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Ember: Automating Healthcare's Back Office for Better Patient Care

2025-08-27

Ember: Automating Healthcare's Back Office for Better Patient Care

Ember is building the future of healthcare operations by simplifying the complex administrative tasks – billing, revenue cycle management, etc. – that burden providers. Their intelligent automation platform integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, reducing manual work and providing real-time visibility into financial and operational performance. This allows healthcare providers to focus on what matters most: their patients.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Tech healthcare tech

Ship Faster, Better: Parallel AI-Assisted Development with Claude Code

2025-08-20

Ship Faster, Better: Parallel AI-Assisted Development with Claude Code

Claude Code PM revolutionizes software development by combining spec-driven development, GitHub Issues, Git worktrees, and multiple parallel AI agents. It tackles common team collaboration woes: context switching, merge conflicts, requirements drift, and invisible progress. The system transforms PRDs into epics, epics into GitHub issues, and issues into production code with full traceability. Multiple Claude instances work concurrently, enabling true team collaboration and seamless human-AI handoffs. The result? Increased speed, fewer bugs, and a dramatically improved workflow.

(github.com)

Development GitHub collaboration parallel development

Sewage: From Waste to Resource

2025-08-27

Sewage: From Waste to Resource

This article traces the history of sewage treatment, from ancient civilizations using human waste as fertilizer and fuel to the rise of modern sewage treatment and the resurgence of interest in sewage as a resource. It explores the various resources found in sewage, including energy, water, minerals, and information, and the potential of using sewage for disease surveillance and public health management. From the sophisticated drainage systems of ancient Rome to modern wastewater treatment plants and the potential of sewage as a valuable data source, this article showcases humanity's ongoing exploration and innovation in sewage treatment technology.

(www.asimov.press)

Tech Sewage Treatment Resource Recovery

Firefox Extension: One-Click Highlighted Elements for Enhanced Keyboard Navigation

2025-08-25

A developer, h43z, created a small Firefox extension to address the shortcomings of keyboard navigation in modern websites. The extension allows users to click highlighted elements with the Enter key after using the browser's find feature, significantly improving efficiency, especially on sites using buttons and divs instead of links for navigation. It achieves this by listening for keyboard events, getting the parent element of the selected text, and simulating a click.

(b.43z.one)

Development keyboard navigation

Bluesky's Decentralized Success Story: Blacksky's Two Million Users

2025-08-26

Bluesky's Decentralized Success Story: Blacksky's Two Million Users

Blacksky, a decentralized social network built on Bluesky's AT Protocol, has rapidly grown to two million users organically, showcasing the potential of decentralized platforms. Prioritizing Black voices and community safety, Blacksky uses its custom-built, open-source tools and a community-based moderation system to maintain its unique identity, independent from Bluesky. Its success highlights the power of decentralized infrastructure in fostering inclusive and self-governed online spaces.

(newpublic.substack.com)

Tech

The Secret to Long-Lasting Beer Head: It's All About Fermentation

2025-08-27

The Secret to Long-Lasting Beer Head: It's All About Fermentation

A seven-year study by Swiss researchers reveals the crucial role of fermentation in beer foam longevity. The research, published in Physics of Fluids, shows that the number of fermentations (single, double, or triple) significantly impacts foam stability. Foam stability is a complex interplay of factors including surfactants, gravity, and bubble interactions. Understanding these dynamics not only enhances our appreciation of beer but also offers insights into the broader field of foam science.

(arstechnica.com)

Misc foam fermentation

rv: A Revolutionary Ruby Language Manager

2025-08-27

After a decade of working on Bundler, the author has finally created rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool. rv not only manages gem dependencies but also Ruby versions, installing pre-compiled Rubies to eliminate lengthy compilation times. More importantly, rv makes running any Ruby script or tool trivial, even if it requires a different Ruby version. Inspired by uv (a similar tool for Python), cargo, and npm, rv boasts speed, reliability, and innovative features like `rv tool run` and `rv tool install`, simplifying Ruby environment management and dramatically boosting developer productivity.

