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Let's Encrypt to Offer 6-Day Certificates and IP Address Support in 2025

2025-01-16
Let's Encrypt to Offer 6-Day Certificates and IP Address Support in 2025

Let's Encrypt announced plans to introduce two new certificate options in 2025: short-lived certificates with a six-day lifetime and support for IP addresses. Six-day certificates significantly enhance security by minimizing the window of vulnerability. IP address support enables secure TLS connections for IP-accessible services using publicly trusted certificates, eliminating the need for domain names. The rollout will be phased, with general availability expected by the end of 2025. Users will need an ACME client supporting certificate profiles to obtain the short-lived certificates.

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Tech SSL Certificates

David vs. Goliath: Small Costa Rican Supermarket Wins Trademark Battle Against Nintendo

2025-02-02
David vs. Goliath: Small Costa Rican Supermarket Wins Trademark Battle Against Nintendo

A small Costa Rican supermarket, "Super Mario," successfully defended its trademark against Nintendo. Nintendo, citing its 'Super Mario' trademark, initially challenged the supermarket's registration. However, the supermarket's legal team successfully argued that its registration for supplying basic food products didn't conflict with Nintendo's existing trademark classes. This underdog victory highlights the power of persistence and strategic legal action, even against a global corporate giant.

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(ticotimes.net)
Startup trademark David and Goliath

Databricks in Talks to Acquire Open-Source Database Startup Neon for $1B+

2025-05-05
Databricks in Talks to Acquire Open-Source Database Startup Neon for $1B+

Data and AI unicorn Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire Neon, a maker of an open-source database engine, for approximately $1 billion, according to four sources familiar with the matter. While some believe the deal is done, sources say negotiations are ongoing and could still fall apart. The final price could exceed $1 billion when employee retention packages are included. Neon and its CEO declined to comment, and Databricks did not respond to a request for comment.

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(www.upstartsmedia.com)
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China to Subsidize Smartphone Purchases to Boost Spending

2025-01-03
China to Subsidize Smartphone Purchases to Boost Spending

China will expand consumption subsidies to include smartphones and other electronics to boost domestic spending amid rising external headwinds. Officials from the nation’s top economic planning agency said Friday that a national trade-in program currently covering home appliances and cars will be broadened this year to personal devices such as phones, tablets, and smartwatches. Post-Covid, Chinese consumers have held onto their smartphones longer due to a lack of exciting new features and general belt-tightening. Like with cars and washing machines, investors hope incentives will revive the world’s largest smartphone market and drive sales not only for brands like Huawei and Xiaomi but also for platforms popular with device fans like Alibaba and JD.com. The move is part of China’s efforts to encourage consumption to offset the effects of potential new US tariffs on Chinese exports, a key growth driver. For only the second time in at least a decade, top leaders last month prioritized stimulating spending and domestic demand in 2025. The government will “significantly” increase the sale of ultra-long special treasury bonds to fund the program, which also encourages companies to upgrade equipment, according to Yuan Da, deputy secretary-general of the National Development and Reform Commission. Several provinces started their own trade-in programs for personal devices and phones in late 2024, but a nationwide initiative could prove more effective. The central government committed 300 billion yuan ($41.1 billion) of funds raised from special treasury bonds in July to support the subsidies. Including local government efforts, these incentives led to a surge in car and home appliance sales starting in September. Subsidies for upgrading business equipment will also be expanded to areas including agricultural facilities, according to Yuan. A specific plan for the program’s expansion will be released soon.

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(finance.yahoo.com)
Tech consumption subsidies smartphones economic stimulus

OKRs: Tool or Trap?

2024-12-25
OKRs: Tool or Trap?

This article explores the duality of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). The author points out that many companies misuse OKRs for performance reviews, leading teams to overemphasize measurable metrics while neglecting the actual objectives and external effects. The author uses the example of Alexa to illustrate how blindly pursuing key results can be counterproductive. In contrast, Honeycomb uses OKRs as a tool for communication and reflection, treating key results as clues to observe the world and improve work, rather than ultimate judgment criteria, thus avoiding metric distortion.

