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zymtrace: Frictionless GPU Profiling to Unlock Full Potential

2025-05-04

zymtrace: Frictionless GPU Profiling to Unlock Full Potential

zymtrace is a lightweight, production-grade, continuous GPU profiler that seamlessly traces performance bottlenecks—kernel stalls, memory contention, scheduling delays—directly back to their source in PyTorch code, CUDA kernels, native functions, or scheduler threads. Unlike existing solutions, zymtrace provides whole-system visibility, correlating GPU traces with the CPU code paths that triggered them. This allows AI/ML engineers to optimize CUDA kernel launches, determine optimal batch sizes, and address low GPU utilization, maximizing GPU performance and reducing costs.

(www.zymtrace.com)

Development GPU profiling

Rust's Safety Traps: Even Safe Rust Isn't Foolproof

2025-04-06

Rust's Safety Traps: Even Safe Rust Isn't Foolproof

This article unveils common pitfalls in safe Rust code that the compiler misses. It covers integer overflows, type casting errors, array out-of-bounds issues, invalid states, sensitive data exposure, and more, providing solutions like checked arithmetic, TryFrom, the `get` method, and custom types. The author emphasizes that even with Rust's memory safety guarantees, developers need discipline, combining testing, linting, and fuzzing to build robust applications.

(corrode.dev)

Development

Huawei Launches First HarmonyOS Laptop, Breaking Free from Windows

2025-05-10

Huawei Launches First HarmonyOS Laptop, Breaking Free from Windows

Huawei unveiled its first laptop powered by its homegrown HarmonyOS in 2025, marking a significant step in its operating system journey. US sanctions forced Huawei to develop its own OS, breaking free from reliance on Windows and Android. Years in the making, HarmonyOS now boasts its own kernel and user interface, supporting multitasking and AI features like Celia, Huawei's AI assistant. While app support is smaller than Windows initially, over 2,000 applications, primarily Chinese ones, are available at launch. Existing Huawei laptops running Windows remain unaffected.

(liliputing.com)

Tech

Microsoft Quietly Raises Prices on Surface Accessories and Xbox Games

2025-05-08

Microsoft Quietly Raises Prices on Surface Accessories and Xbox Games

Microsoft recently increased prices on several Surface accessories, including a $20 price hike for the Surface USB-C Travel Hub and a $10 increase for the Surface Arc Mouse. Simultaneously, Xbox console prices have also risen, and some game prices may reach $80 later this year. While Microsoft claims the starting price for new Surface Pro and Laptop models remains unchanged, the discontinuation of the 256GB versions represents a de facto price increase. Analysts suggest that Trump-era import tariffs and rising global supply chain costs are contributing factors to these price hikes.

(arstechnica.com)

Hardware

Native Windows Todo App in Pure C

2025-05-11

Native Windows Todo App in Pure C

A modern, native Windows todo application built with C and the Win32 API. It allows users to create, edit, delete, and mark todo items as complete, with persistent storage in AppData. Features include system tray integration and a native Windows look and feel. The application supports up to 100 todo items. The source code is open-source and includes build instructions.

(github.com)

Development Todo App

Fivetran Acquires Census: Automating the Entire Data Journey

2025-05-01

Fivetran Acquires Census: Automating the Entire Data Journey

Fivetran's acquisition of reverse ETL company Census marks a significant leap forward in data integration. Census's reliable reverse ETL engine enables the seamless and trustworthy movement of governed data from data warehouses to operational applications like Salesforce and HubSpot, closing the loop between analytics and action. This extends Fivetran's platform beyond ingestion and transformation, allowing customers to power real-time decisions, AI, and business operations with automation and observability, without custom code or ongoing maintenance. Customers like Canva have already achieved impressive results using Fivetran and Census, including increased email open rates, platform engagement, and significant engineering time savings.

(www.fivetran.com)

Development reverse ETL

The Programmer's Redemption: From Code Obsession to Letting Go

2025-05-06

This essay chronicles the author's journey from writing simple scripts to an obsessive need to refactor all software. Initially driven by problem-solving, it evolved into a compulsion for control, viewing every piece of software as a project needing improvement. The author reflects on the underlying psychology: using programming as an escape, a pursuit of control, and self-soothing. Ultimately, the author realizes not every problem needs solving and learns the mature skill of letting go.

(notashelf.dev)

Development code obsession

arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on New arXiv Features

2025-04-30

arXivLabs is an experimental framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Participants embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. Got an idea to improve the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs!

