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NYC Street Diaries: A Photographer's Chronicle of Lockdown

2025-06-12

NYC Street Diaries: A Photographer's Chronicle of Lockdown

The photographer's new work, "New York Street Diaries," captures the stark reality of New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic, a stark contrast to his previous work, "Street." While "Street" showcases a decade of celebrity photography capturing the vibrancy of NYC, "New York Street Diaries" is edgier and emotionally heavier. It depicts empty streets, sirens, and daily death tolls, portraying a heartbreaking city ravaged by the pandemic, including looting and vandalism. The author strives to offer an accurate portrayal of life during this time.

(aboutphotography.blog)

Design

operative.sh: Autonomous Web App Debugging with MCP Server

2025-04-28

operative.sh: Autonomous Web App Debugging with MCP Server

operative.sh introduces MCP Server, a tool leveraging a browser-based agent to autonomously debug web applications directly within your code editor. The 'Cursor agent' executes and debugs code, providing detailed reports including network traffic, console logs, and a chronological timeline. After installing and obtaining a free API key, developers can automate their debugging workflow, significantly boosting efficiency. Supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.

(github.com)

Development Automated Debugging Code Testing

Landmark Achievement: Precise Map of Mouse Brain's Visual Centers Unveiled

2025-04-20

Landmark Achievement: Precise Map of Mouse Brain's Visual Centers Unveiled

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team has created a precise map of a mouse brain's visual centers. This is the largest and most detailed rendering of neural circuits in a mammalian brain to date. The map reveals the intricate structures and functional systems of mammalian perception and promises to accelerate research into normal brain function (seeing, memory, navigation) and neurological disorders like autism and schizophrenia. The study, published in Nature, used AI to trace tens of thousands of neurons and billions of connections, combining this structural data with functional brain imaging to link structure and function. This groundbreaking work paves the way for a digital transformation of brain science, opening doors to unprecedented discoveries in neuroscience.

(engineering.princeton.edu)

Tech Neural Circuits Brain Mapping

The Elegant Connection Between Polynomial Multiplication, Convolution, and Signal Processing

2025-05-21

This post explores the connection between polynomial multiplication, convolution, and signal processing. It begins by visually explaining polynomial multiplication using tables and diagrams, revealing its fundamental nature as a convolution operation. The post then introduces discrete signals and systems, focusing on linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. It explains that any signal can be decomposed into a sequence of scaled and shifted impulse signals, and the response of an LTI system can be calculated using convolution. Finally, it briefly touches upon the properties of convolution and its relationship to the Fourier transform, highlighting that the Fourier transform of a convolution equals the product of the Fourier transforms of its operands, enabling efficient convolution computation.

(eli.thegreenplace.net)

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Efficient Thread-Safe Conversion of std::future to asio::awaitable

2025-07-15

This article details an efficient and thread-safe method for converting `std::future` to `asio::awaitable`, particularly useful in modern C++ asynchronous programming with Boost.Asio. Using `asio::async_initiate` and a thread pool, this approach elegantly avoids blocking IO threads and provides robust exception handling, ensuring high performance and stability. This design pattern is easily extensible to other asynchronous scenarios, providing a solid foundation for building high-performance coroutine applications.

(www.ddhigh.com)

Development

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

arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-05-23

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv only partners with those sharing these commitments. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Explore arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

Amazon's Leadership Principles: A Critical Examination

2025-09-01

This article offers a critical look at Amazon's leadership principles, particularly "Customer Obsession," "Ownership," and "Bias for Action." The author argues that Amazon overemphasizes speed and meeting superficial customer demands, neglecting true customer needs and long-term value. Regarding "Customer Obsession," the author criticizes Amazon's over-reliance on customer feedback rather than proactively developing potentially impactful technologies. On "Ownership," the author points to a lack of communication and collaboration within Amazon, with significant information silos between teams. Concerning "Bias for Action," the author believes Amazon overemphasizes speed at the expense of product quality and customer trust, advocating for a "bias for inaction" mechanism at senior engineering levels to ensure high standards before product launches.

(www.daemonology.net)

Startup

Musk's DOGE Team: A 19-Year-Old Hacker and a Massive Government Data Breach

2025-02-09

Wired revealed that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) gained access to sensitive US government systems despite his past association with cybercrime communities. This teen, a former member of 'The Com,' a distributed cybercriminal network, has raised serious concerns. Since Trump's second inauguration, DOGE has accessed vast amounts of sensitive data, controlling databases at the Treasury, OPM, and other departments. The 19-year-old, Edward Coristine, known online as "Big Balls," founded Tesla.Sexy LLC and runs the ISP Packetware, with links to cybercrime. His past actions are incompatible with government security clearance standards, leading to significant security risks and widespread lawsuits.

