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LangGraph: Building a Flexible, Opinionated AI Coding Assistant

2025-03-24

LangGraph: Building a Flexible, Opinionated AI Coding Assistant

Qodo built an AI coding assistant using the LangGraph framework, balancing flexibility with adherence to coding best practices. Initially, they used predefined workflows for coding tasks, but with the advent of more powerful LLMs like Claude Sonnet 3.5, they shifted to LangGraph's graph-based approach. LangGraph allows building agents ranging from completely open-ended to fully structured deterministic flows, enabling Qodo to adjust the structure of their flows based on LLM capabilities. The framework's clean API, reusable components, and built-in state management simplified development and support persistence, checkpoints, and branch points. While documentation and testing present some challenges, LangGraph provided a solid foundation for Qodo to build a robust AI coding assistant.

(www.qodo.ai)

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Bird Flu Pandemic? Seasonal Flu Immunity May Offer Some Protection

2025-03-24

Bird Flu Pandemic? Seasonal Flu Immunity May Offer Some Protection

While bird flu has ravaged the animal kingdom, human cases remain relatively low. However, scientists fear a potential pandemic if the virus mutates. New research suggests that immunity from seasonal flu might offer some protection against H5N1 bird flu. Studies using animal models and blood tests indicate that prior exposure to seasonal flu could lessen the severity of bird flu. This is due to shared traits between the viruses. However, this protection is not absolute and varies depending on individual immunity and other factors. While offering a glimmer of hope, scientists stress the need for continued research and vaccination efforts to prepare for a potential pandemic.

(www.npr.org)

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Euclid's First Data Release: A Treasure Trove of Deep Field Galaxies

2025-03-23

Euclid's First Data Release: A Treasure Trove of Deep Field Galaxies

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data, offering a preview of its deep fields. This includes millions of galaxies, showcasing their large-scale organization in the cosmic web. Combining AI and citizen science, Euclid classified over 380,000 galaxies and 500 gravitational lens candidates. This rich dataset will help unravel the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy by precisely measuring the shapes and distribution of billions of galaxies across a third of the sky. The initial data, from just a week of observation, already contains 26 million galaxies, some up to 10.5 billion light-years away.

(www.esa.int)

Tech Euclid Deep Field Galaxies Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Hadrius: Seeking Founding Software Engineer to Prevent the Next Financial Crisis

2025-03-23

Hadrius: Seeking Founding Software Engineer to Prevent the Next Financial Crisis

Hadrius, a rapidly growing FinTech startup, is hiring a full-time Founding Software Engineer and Technical Lead to build the automated back office for financial firms using AI. Backed by top-tier VCs and doubling revenue every 3 months, Hadrius uses AI to analyze massive datasets to identify regulatory violations. This role requires 4+ years of experience, proficiency in Django/Python and React/Next/Typescript, and a fast-paced, high-impact work style. The ideal candidate will contribute significantly within their first month, helping to prevent the next financial crisis. Hadrius already serves 100+ financial institutions managing over $400B in assets.

(www.ycombinator.com)

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Programmable Embryo Models Created Using CRISPR

2025-03-23

Programmable Embryo Models Created Using CRISPR

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have engineered cellular models of embryos without using actual embryos, mimicking the first few days after fertilization. Using CRISPR-based gene editing, they coaxed mouse stem cells into self-organizing structures called embryoids, replicating key stages of early embryonic development. This allows for the study of gene function in early development and the mechanisms of developmental disorders. Published in Cell Stem Cell, this research offers a new avenue for understanding human infertility and improving fertility treatments.

(news.ucsc.edu)

AI Embryonic Development

VMware's Aggressive Licensing Changes Spark Exodus of SMBs

2025-03-24

VMware's Aggressive Licensing Changes Spark Exodus of SMBs

VMware's new licensing policy, mandating a minimum purchase of 72 CPU cores for renewals and new licenses, has angered small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This forces even companies needing far fewer cores to overspend, coupled with a 20% penalty for late renewals. This move is seen as VMware abandoning loyal customers in favor of large enterprises. As a result, many IT admins and infrastructure managers are migrating to open-source alternatives like Proxmox, seeking more flexible and cost-effective virtualization. VMware's strategy shift may have profound long-term consequences.

