Bloomberg's S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep existing eligibility requirements for main benchmarks. It rejects proposals to make it easier for large companies to join the S&P 500 Index after going public.
UC Berkeley computer science classes saw significantly higher failing grades in spring 2026 due to students' overreliance on AI and lack of mathematical preparedness. Instructors point to understaffing and academic dishonesty as contributing factors, with some professors calling for changes in grading policies and student support.
The user initially dismissed AI models like DALL-E and ChatGPT as parlor tricks but had a series of "Oh shit" moments as they realized the potential of these models to solve real problems and change their approach to development. These moments included using Claude code to generate a Zillow description, building a web tool to sort media files, and using AI to translate code and track down ...
Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, but Vite will remain open source and vendor-agnostic. Cloudflare will invest $1 million in a Vite ecosystem fund to support maintainers and contributors.
The Trump administration plans to dismantle an ocean observation system with over 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, leaving scientists without critical data on ocean health. Democrats in Congress vow to "fight" the plan, citing the importance of long-term ocean monitoring amid growing climate concerns.
The Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot is a secure and symmetrical knot that won't come undone on its own. It involves wrapping loops around each other and feeding them through a hole in the middle to create a tight, closed knot.
This is a reference implementation for autonomous vulnerability discovery and remediation using Claude, which includes a lightweight SDK-only walkthrough and a managed option called Claude Security. The implementation provides a step-by-step guide to building a vulnerability finding pipeline, customizing the logic, and using it with various access to Claude APIs.
AI systems are rapidly accelerating their own development, with Anthropic's Claude model writing 80% of the company's code and improving at a rate of 3x per year. This trend points to a future where AI systems can fully design and develop their own successors.
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Wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April 2026, surpassing gas for the first time. Renewable sources produced 531 TWh of electricity, 54 TWh more than gas plants globally.
The user tested various LLMs to see if they could reproduce a common class of exploits in a fake React Native app and backend, specifically accessing a user's private reviews through Firebase. Most models were able to find Firebase but struggled to directly access it, with some getting distracted by trying to use Firebase Auth on the API instead.
The user subscribed to NYTimes but was annoyed by 5 onboarding emails they couldn't opt out of. They felt powerless and think NYTimes is desperate for clicks.
UK media frequently presents retired senior military figures as independent experts without disclosing their commercial interests. This creates a misleading impression of impartiality and undermines public trust in media reporting on defence and security issues.
As a technologist and parent, I'm choosing to share enriching aspects of technology with my kids by using physical media like CDs and DVDs, and setting up a home phone and computer with curated access to the internet.
The Meta app Stella for smart glasses has a complete on-device facial recognition system, including detection, alignment, embedding, and notification, but it is not active for ordinary users. The system is functional and can recognize faces, but it requires enrollment data and is not enabled in production, suggesting it is a capability waiting to be shipped.
South Korean government requires internet communities to scan user uploads with AI due to regulation changes. Small businesses face financial pressure to buy datacenter-grade Nvidia GPUs to implement the new requirement.
AI agents struggle to write good tests due to poor human examples and bad testing practices. Providing guidance like Kent Beck's Canon TDD or a personal TDD skill can improve test quality.
Uruky is a private EU-based search engine with no ads, tracking, or analytics, offering personalized results and a copy of the source code after 12 months of paid service. It focuses on search functionality without AI, assistants, or news, prioritizing user privacy and independence.
Anthropic engineers discuss agent security risks and containment strategies for their AI products, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork. They emphasize the importance of environment-layer defenses, such as isolation and egress controls, to prevent data exfiltration and other security breaches.
Researchers evaluated three projection sharing constraints in transformers, finding that sharing query, key, and value projections (Q-K=V) achieves comparable or better performance with 50% cache reduction in language modeling. This approach is complementary to head sharing, enabling up to 96.9% cache reduction for practical on-device inference.
The LEGO Architecture Sagrada Família model kit is a 12,060 piece set that recreates the iconic Spanish landmark with stained-glass effect windows. It's a challenging and rewarding build for adults, suitable as a gift for travel lovers and architecture fans.
Researchers propose Gaussian point splatting, a method to render Gaussian splats efficiently. It uses parallel programming and culling to render hundreds of millions of Gaussians in real time.
WSL 2's file I/O performance has improved with a change in May 2026 that removes a virtiofs bottleneck. This optimizes cross-OS file access for file-heavy workloads.
Historians criticize Charles Mackay's book for its historical inaccuracies but traders praise it for its insights on market bubbles. The book's chapter on the end of the world is relevant to modern business.
Google employees share memes internally about AI being bad at its job and making their work harder. They express frustration with AI-generated code being difficult to review and maintain.
This article explains how to use Dune, a build system for OCaml, to create and manage OCaml projects. It covers setting up a project, building and running code, testing, and generating documentation using Dune and its tools.
