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Google Updates goo.gl URL Shortener: Some Links Expiring August 25th

2025-08-02

Google Updates goo.gl URL Shortener: Some Links Expiring August 25th

Google previously announced the discontinuation of goo.gl URL shortening service on August 25, 2025, but has adjusted its approach. Inactive goo.gl links from late 2024 will be deactivated; accessing them will display a message indicating their impending expiration. All other actively used goo.gl links will remain functional. Google recommends users migrate affected links to alternative URL shortening services.

(blog.google)

Tech URL shortener

Building an Unbreakable Backup Server: FreeBSD, ZFS, and Multi-layered Security

2025-08-02

Building an Unbreakable Backup Server: FreeBSD, ZFS, and Multi-layered Security

This article details building a secure and reliable backup server using FreeBSD, ZFS, and BastilleBSD. The author stresses data redundancy and multi-layered encryption, outlining backup strategies for FreeBSD ZFS servers (using zfs-autobackup), other systems (using BorgBackup), and Proxmox servers (using Proxmox Backup Server and Minio). The article delves into VPNs, network isolation, snapshots, and security hardening, aiming to help readers create a robust backup system resilient to various threats.

(it-notes.dragas.net)

Development backup server

Twentyseven 1.0.0: A 12-Year Haskell Odyssey in Rubik's Cube Solving

2025-08-02

After twelve years of development, a Haskell-based Rubik's Cube solver, Twentyseven, has reached version 1.0.0. Inspired by Herbert Kociemba's Cube Explorer, it uses Iterative Deepening A* (IDA*) search, cleverly projecting the cube state into simpler subproblems to estimate remaining moves and find optimal solutions. While optimal solutions can take hours, the author also discusses Kociemba's faster two-phase algorithm for near-instantaneous solutions. This release primarily focuses on GHC compiler compatibility and code maintenance.

(blog.poisson.chat)

Development

Goodbye RSI: My Journey with the Svalboard Keyboard

2025-08-02

Years of computer use led to RSI, prompting a quest for the perfect ergonomic keyboard. From Microsoft Ergonomic to Kinesis Advantage and Ergodox EZ, my search culminated in the Svalboard Lightly. Its infrared optical keys and magnetic feedback, coupled with QMK firmware and Keybard software, allowed unparalleled customization. While pricey and with a steep learning curve, the Svalboard's superior ergonomics and customizability dramatically improved my typing comfort and efficiency, making it a worthwhile investment for the discerning user.

(twey.io)

Hardware Ergonomic Keyboard

Say Goodbye to Tedious API Key Management: Streamlining Your API Authentication

2025-08-02

This article critiques the cumbersome process of current API key management and proposes a simpler and more efficient solution. The author demonstrates how using the `jose` library to easily generate JWK key pairs allows developers to generate their own API keys without tedious steps like account registration and email verification. The solution uses JWTs with claims and public keys for authorization and provides a payment URL-based charging mechanism, along with a key derivation method for B2B2C scenarios. This simplifies API authentication, improves development efficiency, and offers more secure key management.

(www.selfref.com)

Development API keys

AI Coding: A Spectrum of Human-AI Collaboration

2025-08-02

AI Coding: A Spectrum of Human-AI Collaboration

This article explores strategies for AI-assisted coding, describing the process as a spectrum of human-AI collaboration. From minimal AI reliance (similar to discussing problems with colleagues at another company) to maximum reliance (delegating tasks to a junior programmer), the author details different levels of interaction and stresses the importance of choosing the right strategy based on the context, balancing learning depth and efficiency.

(softwaredoug.com)

Development code collaboration

Unexpected Climate Benefits of Solar Power: Regional Variations and Spillover Effects

2025-08-02

Unexpected Climate Benefits of Solar Power: Regional Variations and Spillover Effects

Research from Rutgers, Harvard, and Stony Brook Universities reveals significant carbon emission reductions from increased solar power generation in the US. Using advanced computational modeling and five years of electricity data, the study shows that the climate benefits vary significantly across regions. While areas like California see substantial CO2 reductions from modest solar increases, others, such as New England, experience minimal impact. Importantly, the research highlights spillover effects, with increased solar capacity in one region leading to emissions reductions in neighboring areas. This provides policymakers and investors with a targeted roadmap for maximizing emissions reductions through strategic solar investments.

(www.rutgers.edu)

Tech carbon reduction

Printable 2026 One-Page Calendar

2025-08-02

This website offers a printable 2026 calendar designed to fit any paper size automatically. Simply set your printer to landscape mode and disable headers/footers for optimal results. The entire year's dates are displayed on a single page, making it portable and perfect for note-taking and planning. A gentle reminder to be kind is included.

