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Prequel: A rapidly growing startup enabling B2B data access for customers

2025-03-14

Prequel: A rapidly growing startup enabling B2B data access for customers

Prequel is a rapidly growing startup empowering B2B companies to make their data accessible to customers. They sync tens of billions of rows of data daily, tackling challenging technical problems, and have achieved strong product-market fit. Currently expanding, they're developing a new product and seeking experienced engineers to build it from the ground up, create excellent React experiences and SDKs, and own key architectural and design decisions. Ideal candidates have 3+ years building software at scale, expertise with React and TypeScript, and a proven ability to design excellent APIs/SDKs. They offer competitive salaries, equity, benefits, and a fantastic work environment.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Startup

LLM Decision-Making Biases: A Serious Issue

2025-05-23

LLM Decision-Making Biases: A Serious Issue

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in sensitive domains like hiring, healthcare, and law, but their inherent biases in decision-making processes are a serious concern. Research reveals that LLM outputs are susceptible to prompt engineering, question phrasing, and label design, exhibiting cognitive biases similar to humans, such as positional bias, framing effects, and anchoring bias. The article uses experimental data to demonstrate these biases and proposes mitigation strategies, including neutralizing labels, varying order, validating prompts, optimizing scoring mechanics, adopting more robust ranking methodologies, designing and stress-testing classification schemas, strategically vetting and diversifying model portfolios, using temperature and repetitions to address variance, not systematic bias, critically evaluating human baselines, and approaching consensus/ensembles with caution. Ultimately, the article emphasizes the crucial need to understand and mitigate LLM biases in high-stakes applications to ensure fair and reliable decisions.

(www.cip.org)

AI AI Bias Decision Bias

The Toxic Lady: A Medical Mystery That Baffles Experts

2025-04-15

The Toxic Lady: A Medical Mystery That Baffles Experts

In 1994, Gloria Ramirez, a cancer patient, triggered a bizarre incident in a hospital ER. Multiple medical staff experienced fainting, convulsions, and other symptoms after her arrival, leading to the ER's immediate lockdown. While the official investigation concluded it was mass hysteria, several staff members suffered significant organ damage, fueling skepticism. A theory suggests Ramirez's self-medication with DMSO transformed into the highly toxic dimethyl sulfate during treatment, causing the incident. However, this theory lacks definitive proof, and Ramirez's death remains a mystery, prompting reflection on medical systems and scientific explanations.

(thartribune.com)

Misc medical mystery mass hysteria

OpenWISP: Connecting Communities Globally with Open-Source Networking

2025-02-05

OpenWISP: Connecting Communities Globally with Open-Source Networking

OpenWISP, a trusted open-source networking solution, boasts deployments in over 195 countries, exceeding 20,000 installations and serving 40+ commercial clients. It plays a vital role in connecting communities, fostering digital inclusion, and providing efficient solutions for thousands of active hotspots and daily users. Network administrators, municipalities, and universities worldwide rely on OpenWISP for its simplicity, adaptability, and enhanced connectivity.

(openwisp.org)

Development open-source networking community connectivity digital inclusion

TinyKVM in Varnish Cache: A Blazing-Fast Sandbox Compute Framework

2025-04-11

TinyKVM in Varnish Cache: A Blazing-Fast Sandbox Compute Framework

This article explores using TinyKVM as a compute framework within Varnish Cache, validating its performance with Deno JS benchmarks. TinyKVM boasts native performance sandboxing and per-request isolation, achieving only 0.95ms latency even when rendering complex React pages. The authors discuss shared mutable storage and prediction mechanisms for optimized game performance, along with APIs supporting multiple programming languages. Benchmarks highlight TinyKVM's significant performance advantages in GZIP compression and Deno JS execution, demonstrating a 12% performance boost from simple setting adjustments.