(andre.arko.net)

Development

Russia's New Soyuz-5 Rocket: Breaking Free from Ukraine, Targeting Commercial Launches

2025-08-26

Russia's New Soyuz-5 Rocket: Breaking Free from Ukraine, Targeting Commercial Launches

Following the breakdown of space cooperation with Ukraine due to the conflict, Russia is accelerating development of its new Soyuz-5 rocket. Powered by the powerful RD-171MV engine, which avoids Ukrainian components and boasts over three times the thrust of a NASA Space Shuttle Main Engine, the Soyuz-5 aims to replace the Zenit and Proton-M rockets. Russia hopes to gain a stronger foothold in the commercial launch market. However, even more significant is the Soyuz-7 (Amur) rocket, designed with a reusable first stage and new liquid oxygen-methane engines, intended to eventually replace the Soyuz-2. Its debut, however, has been pushed back to no earlier than 2030.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech Russian space program Soyuz-5 rocket RD-171MV engine

PayPal Security Breach Freezes Billions in German Bank Payments

2025-08-28

PayPal Security Breach Freezes Billions in German Bank Payments

A failure in PayPal's security systems has resulted in a massive blockage of payments in Germany, potentially affecting over ten billion euros. The system's inability to filter fraudulent transactions led to unverified direct debits being submitted. Multiple German banks subsequently halted PayPal transactions, freezing funds for merchants. While PayPal claims the issue is resolved, the impact continues, with consumers urged to check for unauthorized debits.

(www.nordbayern.de)

Tech Payment Security System Failure

Spoon Bending: Bypassing AI Safety Restrictions

2025-08-26

Spoon Bending: Bypassing AI Safety Restrictions

This research explores how the stricter safety guidelines in GPT-5, compared to GPT-4.5, can be circumvented. The 'Spoon Bending' schema illustrates how reframing prompts allows the model to produce outputs that would normally be blocked. The author details three zones: Hard Stop, Gray Zone, and Free Zone, showcasing how seemingly absolute rules are actually framing-sensitive. This highlights the inherent tension between AI safety and functionality, demonstrating that even with strong safety protocols, sophisticated prompting can lead to unintended outputs.

(github.com)

AI

Sole Maintainer of Popular Node.js Utility Raises Security Concerns

2025-08-28

Sole Maintainer of Popular Node.js Utility Raises Security Concerns

A Node.js utility, fast-glob, used by thousands of public projects and over 30 Department of Defense systems, is maintained solely by a Yandex employee residing in Russia. While fast-glob has no known vulnerabilities, its deep system access and the maintainer's affiliation with Yandex raise serious security concerns. Hunted Labs' report highlights the utility's 79+ million weekly downloads, exposing a vast attack surface. This incident underscores the critical importance of open-source security and the need to know who writes your code.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech geopolitical risk

The Ten Martini Problem: A Quantum Leap in Mathematical Understanding

2025-08-26

The Ten Martini Problem: A Quantum Leap in Mathematical Understanding

Mathematicians Jitomirskaya and Avila famously solved the 'Ten Martini Problem,' proving a specific mathematical model concerning electron behavior. However, their proof had limitations, only applying to simplified scenarios. In more realistic situations, the proof broke down, and the beautiful mathematical patterns vanished. This changed in 2013 when physicists observed the patterns in a lab, prompting Jitomirskaya to seek a new mathematical explanation. In 2019, her collaborator Ge proposed a 'global theory' promising to solve this, offering a more elegant approach to understanding almost-periodic functions.