(krebsonsecurity.com)

Tech government oversight

Embed Any Mac OS in Your Website: System 1.0 to 10.4

2025-07-12

Embed Any Mac OS in Your Website: System 1.0 to 10.4

Infinite Mac now lets you embed any Mac OS, from 1984's System 1.0 to 2005's Mac OS X 10.4, directly into your website. The project provides comprehensive documentation and programmatic control. As a demo, Infinite Monkey connects an emulated Mac 128K to OpenAI and Anthropic's LLMs, bridging the technologies of 1984 and 2025. This project is spearheaded by Marcin Wichary, whose recent article further showcases these embedding capabilities.

(blog.persistent.info)

Tech Mac OS emulation website embedding

Pentagon's UFO Smoke Screen: A Carefully Crafted Illusion?

2025-06-12

Pentagon's UFO Smoke Screen: A Carefully Crafted Illusion?

The Wall Street Journal revealed the Pentagon's long-standing manipulation of UFO incidents for disinformation purposes. By fabricating evidence and stories, the Department of Defense diverted public attention from real, secret weapons programs to 'alien technology.' This practice targeted not only the public but also its own personnel. For example, the 1967 incident at a nuclear bunker, where a supposed 'alien spacecraft' disabled missiles, was actually a government electromagnetic pulse test. Additionally, new recruits to secretive programs received photos of UFOs, told they represented anti-gravity technology – a potentially out-of-control 'hazing ritual' or part of an internal disinformation campaign. Ultimately, the truth remains elusive, and the government's intent may be to discourage the search for it.

(gizmodo.com)

Tech Government Conspiracy

Commodore Amiga's 40th Anniversary: The Rise and Fall of a Legendary Computer

2025-08-07

Commodore Amiga's 40th Anniversary: The Rise and Fall of a Legendary Computer

Forty years ago, in July 1985, the Commodore Amiga was launched, taking the computing world by storm. This article recounts the Amiga's incredible journey: from the vision of Atari engineer Jay Miner, through the struggles of Hi-Toro (later Amiga), to its acquisition by Commodore and eventual demise. Known for its advanced graphics and multitasking capabilities, the Amiga faced challenges due to its high price and design flaws. While ultimately losing out to the Atari ST in market share, the Amiga left an indelible mark on computing history, its influence still felt today.

(www.goto10retro.com)

Tech

Saudi Arabia's Futuristic 'The Line' City Faces Major Setbacks

2025-07-15

Saudi Arabia's Futuristic 'The Line' City Faces Major Setbacks

Saudi Arabia's ambitious plan to build a futuristic 170km-long city, 'The Line,' a key part of the Neom megaproject, is facing significant challenges. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) has commissioned consultants to review the project's feasibility, following reports of substantial downsizing. The initial goal of 1.5 million residents by 2030 has reportedly been slashed to under 300,000, with only a small portion of the city expected to be completed by then. This reflects broader difficulties faced by Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 projects due to high costs and falling oil prices, casting doubt on the future of 'The Line'.

(www.middleeasteye.net)

Tech The Line

Unraveling Rust's Functions and Closures: A Deep Dive

2025-09-14

Unraveling Rust's Functions and Closures: A Deep Dive

Rust's functions and closures are a source of confusion for many beginners. This post delves into the underlying mechanisms of Rust's function and closure system, explaining the relationships between function items, function pointers, and the three closure traits: Fn, FnMut, and FnOnce. It reveals how the compiler transforms closures into anonymous structs and the compiler optimizations behind seemingly simple function calls. Understanding these underlying mechanisms empowers developers to write more efficient and error-free Rust code by grasping how different closure capture modes impact behavior.

(blog.cuongle.dev)

Development

LG Teams Up with Zenapse for AI-Powered Emotional Advertising

2025-04-17

LG Teams Up with Zenapse for AI-Powered Emotional Advertising

LG has partnered with Zenapse to launch ZenVision, an AI-powered system that analyzes the psychographic data of LG smart TV viewers. ZenVision segments viewers into highly specific groups like "goal-driven achievers" and "social connectors," allowing advertisers to target them with emotionally intelligent ads based on psychological factors, rather than just demographics. This deeper understanding of viewers aims to improve ad effectiveness and reflects LG's strategy to grow its smart TV advertising business, responding to advertisers' increasing need for emotional marketing and the search for new revenue streams by TV OS operators.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech AI advertising smart TV

Solar Panel Installation Gets a Robotic Upgrade

2025-05-03

Solar Panel Installation Gets a Robotic Upgrade

In Australia, a solar panel installation robot from Shanghai-based Leapting Technology is revolutionizing the industry. This commercially deployed robot boasts an impressive installation rate of 60 panels per hour, three to five times faster than human crews. Using AI and SLAM technology for autonomous navigation and precise placement, the robot significantly increases efficiency, reduces labor costs, and shortens project timelines. While the robot has limitations regarding terrain and environmental conditions, its ability to handle high temperatures and labor shortages offers a significant advantage, pointing towards an automated future for solar construction.