(systemadministration.net)

Tech Licensing Open-Source Alternatives

Debugging a Race Condition: The RtlRunOnceExecuteOnce Trap

2025-03-23

Debugging a Race Condition: The RtlRunOnceExecuteOnce Trap

A colleague encountered a tricky concurrency issue during a weekly debug session: a critical section failed to prevent two threads from entering the same code block, leading to a `TraceLoggingRegister` double-registration failure. Deep debugging revealed the root cause: the initialization function `InitializeCriticalSectionOnce` for `RtlRunOnceExecuteOnce` incorrectly returned `STATUS_SUCCESS` (0). This led `RtlRunOnceExecuteOnce` to believe initialization failed, causing it to re-initialize the critical section on every call, triggering the race condition. The solution was to change the return value to `TRUE`, or more elegantly, replace `CRITICAL_SECTION` with `SRWLOCK`. This case highlights how subtle return value errors can lead to severe consequences and underscores the importance of choosing the appropriate synchronization primitive.

(devblogs.microsoft.com)

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Outperforming std::deque: Introducing the Shift-To-Middle Array

2025-03-23

Outperforming std::deque: Introducing the Shift-To-Middle Array

The Shift-To-Middle Array is a dynamic array designed to outperform std::deque, std::vector, and linked lists in insertion and deletion at both ends. It achieves this by using contiguous memory, improving cache locality, and supporting SIMD and parallel optimizations. Benchmarks show significant performance gains, especially on multi-core CPUs and hardware with SIMD instruction sets. The project is open-source, with full API documentation and benchmark reports available. Contributions are welcome!

(github.com)

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LangManus: An Open-Source AI Automation Framework for Multi-Agent Collaboration

2025-03-23

LangManus: An Open-Source AI Automation Framework for Multi-Agent Collaboration

LangManus is a community-driven open-source AI automation framework that integrates language models with tools for web search, crawling, and Python code execution. Developed by former colleagues in their spare time, this project aims to explore multi-agent and deep research, participating in the GAIA leaderboard. LangManus employs a hierarchical multi-agent system with roles such as Coordinator, Planner, Supervisor, Researcher, Coder, Browser, and Reporter, supporting various LLM integrations including Qwen and OpenAI-compatible models. The project is open-sourced under the MIT license and welcomes community contributions.

(github.com)

AI AI automation multi-agent system

Great Singing App, But Needs Sharps and Flats

2025-03-23

Great Singing App, But Needs Sharps and Flats

This app is fantastic for learning music theory and piano, especially for singers wanting to improve their pitch. It teaches piano skills crucial for accurate singing. However, it lacks lessons on sharps and flats, a significant omission. While additional lessons are available as in-app purchases, their content isn't specified. The practice mode allows flat training, but lacks the structured approach of the main lessons and doesn't label sharps and flats on the keys. A great app, but incomplete without comprehensive sharp and flat instruction.

(apps.apple.com)

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Running Steam on an Orange Pi 5 Plus: A Ludicrously Neat Experiment

2025-03-23

Running Steam on an Orange Pi 5 Plus: A Ludicrously Neat Experiment

The author details a six-step process for installing Steam on an Orange Pi 5 Plus, involving Armbian installation, adding Box86/64 repositories, installing dependencies, and further configuration. While successful, performance is inconsistent, with most tested games running at 720p and barely exceeding 30 FPS. The author concludes it's more a fun technical challenge than a practical gaming solution, although future improvements from Collabora and Valve's ARM initiatives might change that.