(arxiv.org)

Development

Trump Admin Eyes Axing Energy Star Program, Sparking Outrage

2025-05-10

Trump Admin Eyes Axing Energy Star Program, Sparking Outrage

The Energy Star program, a voluntary initiative launched in 1992 and recognized for its blue label, has saved US consumers an estimated $500 billion over 33 years. However, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to eliminate it. This move has sparked controversy, with critics arguing it aligns with the administration's broader rollback of environmental regulations and funding, demonstrating disregard for public good. Supporters highlight the program's bipartisan support and significant contribution to energy efficiency, warning its elimination would harm consumers and potentially be replaced by initiatives counter to energy-saving goals.

(insideclimatenews.org)

Tech Energy Star Energy Efficiency

Silicon Valley's Open Secret: How Networks Beat Legacy Tech

2025-04-28

Silicon Valley's Open Secret: How Networks Beat Legacy Tech

Silicon Valley's dominance isn't accidental. This article contrasts its rise with that of Boston's Route 128, highlighting Silicon Valley's open networks, dynamic culture, and thriving venture capital as key differentiators. Unlike Boston's large, secretive tech firms, Silicon Valley fosters talent mobility, information sharing, and experimental innovation, creating a powerful synergistic effect. The author uses the example of Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) to illustrate the power of open networks, showing how even regions with excellent universities and research institutions, like Boston, struggle to compete without a similarly open ecosystem.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech Network Effects

MeshCore: A Lightweight LoRa Mesh Networking Library

2025-04-15

MeshCore: A Lightweight LoRa Mesh Networking Library

MeshCore is a lightweight, portable C++ library enabling multi-hop packet routing for embedded projects using LoRa and other packet radios. Designed for resilient, decentralized networks operating without internet access, it supports various LoRa devices and offers pre-built binaries for easy flashing via tools like Adafruit ESPTool. MeshCore balances simplicity and scalability, providing functionality similar to Meshtastic and Reticulum but with a focus on embedded applications. Ideal for off-grid communication, emergency response, and IoT deployments.

(github.com)

Development Mesh Networking

AI Therapy Bot Shows Promise in Addressing Mental Health Crisis

2025-04-09

AI Therapy Bot Shows Promise in Addressing Mental Health Crisis

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that an AI therapy bot, developed by Dartmouth researchers, demonstrated comparable or even superior efficacy to human clinicians in a randomized clinical trial. Designed to tackle the severe shortage of mental health providers in the U.S., the bot underwent over five years of rigorous training in clinical best practices. The results showed not only improved mental health outcomes for patients but also the surprising development of strong therapeutic bonds and trust. While the American Psychological Association has voiced concerns about unregulated AI therapy, they praise this study's rigorous approach. Researchers emphasize that the technology is far from market-ready, requiring further trials, but it offers a potential solution to the widespread mental health care access crisis.

(www.npr.org)

AI robotic therapy

Social Drinking, Not Solitary Drinking, is Key to Understanding Alcohol Addiction

2025-05-09

A new study challenges the conventional wisdom on alcohol addiction. While solitary drinking has long been considered the primary marker of alcohol use disorder, research published in Current Directions in Psychological Science reveals that social drinking is the key factor leading to serious alcohol problems. The study shows individuals consistently consume more alcohol in social settings than alone, and many negative consequences associated with alcohol, such as violence, risky sexual behavior, and binge drinking, are primarily linked to social drinking. Researchers advocate shifting the focus of future alcohol addiction research towards social factors, moving beyond the singular emphasis on solitary drinking.

(news.illinois.edu)

Misc alcohol addiction social drinking

Hearst Newsreels Online: A Journey Through Time

2025-05-08

The Hearst Newsreel online archive is now live! This website, a collaborative project between the University of California and the Packard Humanities Institute, features a vast collection of newsreels spanning from 1929 to 1967, originally donated by the Hearst Corporation. Users can browse and watch these historical films, offering a unique journey through time. Please note that some newsreels may contain outdated biases and potentially disturbing content.

(newsreels.net)

Misc historical footage newsreels

Google Gemini: Powerful Models, Terrible Developer Experience

2025-05-04

Google Gemini: Powerful Models, Terrible Developer Experience

Google Gemini boasts leading model capabilities, including strong coding, reasoning, and multimodal abilities, plus ultra-long context windows. However, the developer experience is abysmal. The API is split across Vertex AI and Google AI Studio with inconsistent functionality; documentation is poor and outdated; the Vertex AI SDK lacks API key authentication and support for fine-tuned models; and prefix caching is incredibly unfriendly. Despite this, Gemini models offer cost advantages in long context and multimodal tasks, meaning developers may still need to use them, often relying on third-party tools like the Vercel AI SDK to mitigate the poor experience.