(info.varnish-software.com)

Development

Tesla Solar Roof: From Ambitious Vision to Niche Product

2025-04-20

Tesla Solar Roof: From Ambitious Vision to Niche Product

Tesla's solar roof, once touted by Elon Musk as a key to accelerating solar adoption, has fallen short of its ambitious promises. High costs and slow production hampered its rollout. While not entirely abandoned, Tesla now relies on third-party installers, significantly reducing its own involvement. The solar roof has evolved into a niche, high-end product, far from the revolutionary technology initially envisioned.

(electrek.co)

Tech Solar Roof

Anthropic Unveils Claude Gov: AI for US National Security

2025-06-05

Anthropic Unveils Claude Gov: AI for US National Security

Anthropic has launched Claude Gov, a suite of AI models exclusively for US national security customers. Already deployed at the highest levels of government, access is restricted to classified environments. Built with direct feedback from government agencies, these models underwent rigorous safety testing and are designed to handle classified information, understand intelligence and defense contexts, excel in critical languages, and improve cybersecurity data analysis. They offer enhanced performance for strategic planning, operational support, intelligence analysis, and threat assessment.

(www.anthropic.com)

AI

Texas Becomes Ninth State to Pass Right-to-Repair Law

2025-06-03

Texas Becomes Ninth State to Pass Right-to-Repair Law

Texas has joined the growing number of states with right-to-repair laws after the state Senate unanimously passed HB 2963. This makes Texas the ninth state with such a law and the first with a Republican-controlled government. The bill mandates manufacturers provide spare parts, manuals, and tools for equipment sold in the state, aiming to reduce the state's substantial electronic waste (621,000 tons annually). This victory follows similar legislation in states like New York and California, signaling a broader national movement toward increased repairability and reduced e-waste.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech

Redefining 'e' with Pre-Calculus: An Intuitive Approach

2025-04-17

This article elegantly redefines the natural logarithm base 'e' using pre-calculus, rather than calculus. It leverages geometric intuition, explaining that all exponential curves (with positive real bases) are horizontal stretches of a single curve. By calculating the slope of the tangent line at x=0, it approximates 'e' and further proves that the tangent slope of eˣ is always equal to its y-value, mirroring the derivative concept in calculus. Finally, it visually demonstrates the equivalence of this definition with the compound interest limit, providing a more intuitive and accessible understanding of 'e'.

(www.poshenloh.com)

Misc pre-calculus

California Bill Aims to Simplify CCPA Compliance: A.B. 566 Seeks Governor's Approval

2025-09-25

California Bill Aims to Simplify CCPA Compliance: A.B. 566 Seeks Governor's Approval

California's CCPA grants consumers data privacy rights, but exercising them is difficult. A.B. 566 simplifies this by requiring browsers to offer users an easy way to tell companies not to sell or share their data. This makes CCPA more user-friendly, empowering consumers and balancing the power dynamic. Despite industry opposition, the bill is seen as pro-consumer and non-restrictive to innovation.

(www.eff.org)

Tech A.B. 566

Thai Pro-Democracy Movement Targeted by State-Sponsored Online Harassment Campaign

2025-04-21

Thai Pro-Democracy Movement Targeted by State-Sponsored Online Harassment Campaign

A Citizen Lab report exposes a sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign, codenamed "JUICYJAM," targeting Thailand's pro-democracy movement since at least August 2020. The operation used fake personas across multiple platforms (primarily X and Facebook) to dox protesters, harass them, and incite reports to the police. A leak of confidential documents in March 2025 revealed the Royal Thai Armed Forces and/or Royal Thai Police as the perpetrators. JUICYJAM's high engagement demonstrates a successful state-sponsored influence operation, part of a broader network of judicial harassment and suppression posing a significant threat to civil society. The report highlights the inadequacy of social media platforms in addressing such coordinated, harmful campaigns.

