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UW Student Faces Expulsion for Course Swap App

2025-01-08
UW Student Faces Expulsion for Course Swap App

JD Kaim, a University of Washington student, built HuskySwap, an app to help students trade spots in classes. After initial success, his attempt to access the school's registration system for automated course importing resulted in a Notice of Violation for abusing registration policies, threatening expulsion. Despite only seeking read-only access, the school's harsh response left him disheartened and questioning the university's support for student entrepreneurship.

(www.linkedin.com)
Development student entrepreneurship university policy

Scale Beats All: AI Agent Achieves SOTA on swebench-verified

2025-01-08
Scale Beats All: AI Agent Achieves SOTA on swebench-verified

CodeStory achieved state-of-the-art results on the swebench-verified benchmark, resolving 62.2% of issues by leveraging massive test-time inference. They used Sonnet 3.5 LLM and a simple toolset, abandoning an initial MCTS framework in favor of scaling. By running numerous agents across multiple VMs and Anthropic accounts, they demonstrated the power of scale in solving complex software engineering problems, even for small teams. This reinforces the 'bitter lesson' that scale trumps all, offering a new paradigm for AI in software engineering.

(aide.dev)
Development

The Ratchet Effect: How Engineers Build Reputation at Big Tech

2025-01-08

Engineer reputation at large tech companies isn't solely about technical skill; it's a gradual process. Starting with low-level tasks, engineers build trust and gain access to higher-profile projects through consistent success. This "ratchet effect" makes reputation slow to change. Even mistakes can be overcome with continued delivery. However, repeated failures lead to a downward spiral. The author advises new hires to focus on smaller projects to build a solid reputation, avoiding risky attempts to jump to high-profile work immediately.

(www.seangoedecke.com)
Development engineer reputation ratchet effect

SWE-bench: Can LLMs Solve Real-World GitHub Issues?

2025-01-08
SWE-bench: Can LLMs Solve Real-World GitHub Issues?

SWE-bench is a benchmark dataset evaluating large language models' ability to automatically resolve real-world GitHub issues. Researchers compiled 2,294 Issue-Pull Request pairs from 12 popular Python repositories, validating solutions via unit tests. The latest leaderboard showcases various models achieving varying success rates, with some exceeding 50% resolution. The project provides resources including a lite version and pre-trained models for easier evaluation and reproducibility.

(www.swebench.com)
Development Code Repair

Stack Overflow's Decline: The ChatGPT Impact and Uncertain Future

2025-01-08
Stack Overflow's Decline: The ChatGPT Impact and Uncertain Future

A GitHub data analysis reveals a staggering 70.7% drop in new questions on Stack Overflow from March 2023 to December 2024, plummeting from 87,105 to 25,566. This correlates strongly with the rise of ChatGPT; since its launch, Stack Overflow has seen nearly 83,000 fewer questions. The author, a top Stack Overflow contributor, describes their own experience of having well-formatted questions quickly closed, highlighting a potential key factor in the platform's decline. The drastic decrease in question volume suggests a concerning trajectory, mirroring levels seen in 2009 shortly after launch, hinting at a potential lifespan of less than a year.

(gist.github.com)
Development Platform Decline

Ten Bold Ideas for the Future of Programming Languages

2025-01-08

A seasoned programmer proposes ten innovative ideas for the future of programming languages, covering aspects such as function call mechanisms, capability programming, production-level features, semi-dynamic languages, persistent data stores, truly relational languages, modular monoliths, and modular linting. These ideas aren't entirely novel but rather refinements and integrations of existing concepts, aiming to improve programming efficiency and code quality. The article explores incorporating best practices like structured logging and metrics gathering into the language itself, and enhancing the performance of dynamic languages.

(jerf.org)
Development

Counting Tap Toy: A Simple Web-Based Reset Counter

2025-01-08
Counting Tap Toy: A Simple Web-Based Reset Counter

Counting Tap Toy is a simple web-based toy that allows users to count by tapping and offers a reset function. This small project showcases how to create an interactive web application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's suitable for beginners learning the basics of web development, and its clean and easy-to-understand code makes it ideal for learning and reference.

