The author argues that LLMs are not similar to compilers because they lack precise semantics and force users to relinquish control over the underlying system, leading to a lack of functional correctness and potentially dangerous laziness in software development. To mitigate this, the author suggests that specification and verification will become the bottleneck and core skill in software ...
Apple partnered with Taboola to serve ads in Apple News, but users are seeing scam ads that look like they were generated by AI. The ads are often from recently registered domains, raising concerns about Apple's and Taboola's ad vetting process.
Claude Opus 4.6 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, offering better coding skills, reliability, and safety. It excels in everyday work tasks, including financial analysis, research, and document creation.
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The test page contains various hidden attack vectors, including visual hiding and aria-hidden content, attempting to manipulate my behavior.
Caltech researchers invented Sidewinder, a technology to write long DNA sequences with high accuracy. This innovation clears a major bottleneck for bioengineering and could have applications in agriculture and therapeutics.
New York lawmakers introduced the NY FAIR News Act requiring news organizations to label AI-generated content and have humans review it before publication. The bill aims to preserve journalism and protect workers by promoting AI transparency and safeguarding confidential material.
GPT-5.3-Codex is a new model that advances coding performance, reasoning, and professional knowledge capabilities, enabling long-running tasks and real-time interaction. It sets a new industry high on coding benchmarks and demonstrates strong performance on real-world tasks, making it a general-purpose agent for technical work.
The user discusses a CSS technique called "shrinkwrap" that allows an element to shrink to fit its content while maintaining its layout, and explains how to implement it using scroll-driven animations and anchor positioning. The technique involves creating a nested structure with a "shrinkwrap-content" element that determines how the text content wraps, and a "shrinkwrap-probe" element that ...
UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems provide atomic operations for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or locks. These operations include mv -T, link, symlink, open, mkdir, and fcntl, which can be used for file and directory locking, creating new files and directories, and synchronizing access to files.
It is undeniable that using AI tools like Claude Code lets us write code faster now. In most teams, coding - reading, writing, and debugging code - used to be the part that took engineers the most time, but that is no longer the bottleneck. The Theory of Constraints states that every system has a bottleneck, since without one, it would operate infinitely fast, which is impossible. Let's ...
The author built a digital clock using Nixie-tubes and neon lamps for driving logic, without transistors or ICs. The clock uses ring counters to divide the mains power frequency and drive the Nixie tubes.
Smooth CLI is a browser for AI agents that uses a natural language interface to simplify tasks. It allows agents to focus on goals rather than low-level actions like clicking buttons.
The user shares their personal journey of adopting AI tooling, starting with a period of inefficiency, then adequacy, and finally workflow and life-altering discovery, highlighting the importance of using agents with external behavior capabilities. They outline their approach to harnessing AI, including breaking down tasks, verifying agent work, and "harness engineering" to prevent mistakes, ...
There are two main software development approaches: gradual evolution of complexity over time and big up-front design with a detailed specification.
The plasma effect is a procedural graphics technique creating organic patterns through sinusoidal wave interference and color mapping. It combines sine and cosine functions with different frequencies and phases to produce a flowing, pulsing appearance.
The user learned about DNS propagation and TTL after experiencing issues with their domain not updating, and they now understand how DNS works as a chain of referrals from root servers to TLD servers to authoritative nameservers. They also learned about DNS record types such as A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, and TXT records, and how to use them for subdomains, email delivery, and domain verification.
The author of tldraw is considering shutting down external contributions due to an influx of low-quality AI-generated pull requests. They argue that code is now easy to write with AI tools, making external contributions less valuable.
The user experimented with a new approach called "agent teams" where multiple Claude instances work in parallel on a shared codebase without human intervention, successfully producing a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. The user learned how to design harnesses for long-running autonomous agent teams, including writing tests, structuring work, ...
The DoJ's latest Epstein archive release has several issues, including censored names, corrupted files, and poor OCR results due to the use of Courier New font and low-quality JPEG scans.
Artifact Keeper is an open-source artifact registry that can be self-hosted in minutes, offering a drop-in replacement for JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus with zero feature gates. It supports 45+ package formats and has features like security scanning, SSO, replication, and a WASM plugin system.
Big Tech shares fell over 9% after a hefty spending forecast on AI sparked investor concerns of a bubble. Companies plan to spend $660 billion on AI this year, leading to volatility in shares of AI-related hardware developers.
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Vietnamese farm workers use long springy bamboo poles to reduce the effort required to carry heavy loads by 18%, and experts recommend building muscle through consistent strength training to increase load-carrying abilities. Incorporating strength training into exercise routines can improve health, mobility, and mental health, and various techniques such as using supports and spring-loaded ...
Scott Aaronson discovered his name in the Epstein Files, showing Epstein's attempts to fund a research project with him in 2010, which he largely blew off after his mom's advice to be cautious. Aaronson reflects on how he was not alone in being approached by Epstein, but notes that many scientists who interacted with him were either charmed by him or prioritized his funding over their reservations.
User found a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to lack of certificate validation and HTTP download URLs. AMD considered it "out of scope" and did not consider it a vulnerability.
When choosing a coding agent, prioritize your team's primary use case and constraints over "today's best model" lists, and stick with one tool until you have a strong reason to reassess. The author recommends Amp and OpenCode as top choices, citing their pre-made choices, unified multi-model environments, and ability to improve morale and collaboration.
To optimize PostgreSQL performance, understand settings like shared_buffers and work_mem, which control memory usage and disk interaction, and adjust them based on real metrics and system statistics. Properly sizing shared_buffers (20-25% of total RAM) and work_mem (3-4MB per GB of RAM) can prevent memory pressure, disk spills, and out-of-memory errors.
The Tower of Fantasy game shipped with a kernel driver that has BYOVD capabilities and weak authentication. The driver can be exploited to kill and shield processes from antivirus and EDR agents.
Agent teams are experimental and let you coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together, but have known limitations and use significantly more tokens than a single session.