(neatnik.net)

Misc printable

Anthropic Cuts OpenAI's Access to Claude API

2025-08-02

Anthropic Cuts OpenAI's Access to Claude API

Anthropic revoked OpenAI's access to its Claude models' API, citing violations of its terms of service. OpenAI allegedly used the API for internal testing, benchmarking Claude's coding and creative writing capabilities, and assessing its responses to safety prompts involving CSAM, self-harm, and defamation. Anthropic stated this violated clauses prohibiting using the service to build competing products or reverse engineer its services. OpenAI expressed disappointment, highlighting that evaluating other AI systems is industry standard and noting its API remains open to Anthropic. This incident underscores the intensifying competition among tech giants and the complexities surrounding AI model access and terms of service.

(www.wired.com)

AI API access

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable

2025-08-02

Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable

Long-context modeling remains a challenge in NLP. This ACL 2025 paper introduces NSA, a Natively trained Sparse Attention mechanism. NSA cleverly combines algorithmic innovations with hardware-aligned optimizations. Using a dynamic hierarchical sparse strategy (coarse-grained token compression and fine-grained token selection), it achieves significant efficiency gains while preserving global context awareness and local precision. NSA enables end-to-end training, reducing pre-training costs, and matches or exceeds Full Attention models across benchmarks, showing substantial speedups on 64k-length sequences in decoding, forward, and backward propagation.

(aclanthology.org)

AI long-context modeling

Ethersync: Multiplayer Text Editing, Locally

2025-08-02

Ethersync: Multiplayer Text Editing, Locally

Ethersync enables real-time collaborative editing of local text files without a server, offering encrypted peer-to-peer connections. It supports Linux, macOS, Android, and WSL, with plugins for Neovim and VS Code. Share files via simple command-line commands, allowing multiple users to edit simultaneously, see each other's cursors, and selections. Think of it as multiplayer mode for your text editor! The project is actively developed and welcomes contributions and bug reports.

(github.com)

Development

Cold War Naval Strategy, Management Wisdom, and the Perils of Bureaucracy

2025-08-02

This collection of excerpts from the Cold War era reveals insightful perspectives on US naval strategy, effective management, and the shortcomings of the American education system. It contrasts the US and Soviet Navies, highlighting the necessity of superior quality over quantity and the importance of an offensive strategy. Furthermore, it underscores the crucial role of individual accountability, long-term commitment, and clear goal-setting in successful organizations, while criticizing bureaucratic inertia and a stifling educational environment resistant to critical thinking. These perspectives offer valuable lessons for modern organizational management and educational reform.

(rickovercorpus.org)

Misc Naval Strategy

Undergrad Cracks a Math Conjecture: Tackling the Mizohata-Takeuchi Problem

2025-08-02

Undergrad Cracks a Math Conjecture: Tackling the Mizohata-Takeuchi Problem

Hannah Cairo, an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, unexpectedly made significant headway on a simplified version of the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture while taking a graduate course in Fourier restriction theory. Initially a homework problem, Cairo became captivated by it, extending the work to more complex formulations. Her advisor, Professor Ruixiang Zhang, was impressed by her passion and focus. This story highlights the potential of young scholars and the dedication to intellectual exploration.

(www.quantamagazine.org)

Development conjecture undergraduate

AI Salaries Eclipse Even Apollo-Era Earnings

2025-08-02

AI Salaries Eclipse Even Apollo-Era Earnings

The salaries of today's AI researchers dwarf those of even the Apollo program's astronauts and engineers. While Neil Armstrong's annual salary, adjusted for inflation, pales in comparison to what top AI researchers earn in a few days, the disparity highlights the intense competition for a limited pool of highly specialized talent in the booming AI industry. This unprecedented compensation surge is driven by massive investment, the hype surrounding AI, and the concentration of wealth in the tech sector.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech salary comparison

Building a Wind Model from Cheap ADS-B Data

2025-08-02

Building a Wind Model from Cheap ADS-B Data

Using a sub-$100 RTL-SDR dongle and antenna, the author received ADS-B messages from aircraft and built a simplified meteorological model. By analyzing the difference between aircraft heading, airspeed, and ground speed, the model infers wind speed and generates visualizations using data from numerous aircraft. While the accuracy is slightly lower than professional meteorological models, the model successfully simulated high-speed air currents over the Mediterranean, showcasing the innovative potential of using publicly available data.

