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Reflection AI: Building Superintelligence Through Autonomous Coding

2025-03-07
Reflection AI: Building Superintelligence Through Autonomous Coding

Reflection AI is building superintelligent autonomous systems. Team members were instrumental in projects like AlphaGo and have spearheaded breakthroughs in reinforcement learning and large language models. They believe autonomous coding is key to broader superintelligence, planning to first build a superintelligent autonomous coding system, then expand that blueprint to all other computer-based tasks. The company emphasizes real-world application, iterating with user feedback to ensure systems reliably meet real-world needs and responsibly shape the future of AI.

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(www.reflection.ai)
AI Superintelligence Autonomous Coding

Infisical Hiring: Full-Stack Engineer to Revolutionize Secret Management

2025-03-09
Infisical Hiring: Full-Stack Engineer to Revolutionize Secret Management

Infisical, the #1 open-source secret management platform, is seeking a full-stack engineer. You'll build, optimize, and maintain the core product, ensuring a great user experience and exploring AI-driven secret management. Ideal candidates possess strong full-stack skills: infrastructure management, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred), TypeScript/Go. This is a fast-growing team; within 18 months, you'll impact thousands of users and potentially own key platform components.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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The Startup CTO Handbook: Practical Guide for High-Performing Engineering Teams

2025-03-12
The Startup CTO Handbook: Practical Guide for High-Performing Engineering Teams

Zach Goldberg's 'The Startup CTO Handbook' offers a compelling daily resource for engineering leaders. Drawing on years of startup experience, Goldberg provides practical frameworks and insightful perspectives to tackle complex challenges in building high-performing engineering teams. The book emphasizes continuous learning, offering actionable advice on topics such as effective 1:1s, skip-level meetings, technical debt management, and navigating the CTO-CEO relationship. Whether you're a fledgling engineering leader or a seasoned CTO, this handbook is an invaluable guide.

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(github.com)
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Bill Gates's Confessions: Drugs, Code, and Life

2025-02-09
Bill Gates's Confessions: Drugs, Code, and Life

In his new memoir, 'Source Code,' Bill Gates reveals his teenage experimentation with cannabis and LSD. He admits trying these mind-altering substances but eventually quit because they impaired his logical thinking. He also recounts a humorous exchange with Steve Jobs about drugs and shares two LSD experiences: one leading to a nightmarish dentist visit, and another where he and Paul Allen, after watching Kung Fu, etched the existential symbol ∃ on a dewy car. Gates ultimately quit due to fears of memory damage and expresses intrigue about the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelics.

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(www.independent.co.uk)
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Simplifying Apple Watch/iOS App Communication with Racket Macros

2025-02-17

Developing an Apple Watch app involves handling communication with its iOS counterpart. The author uses Racket macros to define a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that auto-generates Swift code to handle the complexities of the WatchConnectivity framework, including message encoding, decoding, and message handler implementation. This avoids a lot of boilerplate code, improving maintainability and reliability. By defining message types and handlers, the DSL automatically generates Swift enums, structs, functions for sending messages, and a message handling protocol, greatly simplifying the development process.

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(defn.io)
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Saudi Arabia's Transformation: From Forbidden Sites to Tourist Destinations

2025-03-03

Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Once viewed as a bastion of Islamic puritanism, the kingdom is aggressively promoting tourism and re-evaluating its pre-Islamic history. Sites like Madain Saleh, once considered cursed, are now being marketed as tourist attractions, part of the ambitious Vision 2030 plan to diversify the economy away from oil. However, this shift is controversial, with some religious scholars expressing concern about the integration of Western cultural elements.

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(www.historytoday.com)
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Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor: The Bad Update Exploit

2025-03-03
Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor: The Bad Update Exploit

This blog post details the author's journey to exploit vulnerabilities in the Xbox 360 hypervisor, culminating in a new exploit dubbed "Bad Update." Years after initial attempts, leveraging newfound security engineering expertise, the author meticulously reverse-engineered the hypervisor, focusing on system calls and encrypted memory allocations. By cleverly manipulating ciphertext and exploiting a race condition within an LZX decompression routine in a system update payload, they achieved hypervisor-level code execution. The process involved overcoming numerous obstacles, including cache issues and thread synchronization challenges, demonstrating innovative techniques in vulnerability research.

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(icode4.coffee)
Development Hypervisor Exploit

Sci-Fi Author Buys Abandoned Church for $75,000, Turns It Into Office Space

2025-03-14
Sci-Fi Author Buys Abandoned Church for $75,000, Turns It Into Office Space

Sci-fi author John Scalzi purchased a defunct Methodist church for a surprisingly low $75,000 and transformed it into office space and a multi-purpose venue. The 1919 building had been abandoned due to declining congregation numbers. The Scalzis weren't motivated by religious reasons; instead, they needed space for their growing company, Scalzi Enterprises, and to accommodate future employees. After two years of renovations, the church boasts a new roof, wiring, flooring, and HVAC system, as well as a library and spaces for events. Scalzi plans to host community events there, making it a hub for local life.

