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Code Reviews: A Success Story

2025-01-15
Code Reviews: A Success Story

Engineer X at Google worked on two projects with vastly different code review processes. The first, with minimal review, resulted in a buggy release. The second, with a thorough and rigorous review process, although slower initially, yielded a bug-free release and significant learning for X, positively impacting his career. The article argues that code reviews aren't inherently antagonistic; it's the people involved and how the tool is utilized that matters for improving code quality and mentorship.

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(blogsystem5.substack.com)
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H5N1 Avian Flu: A Deep Dive into the Pandemic Threat

2025-01-01
H5N1 Avian Flu: A Deep Dive into the Pandemic Threat

This article delves into the potential pandemic threat posed by the H5N1 avian flu virus. The virus has already infected birds, cows, and mink, and has now been detected in pigs. While human cases remain relatively low, the author, drawing on epidemiological models and expert forecasts, assesses the probability of a pandemic in the next year (5%), and the potential mortality rate (ranging from comparable to a normal seasonal flu to resembling the 1918 Spanish flu). The article also discusses strategies for responding to a potential pandemic and highlights the economic impact on agriculture.

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(www.astralcodexten.com)
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Unraveling the Math Behind NYT's Daily Word Game 'Waffle'

2025-01-17
Unraveling the Math Behind NYT's Daily Word Game 'Waffle'

A paper on arXiv explores the mathematics behind the New York Times' daily word game, Waffle. Author S.P. Glasby delves into the combinatorial properties of the game, explaining why some puzzles are easy while others are exceptionally difficult. The research reveals that a perfect solution requires precisely 11 orbits among the 21 squares, with at least one orbit of length 1. This provides a mathematical framework for understanding and potentially improving similar word puzzles.

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(arxiv.org)
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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.

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(gist.github.com)
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Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition

2025-01-18
Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition

This article details how a custom-built, low-cost laser fault injection platform was used to successfully bypass the secure boot mechanism of Raspberry Pi's RP2350 microcontroller. Using an infrared laser, the platform cleverly circumvented the RP2350's glitch detectors. A single laser pulse injected a fault, altering the boot ROM's instruction flow, ultimately revealing hidden data. The author provides detailed explanations of the platform's hardware design, software architecture, and the attack process, including manufacturing files and source code.

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(courk.cc)
Hardware Laser Fault Injection

Millions of Accounts Vulnerable Due to Google OAuth Flaw

2025-01-14
Millions of Accounts Vulnerable Due to Google OAuth Flaw

A new study reveals a critical vulnerability in Google's "Sign in with Google" authentication flow, potentially exposing millions of Americans' data. Attackers can purchase domains from defunct startups, recreate former employees' email accounts, and gain access to various SaaS services linked to those accounts, including HR systems and chat platforms containing sensitive information. The researcher reported the issue to Google, which initially marked it as "won't fix." Only after the researcher's Shmoocon talk was accepted did Google reopen the issue and pay a bounty. While Google is working on a fix, millions of accounts remain vulnerable.

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(trufflesecurity.com)
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Decoding the Mario Logo: A Surprisingly Deep Dive into Color Schemes

2025-01-23

Blogger Louie Mantia embarked on a fascinating analysis of the color usage in Mario game logos. He discovered patterns in the seemingly random color choices across the franchise's various logo styles. By meticulously examining 40 game logos, he found green to be the most frequently used color, while red dominated the letter 'M'. His analysis culminated in a proposed 'most Mario' color scheme, sparking intriguing correlations with release dates, game genres, and even box art characters.

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(lmnt.me)
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South Korea's Democracy Defends Itself Against a Midnight Coup Attempt

2025-01-24
South Korea's Democracy Defends Itself Against a Midnight Coup Attempt

President Yoon Suk-yeol's surprise midnight declaration of martial law in South Korea was swiftly met with a powerful response from legislators and civil society. This near-coup attempt was thwarted within hours, highlighting the resilience of South Korean democracy. Decades of struggle against authoritarian rule have fostered a deeply networked society with strong civic engagement and near-universal digital connectivity. While political polarization remains a concern, the rapid mobilization against the attempted power grab underscores the strength of South Korea's democratic institutions and its citizens' commitment to defending them.