(obrhubr.org)

Tech Meteorological Model

Coffeematic PC: A Retro Gaming Rig Cooled by Hot Coffee

2025-08-02

Coffeematic PC: A Retro Gaming Rig Cooled by Hot Coffee

Artist Doug MacDowell built Coffeematic PC, a functional computer housed in a vintage GE Coffeematic drip coffee maker. Uniquely, it uses the brewed coffee to cool its CPU. This isn't the first coffee maker computer, but it's the first to employ this unconventional cooling method. The article explores the history of coffee maker computers, noting a curious 15-year gap in builds, and speculates on the reasons behind it. Coffeematic PC also inspired an art exhibition called Sparklines, showcasing the intersection of art and hacking.

(www.dougmacdowell.com)

Hardware art tech hardware hack

Clang Hardened Mode Proposal: Prioritizing Security Over Compatibility

2025-08-02

Clang Hardened Mode Proposal: Prioritizing Security Over Compatibility

The Clang team proposes a "hardened mode" to enhance the safety and security of C and C++ programs. This mode will unify existing security mechanisms, including enabling various compiler flags, predefined macros, and warnings, and adjusting diagnostic behavior to reduce false positives and prioritize security. The proposal explores several implementation approaches: a configuration file, a separate driver, and orthogonal flags, seeking community feedback on the optimal solution. This mode may break existing code, but the team believes this is a necessary trade-off for improved security, aiming for a low false positive rate.

(discourse.llvm.org)

Development

Cerebras Launches Blazing-Fast AI Coding Plans: Pro & Max

2025-08-02

Cerebras Launches Blazing-Fast AI Coding Plans: Pro & Max

Cerebras introduces two new AI coding plans: Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month), both powered by Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder, a leading open-weight coding model. Boasting speeds up to 2,000 tokens per second, a 131k-token context window, and no proprietary IDE lock-in or weekly limits, it offers instant code generation. Users can integrate with their preferred AI IDEs for seamless workflow. Code Pro is ideal for individual developers and smaller projects, while Code Max caters to full-time developers with high-volume needs.

(www.cerebras.ai)

Development

I Couldn't Submit a PR, So I Got Hired and Fixed It Myself

2025-08-01

I Couldn't Submit a PR, So I Got Hired and Fixed It Myself

For over a year, a race condition in Mintlify's search caused wonky results. As the founder of Trieve, the company powering their search, I tried submitting a PR to fix it but failed. Finally joining Mintlify, I added an AbortController to the debounced search function, solving the issue and making search results consistently relevant. This experience highlighted the power of open source and the satisfaction of directly fixing a persistent problem.

(www.skeptrune.com)

Development

SQLite: Building a Database for 2050

2025-08-01

The SQLite developers ambitiously plan to support SQLite until 2050. To achieve this, they've implemented cross-platform code, a stable database file format, aviation-grade testing, extensive documentation, heavily commented source code, and disaster recovery planning. Rejecting fleeting programming trends, they aim for timeless code easily understood and maintained by future programmers. Even the US Library of Congress recognizes SQLite as a recommended format for digital preservation. SQLite's long-term vision and robust design make it a reliable database choice.

(www.sqlite.org)

Development long-term support

How Far Can You See on the Prairies?

2025-08-01

How Far Can You See on the Prairies?

Driving across the flat prairies can be monotonous, but the vast distance visible is captivating. With no obstructions, the horizon stretches out, and simple geometry reveals it's approximately 4.7km away. This is roughly the distance of a 5km race, making it surprisingly impressive. But are there even farther sightlines on Earth? This leads to a contemplation of Earth's curvature and the limits of human vision.

(calgaryvisioncentre.com)

Misc horizon sightline

Meta's Onavo App: A Stealthy HTTPS Traffic Hijack

2025-08-01

Meta's Onavo App: A Stealthy HTTPS Traffic Hijack

A recent class-action lawsuit against Meta reveals evidence suggesting the company may have violated the Wiretap Act. Court documents and reverse engineering of the Onavo Protect app show Meta used a technique called "ssl bump" to intercept encrypted HTTPS traffic, decrypting traffic to specific domains like Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon. This involved tricking users into installing a CA certificate issued by "Facebook Research." While ineffective on newer Android versions, this method effectively gathered user data from 2016 to 2019. The incident highlights the potential for large tech companies to violate user privacy and abuse mobile security mechanisms.

(haxrob.net)

Tech HTTPS interception

Belgian Court Orders Block of Internet Archive's Open Library

2025-08-01

A sweeping order from the Brussels Commercial Court in Belgium targets the Internet Archive's Open Library, along with other sites accused of copyright infringement. Publishers and authors initiated the request, alleging Open Library's unauthorized distribution of books. The order mandates ISPs to block access, while also compelling search engines like Google and Microsoft to remove results and payment platforms to suspend services. This action sparks controversy, as Open Library is a non-profit aiming to archive all published books and offer online borrowing. Critics argue the order's broad scope threatens access to public domain content.