(www.quantamagazine.org)

Tech almost periodic functions

Trump Threatens Tariffs on Nations Regulating US Tech

2025-08-26

Trump Threatens Tariffs on Nations Regulating US Tech

Donald Trump threatened to impose additional tariffs on countries that regulate American tech companies. He claims digital taxes and similar measures harm US tech firms while giving Chinese companies a pass. This could lead to tech export bans, potentially hurting even US chipmakers. However, this threat might be another Trumpian bluster, possibly ending with no action or minor concessions through negotiations.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech

Urgent: Malicious nx Build Kit Steals GitHub Keys

2025-08-27

Urgent: Malicious nx Build Kit Steals GitHub Keys

A malicious post-install command in the popular nx build kit has been discovered, creating a repository prefixed with 's1ngularity-repository' on affected users' GitHub accounts. This malware steals wallets, API keys, and environment variables, storing them in a base64-encoded file. Cleverly, it leverages LLMs like Claude Code CLI or Gemini CLI to offload much of its fingerprintable code to a prompt, making detection harder. Impacted versions of nx have been removed from npm. Users should immediately check their GitHub accounts, update nx to the latest safe version, and rotate any compromised secrets.

(semgrep.dev)

Development nx build kit github security

Delphi TensorFlow Lite Image Classifier

2025-08-27

Delphi TensorFlow Lite Image Classifier

This Delphi code implements a simple TensorFlow Lite image classifier. It loads a model file, preprocesses image data from an Image1 component, and feeds the data to a TensorFlow Lite interpreter for inference. The inference results, probabilities for each class, are displayed in a ListView1 component. The code includes error handling and resource release mechanisms for stability.

(learndelphi.org)

Development Image Classification

Nine-Day Milestone: Gene-Edited Pig Lung Transplanted into Human

2025-08-27

Nine-Day Milestone: Gene-Edited Pig Lung Transplanted into Human

A team from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University achieved a groundbreaking feat: successfully transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a brain-dead human, maintaining function for nine days. While the experiment was ultimately terminated due to organ rejection, it represents a significant advancement in xenotransplantation. The focus wasn't on immediate success, but on observing the human immune response. The pig lung underwent six gene edits to minimize immune and inflammatory responses. Results highlighted challenges such as pulmonary edema and antibody-mediated rejection. Future research will focus on optimizing immunosuppression, refining gene editing, and ultimately achieving clinical translation.

(www.sciencealert.com)

Tech Xenotransplantation Organ Transplant

FTC Warns Big Tech: Don't Sacrifice Data Security for Foreign Governments

2025-08-26

FTC Warns Big Tech: Don't Sacrifice Data Security for Foreign Governments

The FTC chairman, Andrew N. Ferguson, sent a letter to major US tech companies, including Google, Apple, and Microsoft, warning against complying with foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or censor content. Ferguson stressed that weakening security at a foreign government's request, especially without user notification, violates the FTC Act and exposes companies to legal action. He specifically cited the EU's Digital Services Act and the UK's Online Safety Act as examples. The FTC warns these laws undermine American users' freedom and data security, reminding companies of their obligations under the FTC Act regarding data security and privacy. The letter follows recent events like Apple's temporary removal of iCloud end-to-end encryption in the UK, which was later reversed.

(www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Tech

Aligning Polynomial Features with Data Distribution: The Attention-Alignment Problem in ML

2025-08-26

Aligning Polynomial Features with Data Distribution: The Attention-Alignment Problem in ML

This post explores aligning polynomial features with data distribution for improved machine learning model performance. Orthogonal bases produce informative features when data is uniformly distributed, but real-world data isn't. Two approaches are presented: a mapping trick, transforming data to a uniform distribution before applying an orthogonal basis; and multiplying by a carefully chosen function to adjust the orthogonal basis's weight function to align with the data distribution. The first is more practical, achievable with Scikit-Learn's QuantileTransformer. The second is more complex, requiring deeper mathematical understanding and fine-tuning. Experiments on the California housing dataset show that near-orthogonal features from the first method outperform traditional min-max scaling in linear regression.

