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Open Source Data Collection Tool RudderStack Found to Collect Passwords

2025-02-01

Open Source Data Collection Tool RudderStack Found to Collect Passwords

The open-source data collection tool RudderStack has been found to have a serious security vulnerability that, under certain circumstances, collects user passwords. The vulnerability stems from its autotrack feature, which collects all DOM attributes of elements a user clicks on. These attributes can contain sensitive information like passwords. This mirrors a similar vulnerability found in Mixpanel two years ago. While RudderStack has patched the issue partially, the fix is incomplete and potential risks remain. Users are advised to proceed with caution and monitor for updates.

(www.freshpaint.io)

Development data collection

Microsoft's Controversial Topological Qubit Claim: Insufficient Evidence Sparks Debate

2025-03-18

Microsoft's Controversial Topological Qubit Claim: Insufficient Evidence Sparks Debate

Microsoft recently announced advancements in its topological qubit research, claiming to have created the first topological qubits. This claim has sparked significant controversy within the scientific community. While Microsoft researchers presented data at the APS meeting, many physicists remain skeptical about the sufficiency of the evidence. Noise in the experimental data and the lack of a clear bimodal signal make the conclusions unconvincing. Although Microsoft expresses confidence in its technology, further research and more conclusive evidence are needed to fully convince the broader scientific community.

(www.nature.com)

Tech Majorana fermions

MonsterUI: Build Modern Web UIs in Pure Python

2025-06-03

MonsterUI: Build Modern Web UIs in Pure Python

Tired of context-switching between HTML, CSS, and Python to build basic web UIs? MonsterUI is here to solve that! Built on top of FastHTML, it lets you build beautiful, responsive web apps using only Python. Leveraging modern libraries like Tailwind, FrankenUI, and DaisyUI, MonsterUI provides pre-styled components and smart defaults while maintaining full access to Tailwind CSS. It simplifies styling, letting you focus on features instead of remembering utility classes. Features include theming, base components, semantic text styling, smart layout helpers, common UI patterns, and higher-level components for enhanced productivity.

(www.answer.ai)

Development UI Framework

Open-Source AI Model DeepSeek R1 Challenges OpenAI: Efficiency Wins

2025-01-29

Open-Source AI Model DeepSeek R1 Challenges OpenAI: Efficiency Wins

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek open-sourced its reasoning model R1, which performs comparably to OpenAI's o1 but was trained at a fraction of the cost on inferior hardware. DeepSeek's decision to open-source wasn't about sacrificing profit, but rather about overcoming geopolitical hurdles to enter Western markets and leverage its efficient training methods. The article analyzes the growing trend of open-source models and their advantages in infrastructure, arguing that open-source models are eroding the market share of giants like OpenAI. However, OpenAI maintains its competitive edge thanks to its first-mover advantage and vast resources.

(www.getlago.com)

AI

Fern, a YC-backed Startup, is Hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer

2024-12-14

Fern, a YC-backed Startup, is Hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer

Fern, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer with a salary of $168,000-$192,000 plus equity. Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, this in-person role requires 4+ years of experience in frontend development, proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js. Responsibilities include streamlining developer experience, managing frontend infrastructure, building user-facing features, and fostering strong customer relationships. Fern simplifies API usage and counts Cohere, ElevenLabs, Webflow, and Merge.dev among its clients.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development Frontend Engineer

Porffor: Blazing Fast JavaScript Runtime via WebAssembly

2025-08-17

Porffor is a JS engine/runtime that compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries, resulting in tiny (<1MB), fast (millisecond-level) binaries. Benchmarks on AWS Lambda show it's 12x faster than Node.js and 4x faster than Amazon's LLRT, with lower costs. While still pre-alpha with limited JS support and lacking I/O and Node compatibility, its potential for optimizing small Lambda functions is significant.

(goose.icu)

Development

Microrobot Takes Flight: Tiny, Untethered Flying Robot Achieves New Milestone

2025-03-31

Microrobot Takes Flight: Tiny, Untethered Flying Robot Achieves New Milestone

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a tiny, untethered flying robot with a wingspan of less than a centimeter. Powered wirelessly by external magnetic fields, its current range is limited, but the team suggests improvements could extend its capabilities. This breakthrough opens possibilities for search and rescue, industrial inspection, and even pollination, setting a new record for the smallest flying robot.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

Tech microrobot flying robot magnetic field propulsion

WWII's Secret Weapon: Japan's Failed Balloon Bomb Attack

2025-02-04

WWII's Secret Weapon: Japan's Failed Balloon Bomb Attack

In 1944, Japan launched thousands of balloon bombs across the Pacific, aiming to sow chaos and destruction in the continental US. These massive paper balloons, carrying incendiaries and explosives, utilized the jet stream for transpacific travel. While ultimately resulting in only six American civilian deaths and minimal military impact, the operation remains a fascinating, obscure chapter of WWII, highlighting Japan's desperate wartime resourcefulness and the complexities of wartime information control. The project's failure underscores the limitations of unconventional warfare tactics.