(interfacinglinux.com)

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macOS Sonoma's Mysterious Liquid Detection: Debunking the Myth

2025-03-23

macOS Sonoma's Mysterious Liquid Detection: Debunking the Myth

This article investigates a new background process, `liquiddetectiond`, that appeared in macOS Sonoma 14.1. Initially, it was wrongly suspected as an Apple tool to collect user data for warranty denials. However, investigation reveals it actually detects liquids in USB-C ports to prevent corrosion and prolong device life, not for data collection or warranty avoidance. The functionality is only available on select new MacBook and MacBook Pro models, and logs show it operates locally without sending data to Apple.

(eclecticlight.co)

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Command-line Tool: OSGInt – A Powerful GitHub User Information Retriever

2025-03-24

Command-line Tool: OSGInt – A Powerful GitHub User Information Retriever

OSGInt is a powerful command-line tool that retrieves GitHub user information using either a username or email address. It fetches basic details like username, avatar, bio, and digs deeper to uncover email addresses and GPG keys. OSGInt uses multiple methods, including analyzing public commits, GPG keys, and the GitHub user API. Inspired by the Zen project, it's under active development, with features like spoofing commits to get email addresses in the works.

(github.com)

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The Pope's Latinist: Reginald Foster's Extraordinary Life

2025-03-24

The Pope's Latinist: Reginald Foster's Extraordinary Life

Reginald Foster, an extraordinary American priest, served as the Pope's Latin secretary at the Vatican for forty years. More than just a master of Latin, his unique teaching methods cultivated thousands of Latin enthusiasts and profoundly impacted the Church's Latin legacy. This article recounts his legendary life, from being plucked from his order by a powerful cardinal to his unconventional teaching style that fused Latin learning with Roman history and culture. Foster's legacy lives on through the numerous scholars and teachers he trained, breathing new life into the ancient language.

(newcriterion.com)

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Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty: The MyTerms Standard Empowers Users

2025-03-23

Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty: The MyTerms Standard Empowers Users

In the age of AI, personal data privacy and autonomy are challenged as never before. This article introduces the IEEE P7012 standard (MyTerms), designed to empower users with agency over their interactions with websites and services through machine-readable agreements. MyTerms, modeled after Creative Commons, allows users to choose from a list of agreements provided by a non-profit, ensuring the user is the first party and therefore in control of their data. This innovation promises to reshape digital sovereignty, giving users more autonomy.

(doc.searls.com)

Tech user autonomy IEEE standard

GCC 15.1's Rust Front-End Gets Major Boost

2025-03-24

The upcoming GCC 15.1 release will feature significant improvements to its Rust front-end, gccrs. Arthur Cohen of Embecosm merged a third patch set adding support for Rust's "if let" statements, massive changes to internal AST/HIR representations, and full implementation of Clone and Copy. Further improvements, including support for PartialOrd and PartialEq, are expected before the release, making gccrs a more viable alternative to rustc.

(www.phoronix.com)

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Dennis Ritchie's Primeval C Compiler: A Blast from the Past

2025-03-24

Dennis Ritchie's Primeval C Compiler: A Blast from the Past

This post shares the source code of the earliest known versions of the C compiler, written by the late legend Dennis Ritchie. These are not compilable with modern C compilers like GCC, but represent the spark that ignited a soon-to-be trillion-dollar industry. Links to Aiju's PDP-11/Unix emulator (for attempting compilation) and the Research Unix repository are provided for those wishing to delve into the history of computing.

(github.com)

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Wearables and the Medical Revolution: A Fiber Electronics Breakthrough

2025-03-23

Wearables and the Medical Revolution: A Fiber Electronics Breakthrough

Recent years have witnessed remarkable advancements in the application of wearable devices in healthcare. Researchers are utilizing advanced materials and processes, such as thermal drawing, to create multifunctional fibers integrating sensors, batteries, and even computing units. These fibers can be woven into smart textiles for real-time physiological monitoring, disease diagnosis, and even treatment delivery. From simple ECG monitoring to sophisticated neural interfaces, fiber electronics are paving the way for personalized and continuous healthcare. This technological breakthrough promises to revolutionize the medical industry, ushering in a true medical revolution.

(www.nature.com)

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Germany's Zeitenwende: A Military Resurgence?