(venki.dev)

Development

Tunarr: Build Your Own Personalized Live TV Platform

2025-04-12

Tunarr is a powerful software that lets you create live TV channels from media on your Plex, Jellyfin, and other servers. Its user-friendly web UI allows customization of channels, programs, commercials, and settings. Watch your channels by adding the spoofed Tunarr HDHomerun tuner to Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby, or use generated M3U files with any third-party IPTV player app. Born from a love of TV and building on dizqueTV, Tunarr aims to modernize the stack, provide a migration path for existing users, improve stability and performance, and enhance the web UI, all while adding tons of new features.

(tunarr.com)

Development Live TV

sectorlisp: A 512-Byte LISP Implementation

2025-05-08

sectorlisp: A 512-Byte LISP Implementation

sectorlisp is a groundbreaking 512-byte implementation of LISP capable of bootstrapping John McCarthy's meta-circular evaluator on bare metal. Stripping LISP down to its essentials, this project offers implementations in LISP, C, and i8086 assembly, the latter even booting from BIOS. This makes it arguably the smallest true LISP implementation to date.

(github.com)

Development Metacircular Evaluator

The Terak 8510/a: A Forgotten Graphics Computer

2025-04-16

This article details the Terak 8510/a, a personal computer from the late 1970s. Based on the PDP-11/03 processor, it boasted advanced graphics capabilities and was widely used for teaching Pascal programming in colleges. The Terak 8510/a had a profound influence on computer history, considered one of the first personal computers with a bitmap display, and involved in the development of early CAD software and MacPaint. The article also recounts the author's experience collecting Terak hardware and software, and his plans to develop a Terak emulator.

(www.threedee.com)

Hardware

German UBI Experiment: Full-Time Work Continues, Happiness Increases

2025-04-12

German UBI Experiment: Full-Time Work Continues, Happiness Increases

A three-year German experiment provided 122 participants with a monthly unconditional basic income of €1,200. Surprisingly, participants didn't reduce their working hours; instead, job satisfaction increased, and they were more likely to change jobs or pursue further education. The study showed that unconditional basic income didn't decrease economic activity but improved participants' mental and physical health, particularly for women, who experienced a greater sense of autonomy. This experiment challenges the conventional wisdom that basic income discourages work and offers valuable insights for future policy decisions.

(www.cnn.com)

Misc

The Gilded Cage: Henry James' Critique of American Excess

2025-04-25

The Gilded Cage: Henry James' Critique of American Excess

Henry James critiques the social isolation and historical amnesia of America's newly wealthy. He likens their opulent mansions to grotesque jokes, their inhabitants hauntingly alone. In contrast, he celebrates the enduring beauty and cultural depth of long-cultivated European spaces and the generations who inhabited them. James also highlights the plight of Native Americans, seeing them as embodying the history America tries to conceal.

(newrepublic.com)

Misc Henry James Wealth and Isolation

Common Lisp Web App Tutorial: A Guestbook Example

2025-05-04

Common Lisp Web App Tutorial: A Guestbook Example

This tutorial walks through building a simple guestbook web application using Common Lisp, highlighting the language's challenges, particularly its lack of comprehensive documentation. The author covers project setup, database connection, template rendering, route definition, and compares code size against a Python Flask equivalent. The tutorial concludes by weighing the pros and cons of using Common Lisp for web development, suggesting it's better suited for lower-level tasks and high-performance computing, with limited advantages in typical web backend development.

(www.scotto.me)

Development

Supercharge Your MIDI Controllers with Perl

2025-04-10

Supercharge Your MIDI Controllers with Perl

This article demonstrates enhancing MIDI controllers using Perl modules to create real-time filters for MIDI events, achieving diverse sound effects. The author developed modules like MIDI::RtController, allowing for concise code to control MIDI devices. Several code examples showcase adding filters, delaying MIDI messages, and building custom filters (e.g., a stair-step filter), with audio examples illustrating the results. The article also explains how to list available MIDI devices and utilize existing tonal and drum filters. A fun project for any musician or programmer!