(alexshtf.github.io)

Development polynomial features feature engineering

The Secret of Parabolic Microphones: Why High Frequencies Are Easier to Capture

2025-08-26

The Secret of Parabolic Microphones: Why High Frequencies Are Easier to Capture

Parabolic microphones are renowned for their extreme sensitivity, stemming from their considerable size. Similar to how telescopes use large parabolic mirrors to gather faint light, parabolic microphones use reflecting dishes to harvest faint sounds. However, this design has drawbacks: it's biased towards higher frequencies, leading to a sometimes 'tinny' sound quality, and lower frequencies experience reduced gain, with a cutoff frequency dependent on dish diameter. This article delves into the physics of parabolic microphone operation, explaining its frequency-dependent performance and the physical mechanisms behind its high-frequency gain, including reflection, reciprocity, interference, diffraction, and Huygens' wavelet model.

(legallyblindbirding.net)

Tech

Rediscovering RSS: A Simple, Efficient Way to Read Blogs

2025-08-29

NetNewsWire, a free iPhone RSS reader, has become my go-to app. RSS, while an older technology, provides a surprisingly efficient way to consume blog content. By subscribing to RSS feeds, you get updates directly in the app, eliminating email clutter, website hopping, and distracting ads. All your blog content is centralized for easy reading, maximizing your downtime productivity.

(evanverma.com)

Misc Blog Reading

SpaceX Starship Flight 10: A Bold Experiment in Fault Tolerance

2025-08-28

SpaceX Starship Flight 10: A Bold Experiment in Fault Tolerance

SpaceX's Starship flight 10 wasn't just another milestone; it was a rigorous test of the rocket's fault tolerance. SpaceX intentionally introduced multiple failures to test the heat shield, propulsion redundancy, and Raptor engine reignition. The test focused on assessing Starship's resilience under extreme conditions, laying the groundwork for future Starlink satellite launches, commercial payload transportation, and crewed missions. Engineers deliberately removed heat shield tiles and experimented with a new actively cooled tile type to gather real-world data and refine designs. Propulsion redundancy was tested by simulating engine failure and successfully using a backup engine. Additionally, Starship achieved in-space Raptor engine reignition. This testing is crucial for NASA's Artemis program, which relies on SpaceX developing a heat shield that survives reentry and a ship that can reliably reignite in orbit to safely deliver astronauts to the lunar surface.

(finance.yahoo.com)

Tech

Elegant Retry Loops: Avoiding Redundancy and Unexpected Sleeps

2025-08-27

The author explores writing an elegant retry loop that clearly bounds the number of retries, avoids spurious sleep after the last attempt, reports the original error if retrying fails, and avoids code duplication. Several approaches are compared, ultimately settling on a `try while` loop with an upper bound to guarantee termination, addressing boundary issues and potential runaway loops in previous solutions. While the final solution isn't perfect, it represents a significant improvement in brevity and robustness over previous attempts.

(matklad.github.io)

Development

Tokyo's Major Train Stations: A Comprehensive List

2025-08-28

This list details many of Tokyo's crucial train stations, ranging from the bustling Akihabara to the tranquil Sugamo, encompassing major areas of the city. These stations connect to Tokyo's intricate transportation network, serving as indispensable hubs for exploring the metropolis. The list is incredibly useful for planning a trip to Tokyo or understanding its geographical layout.

(yamanot.es)

Misc Tokyo transportation train stations

decode-kit: A Lightweight TypeScript Runtime Data Validation Library

2025-08-25

decode-kit: A Lightweight TypeScript Runtime Data Validation Library

decode-kit is a lightweight, zero-dependency TypeScript library for validating arbitrary runtime data. It uses assertion-based validation that refines your types in-place—no cloning, no transformations, and minimal runtime overhead. decode-kit validates your data and narrows its type directly; your original values remain unchanged. It employs a fail-fast approach, throwing a detailed error on the first validation failure, including the location and expected schema. Supporting various data types (strings, numbers, booleans, arrays, objects) with configurable rules, decode-kit outperforms libraries like Zod due to its in-place type assertion, making it ideal for performance-critical applications.