(citizenlab.ca)

Tech digital authoritarianism doxxing thailand

Apple's Latest Update Sneaky-Reenables Apple Intelligence

2025-02-11

A recent update to macOS 15.3.1 and iOS 18.3.1 has re-enabled Apple Intelligence for some users, even if they previously disabled it. The behavior seems linked to whether the Setup Assistant and welcome screen appear after the update. Developer Jeff Johnson reports this inconsistency across his devices, sparking user frustration. This automatic re-enabling is viewed as a user-hostile move, reminiscent of Apple's past practice of automatically re-enabling Bluetooth in every OS update—a practice eventually fixed, only to be seemingly replaced by this new issue.

(lapcatsoftware.com)

Tech

Dolt's go-mysql-server at Five: A Query's Journey

2025-04-27

Dolt's go-mysql-server at Five: A Query's Journey

This post reflects on five years of Dolt using go-mysql-server, detailing the inner workings of its SQL engine. It walks through a query's journey from parsing to result spooling, encompassing parsing, binding, plan simplification, join exploration, cost-based optimization, and execution. Dolt employs a left-recursive parser and bottom-up dynamic programming for query plan optimization, selecting the optimal execution strategy using a cost model. The post also discusses memory management and future optimizations, such as unifying intermediate representations and reducing memory churn.

(www.dolthub.com)

Development

9front OS 11091 Released: Major Improvements and New Features

2025-04-27

The 9front operating system has released version 11091, featuring numerous updates. These include an improved snapshot scheduler, a new Intel i225 2.5 GbE driver, AMD Ryzen CPU temperature support, a Unicode 16.0 normalization interface in libc, and support for multiple architectures (x86, amd64, arm64). Furthermore, the release boasts extensive improvements to compilers, libraries, and programs, such as AWK's support for a new rc-quote format, and bug fixes and performance optimizations across various programs. Multiple installation media are provided for PC, Raspberry Pi, MNT Reform, and QEMU.

(9front.org)

Development

Japanese City Limits Recreational Smartphone Use to Two Hours a Day

2025-09-25

Japanese City Limits Recreational Smartphone Use to Two Hours a Day

The city council of Toyoake, Japan, has passed an ordinance symbolically limiting recreational smartphone use to two hours daily. The aim is to promote better sleep, particularly for students returning to school after summer break. While not legally binding, the ordinance encourages healthier sleep habits and addresses concerns about excessive smartphone use impacting daily life. The city plans to survey residents on the ordinance's effectiveness and explore addressing other smartphone-related issues.

(www.theregister.com)

Misc smartphone use sleep deprivation public policy

The Bitter Truth About AI-Powered Coding

2025-04-12

After experiencing the incredible efficiency of AI coding tools like Claude Code, the author found themselves grappling with a profound sense of unease. The joy of coding felt diminished, likened to the experience of cheating in a video game – winning easily, but losing the satisfaction. The author worries that the high cost of these tools will create a significant barrier to entry, exacerbating existing technological inequalities and raising environmental concerns. While acknowledging the inevitability of AI's progress, they express concern about a future where programming becomes less enjoyable and accessible to most.

(4zm.org)

Development technological anxiety

Brave Browser's New Custom Scriptlets: Take Control of Your Browsing Experience

2025-02-11

Brave Browser's New Custom Scriptlets: Take Control of Your Browsing Experience

Brave Browser version 1.75 introduces 'custom scriptlets' for desktop users, allowing advanced users to inject their own JavaScript into websites for deep customization. Similar to Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey, this feature enables users to create scripts modifying website functionality. Initially developed for debugging Brave's ad blocker, its value led to its release. Custom scriptlets enhance privacy, security, and usability by blocking trackers, customizing appearance, and improving accessibility. However, caution is advised as untrusted scripts pose risks. The feature is located in `brave://settings/shields/filters` and requires enabling 'Developer mode'.

