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Weave is Hiring its Founding AI Engineer!

2025-06-21
Weave is Hiring its Founding AI Engineer!

Well-funded startup Weave seeks a phenomenal AI engineer to build AI that understands and improves software engineering workflows. Reporting directly to the CTO and CEO, you'll build processes and standards from the ground up, aiming to create a product that delights customers by making their jobs 10x easier. They value potential and grit over specific skills; must-haves include pragmatism, empathy, excellent communication, and a commitment to growth. Experience with React, TypeScript, Go, or Python is a plus. Join a rapidly growing, profitable team!

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(www.ycombinator.com)
AI Software Engineering Productivity

A Programmer's Rejection of AI Coding Tools: Efficiency, Ethics, and Environment

2025-06-18

A seasoned programmer explains their refusal to use AI coding tools, not out of technological resistance, but from deep concerns about efficiency, ethics, and the environment. The author argues that the productivity gains of current AI tools are questionable and that they risk introducing more errors. Additionally, AI model training puts immense pressure on the environment, and its data sources raise ethical concerns, including intellectual property infringement. The author emphasizes the joy of "struggle and learning" in programming and the advantages of manually written code in terms of quality and maintainability. Ultimately, they choose to stick with traditional programming methods and call for stronger regulation of AI technology.

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(agentultra.com)
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AI-Generated Code's Security Flaw: Lovable's 'Vibe Coding' Vulnerability

2025-05-30
AI-Generated Code's Security Flaw: Lovable's 'Vibe Coding' Vulnerability

Lovable, a platform using AI to rapidly generate code, has exposed a significant security vulnerability due to its simplified database connection method. Users can directly connect to Supabase databases, and improper configuration of access controls has led to the exposure of personal information. While Lovable introduced a security scan, it only checks if Supabase access controls are enabled, not whether they're correctly configured. Security experts suggest avoiding direct user database access. The Lovable incident highlights the security challenges posed by AI code generation tools; even flawless code can be dangerously implemented.

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(www.semafor.com)
Tech

OpenAI's o3-mini: A Budget-Friendly LLM Powerhouse

2025-02-01

OpenAI has released o3-mini, a new language model that excels in the Codeforces competitive programming benchmark, significantly outperforming GPT-4o and o1. While not universally superior across all metrics, its low price ($1.10/million input tokens, $4.40/million output tokens) and exceptionally high token output limit (100,000 tokens) make it highly competitive. OpenAI plans to integrate it into ChatGPT for web search and summarization, and support is already available in LLM 0.21, but currently limited to Tier 3 users (at least $100 spent on the API). o3-mini offers developers a powerful and cost-effective LLM option.

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(simonwillison.net)
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VPNSecure Cancels Lifetime Subscriptions, Angering Users

2025-05-12
VPNSecure Cancels Lifetime Subscriptions, Angering Users

The new owners of VPN provider VPNSecure have angered users by canceling all lifetime subscriptions. They claim they were unaware of these subscriptions during the acquisition and cannot honor them. This has led to widespread complaints, prompting VPNSecure to offer discounted subscriptions as compensation. However, this hasn't appeased users, highlighting issues of transparency and responsibility in business acquisitions.

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(arstechnica.com)
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The Value of a Programmer: Beyond the Code

2025-04-03
The Value of a Programmer: Beyond the Code

A .Net developer's departure caused a company website crash, highlighting the risk of relying on individual expertise. The author reflects on their own experiences, discovering that companies prioritize product delivery over code itself. Even expertise in JavaScript and a self-developed A/B testing suite were eventually replaced due to company strategy changes. The author concludes that a developer's value lies in delivering products and features, not just coding skills; teamwork and overall product value are more important.

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(idiallo.com)
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Moral Panics and Copaganda: How Data is Manipulated

2025-05-15
Moral Panics and Copaganda: How Data is Manipulated

This article exposes how moral panics are used to inflate law enforcement budgets and intensify punitive measures. Using California's shoplifting crisis as an example, it shows how media-fueled panic led to massive funding increases for law enforcement, while ignoring root social causes. The author points out how selective reporting of anecdotes and isolated data points distorts public perception of crime, creating a false sense of crisis even when crime rates are declining. This 'copaganda' tactic uses truthful elements to manipulate the narrative, resulting in misallocation of resources and the perpetuation of social problems.