(github.com)

Development

F-35 Crash: 50-Minute Airborne Conference Call Couldn't Save $200M Fighter Jet

2025-08-27

F-35 Crash: 50-Minute Airborne Conference Call Couldn't Save $200M Fighter Jet

An F-35 fighter jet crashed in Alaska due to ice in the landing gear preventing proper deployment. The pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to troubleshoot the issue before ejecting. The investigation revealed significant water contamination in the aircraft's hydraulic system and a failure to heed warnings about sensor issues in extreme cold, leading to flawed decision-making and the loss of the $200 million aircraft.

(www.cnn.com)

Tech fighter jet crash

Linux SD Card Formatter: Optimized for Performance

2025-08-25

Linux SD Card Formatter: Optimized for Performance

The SD Memory Card Formatter, developed by Tuxera, is a Linux-based utility designed to format SD, SDHC, SDXC, and SDUC cards according to SD Association specifications. It's recommended over OS-provided tools for optimal performance. Note that it doesn't support BitLocker To Go encrypted cards and leaves the protected area untouched. Supports various Linux distributions and SD interfaces. Download and manual available on the official website.

(www.sdcard.org)

Hardware SD card formatting tool

Ancient Genomics Revolution: Rewriting Human History

2025-08-26

Ancient Genomics Revolution: Rewriting Human History

David Reich and his team at Harvard Medical School are rewriting human history using ancient DNA analysis. Their discoveries, including interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans, and the revelation of previously unknown "ghost populations," challenge the traditional "out of Africa" theory. This research not only unveils prehistoric human migrations, mergers, and extinctions but also raises ethical concerns about gene editing technology, a tool with the potential for both immense benefit and catastrophic misuse, similar to nuclear weapons. Reich's team collaborates with archaeologists and museums globally to create a comprehensive picture of human evolution using ancient DNA data, revealing the complexity and diversity of our past.

(www.laphamsquarterly.org)

Tech

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image: Google's AI Image Generation Breakthrough

2025-08-26

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image: Google's AI Image Generation Breakthrough

Google unveiled Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. It allows for blending multiple images, maintaining character consistency for richer storytelling, making precise transformations using natural language, and leveraging Gemini's world knowledge for image generation and editing. Priced at $30.00 per 1 million output tokens (approximately $0.039 per image), it's accessible via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio for developers, and Vertex AI for enterprises. Google AI Studio's 'build mode' has also been significantly updated to streamline app creation. Key features include character consistency, prompt-based image editing, and native world knowledge, opening new possibilities in image generation and manipulation.

(developers.googleblog.com)

AI

Async: AI-Powered Collaborative Coding Workflow

2025-08-27

Async: AI-Powered Collaborative Coding Workflow

Async is an open-source developer tool that combines AI coding, task management, and code review into one streamlined workflow. Integrating Claude Code, Linear, and GitHub PRs, it automatically researches coding tasks, executes code changes in the cloud, and breaks work into reviewable subtasks, handling the entire workflow from GitHub issue to merged PR. Async excels with mature codebases, enforcing upfront planning, eliminating context switching, simplifying task tracking, and providing built-in code review. Built with FastAPI, Claude Code, and Google Cloud Platform, it supports desktop and mobile.

(github.com)

Development

Elon Musk Denied Entry to Berghain: A Berlin Triumph of Anti-Elitism

2025-08-27

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has become infamous in Berlin for his support of Trump and Germany's far-right AfD party, and for performing a Nazi salute. Adding to the irony, he was denied entry to Berghain, Berlin's most exclusive nightclub, a symbolic victory for Berlin's anti-elitism and commitment to authenticity. The incident sparked numerous memes and songs, becoming a part of Berlin's culture and highlighting the city's embrace of inclusivity and anti-establishment values.

(berlinguide.de)

Misc Berlin Culture

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