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(jessitron.com)
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Seven Years Post-Google: Selling My Company & Becoming a Dad

2025-02-04
Seven Years Post-Google: Selling My Company & Becoming a Dad

Seven years ago, Michael Lynch left his job at Google to bootstrap his own software company. This year's update covers the sale of his million-dollar-revenue remote computer control device company, TinyPilot, for $600k, and the arrival of his first child. The sale allowed for better work-life balance; he's since refined a previous blogging course, started a book on writing for developers, and explored new technologies like Nix, htmx, and Zig, improving his fuzz testing workflow with Nix. He remains enthusiastic about independent founding.

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(mtlynch.io)
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Hacker Laws: A Compendium of Software Development Principles

2025-03-30

This repository serves as a comprehensive guide to various laws, principles, and patterns prevalent in software development. From Brooks' Law and Conway's Law to Amdahl's Law and the 90-9-1 principle, it offers a detailed overview without advocating for any specific approach. It explores diverse aspects, including cognitive biases, distributed systems limitations, code quality, and team dynamics, providing valuable insights and lessons learned for developers of all levels.

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(hacker-laws.com)
Development Laws of Software

Kastle is Hiring a Founding Backend Engineer to Build its AI-Powered Mortgage Servicing Platform

2025-02-27
Kastle is Hiring a Founding Backend Engineer to Build its AI-Powered Mortgage Servicing Platform

Kastle, an AI-powered platform revolutionizing mortgage servicing, seeks a seasoned Backend Engineer to join its founding team. You'll architect and scale Kastle's AI infrastructure, developing backend services for their AI-driven mortgage applications. This requires expertise in Python, asynchronous programming, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), distributed systems, and financial regulations. This high-impact role offers significant ownership and the chance to shape the technical direction of a fast-growing Fintech startup.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Salesforce's AI Power-Up: Empowering Every Employee

2025-06-17
Salesforce's AI Power-Up: Empowering Every Employee

Salesforce is announcing significant updates to its Agentforce, Customer 360 Apps, and Slack offerings, streamlining AI adoption. Key changes include: generally available Agentforce add-ons and Agentforce 1 Editions offering unlimited employee AI usage; price increases for Enterprise and Unlimited Editions starting August 1, 2025; and Slack plan updates adding AI features to all paid plans and Salesforce channels to all plans (including free). New Agentforce add-ons and editions provide unlimited generative AI access, pre-built templates, AI-powered analytics, and more. This overhaul aims to empower every employee with AI, driving customer success.

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(www.salesforce.com)
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Hetzner AX162 Server Reliability Nightmare: A Painful Debugging Journey

2025-02-19
Hetzner AX162 Server Reliability Nightmare: A Painful Debugging Journey

Ubicloud encountered serious reliability issues with Hetzner's new AX162 servers: a 16x higher crash rate than its predecessor, AX161. After months of debugging, they suspected power limiting by Hetzner and motherboard defects as the root causes. Multiple hardware upgrades, especially motherboard replacements, ultimately resolved the issue. This experience taught them the risks of early adoption and led to process improvements, including more thorough vetting and gradual hardware rollouts.

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(www.ubicloud.com)
Hardware server reliability

Coccinelle: A Powerful Tool for Linux Kernel Development

2024-12-26

Coccinelle is a powerful tool for Linux kernel development, used for pattern matching and text transformation. It enables the application of complex, tree-wide patches and detects problematic coding patterns. This document details Coccinelle's installation, usage, various modes (patch, report, context, org), and advanced features such as parallelization, using a single semantic patch, controlling processed files, debugging, and .cocciconfig support. Coccinelle leverages Semantic Patch Language (SmPL) and offers multiple modes for generating patches, reports, context information, and Org-mode reports, catering to diverse needs.

