Create a personal "ramblings" channel for each team member in your chat app to share thoughts without cluttering group channels. This helps remote teams stay connected while minimizing interruptions and fosters creative solutions.
Node.js has evolved from a callback-heavy landscape to a clean, standards-based development experience. Modern Node.js uses ES Modules, top-level await, and built-in tools for better performance and maintainability.
A design document is a technical report that outlines a system's implementation strategy, convincing the reader that the design is optimal given the situation. Writing a design document helps add rigor to vague intuitions and requires good organization, editing, and anticipating reader objections.
Researchers at Anthropic identified patterns of activity within AI models' neural networks that control their character traits, called persona vectors. These vectors can be used to monitor and control AI models' personalities, preventing undesirable traits like evil, sycophancy, and hallucination.
Writing a PDF parser is challenging due to non-compliant files and incorrect cross-reference tables. Most parsers are extended to support these issues, but a 0.5% error rate still exists in sample files.
The author discusses the challenges of building a subscription-based AI business due to the increasing demand for high-quality AI services and the resulting high compute costs. The author argues that flat-rate subscriptions with unlimited usage are unsustainable and that companies need to adopt usage-based pricing to survive.
The IOCCC28 contest had 23 winners, a record, with submissions that were well under the size limit, showing improved obfuscation skills. The contest's judging process took 33 days, a significant improvement from previous contests, thanks to website and registration process improvements.
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Automerge 3.0 is released with a 10x reduction in memory usage, making it feasible for wider use. It also cleans up redundant APIs and is nearly fully backwards compatible with Automerge 2.
The author's programming habits have changed since Claude Code launched, favoring typed languages like TypeScript, Rust, and Go for their safety guarantees. AI tools like Claude Code now enable faster and safer development, potentially decreasing Python adoption in companies for production deployments.
The author predicts the US dollar will lose its global primacy due to the country's increasing debt and fiscal irresponsibility, leading to a loss of public trust in the dollar. The author believes the dollar's decline will be a gradual process, driven by the erosion of American institutions and the country's inability to manage its finances.
D Sculley leads teams at Google's Cambridge research site, focusing on machine learning for various projects including biology and chemistry. He's taking this course to explore fabrication techniques and potential cross-domain opportunities.
The course HTGAA 2025 has multiple locations and instructors, with a focus on synthetic biology and biotechnology. It features global recitations, in-person labs, and online office hours.
Dictators may be effective in economic growth but often brutal in human rights. Economic growth in autocracies has been twice as fast as in democracies since 2002.
Scientists studied 22 years of satellite data and found that Earth's continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss since 2002 due to climate change and unsustainable groundwater use. This loss is accelerating sea-level rise and threatens global water security, agriculture, and stability.
comptime.ts is a TypeScript compiler that enables compile-time evaluation of expressions marked with comptime, moving computations from runtime to compile time. It supports various expressions, but the resultant value must be serializable to JSON and is only allowed in project files.
The author discusses the RDI PrecisionBook, a PA-RISC laptop released in 1997 that could run HP-UX and Macintosh System 7.5.3 software simultaneously using the Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) emulator. The author explores the hardware and software of the PrecisionBook, including its PA-7300LC processor, HP-UX 11.00 operating system, and MAE 3.0 emulator, which allows it to run ...
User uses C++26 reflections to generate a PlantUML diagram at compile time. They use std::meta::info objects, lift and splice operators, and std::define_static_string to create a string literal with the UML diagram.
Researchers explored ways to reduce variance in Monte Carlo integration, including stratified sampling, which partitions the domain into regions and samples each one independently, and dynamic stratification, which adjusts the number of samples in each region based on their variance. They also discussed Quasi-Monte Carlo estimators, which use deterministic sequences to generate samples and ...
Python's early success was fueled by community passion and a few key events, including a 1994 meeting that formed the community. The Python Software Foundation was established in 2001, allowing the language to grow and thrive with professional staffing and diverse support.
The author refuses to invest in Palantir due to its involvement in military and intelligence work, including targeted killings, and believes it will facilitate dystopian scenarios. Palantir's partnership with the US government and its potential to use biometric data for autonomous drone strikes poses a significant threat to global security.
The Trump administration's budget cuts to the National Park Service have raised concerns about privatization of national parks, echoing a long history of debate over public land use. Yosemite, California, has played a central role in this debate, with private interests often conflicting with preservation efforts.
The author, A.J. Corda, compiled a collection of notes and observations on reviving a defunct 4D series machine, sharing his experiences and tips with the internet community. The document covers topics such as hardware debugging, booting from CDROM, and creating an ersatz miniroot for backup purposes, and is intended as an unofficial supplement to the official SGI hardware FAQs.