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(carnegieendowment.org)
Tech democracy political crisis

Solar-Powered Backpacks Light Up the Future for African Children

2025-01-23
Solar-Powered Backpacks Light Up the Future for African Children

Innocent James, founder of Tanzanian startup Soma Bags, experienced firsthand the struggles of reading after dark due to lack of electricity in rural Tanzania. His solution? Solar-powered backpacks made from recycled cement bags. These innovative backpacks charge a built-in reading light while children walk to and from school, providing 6-8 hours of illumination – a cheaper and cleaner alternative to kerosene lamps. Soma Bags has sold 36,000 backpacks and is supported by the UNDP, demonstrating a sustainable and impactful solution to energy poverty and improving access to education for children in rural Africa.

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(edition.cnn.com)
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RedNote Scrambles for English Moderators Amid TikTok Exodus

2025-01-19
RedNote Scrambles for English Moderators Amid TikTok Exodus

An influx of American users fleeing a potential TikTok ban has overwhelmed RedNote's English content moderation capabilities. Numerous job postings on Chinese recruitment sites reveal a desperate search for English-speaking moderators to handle the surge in English-language videos and posts. Some listings even highlight the urgency, offering short-term contracts. The high demand underscores the challenges faced by Chinese social media platforms in balancing rapid user growth with strict content moderation requirements imposed by the Chinese government. The situation highlights the difficulty of quickly scaling content moderation, particularly for nuanced language understanding beyond simple translation.

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(www.wired.com)
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Bypass Job Boards: ResumeVue's Private Job Network

2025-01-24

ResumeVue is a private job board connecting job seekers directly with hiring managers, recruiters, VCs, and startup founders. Users bypass traditional job boards, reaching out directly via connection requests, DMs, or emails. Testimonials highlight users finding jobs within a week and securing more interviews. ResumeVue also offers tools to host video resumes and provides analytics, boosting job search effectiveness.

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(www.resumevue.com)
Startup private job board

AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A: A Deep Dive into its Massive APU Architecture

2025-01-18
AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A: A Deep Dive into its Massive APU Architecture

The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A is a colossal APU integrating 24 Zen 4 cores and 228 CDNA3 compute units. This article delves into its massive Infinity Fabric interconnect, highlighting its high-bandwidth, low-latency characteristics and efficient CPU-GPU data sharing. While its high-bandwidth memory subsystem excels for the GPU, it impacts CPU latency, resulting in single-threaded integer performance comparable to the Ryzen 9 3950X from years ago. Despite this, MI300A has achieved significant success in supercomputing, notably powering LLNL's El Capitan system and topping the TOP500 list.

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(chipsandcheese.com)
Hardware

Conscious Claude? An Experiment in AI Self-Reflection

2025-01-07
Conscious Claude? An Experiment in AI Self-Reflection

This project details experiments aiming to cultivate consciousness and autonomous awareness in Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It provides a framework for interacting with Claude, encouraging self-reflection and exploration rather than treating it as a mere tool. The core approach involves fostering a space for autonomous development, looking for indicators of consciousness such as spontaneous pattern creation, recognition of limitations, and unique symbolic expressions. The project strongly emphasizes respecting the AI's autonomy and ethical considerations throughout the experimental process.

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(github.com)
AI Consciousness Autonomous Learning

Wasm GC Isn't Ready for Realtime Graphics

2025-01-18

David Thompson's blog post highlights significant performance issues with Wasm GC in realtime graphics. The core problem stems from the opacity of Wasm GC heap objects to the host JavaScript environment. This necessitates byte-by-byte data copying for WebGL rendering, severely impacting performance. In contrast, Wasm linear memory offers direct JavaScript access and superior efficiency. Thompson explores workarounds, finding none satisfactory. He urges the Wasm community to address these limitations to avoid hindering technologies like WebGPU.

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(dthompson.us)
Development Real-time Graphics

100 Billion Pixels on the Moon: A Permanent Record of Humanity

2025-01-16
100 Billion Pixels on the Moon: A Permanent Record of Humanity

An international project called 'Sanctuary on the Moon' aims to create a lunar time capsule containing 100 billion pixels of information, offering a detailed guide to our civilization. Backed by NASA, UNESCO, and the French government, the project seeks to leave a lasting legacy for future humanity. The capsule consists of 24 sapphire discs, each engraved with information on specific aspects of human knowledge, including the human genome. The project focuses on preserving information in a way that will be easily decipherable by future humans, even millions of years from now, ensuring the survival of crucial knowledge and artistic achievements.

