AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

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The accessibility of AI-generated code has accelerated the development process, but it has not eliminated the need for judgment and expertise in software development. To succeed in this new landscape, engineers must learn to use AI as a force multiplier on deep knowledge, rather than a replacement for it, and operate at a higher level of abstraction while keeping their roots in the fundamentals.

RamenHaus

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Welcome to RamenHaus, home of rotating ramen. So far, 114 bowls have been photographed, slurped and posted. Start with the latest entry, click a bowl to continue, or browse the complete index. Inspired by Lauren's Rotating Sandwiches and everyone at Naive Yearly. Ideas, collaborations, and questions: [email protected].

Elevators

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Elevators use complex algorithms like SCAN and LOOK to optimize traffic flow. The best algorithm varies depending on building size and traffic patterns, with simpler algorithms sometimes outperforming more advanced ones.

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

How to Do Great Work

To do great work, focus on projects that excite and interest you, and work hard to learn and improve, even if it's difficult and takes time. By being earnest, optimistic, and willing to take risks, you can cultivate a mindset that allows you to make progress and achieve great things.

Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

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New feature allows using fibers on a single thread, replacing thread pool with Async under the hood. Requires Async dependency and fiber isolation in Rails (config.active_support.isolation_level = :fiber).

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

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QM is a platform designed for startups, allowing employees to work independently with isolated workspaces and collaborate with an agent in channels and projects. It's built with open source in mind, allowing users to pick their own harness and model.

How to Exist

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The human tendency is to constantly seek escape from the present moment due to an allergy to existence, often manifesting as restlessness, anxiety, and dissatisfaction. By practicing existing without trying to change it, one can develop the ability to tolerate minor discomforts and reduce the need for escape-driven habits.

The development pipeline is a production system

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Software developers should treat issues with their development pipeline as production outages, prioritizing fixes to prevent downtime and deliver value to the company. A broken pipeline prevents software production, making it a critical issue that requires immediate attention.

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Software for One

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The cost and complexity of building personal software have dropped significantly due to AI, allowing users to create custom apps for their specific needs without requiring extensive coding knowledge. This shift has made personal computing more accessible and has the potential to become the new baseline consumer expectation, with users expecting apps to be tailored to their individual contexts.

G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier

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G'MIC, a free and open-source framework for digital image processing, has released version 4.0, marking a major milestone in its 18-year history. This release brings new features, including 644 image processing filters, and focuses on stability and performance.

A tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

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A historic five-story building at 34th Street and Sixth Avenue is being renovated after decades of billboard advertisements. The building, a holdout from Macy's expansion in the early 1900s, is finally visible again after years of being hidden behind dark netting and scaffolding.

EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2

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Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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The Chrome Security team is using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability discovery and fix hundreds of security bugs faster than ever, aiming for greater resilience and comprehensive remediation. By combining AI-powered vulnerability detection with traditional security testing and mitigation strategies, Chrome is driving towards a browser that is continuously protected without ...

The Absurdity of Albert Camus

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Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide

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The AMD Instinct MI450 GPU introduces new hardware features that improve memory access and computation for AI workloads, allowing for more efficient processing of large-scale language models. By optimizing the kernel for the MI450's architecture, including using Split-k and pipelining, a Gluon kernel achieves 85% of the peak HBM bandwidth, demonstrating significant performance improvements ...

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s

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WASTE is an embeddable inference engine written in C that streams large models from disk, allowing them to fit on consumer machines. It achieves this by keeping the model trunk in memory and streaming selected experts directly from disk.

AWS Secrets Manager Terraform: Least-Privilege Access

You’ve just been handed access to an AWS account, and the identity you’re given — a role, not a user — already has broad permissions baked in. You didn’t create it. You can’t edit it. You definitely can’t run iam:CreatePolicy to carve out something narrower. And yet the task in front of you is straightforward on paper: store this database password in AWS Secrets Manager, provision it with ...

June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more

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Servo 0.4.0 has been released with 558 commits, including security fixes, improved layout correctness, and new features like visible and interactive text selection.

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio

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User upgraded their Mac Studio to 25 GbE using a cheap Thunderbolt adapter and solved thermal issues with a custom fan setup. The upgrade improved network speeds, but real-world file copy speeds were only marginally better than the built-in 10G Ethernet.

Progressive Web Components

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Ariel Salminen created Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components that render HTML and CSS before JavaScript, addressing common issues like accessibility and server-side rendering limitations. Elena is a tiny library (2.6kB) that helps teams create cross-framework web components with a simple and straightforward approach to server-side rendering.

Big Food vs. the People

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Large food companies like Coca Cola, PepsiCo, and Mondelez have filed 239 lawsuits globally between 2010 and 2025 to delay or block public health laws targeting unhealthy foods. These lawsuits have cost governments billions of dollars and prolonged the public health crisis.

Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way

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The lifespan of lightbulbs was standardized at 1,000 hours by manufacturers in 1925 to avoid a race to the bottom, not to make them last longer. This standardization led to a trade-off between color/efficiency and lifespan, resulting in less efficient bulbs that are still widely used today.

Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types

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The Go Collections working group has proposed several new data structures for the standard library, including sets, ordered maps, and heaps, with a focus on simplicity and pragmatism. The proposals include a hash-based Map, a canonical set data type, and a generic binary heap API, with abstract constraint interfaces to ensure consistency across different implementations.

Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)

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Researchers tested Wi-Fi range using a Phidget SBC4 and a laptop to control a robot. They found that with the right equipment, a Wi-Fi signal can propagate at least 1400m under ideal conditions.

The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Scientists use a specific type of water called Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (VSMOW) for precise temperature measurements due to its consistent isotope ratio. VSMOW is used to calibrate thermometers and is the most official water standard, with a limited supply and a high price of $120,000 per gallon.

Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena

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Researchers aim to understand and mitigate DRAM read disturbance issues like RowHammer and RowPress, which cause unintended bitflips. They bridge the gap between experimental characterization and device-level modeling through TCAD simulations and updated error mechanisms.

Let's make the worst Htmx

The user built a clone of the HTMX frontend library, a tool for backend developers, in 40 lines of code, supporting all HTTP methods, custom targets, and swapping strategies. The library uses a simple event-based plugin architecture and "SSS" API, allowing for easy extension and customization, and is available on GitHub for contribution and feedback.