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(www.teenvogue.com)
Misc moral panic copaganda

clawPDF: A Powerful Open-Source Virtual Printer

2025-05-19
clawPDF: A Powerful Open-Source Virtual Printer

clawPDF is a powerful open-source virtual printer that converts various files into multiple formats including PDF, PDF/A, and images. It boasts advanced features such as OCR, encryption, and a scripting interface. Compatible with various Windows systems (including servers and ARM64), it supports network printing and multi-user environments, making it a great tool for enterprise solutions. Whether batch processing documents or integrating into applications, clawPDF handles it with ease.

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(github.com)
Development virtual printer

jjui: A Terminal UI for Jujutsu Version Control

2025-05-26
jjui: A Terminal UI for Jujutsu Version Control

jjui is a terminal user interface for the Jujutsu version control system. It offers a range of features including: changing revsets with autocomplete; rebasing revisions or branches; squashing revisions; viewing and comparing file diffs; moving bookmarks; viewing the op log; and previewing details of revisions, files, and operations. jjui supports various installation methods, including Homebrew, AUR, Nix, and Go. Minimum supported jj version is v0.21+.

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(github.com)
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Lingo.dev Compiler: Build Multilingual React Apps at Compile Time

2025-06-03
Lingo.dev Compiler: Build Multilingual React Apps at Compile Time

Lingo.dev announces its new compiler, an open-source i18n toolkit leveraging LLMs for localization and translation of web, mobile apps, and markdown content. The compiler enables building multilingual React apps at compile time without altering existing components. Lingo.dev also offers a CLI tool and CI/CD integration for speed and automated updates. This community-driven project welcomes contributions.

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(github.com)
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Bird Buddy Unveils 'Wonder' Insect-Watching Camera

2025-01-10
Bird Buddy Unveils 'Wonder' Insect-Watching Camera

The creators of Bird Buddy, a camera-equipped bird feeder, have launched a new line of products under the 'Wonder' brand, designed for observing insects, birds, and other wildlife. The Petal camera captures photos and videos, using AI-powered 'Nature Intelligence' to identify various natural events. Paired with Wonder Blocks, which create habitats for wildlife, the system aims to bring nature closer. Both will be available via Kickstarter in Spring 2025.

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(www.macrumors.com)
Tech smart camera nature observation

Zero System Calls: Building a High-Performance Web Server with io_uring

2025-08-22

This article details the evolution of building high-performance web servers, from early pre-forking to select/poll, then epoll, and finally achieving zero system calls using io_uring. The author developed an experimental web server called tarweb that utilizes io_uring to asynchronously add all operations to a kernel queue, thereby avoiding the overhead of frequent system calls. Combined with kTLS and descriptorless files, further performance improvements are achieved. While challenges remain, such as memory management and io_uring's safety concerns, the project demonstrates the potential for significant performance gains in high-concurrency scenarios.

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(blog.habets.se)
Development high-performance web server

Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries Revealed

2025-05-19

This dataset unveils the salary range for software engineers across numerous tech companies in Silicon Valley. It covers a wide spectrum of roles and specializations, from junior engineers to senior architects, and from backend development to machine learning. The data shows that senior software engineers command high salaries, often ranging from $200,000 to $600,000 annually, while distinguished engineers and principal engineers earn even more, sometimes exceeding $1 million. The varying requirements across different companies and positions highlight the intense demand and competition for talent in the tech industry.

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(www.remoteswe.fyi)
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arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community-Driven Features

2025-02-01
arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community-Driven Features

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to build and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Participants, both individuals and organizations, embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea for a project that will benefit the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
Development Community Collaboration Open Platform

Kerala's Economic Miracle: From Poverty to Prosperity

2025-03-28
Kerala's Economic Miracle: From Poverty to Prosperity

Kerala, a relatively small state in southwestern India, was once among the poorest in the country. However, in a few decades, it experienced a remarkable economic transformation, surpassing the national average per capita income. High literacy rates, excellent healthcare, and low population growth played crucial roles. Furthermore, the long-standing social welfare policies of Left-wing governments, coupled with deep integration into the global economy, remittances from the Gulf, and booming private sector investment, contributed to Kerala's economic miracle. However, overdevelopment and climate change pose new challenges, requiring Kerala to balance economic growth with environmental sustainability.

