCI commands for transparency.

Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond

209 speckx 2025-03-11 13:50:22 UTC 76 chicagomaroon.github.io Llama Share

The University of Chicago's expansion on the South Side has led to conflicting priorities, land use disputes, and racial tension with surrounding neighborhoods. The university's urban renewal campaign has shaped its built environment over 135 years.

AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court

205 hn_acker 2025-03-11 15:32:46 UTC 161 lawfaremedia.org Llama Share

Gary Schildhorn nearly fell victim to an AI-powered voice scam. The Federal Rules of Evidence need to be updated to account for the growing trend of AI-generated voices.

Local Deep Research – ArXiv, wiki and other searches included

185 learningcircuit 2025-03-11 07:51:32 UTC 30 github.com/learningcircuit Llama Share

Ollama is a research assistant that performs deep analysis using LLMs and web searches, with auto-selection of search sources and local document search capabilities. It can be run locally or in the cloud and supports multiple search engines, including Wikipedia, arXiv, and local collections.

Show HN: Krep a High-Performance String Search Utility Written in C

167 daviducolo 2025-03-11 16:12:43 UTC 73 davidesantangelo.github.io Full Share

Optimized algorithms and memory-mapped file I/O deliver up to 5x faster search speeds than traditional tools. krep's performance advantages are particularly noticeable when processing large files on modern multi-core systems, where it can fully leverage hardware capabilities and parallel processing.

NIST selects HQC as fifth algorithm for post-quantum encryption

164 gnabgib 2025-03-11 14:44:44 UTC 116 nist.gov Llama Share

NIST selected a backup encryption algorithm called HQC to protect against future quantum computers. HQC is designed to provide a second line of defense alongside the previously standardized ML-KEM algorithm.

New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet

161 indy 2025-03-11 07:56:19 UTC 161 theregister.com Llama Share

Health New Zealand uses a single Excel spreadsheet to manage its $NZ28 billion finances, but it has led to budget blowouts and a review criticizing its inability to track financial outcomes. The agency has 6,000 applications and 100 digital networks, but no plan to replace its outdated Excel system.

Sorting algorithms with CUDA

149 ashwani-rathee 2025-03-11 23:47:43 UTC 41 ashwanirathee.com Llama Share

The user implemented merge sort using CUDA to explore performance improvements through parallel computing, but found that CUDA doesn't handle recursion well and implemented an iterative approach instead. The iterative approach merges subarrays in a bottom-up manner, achieving better performance than the recursive approach and competitive results with thrust::sort for larger arrays.

Shef

141 eduardoagarcia 2025-03-11 00:16:54 UTC 46 github.com/eduardoagarcia Llama Share

Shef is a CLI tool for cooking up shell recipes without the mess, inspired by CyberChef. It allows users to pipe commands together, add interactive user prompts, and build reusable workflows with advanced conditional logic.

Backyard Cyanide

137 tancik 2025-03-11 17:46:01 UTC 54 suziepetryk.com Llama Share

Cherry laurel, a popular landscaping choice, contains cyanide in its leaves, stems, seeds, and unripe fruit, making it toxic and potentially deadly if ingested. Despite its toxicity, cherry laurel fruit is edible when ripe and is consumed in various forms in the Black Sea region of Turkey, where it is known as karayemis.

Why Go?

127 mepian 2025-03-11 17:21:09 UTC 106 github.com/microsoft Full Share

Language choice is always a hot topic! We extensively evaluated many language options, both recently and in prior investigations. We also considered hybrid approaches where certain components could...

The masters of Commodore 64 games

105 Retrogamingpap 2025-03-11 17:12:43 UTC 51 spillhistorie.no Llama Share

A man named Rich Hinton discovered a collection of floppy disks from Gary Sabin, a former US Gold employee, containing game masters and music sources. The disks were preserved and used to recreate a master tape for the game Hardball and uncover the source of a commonly used Novaload music tune.

Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers

95 userbinator 2025-03-11 05:08:33 UTC 53 theregister.com Llama Share

Cloudflare's browser-detection routines are blocking users of niche browsers from accessing multiple sites. Users can report issues on Cloudflare's forum but the company appears to be ignoring these reports.