2025-03-23

Germany's Zeitenwende: A Military Resurgence?

The war in Ukraine has spurred Germany's Zeitenwende, a significant shift towards increased defense spending. Facing challenges like budget shortfalls, an aging military, and outdated infrastructure, Germany is striving to rebuild its Bundeswehr, aiming to meet NATO's 2% defense spending target and bolster troop numbers. Newly elected Chancellor Merz is committed to accelerating this process, but overcoming internal resistance and achieving the ambitious goals remains to be seen.

(www.cnn.com)

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Automating Steam Game Publishing with GitHub Actions

2025-03-24

This post details how the author automated their Steam game publishing pipeline using GitHub Actions. By simply creating a new tag, the workflow automatically compiles the 2D hide-and-seek game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and WebAssembly, creates a GitHub release, and finally deploys to Steam. The author provides a detailed walkthrough including build scripts, Steam API usage, and necessary configurations such as generating Steam keys and setting up GitHub Actions variables. This is a great example of leveraging automation to streamline the game release process and is highly valuable for indie game developers.

(nullonerror.org)

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Beyond the Big Eight: A More Complete Map of Chinese Cuisine

2025-03-24

Beyond the Big Eight: A More Complete Map of Chinese Cuisine

This article challenges the popular 'Big Eight' categorization of Chinese cuisine, arguing that it's an incomplete and biased representation. The author meticulously explores the vast diversity of Chinese regional cuisines, going beyond the commonly known eight. The piece presents a far more comprehensive map, including detailed breakdowns of regional variations within provinces like Guangdong (six cuisines, including Macau and Hong Kong), Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang. It further delves into the fascinating evolution of Chinese food in Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, and Southeast Asia, highlighting the interplay of geography, culture, and history. This isn't just a list; it's a captivating journey through the rich tapestry of Chinese culinary traditions.

(chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com)

Misc Chinese Cuisine Regional Food Culinary Map

The Placebo Effect: Stronger Than You Think

2025-03-23

The Placebo Effect: Stronger Than You Think

The 18th-century London street sale of Perkins Tractors (metal rods for pain relief) showcased the early form of the placebo effect. Today, placebos come in various forms, from oral pills to injections, and their effectiveness varies depending on the form. Studies show that intra-articular placebo injections are more effective at pain relief than topical placebos, which are in turn more effective than oral placebos. Surprisingly, the difference in effectiveness between intra-articular and oral placebos sometimes exceeds the difference between active pain relief drugs and oral placebos. Furthermore, doctor demeanor and patient age also impact placebo effectiveness. The significantly increased placebo effectiveness in the US in recent years has led to some drugs failing approval due to reduced relative efficacy, a phenomenon worthy of further investigation.

(www.samstack.io)

Tech placebo effect

CUDA at 18: Nvidia's Secret Sauce and AI Dominance

2025-03-24

CUDA at 18: Nvidia's Secret Sauce and AI Dominance

Nvidia's CUDA platform, celebrating its 18th anniversary, is far more than a programming language or API; it's the core of Nvidia's software ecosystem, powering numerous "embarrassingly parallel" computing tasks from AI to cryptocurrency mining. CUDA's success stems from Nvidia's consistent long-term investment and steady updates, a stark contrast to competitors like AMD. The success of AlexNet highlighted CUDA's early influence in deep learning, and today, it's the de facto standard in AI, forming a strong competitive moat for Nvidia.

(thechipletter.substack.com)

AI

Mysterious Microbial Structures Discovered in Namibian Desert

2025-03-23

Researchers have unearthed unusual structures in the desert regions of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, likely the work of an unknown microbiological life form. Tiny, parallel tubes running through marble and limestone were discovered, defying typical geological processes. Evidence of biological material suggests microorganisms bored these tunnels, possibly to access nutrients. The organism remains a mystery, its existence possibly extinct or hidden, and could be significant for the global carbon cycle. This discovery highlights the potential for unknown life forms to shape geological processes and impact Earth's carbon balance.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech microbiology desert

Critical Next.js Middleware Vulnerability: CVE-2025-29927

2025-03-23

Security researchers discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927) in Next.js's middleware, affecting nearly all versions from 11.1.4 to the latest. The flaw allows attackers to bypass middleware, including authentication and authorization, by manipulating the `x-middleware-subrequest` header. This can lead to bypassing security measures and even cache poisoning denial-of-service attacks. Vercel has released patches; all Next.js users should upgrade immediately.