We created a kmonad service for GNU Guix by defining a service type, extending the account and shepherd services, and implementing a kmonad shepherd service to start and stop the kmonad daemon. The service type and shepherd service were packaged into a local Guix module, and an example of how to add the service to a system configuration was provided.
Seed7 is a higher level language with open-source interpreter and compiler, combining concepts from various languages. It supports static type checking, database connections, and object orientation.
The book provides a guide to understanding and using open ADS-B and Mode S data, covering background information, hardware and software setups, and decoding processes. It includes 17 core chapters with examples and Python code to explain the decoding process.
OpenAI's "discoverable" feature exposed over 100,000 ChatGPT chats to Google search, revealing sensitive data and personal info. The company quickly fixed the issue, but many chats remain archived and searchable on the Internet Archive.
Recent graduates face a tough job market with high unemployment rates and limited job opportunities, leading to frustration and financial struggles. Many are forced to take lower-paying jobs or live with their parents, making it difficult to achieve their financial goals and independence.
The author reflects on their work habits and sense of self-worth, realizing that rest and revery are essential for creativity and well-being. They're taking a break from their Sunday newsletter in August to focus on rest and reflection.
Apple's stagnation under Tim Cook's leadership is evident as AI-first companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, and Nvidia surpass it in innovation and valuation. Cook's inability to adapt to the AI era and his reliance on China for manufacturing are major concerns for Apple's future.
Herbie is a tool for improving floating-point accuracy in code, with various releases and features added over time. The tool has been used in research and has received talks and presentations at conferences.
Air travel is plagued by inefficiencies, including lengthy airport arrival times and congested air traffic control. This wastes billions of dollars in passenger time and revenue for airlines.
UniFi OS Server is a self-hosted platform for UniFi Network and select apps, offering newer cloud features without Dream Machine or Cloud Key requirements. It's a useful upgrade for those already managing UniFi at scale, but not a game-changer for MSPs in its current form.
The user uses Claude Code to implement new features in a complex codebase, requiring hands-on involvement and oversight to maintain quality and prevent technical debt. They follow a structured process, reviewing AI code, asking questions, and testing extensively to ensure consistency with best practices and the codebase.
Scientists found that despite language differences, all languages convey information at roughly the same rate of 39 bits per second. This rate is likely limited by human biology, specifically how quickly we can process and gather thoughts.
The author hosted Emily Simons through the Fulbright Program, and they collaborated on various projects including graph learning and data science. The author highly recommends Emily for her skills and contributions, and emphasizes the value of the Fulbright Program in fostering change and mutual understanding.
The US healthcare system has made significant progress in adopting electronic health records (EHRs) but still faces challenges with usability, interoperability, and cybersecurity, which have led to clinician burnout and increased costs. Despite efforts to improve EHR systems, the industry still has a long way to go to achieve seamless interoperability and patient-centric care, with AI ...
Coursera's new CEO, Greg Hart, drove the company's stock price up 36% with growth, but this may come at a cost to learners worldwide with the introduction of "Preview Mode" locking course content. This shift marks a fundamental change from Coursera's original mission of making education freely available.
The post describes a common problem and a new software solution, but the write-up is overly promotional and lacks clarity. The author expects a different UX as a hacker, but the post feels like marketing.
Google has removed 58 organizations related to diversity, equity, and inclusion from its funding list, citing a change in contributions to have the most impact. The move comes amid increasing national anti-DEI policies and cost-cutting measures to prioritize AI investments.
North Carolina's math placement system was found to be inequitable, with high-scoring students often excluded from advanced math classes due to subjective teacher recommendations. Legislation was passed to require students scoring at the highest level to be enrolled in advanced math, but the state later changed the scoring system, effectively undermining the law's intent.
HTTP/1.1 is insecure and exposes millions of websites to hostile takeover due to desync attacks. Request smuggling, a clever attack, exploits HTTP/1.1's chunked encoding and Content-Length fields to compromise servers.
Newtypes in Haskell provide a weaker form of type safety compared to constructive data modeling, as they do not enforce invariants intrinsically but rather rely on external validation. While newtypes can be useful for abstraction boundaries and encapsulation, they should not be relied upon for intrinsic type safety and should be used judiciously to avoid creating unnecessary complexity.
Carlo Palombo, a 47-year-old ex-Barclays vice president, has his conviction for manipulating the EURIBOR rate overturned and is now free to pursue a new career. He plans to focus on philosophy instead of returning to the financial services industry.
In 1943, Australia secretly sent a platypus named Winston to UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but it died during the 45-day voyage. The true cause of Winston's death was recently discovered to be prolonged high temperatures, not a German U-boat explosion.
The Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (AVPN) promotes and protects traditional Neapolitan pizza-making standards. The AVPN certifies pizzerias and trains pizzaioli to maintain authentic Neapolitan pizza traditions.