Saving U.S. Climate and Environmental Data Before It Goes Away

94 YaleE360 2025-03-11 15:37:03 UTC 32 e360.yale.edu Llama Share

Eric Nost, a geographer and policy scholar, is working with the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative to track and back up government data sets before they are lost. The Trump administration has altered or removed thousands of data sets, including tools for tracking climate change and toxic hazards, which Nost calls censorship and propaganda.

A Supersolid Made Using Photons

91 walterbell 2025-03-11 05:30:45 UTC 30 photonicsonline.com Llama Share

Researchers at CNR Nanotec in Italy demonstrated a supersolid phase of matter in a photonic crystal polariton condensate. This discovery introduces a new platform for exploring supersolidity and has implications for quantum technologies and potential applications in neuromorphic computing and advanced photonic devices.

Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2

89 TheAceOfHearts 2025-03-11 07:48:29 UTC 26 md-subs.com Llama Share

Anime fansubbers use various techniques to enhance visuals in subtitles, including blurring text for fuzzy hearing, fading subtitles with shots, and adding reflected text to mirrors. They also replicate onscreen text styles and create special karaoke subtitles for musical sequences and mimic subtitles to match the original visuals.

Representing Type Lattices Compactly

87 tekknolagi 2025-03-11 12:50:02 UTC 27 bernsteinbear.com Llama Share

The Cinder JIT compiler represents types as sets (lattices) and uses a compact bitset representation to optimize operations. It also uses specialization to track specific object values and handles unknown types with a "Bottom" element.

Espressif's Response to Undocumented Commands in ESP32 Bluetooth by Tarlogic

85 flockonus 2025-03-11 13:23:03 UTC 28 espressif.com Llama Share

Espressif clarifies that "backdoor" in ESP32 chips is actually debug commands for testing purposes, not accessible remotely. Espressif will provide a software fix to remove these commands and recommends users update to the latest firmware for security patches.

European-alternatives.eu Experiencing Massive Traffic Increase Since January

85 pentacent_hq 2025-03-11 07:22:06 UTC 40 mastodon.social Llama Share

European Alternatives saw a significant increase in traffic after Trump's election, but the site's owner is struggling to handle the influx of suggestions. They are considering adding an account feature to streamline contributions.

Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

83 truegoric 2025-03-11 11:05:10 UTC 66 cleantechnica.com Llama Share

Elon Musk made a baseless claim that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim was involved with drug cartels, likely to smear the New York Times' largest shareholder. This led Slim to cancel a $22 billion Starlink investment, instead partnering with Chinese and European companies.

Launch HN: Sift Dev (YC W25) – AI-Powered Datadog Alternative

82 Akula112233 2025-03-11 17:00:46 UTC 56 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Kaushik and Ishir built SiftDev, an intelligent logging tool that automatically identifies anomalies and lets users interact with logs through natural language queries. It bridges the gap between machine-generated log data and human insights by understanding application context and behavior patterns.

Pets Can't Stop Watching 'Flow,' the Oscar-Winning Cat Movie

81 ChrisArchitect 2025-03-11 03:00:15 UTC 12 nytimes.com Llama Share

The article discusses how the animated film "Flow" from Latvia won the Oscar for best animated feature and has become a popular trend on TikTok with dogs and cats watching it alongside their owners. The film's visuals and real animal sounds may be attracting the attention of pets, creating a special bonding experience between viewers and their pets.

How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)

74 pcfwik 2025-03-11 18:40:54 UTC 54 cs.virginia.edu Llama Share

Edsger W.Dijkstra criticizes Computing Science for avoiding uncomfortable truths about programming languages and practices. He argues that silence compromises the field's intellectual integrity.

Modern Baby: A pioneering computer from Manchester

74 klelatti 2025-03-11 06:37:14 UTC 11 thechipletter.substack.com Llama Share

The first truly modern computer, the Manchester Baby, was built in 1948 in Manchester, UK, using John von Neumann's stored-program concept. It was a 'proof of concept' machine that demonstrated the feasibility of electronic stored-program computers.