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(whatever.scalzi.com)
Startup renovation

DOJ's Chrome Divestiture Plan: A Wrong Turn in the Google Monopoly Case?

2025-03-15
DOJ's Chrome Divestiture Plan: A Wrong Turn in the Google Monopoly Case?

The Department of Justice's attempt to resolve Google's monopoly issues by forcing the sale of Chrome is misguided, argues this piece. The core monopolistic practice is Google paying to be the default search engine, not Chrome itself. Chrome's value to Google is largely indirect—its investment in web standards. Forcing a sale would harm Google's investment in these standards, hurting the web ecosystem, leading to stagnation, and pushing operating system vendors towards closed systems. A more appropriate solution, the author suggests, is to prohibit Google from paying for default search placement and mandate browser choice for users.

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(chriscoyier.net)
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USV's Investment Thesis: The 'Butter' Factor

2025-02-11

Venture capital firm USV shared their investment philosophy – the 'Butter Thesis.' It's not about investing in butter, but rather about building exceptionally smooth, easy, and enjoyable user experiences. Whether it's developer tools (like Stripe API, Twilio API), B2B products (like Airtable, Slack), or consumer products (like Duolingo, Nurx), their success hinges on this 'buttery' experience. USV argues that achieving this is far from easy, but the rewards are extraordinary when accomplished.

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(nickgrossman.xyz)
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Trump Admin's Cuts to Decimate Elite CDC Program

2025-02-14
Trump Admin's Cuts to Decimate Elite CDC Program

The Trump administration's push to shrink the federal civil service is set to severely impact the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), a world-renowned training program for applied epidemiologists. Many EIS members, crucial in responding to outbreaks like the 2001 anthrax attacks and the 2014-2016 West African Ebola epidemic, face imminent dismissal. This move is alarming public health experts who warn of significantly reduced capacity to handle future crises, both domestically and internationally. The cuts are seen as shortsighted and potentially catastrophic for global health security.

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(www.statnews.com)
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EU Forces Apple to Open iOS: A Battle Over Interoperability and Innovation

2025-03-20
EU Forces Apple to Open iOS: A Battle Over Interoperability and Innovation

The EU, citing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), is forcing Apple to open nine iOS connectivity features to boost interoperability and break Apple's closed ecosystem. Apple counters that this is anti-innovative, harms user privacy and security, and restricts its innovation in Europe. Smaller companies support the EU's decision, arguing that Apple's actions stifle competition, leading to higher prices and reduced innovation. The core of this debate is how to balance the innovative drive of large tech companies with the need to foster market competition.

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(techcrunch.com)
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Meta's Strobelight: A Profiling Orchestrator Saving 15,000 Servers

2025-03-07
Meta's Strobelight: A Profiling Orchestrator Saving 15,000 Servers

Meta unveiled Strobelight, a powerful profiling orchestrator combining multiple technologies (many open-source) to boost efficiency across its massive server fleet. Strobelight isn't a single profiler, but an orchestrator of various profilers collecting detailed CPU usage, memory allocation, and other performance metrics. Visualized through tools like Scuba and Tracery, Strobelight has already yielded significant savings, equivalent to 15,000 servers annually. A single character change in one code line (&) resulted in this massive gain. Strobelight leverages efficient eBPF technology, flexible custom profilers, automated data collection, and dynamic sampling for optimal performance.

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(engineering.fb.com)
Tech server optimization

OCRing YouTube Music with Common Lisp: A Pixel-Perfect Adventure

2025-01-06

A developer attempted to extract music data from a YouTube video using Common Lisp. Initial attempts with Tesseract and ChatGPT proved unsuccessful. Ultimately, an old-school pixel differencing method, involving manual extraction of character images and comparison, successfully extracted most of the musical notation. While not perfect, the extracted data sufficed, proving the method's feasibility. The article also details the developer's experience using Lisp for image processing and efficient development.

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(nickfa.ro)
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Apple Unveils iPhone 16e: A Powerful, Affordable New iPhone

2025-02-19
Apple Unveils iPhone 16e: A Powerful, Affordable New iPhone

Apple announced the iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup offering powerful features at a more accessible price. Powered by the A18 chip and Apple's new C1 cellular modem, it boasts impressive performance and battery life. The iPhone 16e is built for Apple Intelligence, a privacy-focused AI system with features like the Clean Up tool for image editing and natural language photo search. A 48MP 2-in-1 camera system provides high-quality photos and videos, and satellite connectivity ensures users stay connected even without cellular or Wi-Fi coverage. Pre-orders begin February 21st.