(cleantechnica.com)

Tech

Aging Stem Cells: The Culprit Behind Middle-Aged Spread?

2025-05-02

Aging Stem Cells: The Culprit Behind Middle-Aged Spread?

New research unveils the cellular mechanism behind age-related abdominal fat accumulation. Scientists discovered that aging triggers the emergence of a new type of adult stem cell, called committed preadipocytes (CP-As), within white adipose tissue (WAT). These CP-As actively generate new fat cells, especially in the abdomen, with their activity significantly increasing in middle age. The leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) signaling pathway plays a crucial role in this process. This finding offers a novel therapeutic target for preventing belly fat and extending healthy lifespan.

(medicalxpress.com)

Tech adipocytes fat accumulation

Stop Killing Games Movement Gains Momentum with Over a Million Signatures

2025-07-06

Stop Killing Games Movement Gains Momentum with Over a Million Signatures

The Stop Killing Games movement, advocating for the preservation of online games after server shutdowns, has surpassed one million signatures, becoming a European Citizens' Initiative. The Video Games Europe trade association counters that maintaining private servers is costly and legally risky. However, the movement argues players purchase the game itself, not a license, and that server shutdowns constitute planned obsolescence. While the initiative could lead to EU policy changes, its impact will likely be limited to the EU and potentially the UK, leaving games in other regions vulnerable to permanent closure.

(www.pcgamer.com)

Game EU initiative

From 30 WPM to 120 WPM: My Touch Typing Journey and App Creation

2025-05-31

This post recounts the author's journey from a slow typist to achieving 120 WPM. Initially struggling with typing speed, impacting his programming and job search, he dedicated 10-15 minutes daily to practice. He experimented with typing apps, eventually creating his own, TypeQuicker. His techniques included focusing on accuracy, practicing specific character sequences, and utilizing AI-generated text for realistic practice. Improved typing dramatically boosted his coding efficiency, job prospects (landing roles at Amazon and Wealthsimple), and overall productivity, illustrating the significant impact of a seemingly small skill.

(www.typequicker.com)

Development touch typing

Pure vs. Impure Engineering: Why Solo Devs Clash with Big Tech

2025-09-11

This article explores the difference between 'pure' and 'impure' software engineering. Pure engineering focuses on technical perfection, akin to art or research, while impure engineering prioritizes efficiency and real-world problem-solving. Big tech needs both, but the current market favors impure engineering, leading to clashes between pure and impure engineers. AI-assisted development benefits impure engineering more, as it helps tackle less novel, time-constrained problems, while pure engineering relies more on individual expertise. The author argues both types demand high skills, just with different focuses.

(www.seangoedecke.com)

Development Engineer Types

Dropbox Kills Off Its Password Manager

2025-07-31

Dropbox Kills Off Its Password Manager

Dropbox is shutting down its password manager service by the end of October, prompting user backlash and criticism for its lack of consultation with paid subscribers. The company cites a focus on core product improvements as the reason. Launched in 2020, the password manager failed to gain significant traction in a competitive market. Dropbox's recent financial performance shows steady but slowing revenue growth, accompanied by several rounds of layoffs.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech service discontinuation

Rustls: Major Performance Improvements in Memory-Safe TLS Implementation

2025-05-16

Rustls: Major Performance Improvements in Memory-Safe TLS Implementation

Rustls, a memory-safe TLS implementation prioritizing performance, has released significant performance improvements. By optimizing session resumption mechanisms—specifically, replacing mutexes to reduce contention in concurrent server connection handshakes and decreasing the number of stateless resumption tickets sent by default—Rustls 0.23.17 demonstrates dramatically improved performance on multi-core servers, achieving near-linear scalability. Server latency for core TLS handshake handling is roughly 2x lower than OpenSSL in benchmarks. This makes Rustls a highly competitive TLS solution, bringing safer and more efficient connections to the internet.

(www.memorysafety.org)

Development

Indie Dev Boosts Efficiency with Retro Engine Techniques

2025-04-07

An indie game developer working on Nightshift Galaxy created a specialized level editing tool called "Scaffold" to improve efficiency and game performance. Inspired by 90s engine techniques like those in DOOM and Descent, Scaffold uses a convex decomposition approach to pre-compute spatial partitioning, unlike the dynamic methods used by modern engines. This results in faster raytracing and pathfinding, dramatically improving performance and reducing the need for later optimization. The developer can focus on gameplay design rather than tedious performance tuning.