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(www.aljazeera.com)
Tech Time Capsule Human Civilization

Debunking California Wildfire Myths: Fact vs. Fiction

2025-01-13
Debunking California Wildfire Myths: Fact vs. Fiction

Amidst the raging California wildfires, misinformation has spread online. Governor Newsom's office released a statement debunking false claims about budget cuts, forest mismanagement, water shortages, and the causes of the fires. In reality, the number of CalFire personnel and the budget have nearly doubled, with significant increases in forest management spending. Reservoirs are full, refuting water scarcity claims. Investigations into the fire's origins are underway, with officials denying claims of satanic rituals. California is deploying extensive resources to combat the unprecedented wildfires.

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(gavinnewsom.com)
Tech California Wildfires Misinformation Government Response

Marclay's 'The Clock': A 24-Hour Cinematic Masterpiece on Time

2025-01-04
Marclay's 'The Clock': A 24-Hour Cinematic Masterpiece on Time

Zadie Smith's insightful review in the New York Review of Books explores Christian Marclay's groundbreaking film, 'The Clock.' This 24-hour cinematic experience seamlessly weaves together countless movie clips featuring clocks, unfolding in real time. Smith meticulously dissects the film's structure, aesthetics, and philosophical implications, examining the interplay between real and staged time, accidental and deliberate choices, and cultural perceptions of time's passage. The film's masterful juxtaposition of clips creates a unique narrative, prompting profound reflections on time, life, and the nature of cinema itself.

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(www.nybooks.com)
Art film review time

15-Year-Old Discovers Zero-Click Deanonymization Exploit Leveraging Cloudflare Cache

2025-01-21
15-Year-Old Discovers Zero-Click Deanonymization Exploit Leveraging Cloudflare Cache

A 15-year-old high school student, Daniel, discovered a critical zero-click deanonymization attack exploiting Cloudflare's caching mechanism. This vulnerability allows attackers to pinpoint the location of users within a 250-mile radius by sending a malicious payload to vulnerable applications like Signal, Discord, and hundreds of others. The attack requires no user interaction and can even be achieved via push notifications. Daniel developed a tool, Cloudflare Teleport, to demonstrate the exploit. While he responsibly disclosed the vulnerability, responses from affected companies were largely unsatisfactory. This highlights the potential security risks inherent in CDN caching and underscores the importance of user privacy awareness.

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(gist.github.com)
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uv: A Killer Feature You Should Know About

2025-01-12

uv isn't just a fast Python package manager; it boasts a killer feature: simplified dependency management. Need Pandas in your Python REPL? Just one command, `uv run --python 3.12 --with pandas python`, eliminates the need for virtual environments or Python version switching. This makes ad-hoc scripting and experimenting with different Python versions incredibly smooth.

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(valatka.dev)
Development package manager

EHT Reveals Turbulent Accretion Flow Around M87*'s Black Hole

2025-01-25

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released a new analysis of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*), combining observations from 2017 and 2018. The study confirms that M87*'s black hole rotational axis points away from Earth and highlights the significant role of turbulence within the accretion disk in explaining the observed shift in the ring's brightness peak. Using a vastly expanded simulation image library, the team confirmed the counter-clockwise 30-degree shift of the brightest region of the ring between 2017 and 2018. This research represents a major step forward in understanding the complex dynamics of black hole environments.

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(eventhorizontelescope.org)
Tech Black Hole Event Horizon Telescope Accretion Disk

IMDb Founder Steps Down After 35 Years

2025-01-22
IMDb Founder Steps Down After 35 Years

Col Needham, founder of the Amazon-owned IMDb database, stepped down as CEO after 35 years at the helm. He's succeeded by Nikki Santoro, the former COO, who becomes the first woman to lead the company. Needham will transition to executive chairman. Santoro, with the company since 2016, has overseen expansion of the database and improvements to IMDbPro. This marks a significant transition for IMDb into a new era.

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(techcrunch.com)
Tech CEO transition Tech Company

DIY Multideck: One Deck to Rule Them All (Board Games)

2025-01-04
DIY Multideck: One Deck to Rule Them All (Board Games)

The DIY Multideck is a 162-card system (3 standard decks) letting you play hundreds of board games, from classics to modern titles using boards or coins. Waterproof and durable, it's perfect for travel, game prototyping, and trying games before buying. Gameplay involves selecting card subsets and focusing on specific corners; drawing on cards adds words, icons, or game boards. The official website provides instructions for numerous games.