(www.perl.com)

Development

Meta Whistleblower Accuses Zuckerberg of Prioritizing Power Over US National Security

2025-04-10

Meta Whistleblower Accuses Zuckerberg of Prioritizing Power Over US National Security

Former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, accusing Mark Zuckerberg of prioritizing power over US national security. She alleges that Zuckerberg, in an effort to curry favor with the Chinese government, compromised American interests by assisting in censorship and providing user data to the CCP. Wynn-Williams' testimony also details Meta's attempts to silence her and suppress her book, "Careless People," which details alleged dealings with the Chinese government and accusations of sexual harassment. Meta denies the accusations, calling them "divorced from reality and riddled with false claims." Lawmakers are demanding Zuckerberg testify before the committee.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech

Compressed Air Supercharging: The Next Big Thing in Drag Racing?

2025-04-07

Compressed Air Supercharging: The Next Big Thing in Drag Racing?

Drag racers are ditching traditional turbos and blowers for a new technology called Compressed Air Supercharging (CAS). CAS uses high-pressure air to supercharge engines, requiring no engine power and delivering extremely cold, dense air for superior performance and efficiency compared to traditional methods. Pioneered by Dale Vaznaian, CAS is gaining traction with racers like Tina Pierce and Ryan Mitchell achieving impressive results. While still in its early stages, its potential is undeniable, promising a revolution in drag racing power.

(www.thedrive.com)

Tech Compressed Air Supercharging Drag Racing Automotive Technology

Wine 10.6 Released: Enhanced CMD, Bcrypt, and Game Compatibility

2025-04-21

The open-source software Wine has been updated to version 10.6, fixing 27 bugs and improving game and application compatibility. This release updates the lexer in the command processor CMD, adds PBKDF2 algorithm support to Bcrypt, and enhances WindowsCodecs' support for image metadata. Fixes include improvements for Unity games, Alan Wake, GDI+ issues, and various other games and apps.

(www.phoronix.com)

Development Game Compatibility

Paradigm: Hiring Founding Engineers for AI-Native Workspace

2025-04-08

Paradigm: Hiring Founding Engineers for AI-Native Workspace

Paradigm, a San Francisco-based AI-native workspace startup backed by Y Combinator and prominent tech founders, is seeking experienced generalist founding engineers. Ideal candidates possess experience building production AI applications, thrive in fast-paced environments, and ideally have experience with GoLang, TypeScript, and related technologies. Competitive salaries and benefits, including equity, are offered.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development Founding Engineers

Sneakers 4K Blu-ray Review: A Classic Hackers Flick Gets a Stunning Upgrade

2025-05-06

Sneakers 4K Blu-ray Review: A Classic Hackers Flick Gets a Stunning Upgrade

The classic hacker film, *Sneakers*, gets a 4K restoration and Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber! This release boasts a stunning 4K visual upgrade, along with a wealth of bonus features including director and cast commentaries, a documentary, and vintage trailers. The film follows a group of skilled hackers as they're hired to steal a powerful decryption device from a brilliant mathematician. While some aspects might feel slightly dated, the film's clever plot twists and engaging humor remain captivating. This 4K release breathes new life into this tech thriller classic.

(www.blu-ray.com)

Tech 4K Restoration Hacker Film

AI Writes Code, AI Reviews It? Is That Silly?

2025-05-01

AI Writes Code, AI Reviews It? Is That Silly?

Daksh, co-founder of Greptile, discovered that an AI code generation tool, Devin, was submitting more pull requests than any human engineer. This raises the intriguing question: should AI-generated code be reviewed by AI itself? While LLMs are stateless, each call is independent, this doesn't mean AI perfectly reviews its own code. AI-generated code, while boosting efficiency, may introduce bugs humans struggle to find. Research shows AI is more effective than humans at finding certain types of bugs, although its accuracy still needs improvement. Ultimately, the article argues that while not perfect, AI code review is more effective than humans at finding specific bug types introduced by AI itself.

(www.greptile.com)

Development

FTC Delays Enforcement of Click-to-Cancel Rule

2025-05-12

FTC Delays Enforcement of Click-to-Cancel Rule

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has delayed enforcement of its “click-to-cancel” rule until July 14th, pushing back the original May 14th deadline. The rule, part of the Negative Option Rule, requires subscription cancellations to be as easy as sign-ups. The FTC cited a reassessment of the burden of immediate compliance as the reason for the delay. While enforcement will begin July 14th, the FTC remains open to amending the rule if problems arise during implementation.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech click-to-cancel

Owl: Spaced Repetition for Enhanced Memory and Creativity

2025-04-06

Owl leverages the science of spaced repetition to boost memory retention and creativity. Create your own flashcards or utilize our expanding library of public decks. Learn anything, anytime, anywhere—for free! Owl is used across various industries to improve recall, accelerate learning, and generate more ideas. Built for our own needs, we're now sharing it with you. Happy learning!

(owl.cards)

Development memory learning flashcards

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