(www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Development Brave Browser Custom Scriptlets

arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-03-18

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the arXiv website. Individuals and organizations involved in arXivLabs uphold our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners who share them. Have an idea for a project that will benefit the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

Base Editing Offers New Hope for Treating CAG and GAA Repeat Expansion Disorders

2025-05-29

Base Editing Offers New Hope for Treating CAG and GAA Repeat Expansion Disorders

This study investigates the potential of cytosine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base editors (ABEs) to treat repeat expansion disorders such as Huntington's disease (HD) and Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA). Researchers designed editors targeting CAG and GAA repeats and demonstrated their effectiveness in in vitro and in vivo experiments. CBEs significantly reduced CAG repeat expansion, even promoting contraction, in a mouse model of HD. ABEs stabilized GAA repeats and increased FXN gene expression in a mouse model of FRDA. While off-target effects exist, the findings highlight the significant potential of these base editors for treating repeat expansion disorders.

(www.nature.com)

AI Huntington's disease Friedreich's ataxia

The Unexpected Economics of Planned Website Downtime

2025-04-10

This article challenges the conventional wisdom of 24/7 website uptime. Using B&H Photo's Saturday closures as a case study, it argues that not all e-commerce sites need to be constantly available. The author explores the high cost of continuous uptime and suggests that planned downtime doesn't necessarily lead to significant customer loss. The article draws parallels with Google's SRE team intentionally introducing minor outages to force users to consider fallback plans. Finally, it calculates the potential cloud cost savings from scheduled downtime and weighs the trade-offs against employee on-call compensation.

(bobbiechen.com)

Startup

Smartphone and Tablet Supplier Compliance Requirements

2025-04-24

Smartphone and Tablet Supplier Compliance Requirements

Suppliers of smartphones and tablet computers must ensure that products are labeled according to Annex III, and that parameters in the product information sheet (Annex V) are entered into the public part of the product database. Printed product information sheets must be provided upon dealer request; technical documentation (Annex VI) must be entered into the product database; all visual and technical promotional materials (including online) must display the energy efficiency class and range from the label (Annexes VII and VIII). Electronic labels (Annex III) and product information sheets (Annex V) must be provided to dealers. Energy efficiency and free fall reliability class calculations (Annex II) must comply with Annex IV.

(energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu)

Hardware Tablets

CA/Browser Forum Shortens Certificate Validity, Sparks Debate

2025-04-19

CA/Browser Forum Shortens Certificate Validity, Sparks Debate

The CA/Browser Forum voted to shorten the validity period of SSL certificates to 47 days, sparking controversy. Jon Nelson of Info-Tech Research Group questioned the motives, suggesting a potential conflict of interest aimed at increasing revenue for involved companies. While the vote passed overwhelmingly, five members abstained. One CA member expressed reservations, supporting the principle but questioning the necessity of the most restrictive 47-day limit.

(www.computerworld.com)

Tech SSL certificates CA/Browser Forum

AG-UI: A New Protocol for AI Agent-Frontend Interaction

2025-05-13

AG-UI: A New Protocol for AI Agent-Frontend Interaction

AG-UI is a lightweight, event-based, open protocol standardizing how AI agents connect to front-end applications. Supporting various event types and transport methods, it features a flexible middleware layer ensuring cross-environment compatibility. Already integrated with several popular agent frameworks, AG-UI enables real-time chat, bi-directional state syncing, generative UI, and more. With a React client library and messaging clients (in development with AWS SNS), AG-UI offers a simple yet powerful solution for building AI-powered applications.

(github.com)

Development frontend interaction

Data Science for HR in Large Organizations: Beyond Recruitment

2025-04-16

Data Science for HR in Large Organizations: Beyond Recruitment

This article argues that a data science approach is crucial for HR in large organizations, going beyond traditional recruitment tasks. By leveraging social network analysis, sentiment analysis, and predictive modeling, HR can enhance communication, strengthen company culture, improve employee retention, and ensure fair compensation. The article explores how these data-driven insights help identify key influencers, predict attrition, and address hidden issues, ultimately building a more resilient organization. The choice between an in-house data scientist and an external consultant depends on the organization's specific needs.