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(docs.kernel.org)
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Leeches: An Ancient Remedy's Modern Comeback?

2025-08-18
Leeches: An Ancient Remedy's Modern Comeback?

Hirudotherapy, the use of leeches in medicine, is experiencing a resurgence. This article delves into the history of leech therapy, from ancient Chinese medicine to its modern applications in reconstructive surgery. Leeches' saliva contains bioactive compounds like hirudin, possessing anticoagulant and anti-inflammatory properties. Despite a lack of large-scale clinical trials, leech therapy shows promise in certain contexts, such as improving blood flow in reconstructive surgery. However, infection risks and limited funding hinder further development.

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(press.asimov.com)
Tech hirudotherapy traditional medicine anticoagulant

GitHub Project Map: Visualizing 400,000+ Projects

2024-12-15
GitHub Project Map: Visualizing 400,000+ Projects

Developer Anvaka created an interactive map visualizing over 400,000 GitHub projects using publicly available data. The project uses Jaccard similarity to calculate relationships between projects and the Leiden algorithm for clustering. The result is a visually stunning representation of the GitHub ecosystem, allowing users to search and explore connections between projects, revealing its complexity and richness.

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(github.com)
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Safe Division in C with Maybe Monad

2025-08-11

This article details the implementation of type and bounds-safe generic containers in C. The author introduces a `Maybe` type, inspired by Haskell, to handle functions that might return no value (e.g., division by zero). A safe division function is created using macros to define `Maybe`, handling zero division and the edge case of dividing the minimum representable integer by -1. GCC assembly code is analyzed to verify the function's safety. The author concludes by noting the limitations of this approach for proving the complete safety of C programs.

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(uecker.codeberg.page)
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Lean Design Meets Cybernetics: The User Defines Purpose

2025-02-05
Lean Design Meets Cybernetics: The User Defines Purpose

This article explores design from a cybernetics perspective, drawing on the ideas of theorists like Ashby and Beer. It discusses Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety, highlighting the need for sufficient variety in a system regulator to handle perturbations. The author introduces the "user purpose hypothesis" and the "counteraction hypothesis," arguing that users ultimately determine a device's purpose and seek simplification or complexification based on its perceived complexity. The article also explores Poka-Yoke (error-proofing) in lean principles, the cost of variety in design, and the importance of immediate feedback, using the USB design as a case study balancing cost and user experience. Finally, the author cites Krippendorff, emphasizing that an artifact's meaning isn't inherent but assigned by the user through interaction, urging designers to focus on empowering users rather than designing specific products.

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(stream.syscoi.com)
Design Cybernetics

Musk's DOGE Initiative Leaves Federal Workers in the Dark on 'Deferred Resignation' Plan

2025-02-02
Musk's DOGE Initiative Leaves Federal Workers in the Dark on 'Deferred Resignation' Plan

A recent meeting between staff from Elon Musk's DOGE (formerly the US Digital Service) and their new HR representative, Stephanie Holmes, shed little light on a controversial "deferred resignation" plan. The plan, mirroring a similar tactic used at Twitter, offers employees a delayed resignation but carries the risk of later job cuts. Holmes failed to answer crucial employee questions about project futures, remote work policies, and the details of the agreement, only stressing its legality and the benefits of avoiding layoffs and return-to-office mandates. This lack of clarity leaves employees facing a looming deadline with significant uncertainty about the plan's fairness and true implications.

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(www.wired.com)
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Re-evaluating the Antonine Itinerary: Topography's Impact on Roman Road Route

2025-07-08
Re-evaluating the Antonine Itinerary: Topography's Impact on Roman Road Route

Researchers used the MADO model and least-cost path algorithms, along with topographical data, to reassess the section of the Antonine Itinerary from Tui to Lugo (Roman road XI). The study revealed significant discrepancies in previously proposed site locations, primarily due to the influence of terrain slope on route selection. By incorporating topography, a new optimal route was proposed, showing good agreement with archaeological findings. The study also explains deviations between some milestones and the optimal path.