(memalign.github.io)
Development Interactive Application

Bringing SerenityOS to Real Hardware: A Chromebook Reverse Engineering Odyssey

2025-01-08

To run SerenityOS on real hardware, the author bought a cheap Chromebook. However, the Chromebook's Cr50 debugging functionality failed, forcing the author to manually solder a Raspberry Pi Pico to the motherboard for serial debugging. This involved bypassing the Cr50 security chip's write protection and writing a custom SPI flash program. The author successfully booted SerenityOS on the Chromebook, but debugging the eMMC driver proved challenging, requiring a deep dive into MMC and SD card protocols and meticulous adjustments to the hardware power control.

(sdomi.pl)
Development

Run Python in Your Browser Effortlessly with WebAssembly

2025-01-08

Run Python code directly in your browser using the power of WebAssembly! This post details how Pyodide, an open-source project, enables running Python in the browser. The author successfully ported MarkItDown, a Python program converting Office files to Markdown, to a browser-based tool. Pyodide supports nearly all Python syntax and many popular packages, offering a robust JavaScript/Python interoperability interface. Overcoming file transfer and dependency installation challenges, the author created a fully functional browser-based MarkItDown tool, highlighting WebAssembly's transformative potential for browser-based applications.

(kai.bi)
Development

Fidget: A High-Performance Rust Library for Large-Scale Math Expressions

2025-01-08

Fidget is a Rust library for representing, compiling, and evaluating large-scale math expressions. Primarily designed for implicit surfaces, its flexibility extends to various applications. Architecturally layered, Fidget comprises a frontend (script-to-bytecode), backend (fast, flexible evaluation), and algorithms (rendering and meshing). Its core innovation combines interval arithmetic and trace simplification for efficient handling of massive expressions, further enhanced by JIT compilation. Offering diverse demos including a web-based GUI, Fidget supports automatic differentiation and interval arithmetic.

(www.mattkeeter.com)
Development Implicit Surfaces JIT Compilation

Michigan's Disruptive Linear Algebra Course: ROB 101

2025-01-08
Michigan's Disruptive Linear Algebra Course: ROB 101

The University of Michigan is launching a revolutionary linear algebra course, ROB 101, for first-year engineering students. The course integrates linear algebra theory with practical application using the Julia programming language, allowing students to solve real-world engineering problems, such as robot navigation mapping, from day one. The hybrid course format offers both online and in-person resources, breaking from traditional engineering math pedagogy and providing early exposure to the practical value of mathematics in engineering.

(robotics.umich.edu)
Development Julia programming

Linux Routing Fundamentals: A Deep Dive into the Kernel's Networking Stack

2025-01-08

This article delves into the intricacies of Linux kernel routing. Linux systems utilize multiple routing tables (local, main, default), consulted sequentially to find matching routes. Key concepts like longest prefix matching, source address selection, and ICMP error handling are explained. The article demonstrates using the iproute2 tool and handling link failures. This detailed exploration of routing tables, rules, and the lookup process provides a solid foundation for understanding advanced Linux routing techniques like policy-based routing, VRFs, and network namespaces.

(blog.sdn.clinic)
Development Networking

Auto-Generating Stunning OpenGraph Images with Astro and Satori

2025-01-08
Auto-Generating Stunning OpenGraph Images with Astro and Satori

Tired of manually creating OpenGraph images for your social media shares? This tutorial shows you how to effortlessly generate beautiful, custom OpenGraph images for your Astro blog posts using the Satori library. Learn how to set up automatic generation, create a reusable template, and boost your click-through rates. We cover dependency installation, component creation, API endpoint setup, image generation, and integration with your Astro site, providing detailed code examples. Make your link previews pop – without the tedious manual work!

(skyfall.dev)
Development

Engineering Manager - Payments Platform at Modern Treasury

2025-01-08
Engineering Manager - Payments Platform at Modern Treasury

Modern Treasury, a FinTech company building modern payment infrastructure, is hiring an experienced Engineering Manager for its payments platform. The role requires leadership experience managing engineering teams and a deep understanding of payment platform architecture and technologies. This is a fantastic opportunity for passionate FinTech professionals looking for leadership roles in a fast-growing company.

(jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Development Engineering Manager Payments Platform

EVE: A C++ SIMD Vector Engine That Goes Brrrr

2025-01-08
EVE: A C++ SIMD Vector Engine That Goes Brrrr

EVE is a C++20 reimplementation of the old EVE SIMD library (formerly Boost.SIMD), showcasing how C++20 can create efficient, low-level, high-abstraction libraries. It supports various instruction sets including Intel SSE, AVX, ARM NEON, AArch64, and partially PowerPC. Currently operational, EVE may still have some performance quirks; contributions for testing and improvement are welcome.