(gorelik.net)

AI Organizational Management

Walmart's Honeycomb Delivery Network: Reaching 12 Million More Homes

2025-04-22

Walmart's Honeycomb Delivery Network: Reaching 12 Million More Homes

Walmart is leveraging a hexagonal map segmentation strategy to optimize its same-day delivery network. This approach, inspired by honeycombs' efficient space utilization, surpasses traditional ZIP code or radius-based methods. By analyzing customer locations and store inventory more precisely, Walmart can now reach an additional 12 million US households with same-day delivery. The hexagonal grid allows for dynamic catchment areas, optimizing delivery routes based on road networks and minimizing travel time, ultimately boosting delivery efficiency.

(www.businessinsider.com)

Tech delivery optimization

The Dot-Com Bubble: A 20-Year Retrospective

2025-03-16

The Dot-Com Bubble: A 20-Year Retrospective

March 10, 2000 marked the peak of the dot-com bubble, with the NASDAQ hitting 5048.62 before a dramatic crash. Investors were frenzied, chasing the next Microsoft, often ignoring profitability. While companies like Amazon and Google eventually thrived, their success wasn't guaranteed in 2000. The burst led to widespread failures, impacting the tech industry deeply. Recovery was slow, with the NASDAQ only surpassing its 2000 peak in 2015, serving as a cautionary tale in tech history.

(dfarq.homeip.net)

Tech dot-com bubble investment

LLM Plugin: Summarize Hacker News Threads with Ease

2025-04-08

LLM Plugin: Summarize Hacker News Threads with Ease

A new LLM plugin, `llm-hacker-news`, lets you easily summarize Hacker News conversation threads. Simply install the plugin and use the command `llm -f hn:ID 'your instruction'` (e.g., `llm -f hn:43615912 'summary with illustrative direct quotes'`) to get a summary of the thread with the specified ID (found in the thread's URL). Installation and local setup instructions are provided in the README.

(github.com)

Development

Is Your Smartphone Really Listening? The Truth Is Far More Complex

2025-04-26

Is Your Smartphone Really Listening? The Truth Is Far More Complex

A long-standing conspiracy theory claims smartphones constantly eavesdrop on private conversations. While the 2024 revelation of Cox Media Group's "Active Listening" system fueled this, it only used snippets of voice data uploaded after activating voice assistants, not 24/7 monitoring. Companies like Facebook leverage massive datasets and sophisticated algorithms to predict user needs and deliver targeted ads – a process far more complex and unsettling than simple eavesdropping. Studies show phones don't constantly monitor microphones, but the data collected through other means is still deeply concerning.

(newatlas.com)

Tech

FSF's 40th Anniversary Auction: Bid on Pieces of Free Software History!

2025-03-17

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting an online auction featuring 25 pieces of historic free software memorabilia. The auction is split into a silent online auction (March 17-21 on the LibrePlanet wiki) and a live auction (March 23). Items include vintage computers, plushies, original artwork promoting free software, and awards received by the FSF and its founder. All proceeds support the FSF's continued work. The live auction features six particularly significant items, including the original GNU head logo, the Norbert Wiener Award, and artwork from the GCC manual. These artifacts represent milestones in the free software movement.

(www.fsf.org)

Tech

snapDOM: Blazing Fast, High-Fidelity DOM Capture

2025-04-27

snapDOM: Blazing Fast, High-Fidelity DOM Capture

snapDOM is a high-fidelity DOM capture tool developed for Zumly, a framework for smooth zoom-based view transitions. It converts any HTML element into a scalable SVG image, preserving styles, fonts, backgrounds, shadow DOM, and pseudo-elements. Benchmarks show snapDOM dramatically outperforms competitors like modern-screenshot and html2canvas, especially with larger DOM structures. It's lightweight, dependency-free, and offers exports to SVG, PNG, JPG, WebP, and canvas. Ideal for capturing full-page views, modals, and complex layouts.

(github.com)

Development DOM capture

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