(ahf.nuclearmuseum.org)

Tech Japan Balloon Bombs

Watchdog Timers: A Necessary Evil (or Essential Good)?

2025-01-31

This article explores the critical role of watchdog timers in embedded systems. Using the failure of the Clementine spacecraft mission due to a poorly implemented watchdog and the need to reboot a kitchen exhaust fan as examples, the author stresses the importance of reliable watchdog timers in preventing software failures. The article details various watchdog timer designs, including internal and external options, and offers strategies for building highly reliable watchdog timers. These include employing windowed watchdogs, external CPU-independent watchdogs, and monitoring the state of all tasks in a multitasking system. The author argues for the inclusion of watchdog timers even in simple systems, advocating for techniques like periodic data structure resets to enhance reliability.

(www.ganssle.com)

Development watchdog timers

Fiverr's New Ad: AI Vibe Coding Needs a Human Touch

2025-08-03

Fiverr's New Ad: AI Vibe Coding Needs a Human Touch

Fiverr's latest ad campaign playfully tackles the limitations of AI 'vibe coding.' Using the humorous imagery of a squashed avocado, the ad highlights how AI-generated code, while seemingly perfect on the surface, often requires human intervention to truly succeed. While AI lowers the barrier to entry for app and website creation, Fiverr argues that the human element is crucial for taking a project beyond a basic demo and into a fully functional product. This campaign follows a previous controversial ad and aims to reposition Fiverr as a platform that champions the collaboration between AI and human creative talent.

(www.creativebloq.com)

Tech Freelancing

Connet: A P2P Reverse Proxy for NAT Traversal

2025-01-02

Connet: A P2P Reverse Proxy for NAT Traversal

Connet is a peer-to-peer reverse proxy for NAT traversal, inspired by ngrok, frp, and rathole. It allows you to expose local services to other devices on the internet without needing a public IP address. Unlike its predecessors, Connet clients run on both the service provider (destination) and the service requester (source), ensuring private and efficient communication. Currently in alpha, Connet supports direct and relay server connections, encrypting all communication with TLS.

(github.com)

Development reverse proxy NAT traversal

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

2025-03-08

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved uphold 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. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

Beyond Dynamic Arrays: The Efficient and Stable Segment Array

2025-08-07

Beyond Dynamic Arrays: The Efficient and Stable Segment Array

This article introduces Segment Array, a high-performance data structure combining the flexibility of dynamic arrays, the advantages of stable pointers, and excellent compatibility with arena allocators. Unlike dynamic arrays that move elements during resizing, Segment Array uses pre-allocated segments of fixed sizes, avoiding memory fragmentation and pointer invalidation. Each segment is double the size of its predecessor, with new segments allocated only when needed, achieving O(1) average time complexity. The author provides a C implementation and details its inner workings, including efficient index calculation and integration with generics. Segment Array is particularly useful in scenarios requiring efficient dynamic memory management within an arena allocator, such as in a build profiler.

(danielchasehooper.com)

Development

AI Coding Assistant: My 'Oh Shit' Moment

2025-01-13

AI Coding Assistant: My 'Oh Shit' Moment

Over the Christmas break, the author experimented with an AI coding assistant to convert a Rust library to Haskell. The results were astonishing: the assistant not only completed the conversion but also generated a comprehensive test suite, C bindings, and CoreAudio interfacing. This wasn't simple knowledge regurgitation; it was the AI inventing something new. The author believes that future software engineers must embrace AI assistants to survive, and that a division currently exists within the industry regarding their adoption.

(ghuntley.com)

Development AI coding

Abundance: A Critique of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Manifesto

2025-04-02

Abundance: A Critique of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Manifesto

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's *Abundance* argues that the US government is inefficient and needs to prioritize providing more resources like housing, clean energy, and high-speed rail. While the book effectively highlights the flaws of current systems, particularly in housing where zoning regulations hinder development, it lacks a concrete policy agenda. The authors' call for 'abundance' is too broad, failing to address crucial trade-offs and the potential for abuse of power in streamlining processes. The hypocrisy of figures like Marc Andreessen, advocating for building while opposing multi-family housing near his home, underscores the book's shortcomings. Ultimately, *Abundance* avoids the messy realities of politics and policy-making, leaving the reader with inspiring rhetoric but little practical guidance on achieving its ambitious goals.

