Software engineers are experiencing burnout due to increased expectations and workload from AI tools, which have made certain tasks faster but also created a self-reinforcing cycle of more work and reliance on AI. The industry needs to acknowledge and address the human cost of rapid technological change, investing in people alongside tools to attract and retain top engineering talent.
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
A developer expressed concern that AI is making it easy to build shallow competence, lacking real understanding of code and systems. Experienced developers value years of learning from mistakes, not just speed, and junior devs should focus on building intuition through struggle and deliberate learning.
The user created a simplified 200-line Python script called microgpt that trains and infers a GPT model from scratch, showcasing the core algorithmic essence of large language models. The script demonstrates how the model learns statistical patterns from a dataset and generates new plausible-sounding documents, such as names, by predicting the next token in a sequence.
A satirical AI chat demo showcases every monetization pattern imaginable, including banners, sponsored responses, and freemium gates. The tool is an educational tool to help marketers and developers understand AI monetization, but it's not an actual ad network.
Two research teams independently synthesized pentasilacyclopentadienide, an all-silicon five-membered ring molecule. This molecule has potential applications as a ligand for catalysts and materials, and its synthesis challenges bonding theory and provides new understanding of silicon chemistry.
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We're farmers with a new plot of land and we're using a Decision Tree to classify trees as Apple, Cherry, or Oak based on Diameter and Height. We've created a tree with a root node at Diameter ≥ 0.45 and subsequent splits at Height ≤ 4.88 and Diameter.
yvind Kolås is the maintainer of GEGL and babl, color engines of GIMP. He was involved in GIMP's project after fixing a patch for GIMP's transform tools.
The course provides an introduction to modern AI systems, focusing on machine learning methods and large language models. Students will learn to implement a basic AI chatbot through programming assignments and quizzes.
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Ape coding is a software development practice where humans write source code manually, emphasizing craftsmanship and direct human involvement. It gained popularity as a reaction against AI-written software, but its value now lies in recreation and education, with enthusiasts building large-scale projects like a human-written compiler for the AI-designed programming language 𒀯.
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The C++ standard library allocates a 72 KB "emergency pool" for exception handling at program startup, which is lazily initialized and can be disabled or configured via environment variables. This initial allocation is often misinterpreted as a memory leak, but is actually a normal behavior in C++ programs that link against libstdc++.
Lowering the default random_page_cost value may not be the best idea as it contradicts the actual I/O costs and can lead to inefficient query plans. Adjusting the random_page_cost value should be done with caution and monitoring, considering factors like cache ratios, prefetching, and data set characteristics to ensure the right query plan is chosen.
The author coined the phrase "houseplant programming" to describe tiny software projects built for personal use, not for mass dissemination. These projects are often imperfect, context-specific, and not meant for reuse.
Posted by Chrome Secure Web and Networking Team Today we're announcing a new program in Chrome to make HTTPS certificates secure against ...
Vertex is a 1kloc SPA framework that combines React, Ractive-Load, and jQuery features in a single, self-contained file. It can be used as a UMD module, CommonJS require(), or AMD define().
Obsidian Sync offers a headless client for syncing vaults without the desktop app, useful for automated workflows and CI pipelines. It uses end-to-end encryption and supports config syncing and file creation time preservation.
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The author became a youth basketball coach in January 2020 to fill a void in his life. Coaching brought him happiness and confidence, allowing him to help kids and be in control.
Gunnar Morling has released Hardwood, a new open-source Parquet parser for Java that is optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance. It supports Java 21 and newer, and its multi-threaded decoding pipeline allows for faster parsing times compared to existing libraries like parquet-java.
Context Mode compresses tool outputs by 98% and reduces context window consumption by 72%. This allows users to work 6x longer before context degradation, increasing session time from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Researchers developed a method called digital incoherent synthesis of holographic light fields (DISH) for high-speed, high-resolution volumetric printing. DISH uses a rotating periscope and a digital micromirror device to generate high-resolution 3D light distributions without sample rotation.
Pigeons & Planes is a music discovery platform that supports new artists and delivers curated music online and in real life. They're back with a website after a 3-year hiatus, publishing features weekly and continuing to create content across various mediums.
The author discovers an upside-down "H" on the Unity Temple sign in Oak Park, Illinois, and after researching, finds that the lettering has been removed and reinstalled multiple times, resulting in various orientations of the "H" over the years. The author creates a timeline of the lettering's history, including a 1956 photo showing all three "H"s upside-down, and a 2014-2017 restoration that ...
A user found a way to block macOS Tahoe update notifications by using a device management profile, specifically the Stop Tahoe Update project. They modified the profile to block Tahoe update activities for 90 days, and now they can reinstall the profile every 90 days to continue blocking the notifications.
Implementing a subset of the Wolfram Language for CLI scripting and notebooks, focusing on speed and efficiency. Woxi runs faster than WolframScript with Rust-based implementation and supports a subset of Wolfram Language functions.