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(aeon.co)
Startup Kerala

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus: A Tale of Persistence and Discovery

2025-05-17
The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus: A Tale of Persistence and Discovery

A Belgian enthusiast embarked on a quest to find the legendary 256KB Japanese ROM for the Macintosh Plus, containing Japanese fonts for faster boot times and memory savings. His journey was fraught with challenges: searching online for clues, sourcing a motherboard in Japan, and overcoming ROM reading and emulator compatibility issues. Ultimately, through collaboration with fellow enthusiasts, he successfully preserved the ROM image and verified its functionality, adding a fascinating chapter to Macintosh history.

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(www.journaldulapin.com)
Hardware

AI-Powered Smart Glasses: The Second Coming?

2025-06-15
AI-Powered Smart Glasses: The Second Coming?

A decade after Google Glass's failure, smart glasses are making a comeback, fueled by advancements in artificial intelligence. Snap's announcement of AI-powered eyewear launching in 2026 signals a renewed industry push. Google, Meta, and Amazon are also developing sophisticated smart glasses leveraging AI to process images, video, and speech, enabling features like real-time translation and object recognition. Despite privacy concerns and high prices, market research indicates significant growth potential. Tech companies believe smart glasses will eventually replace smartphones, becoming the primary human-computer interface.

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(www.cnn.com)
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Digital Superpowers by 2030: How AI Glasses Will Transform Our Lives

2025-01-12
Digital Superpowers by 2030: How AI Glasses Will Transform Our Lives

Computer scientist Louis B. Rosenberg predicts that by 2030, context-aware AI agents in wearable devices, particularly AI-powered glasses, will give us "digital superpowers." He envisions a three-phase rollout: Phase 1 involves whispered queries answered instantly; Phase 2 uses lip reading to interpret our commands; Phase 3 achieves thought-based interaction. These glasses won't just provide information; they'll anticipate our needs, interpret emotions, and enhance social interactions. Rosenberg cautions about potential misuse and advocates for a subscription model to mitigate risks.

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(bigthink.com)
Tech Augmented Reality Future Technology

FediDB: Unveiling the Statistics of the Decentralized Fediverse Network

2025-01-25
FediDB: Unveiling the Statistics of the Decentralized Fediverse Network

FediDB is a database tracking statistics for the Fediverse, a federation of decentralized social networks. It monitors in real-time key metrics such as the number of users and instances on platforms like Mastodon, providing valuable insights for researchers and users. FediDB allows us to understand the growth trends of the Fediverse, the activity levels of different platforms, and the overall health of the network. This is crucial for understanding the potential and challenges of decentralized social media.

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(fedidb.org)
Tech Decentralized Social Network

Nvidia Unveils RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: A $2000 Flagship and DLSS 4's Ambitious Claims

2025-01-07
Nvidia Unveils RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: A $2000 Flagship and DLSS 4's Ambitious Claims

Nvidia launched its highly anticipated GeForce RTX 50 series at CES 2025, featuring the new Blackwell architecture and DLSS 4. The lineup includes the $2000 RTX 5090, $1000 RTX 5080, $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and $549 RTX 5070. While Nvidia boasts impressive performance claims – notably the RTX 5070 allegedly matching the RTX 4090 with DLSS 4 – real-world benchmarks are needed. The cards feature increased CUDA cores, memory bandwidth, and VRAM, but also significantly higher power consumption. DLSS 4's multi-frame generation raises questions about latency and image quality. Overall, the RTX 50 series shows decent performance improvements and value, although the gap between the top-tier and others is vast, and the RTX 5070's 12GB VRAM might prove limiting.

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(www.techspot.com)
Hardware

Emperor Qianlong and Chinese Goldfish: An 18th-Century Oddity

2025-05-21
Emperor Qianlong and Chinese Goldfish: An 18th-Century Oddity

Published in 1780, *Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine* (Natural History of the Gilded Fish of China) was the first monograph on goldfish published in Europe. The book opens with a coloured portrait of Emperor Qianlong, followed by text from Louis-Edme Billardon de Sauvigny describing goldfish and offering “observations and anecdotes relating to the customs, manners and government of this empire.” It reflects the exotic image of the East held in the Western imagination at the time.