More mysterious DNS root query traffic from a large cloud/DNS operator (2022)

73 mooreds 2025-03-11 12:04:19 UTC 15 blog.apnic.net Llama Share

ICANN and Verisign investigated mysterious DNS queries from Google's AS 15169 network, finding random second-level labels and high query rates. Collaboration with the community revealed the queries were likely due to Google's public DNS service prepending nonce labels to prevent spoofing.

Show HN: Program Explorer, a container playground

72 aconz2 2025-03-11 16:33:28 UTC 10 programexplorer.org Full Share

Alpha preview, site may be unavailable without notice

India's Battle to Control the Democracy Narrative

70 ethan_smith 2025-03-11 20:50:39 UTC 103 theplankmag.com Prefix Share

In March 2021, at the India Today Conclave, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar openly dismissed international democracy rankings. You have a set of self-appointed custodians of the world, who find it very difficult to stomach that somebody in India is not looking for their approval...They invent their rules, their parameters, pass their judgements, and then make out as though this is ...

Three Implementation Models for Scheme (1987) [pdf]

68 tosh 2025-03-11 13:19:29 UTC 4 legacy.cs.indiana.edu Llama Share

This text appears to be a dissertation on the implementation of a programming language, specifically focusing on the use of continuations and closures. The text discusses various aspects of the language, including its syntax, semantics, and implementation strategies.

Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?

67 justsocrateasin 2025-03-11 21:09:56 UTC 107 news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

To make 1:1s more effective, prepare by setting aligned goals that benefit both the company and personal growth, and conduct them by discussing progress and outcomes. This helps generate impact stories for future job opportunities and promotions.

Percolation Theory [pdf]

64 mindcrime 2025-03-11 18:43:01 UTC 12 web.mit.edu Prefix Share

The aim of the percolation theory course is to provide a challenging and stimulating introduction to a selection of topics within modern theoretical condensed matter physics. Percolation theory is the simplest model displaying a phase transition. The analytic solutions to 1d and mean-field percolation are presented. While percolation cannot be solved exactly for intermediate dimensions, the ...

"It has been determined" that infected dairy herd serology can be disclosed

61 ctoth 2025-03-11 19:53:24 UTC 39 hogvet51.substack.com Llama Share

The H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle was initially mismanaged due to an exclusive lactating cow theory, which led to delayed serological testing and a lack of understanding of the virus's transmission. Recent serological results from an Ohio herd show widespread subclinical infections and transmission among lactating and non-lactating cows, complicating safe animal movements and food safety questions.

UK petition to keep Apple data encrypted

52 latexr 2025-03-11 17:16:29 UTC 17 you.38degrees.org.uk Llama Share

The UK Home Office wants Apple to create a backdoor in its encrypted services, putting users' security at risk. This could lead to Apple stopping encrypted services in the UK, compromising users' safety online.

The Tesla protests are getting bigger – and rowdier

50 bfelbo 2025-03-11 11:28:31 UTC 28 theverge.com Llama Share

Protests against Elon Musk and Tesla escalated across the US and internationally, with hundreds gathering to boycott the company and its involvement in the Trump administration. Demonstrators held signs and chanted slogans, with some arrests reported, amid concerns over Musk's promotion of right-wing politics and impact on federal workers.

Truth Functional Logic for Hackers

47 ChilledTonic 2025-03-11 18:30:47 UTC 14 lagomor.ph Llama Share

Bob and Alice are hackers working on an embedded system with a slow OR operation. They rewrite the authorize_access function using De Morgan's Law to avoid OR operations, making it run faster on their hardware.

Fast-PNG: PNG image decoder and encoder

47 javatuts 2025-03-11 09:45:00 UTC 20 github.com/image-js Llama Share

The checkCrc option checks for CRC errors in chunks, and the png object has properties for depth, channels, and text chunks.

Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder

47 pseudolus 2025-03-11 06:44:13 UTC 4 theregister.com Llama Share

A judge allowed a claim that Meta removed copyright information from works used to train its AI models, violating the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This ruling may lead to settlement or trial and strengthen plaintiffs in other AI-related litigation.