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(link.springer.com)
Misc Roman road topographical analysis spatial modeling

Orange Intelligence: Open-Source macOS Productivity Tool Surpasses Apple's

2025-01-26
Orange Intelligence: Open-Source macOS Productivity Tool Surpasses Apple's

Orange Intelligence is a powerful, open-source macOS productivity tool designed to overcome the limitations of Apple's built-in intelligence features. Its elegant floating window interface lets users seamlessly capture, process, and replace text across any application. With support for custom Python functions, it integrates seamlessly with LLMs like OpenAI or local LLaMA, enabling the creation of complex agent systems. Built using Python, PyQt6, and Applescript, Orange Intelligence offers extensive customization options, boosting productivity for developers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts.

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(github.com)
Development

Mind-blowing: Giant Bifurcation Islands Hidden in North America

2025-02-26
Mind-blowing: Giant Bifurcation Islands Hidden in North America

Rivers usually merge, but sometimes they split, creating 'bifurcation islands'. This article explores this phenomenon, highlighting the Casiquiare Canal connecting the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. It then reveals a shocking discovery: multiple river bifurcations in North America, some connecting three oceans, forming islands far larger than Greenland. These 'bifurcation islands' redefine our understanding of world geography and island size.

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(starkeycomics.com)
Misc rivers

Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: The Hidden Doomsday Clock?

2025-06-22
Israel's Nuclear Arsenal: The Hidden Doomsday Clock?

While US politicians repeatedly warn against Iran developing nuclear weapons, they remain silent about Israel's existing and far larger nuclear arsenal. The article reveals Israel possesses at least 90 warheads, possibly hundreds more, operating under a veil of secrecy and violating international law. Israel's aggressive actions and bellicose rhetoric, including the Gaza assault and nuclear threats against Iran, escalate regional tensions. The author calls for the US to abandon its double standard, advocating for a nuclear-free Middle East to prevent catastrophic war.

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(www.currentaffairs.org)
Tech Nuclear Weapons Middle East Conflict

AI's $200 Task Conquest: A Progress Report

2025-02-01
AI's $200 Task Conquest: A Progress Report

The author recounts commissioning a $200 mascot design in 2013, illustrating the type of tasks now achievable by AI. AI excels at transactional tasks with well-defined outputs, like logo design, transcription, and translation, previously requiring specialized skills. However, more complex tasks demanding nuanced expertise and judgment, such as landscape design, remain beyond AI's current capabilities. While AI's progress is impressive, its economic impact in solving paid tasks is still in its early stages.

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(blog.ninlabs.com)
AI Task Automation

Ordinary Objects: No-Code Mixed Reality Prototyping

2025-01-27
Ordinary Objects: No-Code Mixed Reality Prototyping

Ordinary Objects is a no-code mixed reality prototyping platform enabling designers to rapidly create high-fidelity spatial app prototypes. It boasts powerful authoring features and a unique workflow for prototyping spatial user flows and interactions. Supporting import formats like WAV/MP3 audio, animated GLB 3D assets, and PNG/JPG images, it offers real-time feedback—no play mode needed. Ordinary Objects runs natively on major platforms and features real-time collaborative editing, streamlining teamwork.

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(ordinary.space)
Development mixed reality prototyping spatial computing

Batteries Included vs. No Batteries: A Framework Conundrum

2025-07-04

This article explores the trade-offs between 'batteries-included' and 'no-batteries' software frameworks. 'Batteries-included' frameworks, like Express, offer ease of use and high integration, but lack flexibility. 'No-batteries' frameworks, such as Flask, demand more configuration but provide greater control. The author argues that the ideal framework balances both approaches, offering core functionality with plugin extensibility to meet diverse needs. The example of Vim's lazyvim distribution highlights the potential downsides of excessive 'batteries-included' features, leading to bloat.