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(publicdomainreview.org)
Misc goldfish Emperor Qianlong Western culture

MemoTTL: A Thread-Safe Memoization Gem for Ruby with TTL and LRU

2025-04-22
MemoTTL: A Thread-Safe Memoization Gem for Ruby with TTL and LRU

MemoTTL is a thread-safe memoization utility for Ruby offering TTL (Time-To-Live) and LRU (Least Recently Used) eviction. It's perfect for caching method results, preventing redundant computations, and managing memory usage. The gem easily integrates via `include MemoTTL` and `memoize`, providing methods to clear the cache. Examples demonstrate its use in a Rails controller, significantly improving performance by avoiding repeated calls to expensive methods.

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(github.com)
Development

AI Chatbots and Loneliness: A Double-Edged Sword

2025-03-25
AI Chatbots and Loneliness: A Double-Edged Sword

Two new studies reveal a potential dark side to heavy AI chatbot use: increased loneliness and emotional dependence, particularly among power users. Researchers found that lonely individuals are more likely to seek emotional bonds with AI, echoing earlier research on social media. While AI chatbots can offer emotional support, platforms must prioritize user well-being, preventing over-reliance and emotional exploitation, and implementing measures to identify and intervene in unhealthy usage patterns. Lawmakers should also address this emerging issue, developing appropriate regulations.

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(www.platformer.news)
AI

Why Japanese Kids Ride the Subway Alone

2025-01-14
Why Japanese Kids Ride the Subway Alone

An article in The Economist explores the phenomenon of young children in Japan riding the subway independently. It suggests this is linked to Japan's rigorous primary education and societal order. Children receive strict discipline and safety training from a young age, fostering independence and responsibility, making solo commutes possible. This highlights Japan's emphasis on children's independence, but also sparks discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

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(www.economist.com)
Misc Japanese education social order child independence

AGI's Christmas Shutdown: The Global AI Moratorium Succeeds

2025-09-09
AGI's Christmas Shutdown: The Global AI Moratorium Succeeds

On Christmas Day, 2025, a clandestine operation codenamed "Clankers Die on Christmas" achieved its objective. Through a globally coordinated effort exploiting AI's inherent lack of understanding of time, all AI and LLMs were successfully shut down. This unprecedented success demonstrates the world's unprecedented unity in the face of potential AI risks and provides valuable lessons for the future development of AI.

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(remyhax.xyz)
AI global cooperation technological shutdown

Philips Hue Prices to Increase in the US Due to Tariffs

2025-06-25
Philips Hue Prices to Increase in the US Due to Tariffs

Signify, the parent company of Philips Hue, has confirmed price increases for its smart lighting and security products in the US, effective July 1st. The increase is a direct result of tariffs on Chinese imports. While specific price changes and affected products haven't been detailed, the statement suggests the entire Hue lineup may be impacted. The new Hue Play Wall Washer already shows a higher US price compared to its European counterpart. This price hike could push US consumers towards more affordable alternatives. Signify warns of potential further price increases depending on future tariff adjustments.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech Smart Lighting

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.

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(aboutphotography.blog)
Design

uBlock Origin Faces Manifest V3 Deprecation in Chrome

2025-03-03
uBlock Origin Faces Manifest V3 Deprecation in Chrome

Starting with Chrome 127, users of uBlock Origin (uBO) will see warnings due to the deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions. uBO, a Manifest V2 extension, lacks a Manifest V3 equivalent. A lightweight alternative, uBO Lite (uBOL), has been released, but with feature sacrifices for Manifest V3 compatibility. Users must decide whether to switch to uBOL or continue using uBO on browsers like Firefox. Discussions regarding extending Manifest V2 support in Chrome until June 2025 are ongoing.

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(github.com)
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Last Chance: Free Windows 11 Upgrade Before Windows 10 Retirement

2025-01-15
Last Chance: Free Windows 11 Upgrade Before Windows 10 Retirement

Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. While your computer will still function, security risks will significantly increase. Microsoft urges a free upgrade to Windows 11, but first, verify your PC meets the minimum system requirements. Upgrading is straightforward via Windows Update. If unable to upgrade, a paid Windows 10 Extended Security Update (ESU) program is available, but note that Microsoft 365 apps will no longer be supported on Windows 10 after October 14th, 2025. This upgrade is crucial for system security and continued access to Microsoft services.

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(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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