(networked.substack.com)

Misc policy reform housing development

CRISPR Gene Editing: From Bacterial Immunity to Human Therapies

2025-06-19

CRISPR Gene Editing: From Bacterial Immunity to Human Therapies

Victoria Gray's successful treatment for sickle cell anemia using CRISPR gene editing marks a new era for gene therapy. This article delves into the diverse CRISPR systems, including Cas9, Cas12, Cas13, base editors, and prime editors, explaining their mechanisms, advantages, disadvantages, and clinical applications. Evolving from a natural bacterial defense mechanism, CRISPR technology is now widely used in disease treatment, agriculture, and sustainability efforts, but faces challenges such as high costs and off-target effects. The discovery and improvement of more novel gene editing tools will further drive the development of this field.

(www.asimov.press)

Tech gene therapy

2024 Rust Survey Results: Thriving Community, but Compilation Speed Remains a Hurdle

2025-02-22

2024 Rust Survey Results: Thriving Community, but Compilation Speed Remains a Hurdle

The 2024 Rust survey results are in! While participation was slightly lower than last year, the community remains vibrant, and Rust usage continues to grow, especially in professional settings. The survey reveals high satisfaction with Rust's performance and safety, but compilation speed remains a key challenge, followed by debugging support and disk space usage. Encouragingly, many developers are optimistic about Rust's future and look forward to the stabilization of more features, such as async closures.

(blog.rust-lang.org)

Development community survey

QEMU Gains Vulkan Acceleration with VirtIO GPU Driver Update

2024-12-12

QEMU Gains Vulkan Acceleration with VirtIO GPU Driver Update

QEMU version 9.2.0 and later now supports Vulkan acceleration for VirtIO-GPU thanks to the Venus patches. This represents a significant advancement in Vulkan graphics rendering for QEMU virtual machines. The article details the setup process, including installing necessary packages (Linux kernel 6.13+, QEMU 9.2.0+, Vulkan drivers, etc.), building QEMU from source, and creating a VM image. While virt-manager currently lacks Vulkan configuration support, command-line parameters offer a workaround. Troubleshooting tips are provided, along with notes on current limitations in virt-manager and libvirt.

(gist.github.com)

Development

Efficient 3D Mesh Smoothing: Ditching Neighbor Lookups

2025-03-16

This blog post presents an efficient algorithm for 3D mesh smoothing that avoids the need for complex half-edge data structures. Using a 'throwing vertices' approach, it directly iterates over triangle faces, accumulating neighbor vertex positions in a single pass to calculate average positions for smoothing. This eliminates neighbor lookups, boosting efficiency. The post also explores several parallelization methods, including using atomic operations and precomputing neighbor lists, comparing their performance differences. Finally, it shows how to recompute vertex normals after smoothing.

(nosferalatu.com)

Development mesh smoothing

Building a Powerful Family AI Assistant with a Simple SQLite Database

2025-04-14

Building a Powerful Family AI Assistant with a Simple SQLite Database

This article details Stevens, a family AI assistant built using a simple SQLite database and cron jobs. It integrates calendar events, weather forecasts, and mail information, sending a daily briefing via Telegram. Stevens' architecture is straightforward: a central SQLite database storing various information and cron jobs importing data from sources like calendars, weather APIs, and email. The author emphasizes the simplicity and encourages readers to replicate and extend the project.

(www.geoffreylitt.com)

Development

Play Brick Breaker with Your Hands!

2025-01-20

Play Brick Breaker with Your Hands!

Forget controllers! 'Manual Brick Breaker' lets you play the classic game using only your hands. The game uses your webcam to track your palm movements, controlling the paddle to break bricks. Difficulty increases with each level, speeding up the ball and shrinking the paddle, testing your reflexes. All processing happens directly in your browser, ensuring privacy. The game's code is open-source, built with JavaScript, HTML canvas, and MediaPipe hand tracking. The creator also offers other fun open-source projects, such as video-to-ASCII art converters.

(collidingscopes.github.io)

Game hand tracking web game

Microsoft Cracks Down on Windows 11 TPM 2.0 Bypass Tools

2025-02-04

Microsoft Cracks Down on Windows 11 TPM 2.0 Bypass Tools

Microsoft has removed documentation on bypassing Windows 11's TPM 2.0 requirement and flagged the popular bypass tool Flyby11 as potential malware in its Defender antivirus. This move aims to prevent users from installing Windows 11 on incompatible hardware. With Windows 10's support ending soon, Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade or buy new PCs, but Flyby11's developer is working to resolve the issue.

(www.xda-developers.com)

Tech

Analysis of Overlapping Links Between Lobste.rs and Hacker News

2024-12-23

A blog post analyzes the overlap in links between Lobste.rs and Hacker News, two prominent technology news websites. The post lists numerous articles appearing on both sites, exploring themes and trends in the overlapping links, such as open-source software development, AI, and programming languages. This highlights common interests and information dissemination patterns within the tech community.