(torrentfreak.com)

Tech open library

Cancelled: A Scala Developer's Four-Year Reckoning

2025-08-01

In 2021, a prominent Scala developer was targeted by online 'mob justice', accused of sexual misconduct. Despite the false accusations, he lost his job, income, home, and friends overnight, facing financial ruin and health problems. While ultimately vindicated legally, the reputational damage remains, leaving him with psychological trauma and prolonged financial hardship, including homelessness. This account details his four-year ordeal, urging caution in public condemnation and highlighting the devastating impact of online attacks on individuals.

(pretty.direct)

Development online mob justice cancel culture reputational damage

Live Coding Interviews: A Stress Test, Not a Skill Test?

2025-08-01

This article challenges the effectiveness of live coding interviews as a measure of engineering skill. The author recounts personal experiences and cites scientific research showing that high-pressure situations impair cognitive function, specifically working memory, crucial for coding. A study revealed participants performed half as well under observation, with women completely failing in the observed condition. The author suggests mitigating stress through mock interviews and explores supplements like L-tyrosine and L-theanine to improve performance under pressure.

(hadid.dev)

Development live coding interviews stress

Privacy-Friendly Apps Leaving Google Play Store

2025-08-01

A project offering privacy-friendly Android apps since 2016 is discontinuing updates on the Google Play Store. Due to unsustainable maintenance costs, the team is moving its 30+ apps to the F-Droid store for continued support. Existing installations remain unaffected, but users are encouraged to migrate to F-Droid for future updates and to ensure continued functionality.

(secuso.aifb.kit.edu)

Development

rewindtty: A C-based Terminal Session Recorder and Replayer

2025-08-01

rewindtty: A C-based Terminal Session Recorder and Replayer

rewindtty is an open-source project written in C that precisely records and replays terminal sessions, including timing information. It offers session analysis, generating detailed statistics and optimization suggestions. Session data is stored in JSON format for easy parsing. Furthermore, it includes a browser-based player with advanced features like an interactive timeline and controls, significantly enhancing the user experience. The project is lightweight, has minimal dependencies, and is easy to use.

(github.com)

Development terminal recording session replay

Will This Linux Server Security Guide Protect You From Hackers?

2025-08-01

Will This Linux Server Security Guide Protect You From Hackers?

This comprehensive guide details how to secure your Linux server against malicious attacks. It covers everything from choosing a secure Linux distribution to configuring firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention systems (like Fail2Ban and CrowdSec), and provides Ansible playbooks to automate many security steps. The guide also touches on advanced topics like using SSH keys, two-factor authentication, and kernel sysctl hardening, while cautioning readers about the risks involved in these steps. It's a living document intended to be a comprehensive resource for Linux server security.

(github.com)

Development Server Security

Solving Indoor Navigation: How Hyper Achieved 1-Meter Accurate Indoor GPS

2025-08-01

Solving Indoor Navigation: How Hyper Achieved 1-Meter Accurate Indoor GPS

A developer's journey, from viral AR navigation demos to tackling the indoor navigation challenge for a world-leading retailer, culminated in the founding of Hyper. This article details the three core challenges of indoor navigation: indoor maps, indoor navigation, and indoor location. The author explains how they overcame limitations of Bluetooth beacons, WiFi, magnetometers, and computer vision, ultimately achieving a breakthrough 1-meter accurate indoor GPS by combining WiFi and SLAM technology, and cleverly addressing SLAM drift and orientation challenges. Their future ambition is to scale this technology to a billion users.

(andrewhart.me)

Tech indoor navigation GPS positioning SLAM technology

Reddit's Ambitious Search Engine Play: A Battle Against Google, Powered by AI

2025-08-01

Reddit's Ambitious Search Engine Play: A Battle Against Google, Powered by AI

Reddit, leveraging its vast user-generated data, is heavily investing in improving its search capabilities, aiming to become a go-to search engine. CEO Steve Huffman highlights the platform's weekly hundreds of millions of users seeking advice, and Reddit's efforts to convert this into active users of its native search. Core Reddit search boasts over 70 million weekly active users, while its AI-powered search tool, Reddit Answers, launched in December, has seen explosive growth, reaching 6 million weekly users from 1 million in Q1. Reddit plans to expand Reddit Answers globally, deeply integrating it into the core search experience. This move is seen as a strategic counter to Google's rising AI-powered search, which increasingly provides direct answers rather than link lists. Reddit benefits from users appending 'Reddit' to Google searches for human-generated content.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech

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