Biohub released a world model of protein biology, a scientific engine for prediction, design, and discovery that can map proteins and design new binders. The engine, ESMFold2, can predict protein structures and design binders in days, accelerating early therapeutic discovery.
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Speculative KV coding is a lossless compression method for large language model (LLM) caches, using a predictor model to estimate the cache's values and an arithmetic coder to encode the differences. The method can achieve up to 8x compression on original bf16 caches and stacks multiplicatively with lossy quantization.
KVarN delivers FP16-level accuracy with up to 4x KV-cache capacity and 1.3x throughput. It's a calibration-free, plug-and-play solution for vLLM with native attention backend.
Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO is rigged to enrich insiders while harming unsuspecting investors due to lax Nasdaq rules and SpaceX's own financial mismanagement. The IPO's success could lead to a massive bubble in AI investing and a devastating loss for retail investors.
The Iran war has caused a global energy crisis, driving countries to seek new, more stable sources of energy, such as renewables and electric devices. Governments are offering subsidies and loans to households for solar energy, batteries, and heat pumps to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
Chemists have observed a boron buckminsterfullerene for the first time, providing evidence for an 80-atom cage structure. This discovery challenges density functional theory and may lead to new materials such as semiconductors or superconductors.
Scientists have developed a new method called Sidewinder that can assemble dozens of genetic sequences simultaneously with high precision, far surpassing conventional methods. This breakthrough promises to unlock the potential of generative AI in biology by enabling fast, affordable, and accurate physical construction of novel genetic sequences.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in 2020 for refusing to retract a paper warning about large language models. Every prediction in the paper has now come true, including hallucinations, bias amplification, environmental costs, and model collapse.
Scientists discovered that queen bee cells are made of chemically engineered wax that helps future queens survive and develop. The wax's unique properties, such as lower density and higher melting temperature, play a crucial role in raising new queens.
A software engineer's union could provide a moral framework for refusing to implement unethical features. Meta's analytics pixel secretly tracked Android users' browsing activity, but Chrome and Firefox have since implemented local-network-access to prevent this.
The author discusses how not building certain features can be beneficial, allowing teams to prioritize what's truly important. They worry that relying on AI to build features will lead to codebases becoming illegible and overly complex.
boxes.dev gives each agent a cloud VM, allowing parallel coding, and can be managed from a phone. It uses existing Codex or Claude Code subscriptions and offers prepaid credit for overage.
A formally verified implementation of a polygon intersection algorithm was developed using Lean 4 proof assistant, ensuring correctness for any configuration of input polygons. The development utilized AI agents, which significantly improved with recent model releases, allowing for more efficient and accurate formal verification.
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The speaker believes that choosing the hardest thing to work on, when few others are willing to attempt it, can lead to success and high value. This approach, known as "the hard thing," involves tackling a challenging problem in a market with existing demand, often resulting in durable startups.
A browser-based video editor uses WebAssembly to process videos locally without uploading or servers. It offers 30+ video operations, offline support, and multi-format support.
Dumb.co was founded in 2025 in Washington, DC, as a response to a 30-day smartphone challenge. The Dumbphone 2 is a companion device syncing with smartphones, offering basic features like maps and messaging.
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Chris found a CNC guide and published "The Secret Life of Circuits" with No Starch Press. He emphasizes basic trigonometry for electronics, citing math and EE backgrounds in early Information Security.
FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) is a library for efficient similarity search that uses approximate search methods to speed up search by orders of magnitude while sacrificing a tiny bit of accuracy. It combines Inverted File (IVF) and Product Quantization (PQ) to achieve fast and efficient nearest neighbor search, making it suitable for real-time systems like web-scale retrieval or live ...
The "Tank Man" image is censored in China due to its representation of an ordinary person standing up against the government. The image's significance is unbearable to the Chinese regime, which continues to control information and suppress dissent.
Merek is a desktop app for working with Amazon ECS, showing services across accounts and regions without collecting telemetry. It connects to AWS using existing credentials and allows for tasks such as deployment, cost estimation, and log inspection.
CASTOR is a hierarchical storage management system developed at CERN for archiving physics data. It provides access protocols and manages data storage on disk and tape.
The largest animated icon library for Vue 3. 535 Lucide icons, drop-in and tree-shakeable, with hover, tap, and in-view triggers and a live gallery.
The article questions using DNS for internal IT infrastructure due to potential risks of failure and complexity. It suggests avoiding DNS altogether for increased reliability and robustness.
is a statically-typed compiled language with safe and unsafe code separation, compile-time correctness checks, and powerful abstractions. It's memory-safe and race-condition-safe, inspired by C++ but without its downsides.
Ashby Engineering uses AI to generate code, but emphasizes human judgment and empathy to ensure quality and customer understanding. Engineers focus on high-level decisions, while AI handles mechanical tasks, freeing them to build great products and understand customer needs.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the photophone, a wireless telephone that used light to transmit sound, in 1880. The device relied on sunlight and was initially limited but later saw use in World War I and II and gained importance with fiber optic cables in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The user upgraded their Atari 400 to an 800XL in 1985, which improved their programming experience with a better keyboard and 64K of RAM. They created a utility program called DOSBOS, but it was rejected by ANALOG magazine due to its limitations as a BASIC program.