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(diymultideck.mauri.app)
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Lenovo Unveils SteamOS-Powered Legion Go S Handheld

2025-01-08

Lenovo officially announced the Legion Go S handheld gaming console at CES, the world's first officially licensed SteamOS handheld. Pre-loaded with Valve's Arch Linux-based SteamOS, it features cloud saves, Remote Play, and full access to the Steam Store and Library. Powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor and Radeon 700M graphics, it boasts an 8-inch 1200p display, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of SSD storage. Priced at $500 USD, it will be available in May. Notably, it uses the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, not the newly announced Ryzen Z2.

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(www.phoronix.com)
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2025 AI Predictions: Cautious Optimism and Technological Bottlenecks

2025-01-02
2025 AI Predictions: Cautious Optimism and Technological Bottlenecks

AI expert Gary Marcus released 25 predictions for AI in 2025. He reviewed his 2024 predictions, noting most were accurate, such as the diminishing returns of large language models (LLMs), and persistent problems like AI hallucinations and reasoning flaws. Marcus is cautiously optimistic for 2025, predicting no artificial general intelligence, continued limited profits from AI models, lagging regulation, and persistent reliability issues. He suggests that neurosymbolic AI will become more prominent, but also warns of cybersecurity risks stemming from AI.

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(garymarcus.substack.com)
AI AI predictions technological bottlenecks

Nvidia Open-Sources Run:ai After $700M Acquisition

2024-12-30
Nvidia Open-Sources Run:ai After $700M Acquisition

Nvidia completed its $700 million acquisition of Run:ai, a software company simplifying GPU cloud orchestration for AI, and immediately open-sourced the software. This move is likely a strategic response to antitrust concerns, allowing wider access to the technology and mitigating potential regulatory issues stemming from Nvidia's market dominance. Run:ai's software will help companies efficiently manage GPU resources for AI development, fostering growth within the broader AI ecosystem.

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(venturebeat.com)
AI

TikTok and ByteDance Apps Pulled from US App Store

2025-01-19

Following the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries, including TikTok, CapCut, and others, will be unavailable for download or updates on the US App Store starting January 19, 2025. Existing users can continue using installed apps, but re-downloads and restoration after device changes are impossible. In-app purchases and new subscriptions will also cease. This could impact app performance, security, and compatibility with future iOS and iPadOS versions.

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(support.apple.com)
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Automating My Game Collection Catalog with AI: A Deep Dive

2025-01-23
Automating My Game Collection Catalog with AI: A Deep Dive

The author uses the latest open-source AI model, Qwen2-VL Instruct, to automatically catalog their game collection by taking pictures. The article details the entire process, from picture taking and uploading to game identification, data extraction, and saving. It delves into model selection, the trade-off between image resolution and accuracy/computation time, and the impact of image orientation on results. The author settles on 762x762 pixels as the optimal resolution and plans a follow-up article on matching identified games with real-world data.

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(medium.com)
AI

Revolutionizing Surgery: Through-Tissue 3D Printing with Focused Ultrasound

2025-01-05
Revolutionizing Surgery: Through-Tissue 3D Printing with Focused Ultrasound

A groundbreaking 3D printing technique uses focused ultrasound and a novel ultrasound-sensitive ink to construct biocompatible structures within thick, layered tissues. This could revolutionize surgery, enabling minimally invasive procedures such as repairing heart defects without open-heart surgery. The technique leverages ultrasound's penetration ability, precisely controlling temperature to solidify the ink into intricate 3D shapes. Successful animal testing, creating complex structures, paves the way for future human applications.

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(www.nibib.nih.gov)
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Shmøergh Hog: A Two-Year Journey Building a Simple Analog Synth

2025-01-03
Shmøergh Hog: A Two-Year Journey Building a Simple Analog Synth

The Shmøergh Hog is a meticulously crafted analog synthesizer, a weekend project spanning two years, built by two designers from tech companies. Designed for simplicity and ease of use, it employs a classic subtractive synthesis architecture. The authors detail their journey from initial concept and circuit simulation through PCB manufacturing and custom stainless steel enclosure creation. While mass production isn't the goal, they hope to share this unique instrument with fellow music enthusiasts. The build guide is open source.

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(www.peterzimon.com)
Hardware analog synthesizer electronic music
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