(lobhn.skyshelf.app)

Misc technology news link analysis community comparison

TSMC's Arizona Plant Starts Producing Advanced Chips

2024-12-28

TSMC's Arizona Plant Starts Producing Advanced Chips

TSMC's advanced chip manufacturing facility in Arizona is set to begin mass production in 2025, marking a significant return of advanced chipmaking to the US. The plant, utilizing 4-nanometer technology, boasts higher yields than its Taiwanese counterparts. This development serves as a crucial test of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act's effectiveness in stabilizing the semiconductor supply chain. While government funding plays a role, geopolitical concerns and customer demand have also driven TSMC's decision to diversify its manufacturing base and mitigate risks associated with relying solely on Taiwan. However, challenges such as cultural clashes and workforce shortages remain.

(spectrum.ieee.org)

Tech USA

Cancer Risk Decreases with Age: Study Unveils Key Protein NUPR1

2024-12-22

Cancer Risk Decreases with Age: Study Unveils Key Protein NUPR1

A new study sheds light on why cancer risk declines after age 80. Researchers found that elevated levels of a protein called NUPR1 in older mice caused cells to behave as if iron-deficient, limiting cell regeneration and thus suppressing both healthy and cancerous growth. The same mechanism was observed in human cells. Lowering NUPR1 or increasing iron levels boosted cell growth. This discovery could lead to new cancer therapies targeting iron metabolism, particularly in older individuals, and may improve lung function in those with long-term COVID-19 effects. The study also suggests that ferroptosis-based cancer treatments are less effective in older cells due to their functional iron deficiency, highlighting the importance of early intervention. Preventing carcinogenic exposures in younger individuals is even more crucial than previously thought.

(www.sciencealert.com)

Tech cancer NUPR1 protein

Lava RGB 2.0 NES Mod: A Detailed Walkthrough

2025-09-05

This detailed guide documents the author's experience upgrading a classic NES console with the Lava RGB 2.0 kit. The walkthrough covers every step, from desoldering the PPU and power module to installing the Lava RGB PCB, replacing capacitors, and soldering wires, all accompanied by numerous images. The author also adds a SNES-style multi-out and tackles expansion audio configuration. The final result is a working RGB output, with the author praising the Lava RGB 2.0 kit's performance and value.

(amaiorano.io)

Game Retro Gaming Console Mod

rr Debugger Gets a Major Update: Software Counters Mode

2025-03-30

rr Debugger Gets a Major Update: Software Counters Mode

The rr debugger now features a Software Counters mode, enabling it to run without access to CPU hardware performance counters, overcoming limitations in cloud VMs and containers. This mode leverages lightweight dynamic and static instrumentation to achieve record and replay functionality, simplifying debugging workflows. The author's blog post details the principles of record and replay technology, highlights the advantages of the rr debugger, and shares their development journey.

(github.com)

Development software counters

Can We Understand This Proof? A Glimpse into Formalized Mathematics

2025-01-10

Can We Understand This Proof? A Glimpse into Formalized Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram delves into a long-standing mathematical puzzle: the proof of a surprisingly simple axiom for Boolean algebra. Generated using automated theorem proving, the proof is incredibly complex and remains incomprehensible to humans. The article explores the proof's intricacies, dissecting its 'machine code' level operations, and poses a challenge: to humanize this proof. It discusses the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand and simplify the proof, and the implications for the future of mathematics. The conclusion suggests that some mathematical proofs may inherently be uninterpretable, hinting that mathematics will increasingly resemble an experimental science.

(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

Mathematics automated theorem proving formalized mathematics computational irreducibility

Guid Smash: A Long Shot at a Collision

2025-08-17

Guid Smash is a website running an experiment to generate a GUID matching a specific target: 6e197264-d14b-44df-af98-39aac5681791. Despite the astronomically low probability of a collision (approximately 1 in 2^122), the site generates and compares GUIDs at a rate of 467,074 per second, aiming to demonstrate this improbability. As of now, billions of GUIDs have been checked without a match, vividly illustrating the uniqueness of GUIDs and the nature of probability in action.

(www.guidsmash.com)

Misc

Landrun: A Lightweight, Kernel-Level Secure Sandbox for Linux

2025-03-22

Landrun: A Lightweight, Kernel-Level Secure Sandbox for Linux

Landrun is a lightweight Linux sandbox utilizing the Landlock LSM, boasting kernel-level security and minimal overhead. It offers fine-grained access control for directories, supporting read and write paths with optional execution permissions. TCP network access control (binding and connecting) is also included. Requiring Linux kernel 5.13+ with Landlock LSM enabled (kernel 6.8+ for network restrictions), Landrun provides a command-line interface for easily configuring sandbox permissions, including read-only, read-write, execution, and specific TCP port binding and connection allowances. A best-effort mode ensures graceful degradation on older kernels. This makes it ideal for securely running untrusted or potentially malicious code.

(github.com)

Development kernel security

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