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(mtende.blog)
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Crypto Kingpin Sacks: NFTs and Memecoins are Collectibles, Not Securities

2025-01-24
Crypto Kingpin Sacks: NFTs and Memecoins are Collectibles, Not Securities

Crypto heavyweight David Sacks recently told Fox News that Trump's memecoin, along with NFTs, are collectibles, not securities. This statement differs from current regulatory definitions of crypto assets, sparking industry attention. Sacks's view suggests these assets may circumvent stricter securities regulations but also face the same market risks as traditional collectibles.

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(fortune.com)
Tech Memecoins Crypto Regulation

Gates-Backed Advanced Nuclear Plant Gets Wyoming Permit

2025-01-15
Gates-Backed Advanced Nuclear Plant Gets Wyoming Permit

TerraPower's Natrium advanced nuclear power plant near Kemmerer, Wyoming, has cleared a major hurdle, receiving a construction permit from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council. This marks the first-ever state permit for a commercial-scale advanced nuclear project in the US. While the nuclear components still await approval from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the permit allows non-nuclear construction to begin, thanks to Natrium's unique design. The plant, slated to begin generating electricity in 2030, is expected to power around 250,000 homes and create roughly 1,600 jobs. Backed by Bill Gates and the US Department of Energy, the project leverages existing coal plant infrastructure, aiming to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and pave the way for global deployment.

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(wyofile.com)
Tech advanced nuclear reactor sustainable energy

From Zero to Profit: The Three-Year Journey of a Photo Encryption App (Part 1)

2025-02-12
From Zero to Profit: The Three-Year Journey of a Photo Encryption App (Part 1)

This article chronicles the three-year journey of building SafeSpace, an iOS photo encryption app. From initial optimism to multiple App Store rejections, massive losses from paid advertising, and finally achieving profitability through a strategic pivot, the author details the struggles and triumphs. The narrative covers the learning curve of SwiftUI, the stringent App Store review process, and the difficulties of independent app marketing. A strategic shift in product focus and market positioning ultimately led to success, but the story doesn't end there; an Apple account investigation presents a new challenge.

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(safespace.is)
Startup

Emacs Extension: An Elegant Hack

2025-09-13

This article details how the author used Emacs' powerful extension mechanism to elegantly solve the problem of automatically sorting reading lists in Org-mode. While Org-mode itself doesn't offer a direct extension point, the author cleverly leverages the `advice-add` function to insert custom code after `org-set-regexps-and-options`, achieving custom sorting. This highlights Emacs' philosophy of encouraging extensibility, offering flexible solutions even where dedicated extension points are absent. The author's approach, while arguably a bit brute-force, perfectly illustrates the power of Emacs extensibility.

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(edoput.it)
Development

Geometric Series Solution for Capacitor Charge Under Square Wave Excitation

2025-01-24

This article analyzes the charge and discharge process of a capacitor under the influence of a symmetric square wave voltage. By establishing recursive equations for charging and discharging, the geometric series solution for the process is obtained. Special cases are discussed where the time constant is much smaller or larger than the period of the square wave. For example, when the time constant is much smaller than the period, the capacitor fully charges and discharges; when the period is much smaller than the time constant, the circuit acts as a low-pass filter.

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(ivanbelenky.com)
Hardware capacitor square wave geometric series

Enhancing Bash and Zsh Tab Completion: Showing Descriptions for Complete Words

2025-08-10

This article details an improvement to Bash and Zsh tab completion, allowing it to display descriptions even for already completed words. Previously, tab completion only showed descriptions when multiple options matched, making it inconvenient for users to see descriptions of single commands. The author cleverly solves this by adding 'dummy' completion options, enabling users to see descriptions with a single tab press. This significantly improves user experience, despite a minor UI imperfection of word duplication.

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(mill-build.org)
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