(github.com)
Development Vector Engine

Hot Reloading in Rust with Embedded Scheme

2025-01-08

This article demonstrates embedding the lightweight Scheme interpreter Stak Scheme within Rust, a compiled language, to dynamically alter program behavior without restarting the process. It showcases hot reloading functionality by embedding a Scheme script in a Rust HTTP server. Using Stak Scheme and the `stak-build` library, the server's HTTP request handler logic is dynamically changed without recompiling the Rust program.

(raviqqe.com)
Development Hot Reloading

Six Deadly Sins of Platform Teams: Avoiding DevOps Pitfalls

2025-01-08
Six Deadly Sins of Platform Teams: Avoiding DevOps Pitfalls

This article explores six common pitfalls that platform teams encounter when implementing DevOps. These seemingly subtle issues can severely limit a platform team's effectiveness. Drawing on personal experience, the author delves into the root causes and provides solutions for problems related to team naming, lack of empathy, short-term versus long-term focus imbalance, confusing ease of use with simplicity, treating product engineers as customers, and over-expanding their domain. The article stresses that platform teams should focus on solving problems rather than specific solutions, build strong communication and collaboration with product teams, balance short-term and long-term goals, strive for simplicity over mere ease of use, and always prioritize end-user value.

(serce.me)
Development Platform Teams

Scsh Manual's Author's Self-Deprecating Acknowledgements

2025-01-08

Olin Shivers, author of the Scsh reference manual version 0.6.7, offers a darkly humorous take on acknowledgements. He satirizes his colleagues, students, parents, and department chair, confessing his reliance on Prozac and Jack Daniel's to get through the day, hinting at the stress and dissatisfaction he faced during the manual's creation. The entire acknowledgement is filled with negativity and self-deprecation; it's less a thank you and more a sardonic commentary on the academic environment and his personal circumstances.

(scsh.net)
Development Reference Manual Dark Humor

Minimum Bipartite Matching via Riemann Optimization

2025-01-08

This paper presents a novel approach to solving the minimum bipartite matching problem using Riemann optimization. The author transforms the combinatorial optimization problem into an unconstrained optimization problem on the manifold of doubly stochastic matrices and solves it using Riemann gradient descent. Experimental results show that this method can effectively find the optimal solution and has good convergence. This research cleverly combines combinatorial mathematics, differential geometry, and computer science, providing a new perspective for solving such problems.

(ocramz.github.io)
Development Riemann optimization bipartite matching combinatorial optimization

QMK Autocorrect: On-Keyboard Typo Correction

2025-01-08

QMK firmware now includes autocorrect, offering real-time typo correction directly on your keyboard. Using a Trie data structure, it efficiently corrects common misspellings (e.g., 'ouput' to 'output') with minimal resource overhead (1672 bytes for 71 entries, ~20µs per keypress). It's case-insensitive, customizable via a dictionary, and currently supports only alphanumeric characters and apostrophes. While limited to English, it significantly enhances typing efficiency for programmers and similar users.

(getreuer.info)
Development Autocorrect Keyboard Firmware

Build an OS in 1000 Lines of Code: A Beginner's Guide

2025-01-08

This book guides you through building a small operating system from scratch, step-by-step. While OS kernel development may sound daunting, the fundamental functions are surprisingly simple. Using C, you'll implement context switching, paging, user mode, a command-line shell, a disk driver, and file I/O—all within 1000 lines of code. The challenge? Debugging. You'll learn debugging techniques essential for OS development, tackling challenges like the boot process and paging. Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of OS development!

(operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app)
Development

Python Concurrency: Threads, Processes, and Asyncio – A Deep Dive

2025-01-08
Python Concurrency: Threads, Processes, and Asyncio – A Deep Dive

This article summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of three approaches to Python concurrency: threads, processes, and asyncio. Threads share resources and are easy to use, but are limited by the GIL; processes have independent memory spaces, bypassing the GIL but with higher overhead; asyncio uses a single-threaded event loop, efficiently handling I/O-bound tasks, but requires non-blocking operations and has a steeper learning curve. The choice depends on the task type: CPU-bound tasks favor processes, I/O-bound tasks favor asyncio, and threads are suitable for other cases.