Cursor uploads .env file with secrets despite .gitignore and .cursorignore

46 bfelbo 2025-03-11 12:29:59 UTC 18 forum.cursor.com Llama Share

User experienced a security issue with Cursor, where it exposed internal company secrets. The issue occurred despite having multiple layers of protection, including .env in .gitignore and .cursorignore.

Show HN: iOS app that corrects your form in real time using your phone's camera

44 AC101101 2025-03-11 12:54:22 UTC 39 firefly.fitness Llama Share

Firefly is an AI Personal Trainer app that uses camera footage to provide real-time form feedback and scores for each exercise. It offers customizable workouts, challenges, and a community feature to track progress and earn badges.

A succinct email in just a subject line

44 Tomte 2025-03-11 05:59:00 UTC 49 rubenerd.com Llama Share

The End of Message marker is a technique where a single fact or question is conveyed in the email subject line, saving recipients from unnecessary clicks. This method is useful for internal emails where a protocol is established, but may confuse people in external communication.

Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li

43 mooreds 2025-03-11 14:56:37 UTC 4 mcsweeneys.net Llama Share

Dong Li's poetry collection "The Orange Tree" explores the complexities of human feeling and the limitations of language. It's a deeply personal and historical account of a family torn apart by China's politics.

A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs

40 philk10 2025-03-11 13:41:31 UTC 18 spin.atomicobject.com Llama Share

The user has been experimenting with running local LLMs for agent-building techniques and found Ollama to be a state-of-the-art option due to its ease of use and wide model library. Ollama allows users to quickly run local LLMs with various models, including LLaMa, Mistral, and DeepSeek, and offers features like benchmarking and perplexity measuring commands.

Unix Needs a True Integrated Environment: CASE Closed (1989) [pdf]

39 todsacerdoti 2025-03-11 21:30:59 UTC 26 bitsavers.org Prefix Share

For the computer programmer in search of a comfortable place to program. UNIX· historically has been not a bad place to settle down. Its long and strong tradition. its well-known functionality. and its growing popularity have helped to make UNIX a productive environment for many a software developer. As good as many perceive it to be. though. UNIX could afford to be made more comprehensive ...

Anomalous Ionization in the Central Molecular Zone by Sub-GeV Dark Matter

37 croes 2025-03-11 14:27:45 UTC 8 journals.aps.org Llama Share

Researchers attribute anomalous ionization in the Central Molecular Zone to MeV dark matter annihilations into e+e− pairs. This theory implies no detectable inverse Compton, bremsstrahlung, or synchrotron emission in radio, x- and γ rays.

The city that forgot itself

36 anarbadalov 2025-03-11 16:55:27 UTC 82 thecritic.co.uk Prefix Share

This article is taaraen from the March 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Greek flags flutter from apartment blocks, Orthodox monks amble past statues of statesmen and freedom fighters along boulevards named after Byzantine emperors and saints. It is a normal weekday in modern Greece’s second-largest city. ...

GitHub is currently merging PRs in the UI with the wrong merge method

34 darknavi 2025-03-11 04:41:08 UTC 10 github.com/orgs Full Share

Select Topic Area Bug Body In a project that allows both the Merge method and the Squash & Merge method, if I try to use the Squash & Merge method, it uses the Merge method anyway. It looks...

How to Minify Godot's Build Size (93MB –> 6.4MB EXE)

33 popcar2 2025-03-11 14:21:05 UTC 5 popcar.bearblog.dev Llama Share

The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to reduce the build size of a Godot project, including compiling export templates, disabling features, and using external tools like UPX and Binaryen. By following these steps, the author was able to reduce the web build size from 9MB to under 5MB and the Windows build size from 93MB to under 10MB.

Show HN: MCPGod: Fine-grained control over MCP clients, servers, and tools

33 gavinuhma 2025-03-11 12:58:55 UTC 8 github.com/mcpgod Llama Share

MCPGod is a CLI tool for managing MCP servers with ease on Windows, macOS, or Linux. It provides detailed logging and a streamlined interface for tasks like adding, running, and removing servers.