(blog.littlepolygon.com)

Game engine technology

Is AGI Here? No, It's 'Jagged AGI'

2025-04-20

Is AGI Here? No, It's 'Jagged AGI'

Recent AI models like OpenAI's o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro show stunning advancements, even completing complex tasks like marketing campaigns and website building. Economist Tyler Cowen suggests this signifies the arrival of AGI. However, the article argues these AIs exhibit uneven capabilities, excelling in some areas while failing at simple ones – a concept termed 'Jagged AGI'. This uncertainty makes the definition and impact of AGI unclear, suggesting its application and societal integration could be a lengthy process, or potentially see rapid adoption. The future remains uncertain.

(www.oneusefulthing.org)

AI

A Gentle History of Math: Strengths and Weaknesses

2025-03-13

A Gentle History of Math: Strengths and Weaknesses

This review examines Berlinghoff and Gouvêa's "Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others." Instead of a chronological narrative, the book uses 30 independent topical sketches, supplemented by a rich bibliography to facilitate further exploration. While the book contains some inaccuracies, particularly concerning the origins of zero and the history of computing, overall it serves as a reasonably priced and informative introduction to the history of mathematics. It's a good starting point for those developing an interest in the subject, though readers should be aware of potential historical oversimplifications.

(thonyc.wordpress.com)

Development

Google's 10-Year Chromebook Update Promise: Older Devices Still Facing the Scrap Heap

2025-01-06

Google's 10-Year Chromebook Update Promise: Older Devices Still Facing the Scrap Heap

Despite Google's 2023 promise of a decade of updates for Chromebooks to prevent premature obsolescence, many older models are still set to reach their end-of-life in 2025 and beyond. This promise only applies to Chromebooks released from 2021 onwards. While administrators can opt-in to extended updates for some older devices, this doesn't solve the problem entirely. The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) points out that many Chromebook models are still reaching their end-of-life this year and in the coming years, raising concerns about e-waste and consumer rights.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech software updates

Yahoo's Mismanaged Dissident Fund Settles After Lawsuit

2025-04-23

Yahoo's Mismanaged Dissident Fund Settles After Lawsuit

A fund established by Yahoo to support Chinese dissidents was mismanaged by its nonprofit partner, the Laogai Research Foundation, with most of the money diverted. In 2017, six formerly imprisoned Chinese dissidents sued Yahoo, Laogai, and its leadership. The settlement compensates the dissidents, and remaining funds will establish a new fund managed by Humanitarian China to continue supporting individuals imprisoned for their speech in China. This funding is crucial for dissidents facing economic and social hardship after release, symbolizing international support for their cause.

(www.technologyreview.com)

Misc

AI Reshapes Hiring: Database Architects in High Demand

2025-05-04

AI Reshapes Hiring: Database Architects in High Demand

AI's impact on hiring is dramatic, with companies scrambling to clean, organize, and share data for AI applications. Demand for database architects surged 2312%, while statistician jobs also rose sharply (382%), according to Mitchell. IT leaders must prioritize AI investments that deliver measurable outcomes, not just technology for technology's sake. Mitchell emphasizes precise resource allocation, stating that results must justify investment, even during economic uncertainty. Employment trends show growth in healthcare, transportation/warehousing, finance, and social assistance, but federal government employment declined due to Trump administration cuts.

(www.computerworld.com)

Tech Database Architects

Giving a 10-Year-Old GPS a New Life with Open Source

2025-07-26

A thrift store find – a 2015 Navman Bike 1000 GPS – sparked a reverse engineering adventure. Its map updates had ceased, a prime example of planned obsolescence. However, the author discovered it ran Windows CE 6.0. Using Total Commander and the open-source navigation software NaVeGIS with OpenStreetMap data, they resurrected the device with current maps and even managed to run DOOM! This story highlights the power of open source and reverse engineering, breathing new life into outdated technology and prompting reflection on planned obsolescence and e-waste.

(raymii.org)

Tech

The Secret to Faster, More Accurate Code: Mental Code Proofs

2025-07-16

This article unveils a technique for writing code faster and more accurately: performing "online" proofs. Instead of interrupting your coding flow, mentally prove your code's correctness as you write. The author details several strategies to aid in this process, including focusing on code monotonicity, utilizing pre- and post-conditions, maintaining invariants, and isolating the impact of changes. Inductive reasoning for recursive functions and data structures is also highlighted, along with advocating for "proof-affinity" as a code quality metric. Finally, the author suggests practicing mathematical proofs to sharpen your code-proving skills.

(the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)

Development code proof

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