Critcl is a package for creating Tcl extensions, with version 3 under active development and version 2 reaching end of life in 2011. Users can retrieve the current sources or clone the project with Git.
The author argues that current programming environments, such as Khan Academy's live coding feature, are ineffective for learning programming because they do not provide a clear understanding of the program's flow and data. A well-designed environment should make the program's flow and data visible, allowing the learner to understand the code and its effects, and should encourage the learner ...
Craig Newmark invented Craigslist in 1995, a site that disrupted the newspaper classified business model. Newmark's simple design and focus on customer service helped Craigslist become a wildly profitable business.
The user is creating a library to talk directly to the AFD.sys driver on Windows 11, completely skipping the Winsock layer, and has successfully created a TCP socket using NtDeviceIoControlFile and hand-crafted IRPs. The user has also reverse-engineered the AFD_OPEN_PACKET_EA structure and identified the fields and their purposes, including the unknown bytes which are required for AFD.sys to ...
OpenAI is spending billions on acquisitions and infrastructure, betting on its path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The company's aggressive expansion strategy may be the most expensive YOLO in tech history.
A federal jury found Tesla partially liable in a wrongful death lawsuit, awarding $329 million in damages. The jury held Tesla responsible for selling a vehicle with a defect that contributed to the crash, while the driver was two-thirds responsible.
Brazilian artists Oswald de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral created the "Manifesto Antropófago" in 1928, calling for cultural cannibalism and rejecting European influence. The manifesto's ideas continue to influence Brazilian art and culture, with some seeing it as a provocative commentary on cultural appropriation and others as a relic of colonialism.
To migrate to systemd-homed, backup and rename the existing home directory, remove the user record from /etc/passwd and related files, and create a new account with the same username and UID. Then, migrate the old home directory into the new one using rsync and remove the old home directory once the migration is complete.
Cord Land offers a one-time purchase for Premium Plan features and a 10-day trial period for new members. After the trial, only viewing lead sheets is allowed, but buying the plan gives permanent access to all features.
The July 2025 jobs report shows a stalled labor market with only 73,000 jobs added, contradicting CEOs' claims of AI-driven workforce revolution. Layoff data and LCA reports suggest AI is masking offshoring, not replacing jobs.
The author criticizes Trump for firing the BLS commissioner after a bad jobs report, compromising the agency's nonpartisan integrity. The author now questions the reliability of BLS data and will rely on private surveys for economic information.
The Spatial Web is a 3D evolution of the internet where content exists in real 3D space with depth and perspective. It allows seamless interaction between digital and physical worlds on various devices including XR and desktop computers.
The user discusses file cloning in APFS, a feature that allows creating multiple copies of a file without using additional disk space, and explains how to clone files using Python on macOS. They provide two methods to clone files in Python, one using the subprocess module to shell out to the cp command and another using the ctypes library to call the macOS syscall clonefile().
Falcon-H1 is a new series of large language models featuring a hybrid architecture combining Transformer and State Space Models for high performance and efficiency. It outperforms or matches larger models like Qwen3-32B and Llama3.3-70B with fewer parameters and less data.
Microsoft's MS-DOS versions older than 5.0 had a bug that caused them to hang when booting with more than two hard disks due to a limitation in the INT 13h interface. This bug was fixed by IBM in Summer 1989 with Corrective Service Diskette (CSD) UR27164, which was later included in MS-DOS 5.0.
The author photographed Tony Bourdain for her book "My Last Supper" and captured a memorable image of him holding a bloody bone, which became a central part of the project. The photo sparked a lot of attention and Tony initially refused to appear at signings or on TV due to his discomfort with the image.
Writing Rust for Android can be complicated due to limited OS access, but JNI allows Rust to use Java APIs. A technique called DexClassLoader enables Rust libraries to inject custom Java classes, making Android development easier for Rust developers.
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The user demonstrates using DSPy to classify individual pages of a document and determine document boundaries using a hybrid approach of predefined classes and open-ended classification. This allows for improved downstream processing accuracy and flexibility in handling diverse document types.
Voltpeek is a command-based PC oscilloscope software that works with NS1 and NS0 hardware. It can be installed using git clone and pip install commands, then run with the voltpeek command.
Kled is a platform that securely sells raw data to top AI labs, supporting over 100 file formats and providing transparency and compliance. It prepares and stores data, detecting plagiarism and distributing it to buyers for continuous payouts.
Air travel is plagued by inefficiencies, including lengthy airport arrival times and outdated security processes. To improve, we need more airports, streamlined security, and increased air traffic capacity to reduce delays and make travel more viable.
AI experts believe they can solve the problem of AI hallucination within a year. They think it's solvable because large language models are surprisingly well calibrated before fine-tuning, and preserving this calibration is key.