(zhero-web-sec.github.io)

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Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools: A Retrospect of Unix Utilities

2025-03-24

This article presents a curated collection of lesser-known yet fascinating tools for the X Window System. From a 3D rendition of Pong to Free42, an HP calculator emulator, and from the filesystem visualizer FSV2 to XLennart, a modern twist on the classic XBill game, this compilation offers a nostalgic journey through Unix utilities. Installation instructions, GitHub links, and even compilation guides are provided for each tool. Whether you're a nostalgic programmer or an X11 enthusiast, this article is a worthwhile read.

(cyber.dabamos.de)

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beeFormer: Bridging the Semantic and Interaction Gap in Recommender Systems

2025-03-24

beeFormer: Bridging the Semantic and Interaction Gap in Recommender Systems

The beeFormer project introduces a novel approach to recommender systems designed to tackle the cold-start problem. It leverages language models to learn user behavior patterns from interaction data and transfer this knowledge to unseen items. Unlike traditional content-based filtering which relies on item attributes, beeFormer learns user interaction patterns to better recommend items aligned with user interests, even with no prior interaction data. Experiments demonstrate significant performance improvements. The project provides detailed training steps and pre-trained models, supporting datasets such as MovieLens, GoodBooks, and Amazon Books.

(github.com)

AI Recommender Systems Cold-Start Language Models

Elegant Value Objects in Ruby: A Deep Dive into the `Data` Class

2025-03-23

Elegant Value Objects in Ruby: A Deep Dive into the `Data` Class

This article explores creating value objects in Ruby, advocating for the modern `Data` class. `Data` offers a convenient way to define immutable, value-equal objects, supporting various initialization methods including keyword arguments, positional arguments, and hash-like forms. `Data` objects are inherently immutable, comparable by value and type, and allow defining custom methods, enhancing code readability and maintainability. The article compares `Data` with `Struct`, highlighting `Data`'s immutability advantage and addressing handling the mutability of nested objects.

(allaboutcoding.ghinda.com)

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Writing CPU-Friendly Code: A Guide to Hardware-Aware Programming

2025-03-23

Writing CPU-Friendly Code: A Guide to Hardware-Aware Programming

This article uses the analogy of a drive-through restaurant to explain three crucial CPU architecture concepts: instruction pipelining, memory caching, and speculative execution. The author argues that understanding these mechanisms and writing code that works with them (hardware-aware programming) can dramatically improve software performance. The article delves into code optimization techniques, such as loop unrolling to leverage superscalar execution, and optimizing data structure layout and access patterns to make full use of caching, to boost efficiency. Ultimately, the author emphasizes that writing efficient code boils down to writing clean, maintainable code first, then profiling to identify performance bottlenecks, and finally applying hardware-aware programming principles to target those bottlenecks.

(blog.codingconfessions.com)

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Saying Goodbye to `podman generate systemd`: Quadlet Simplifies Podman Container Systemd Management

2025-03-24

This blog post introduces Quadlet, a superior method for managing Podman containers as systemd services, replacing the deprecated `podman generate systemd` command. Quadlet uses concise `.container` files for configuration, offering features like automatic updates, dependency management, and automatic restart after server reboots. It's presented as a more flexible, powerful, and maintainable alternative to the previous shell scripting approach. The author provides a detailed comparison of both methods, highlighting Quadlet's advantages, including single configuration files, full systemd feature utilization, and simpler dependency management. The post also mentions `podman auto-update` and the `podlet` migration tool.

(mo8it.com)

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