Photographers Are on Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits

33 m463 2025-03-11 03:15:59 UTC 41 404media.co Llama Share

WikiPortraits is a volunteer team that aims to improve the quality of celebrity photos on Wikipedia by taking freely-licensed photos at events. Since January, they have covered 10 global festivals and taken nearly 5,000 photos, which are viewed up to 80 million times per month on Wikipedia.

Nasdaq halts high-speed trading service after regulatory pressure

29 marban 2025-03-11 05:14:22 UTC 13 ft.com Full Share

Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Pay a year upfront and save 20%.

It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life

28 surprisetalk 2025-03-11 16:43:00 UTC 12 ourworldindata.org Llama Share

Foreign aid has greatly reduced diseases like polio, malaria, and HIV, saving millions of lives, and a small increase in aid could deliver many more vaccines and treatments. Personal donations and advocating for increased foreign aid can make a significant difference, especially when focused on cost-effective causes.

Calendar.org

23 shahinism 2025-03-11 09:20:34 UTC 4 sourcery.zone Llama Share

User tried using Org Roam's journal but found it cluttered, then discovered calendar.txt and recreated it in Org with templates for a year. The usability is improved with screenshots, tables, and in-place updates, but lacks grep functionality.

Owl: Optimized Workforce Learning for multi-agent collaboration

21 simonpure 2025-03-11 12:14:13 UTC 1 github.com/camel-ai Llama Share

OWL is a cutting-edge framework for multi-agent collaboration that achieves 58.18 average score on GAIA benchmark and ranks #1 among open-source frameworks. It enables natural, efficient, and robust task automation across diverse domains through dynamic agent interactions.

Show HN: Generate Version 7 UUID's for a Timestamp

20 jasoncabot 2025-03-11 13:27:36 UTC 3 uuidv7.org Llama Share

UUIDv7 is a time-based, globally unique identifier that encodes both the timestamp and a unique sequence, offering predictable ordering and suitability for distributed systems. It is designed to be more precise and structured than traditional UUIDs, with benefits including time-ordered and sortable identifiers, efficient storage and indexing, and improved compatibility with modern systems.

Judicial Independence May Require Confrontation

20 everybodyknows 2025-03-11 03:46:16 UTC 3 lawfaremedia.org Llama Share

Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern about declining trust in the independence of the courts in his 2024 Year End Report. The report warns that threats to defy court orders could undermine the independence of judges and create a constitutional crisis.

Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media at SXSW [video]

19 Kye 2025-03-11 00:55:46 UTC 0 youtube.com Embed Share

The Internet of Beefs (2020)

18 throw0101b 2025-03-11 12:05:12 UTC 4 ribbonfarm.com Prefix Share

You’ve heard me talk about crash-only programming, right? It’s a programming paradigm for critical infrastructure systems, where there is — by design — no graceful way to shut down. A program can only crash and try to recover from a crashed state, which might well be impossible. I came up with a term for the human version: beef-only thinking. A beef-only thinker is someone you cannot simply ...

The Evolution of the Color Pink

17 gmays 2025-03-11 02:00:53 UTC 0 lithub.com Llama Share

Charles Joseph de Ligne, a 18th-century prince, popularized the color pink in Europe, symbolizing joy and lightheartedness. The color's meaning and usage evolved over time, from being associated with masculinity to being relegated to women's undergarments and eventually becoming a mundane color in the 20th century.

AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment

13 guzik 2025-03-11 19:25:40 UTC 7 newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com Llama Share

Vidoc Security, a startup, was nearly tricked into hiring two fake candidates using AI-generated masks and false identities, with the second candidate's filter being exposed when asked to make a simple gesture. The company suspects a large, state-level operation may be behind the incidents, targeting hundreds of western tech businesses, and shares tips on how to avoid being tricked by AI candidates.

COBOL Language Front End Merged for GCC 15 Compiler

11 cies 2025-03-11 11:02:09 UTC 3 phoronix.com Llama Share

A COBOL front-end has been merged into GCC 15, allowing users to compile COBOL code with the gcobol command. This feature aims to help migrate traditional mainframe applications to Linux for local use and in the cloud.