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(www.apple.com)
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Crypto Advocate Demands Retraction: A Debate on 'Debanking'

2025-02-10

A deep-dive article analyzing the phenomenon of 'debanking' in the cryptocurrency industry faced a retraction request from the CEO of a cryptocurrency firm. The author meticulously addressed the CEO's accusations, arguing they lacked merit, and defended the article's core argument: regulators' risk assessments of cryptocurrencies are not unfounded, and banks' cautious approach towards crypto businesses is not entirely unreasonable. The article delves into the complexities of banking regulation and the compliance challenges faced by the crypto industry, using the cases of Silvergate and Prime Trust to illustrate the importance of risk management. Ultimately, the author rejected the retraction request, emphasizing the responsibility of the press in pursuing truth and resisting censorship.

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(www.kalzumeus.com)
Tech banking regulation compliance

Half-Life and Steam's DRM Journey: It Started with a Nephew's CD Burner

2025-03-24
Half-Life and Steam's DRM Journey: It Started with a Nephew's CD Burner

In 1998, Valve co-founder Monica Harrington's nephew used money intended for school supplies to buy a CD burner, then copied and shared games, prompting her to realize the threat of game piracy enabled by this technology. This led Valve to implement a simple CD key verification system in Half-Life. While initially met with complaints, it effectively combated piracy and laid the groundwork for the eventual rise of Steam as a dominant DRM platform.

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(arstechnica.com)
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US Restaurant Productivity Soared During COVID: The Fast Food Revolution?

2025-03-14
US Restaurant Productivity Soared During COVID: The Fast Food Revolution?

A new study reveals that real labor productivity at US restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID-19 pandemic—an unprecedented jump after nearly 30 years of stagnation. Using mobile phone data tracking over 100,000 limited-service restaurants, researchers found this wasn't due to economies of scale, increased market power, or pandemic-related demand fluctuations. Instead, it strongly correlates with reduced customer dwell time, especially a rise in customers spending 10 minutes or less. The frequency of such takeout orders increased dramatically during COVID, even at fast-food restaurants, and remained elevated. The relationship between productivity and reduced dwell time almost entirely accounts for the overall productivity increase. This suggests the pandemic accelerated the adoption of fast food and takeout, significantly boosting restaurant efficiency.

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(bfi.uchicago.edu)
Tech labor productivity covid impact fast food

Enhanced Spin-Orbit Torque via Orbital Hall Effect for High-Density SOT-MRAM

2025-03-01
Enhanced Spin-Orbit Torque via Orbital Hall Effect for High-Density SOT-MRAM

Researchers significantly improved Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) device performance by leveraging the enhanced orbital Hall effect (OHE) of Ru, Nb, and Cr layers in combination with a perpendicularly magnetized [Co/Ni]3 ferromagnetic layer. Experiments showed a ~30% increase in damping-like torque efficiency with a positive sign for the Ru/Pt OHE layer compared to pure Pt. This resulted in a ~20% reduction in switching current across >250 devices and a >60% reduction in switching power. This work paves the way for next-generation SOT-MRAM devices with enhanced performance for high-density cache memory applications.

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(www.nature.com)
Hardware Orbital Hall Effect Spin-Orbit Torque

Ren'Py 8.3.4 Released: Open-Source Engine for Interactive Storytelling

2025-02-21

Ren'Py is a powerful open-source visual novel engine used by thousands to create interactive stories for computers and mobile devices, encompassing both visual novels and life simulation games. Its easy-to-learn scripting language and Python scripting capabilities allow for efficient creation of both large visual novels and complex simulation games. The latest version, Ren'Py 8.3.4, is now available, with multilingual documentation support. Developers offer various support channels including forums, Discord, and IRC.

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(www.renpy.org)
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The Evolving Saga of 80387 FPU State Saving: A Tale of Documented Errors

2025-02-07

While investigating the behavior of x87 Floating Point Units (FPUs) and their state saving mechanisms (FSTENV/FLDENV and FSAVE/FRSTOR instructions), the author discovered discrepancies between early Intel documentation and later revisions concerning the 32-bit protected mode FPU state. Early 80387 documentation omitted the floating-point opcode from the 32-bit protected mode FPU state, while updated documentation included it. This led to several third-party reference books perpetuating the outdated information for years. The story highlights the evolution of technical documentation and how errors can persist in technical literature for extended periods.