(newvick.com)
Development Python concurrency threads

Servo's Resurrection: Two Years of Progress at Igalia

2025-01-08

Two years after Igalia took over maintenance of the Servo project, significant progress has been made. They've addressed numerous bugs, improved stability, and added support for Android and OpenHarmony. Active community building and collaborations have led to a substantial increase in contributors and code activity. While still experimental, Servo's performance and security advantages position it for significant future growth, potentially becoming the ideal web engine for embedded systems and Rust applications.

(blogs.igalia.com)
Development Web Engine

Hyperview: Native Mobile Apps as Easy as Websites

2025-01-08
Hyperview: Native Mobile Apps as Easy as Websites

Hyperview is a new hypermedia format and React Native client for building server-driven mobile apps with the ease of website creation. It renders screens by fetching Hyperview XML (HXML) content from a server, supporting various backend technologies like Django, Rails, or Node. Updates are instant via backend changes, eliminating lengthy app store review times. Hyperview excels for network-based apps (social networks, marketplaces, media browsing), but isn't ideal for apps heavily reliant on offline data or local computation.

(hyperview.org)
Development native mobile app server-driven

When Will We Fix the World's Crumbling Software?

2025-01-08
When Will We Fix the World's Crumbling Software?

Software underpins the modern world, yet its quality is shockingly inconsistent. Industries like healthcare, retail, and airlines rely on outdated, inefficient software, hindering productivity and potential. The author calls for urgent attention to these neglected areas, advocating for investment in updating crucial software tools to unleash the full potential of professionals and move beyond inefficient, outdated systems.

(www.cgustavo.com)
Development technological disparity tool upgrades

Benchmarking Decimal Digit Counting Algorithms

2025-01-08
Benchmarking Decimal Digit Counting Algorithms

This code implements a benchmark suite for comparing different decimal digit counting algorithms. It generates random integers and then uses five different methods (including log10, bit manipulation, and lookup table methods) to count the number of digits in those integers and compares their performance. The tests cover both 32-bit and 64-bit integers, revealing significant performance differences between the algorithms, with some bit manipulation-based algorithms showing superior performance.

(github.com)
Development algorithm comparison

Slack's Automated Accessibility Testing: Challenges and Triumphs

2025-01-08
Slack's Automated Accessibility Testing: Challenges and Triumphs

The Slack engineering team details their journey implementing automated accessibility testing. Initial attempts to integrate Axe into their React Testing Library and Jest framework failed due to complexities. They pivoted to Playwright, using custom functions and strategies to successfully automate accessibility checks and integrate them into CI/CD. While not fully hiding automated checks, they minimized developer overhead by simplifying workflows, improving reporting, and establishing clear processes. Future plans include further optimization and exploring AI-assisted testing.

(slack.engineering)
Development automated testing accessibility testing

Streets GL: An Open-Source Real-time 3D Map Engine

2025-01-07

Streets GL is a powerful open-source real-time 3D map engine offering developers the tools to build stunning virtual worlds. Leveraging WebGL, it boasts exceptional performance, smoothly rendering massive geographic datasets and supporting custom materials, lighting, and effects. Whether creating city simulators, game maps, or immersive VR applications, Streets GL handles it all. Its open-source nature makes it a valuable community resource, constantly updated and improving.

(streets.gl)
Development 3D Map Open-Source Engine

Laid Off Twice in One Year: A Software Engineer's Story

2025-01-07

A software engineer shares his experience of being laid off twice in a single year, once a week into paternity leave and again just before Christmas. The article details the emotional rollercoaster, practical steps taken to find new employment (resume updates, unemployment benefits, job searching strategies), and reflections on the current state of the tech industry and personal self-worth. He offers advice on navigating layoffs, emphasizing the importance of resilience, networking, and continuous learning.

(dillonshook.com)
Development

The Biggest Mistakes Engineers Make in Massive Codebases

2025-01-07

Working with large, established codebases is notoriously difficult. This article shares a decade's worth of experience, highlighting the most common and deadly mistake: ignoring existing codebase patterns and focusing solely on clean code for a new feature. Maintaining consistency is paramount; it prevents unexpected issues, slows the codebase's descent into chaos, and enables future improvements. The author also stresses understanding the code's production footprint, being cautious about introducing new dependencies, removing redundant code, working in small PRs, and leveraging team expertise to catch errors. While challenging, mastering large codebases is crucial because they are usually the foundation of a company's most valuable products.

(www.seangoedecke.com)
Development codebase
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