PawPrint is a deterministic .NET runtime that interprets IL and shims out BCL JIT intrinsics and native code. It uses probabilistic concurrency testing and maintains a rich internal model of the IL machine for time-travel debugging and control over history.
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J.C.R. Licklider proposed the concept of man-computer symbiosis in 1960, where humans and computers work together to solve complex problems, with the computer handling routine tasks and the human providing goals, hypotheses, and evaluations. To achieve this symbiosis, significant advancements in computer technology, including memory organization, programming languages, and input/output ...
Ryan Thorpe uses a pizza party analogy to illustrate US wealth distribution, where 1 person has 30 slices, 9 have 3.7, 40 have 0.75, and 50 have 0.05 slices. This leaves 96.1 slices unaccounted for, highlighting wealth inequality in the US.
Infracost helps teams optimize cloud costs by applying FinOps policies in real-time during IaC development. It prevents 95% of new cost issues before deployment and saves up to $312/mo.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb wants the EU to expand to 40 states, including the UK, Canada, Turkey, Norway, and Iceland. He believes this will give the EU more power and influence on the global stage.
wxWidgets now defaults to creating new config files in ~/.config by default, unless an existing dot file is found. A new function wxFileConfig::MigrateLocalFile() allows migrating existing config files to the new location.
The gcc libstdc++ algorithm and the forward-iterator algorithm are the same, but with different perspectives. The new algorithm is symmetric and performs swaps from right to left if the larger block is on the right.
The White House plans to spend $700M to revive coal energy, saddling Americans with pollution and higher costs. This move contradicts the US's decades-long shift away from coal due to its unreliability, cost, and environmental harm.
The post discusses how PHP's reputation has been unfairly tarnished despite its evolution and continued use in 43% of the web, mainly due to its association with shared hosting and WordPress. This reputation is a social signal that programmers use to judge each other's language choices.
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A Dartmouth study found that the US is overarmed due to a phenomenon called "overarming" where individual incentives to buy firearms lead to a collective cost outweighing individual benefits. The study suggests that highly connected social networks can both exacerbate and reduce overarming through targeted interventions and public information campaigns.
To detect late frame draws in Qt Quick, measure elapsed time when an item becomes visible and use QQuickItem::ensurePolished to ensure the frame is rendered. Calculate the number of frames dropped by dividing the measured time by the display's refresh rate.
Researchers developed a framework to distill multi-agent debate into a single large language model, improving efficiency by up to 93% and matching performance. This internalization creates agent-specific subspaces, allowing for easier control of internalized reasoning behaviors.
Compilers, especially method just-in-time compilers, struggle with inlining due to limited context and potential negative effects on code size and performance. Inlining heuristics, such as callee/caller call count ratio and call context analysis, are used to reason about inlining decisions and optimize performance in various JIT compilers.
AI is struggling to develop medium-hard Gin Rummy strategies. Suggest exploring decision trees, probability analysis, and card counting techniques to improve bot's gameplay.
Columbus's navigation mistake was not using Polaris as true north due to its distance from the North Celestial Pole. Iberian navigators used "guard stars" to correct for this error, adding or subtracting degrees to their latitude calculations.
Men often exaggerate their height on dating apps and in professional sports, such as basketball, to gain an advantage. This practice is rooted in societal biases that associate height with power, status, and attractiveness.
The user discusses the ruliology of competition, specifically how finite state machines compete in games like match-or-not and prisoner's dilemma, and how adaptive evolution can lead to winning strategies. The user finds that winning machines are not necessarily more complex, and that machines with more states can systematically do better than those with fewer states, but the relationship ...
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Reweighting data to correct covariate shift reduces bias but increases variance, which is measured by the effective sample size (n_eff). n_eff represents the number of usable data points after reweighting, and it's a diagnostic control signal in off-policy reinforcement learning.
You're questioning the value of studying coding and computer science due to AI's capabilities, wondering if it's still worthwhile and if other fields will remain valuable in the future.
A customer's AWS Lambda was experiencing OOM-killed issues due to high memory usage, but reducing the cache size made it worse. The issue was caused by ONNX Runtime's allocator behavior, which was hoarding memory, and was resolved by disabling the allocator and adjusting the allocation threshold to 32 KB.
The text discusses the slanted appearance of displays due to line-by-line updates and how this could have been done differently. It highlights various examples of intentional typography choices in displays and printed materials.
Recent route hijacks reported by Spamhaus involved bad actors creating fake AS_PATHs to misdirect traffic. Enforcing the First AS in the AS_PATH attribute can prevent these hijacks, and many Tier 1 networks are vulnerable to this type of attack.