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(www.os2museum.com)
Hardware documentation errors

Reverse Engineering a SanDisk High Endurance microSD Card: Uncovering the Flash Memory Secret

2025-02-02
Reverse Engineering a SanDisk High Endurance microSD Card: Uncovering the Flash Memory Secret

Blogger Jason reverse-engineered a SanDisk High Endurance microSD card to uncover the mystery of its flash memory. SanDisk was tight-lipped about the type of flash used, even refusing to answer his support requests. Through meticulous analysis of test pads and bus signals, Jason determined that the card uses Toshiba/Kioxia BiCS3 3D TLC NAND flash. He detailed the NAND Flash ID and JEDEC Parameter Page, overcoming challenges like deciphering obscure test pad layouts, controller interference, and SanDisk's custom Parameter Page format. The findings reveal the use of 3D TLC flash, but SanDisk's secrecy surrounding this detail sparked Jason's criticism.

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(ripitapart.com)
Hardware NAND flash

Intellectual Property is Dumb: A Vision for Open-Source AI

2025-02-22

The author argues that intellectual property is a flawed concept, countering President Biden's comparison of piracy to theft. Piracy, unlike theft, allows widespread access to resources, akin to photography rather than robbery. Concerned about wealth concentration, the author envisions AI delivering immense societal value without profit. He reminisces about the early internet's open-source, high-value, low-profit model and aims to disrupt current business models through open-source projects like comma.ai and tinygrad. The goal is to make the tech sector unprofitable for speculators, creating a fairer technological landscape.

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(geohot.github.io)
AI

Physicists Challenge the Accelerating Universe: Is Dark Energy Dead?

2025-01-12
Physicists Challenge the Accelerating Universe: Is Dark Energy Dead?

A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters challenges the Nobel Prize-winning theory of an accelerating universe. Researchers argue that the observed expansion isn't accelerating but an illusion caused by uneven galaxy distribution. They propose a 'timescape' model, suggesting different regions of the universe experience time at different rates, explaining supernova observations without requiring dark energy. While needing further validation, this model offers a fresh perspective on the universe and questions the existence of dark energy.

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(nautil.us)
Tech universe expansion

Axana: A Portable MRI Scanner Revolutionizing Stroke Diagnosis

2025-03-08
Axana: A Portable MRI Scanner Revolutionizing Stroke Diagnosis

Strokes are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Wellumio, a New Zealand company, has developed Axana, a portable MRI scanner designed to address the critical time sensitivity of stroke diagnosis. Axana's compact size and user-friendly interface require minimal training, allowing for immediate head scans in emergency rooms, drastically reducing diagnostic delays and improving treatment outcomes. Utilizing magnetic fields at varying frequencies, it eliminates the need for pulsed gradient coils, lowering cost and complexity. While currently lower resolution, it's sufficient for gross anatomical analysis, with future versions aiming for higher resolution. Axana promises to revolutionize stroke care, particularly in underserved communities, by offering accessibility, affordability, and ease of use.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
Tech Portable MRI Stroke Diagnosis

The Curious History of JavaScript Comments: Why `<!--` and `-->` Work

2025-03-12

This article unravels the curious history behind the use of `` as comment characters in JavaScript. Initially, to ensure compatibility with older browsers, developers would wrap their JavaScript code within HTML comments inside `` tags. Surprisingly, modern browsers still support this syntax due to historical browser compatibility burdens and the standardization committee's commitment to 'not breaking the web'. The article explains how this syntax works and why `-->` must appear at the beginning of a line.

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(www.hillelwayne.com)
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Yale Study Uncovers Potential Immunological Patterns in Post-Vaccination Syndrome

2025-02-23
Yale Study Uncovers Potential Immunological Patterns in Post-Vaccination Syndrome

Yale researchers have made initial strides in characterizing post-vaccination syndrome (PVS), a persistent condition following COVID-19 vaccination. Their study, published as a preprint on MedRxiv, reveals potential immunological differences between individuals with PVS and those without. Individuals with PVS showed lower levels of effector CD4+ T cells and higher levels of TNF-alpha+ CD8 T cells. Some also exhibited persistent SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, even months after vaccination. While early, these findings offer hope for future diagnosis and treatment. Further research is underway to investigate other potential factors like autoimmunity and viral reactivation.

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(news.yale.edu)
Tech COVID-19 vaccine Post-Vaccination Syndrome Immunology

Motorola Edge 2024 and Moto G Power 2025 Review: Budget Kings?

2025-03-02
Motorola Edge 2024 and Moto G Power 2025 Review: Budget Kings?

This review compares the Motorola Edge 2024 and Moto G Power 2025. The Edge 2024 offers good value at its $300 sale price, but suffers from shutter lag in its camera and limited software updates (only two Android OS upgrades). The Moto G Power 2025 boasts IP68 water resistance, longer battery life, and extended software support, but its performance is slightly weaker than its predecessor, and the camera is just adequate. Ultimately, both phones have strengths and weaknesses, requiring careful consideration based on individual needs.

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(www.wired.com)
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