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Live Coding Interviews: A Stress Test, Not a Skill Test?

2025-08-01

This article challenges the effectiveness of live coding interviews as a measure of engineering skill. The author recounts personal experiences and cites scientific research showing that high-pressure situations impair cognitive function, specifically working memory, crucial for coding. A study revealed participants performed half as well under observation, with women completely failing in the observed condition. The author suggests mitigating stress through mock interviews and explores supplements like L-tyrosine and L-theanine to improve performance under pressure.

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(hadid.dev)
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ROCm Device Support Wishlist: Community Input Sought for Future GPU Compatibility

2025-01-20
ROCm Device Support Wishlist: Community Input Sought for Future GPU Compatibility

The AMD ROCm open-source compute platform is seeking community input to determine which GPUs will receive driver support in the future. Currently, ROCm supports select AMD Instinct and Radeon cards, but many users are requesting support for more models, particularly those with 16GB or more VRAM, and reinstatement of support for older AMD GPUs that have lost ROCm compatibility. A GitHub discussion thread has generated significant community engagement, with users actively voting on their desired GPU support.

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(github.com)
Hardware Open-Source Compute

Unprecedented Drop in Teen Drug Use Continues to Surprise Experts

2024-12-20
Unprecedented Drop in Teen Drug Use Continues to Surprise Experts

A new study reveals a continued and unexpected drop in teen drug use in 2024, reaching historic lows. The decline, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic, has not reversed despite the lifting of restrictions. Rates of alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine use among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders have all plummeted. Researchers are now investigating the contributing factors to this unprecedented trend and planning interventions to maintain these low rates.

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(arstechnica.com)
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The CD Pipeline Manifesto: Building Better Software Delivery

2024-12-21
The CD Pipeline Manifesto: Building Better Software Delivery

Modern software teams desperately need better tools for managing their Continuous Delivery pipelines. Today's CD pipeline ecosystem is fragmented, rigid, and inefficient. This manifesto advocates for code-first, developer-friendly pipelines designed to handle the complexities of modern engineering workflows. It emphasizes a single source of truth, reusable and typesafe components, dynamic and flexible pipelines, transparent and visual debugging, and mechanisms for handling change and fast feedback loops, ultimately aiming to improve efficiency and accelerate delivery.

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(manifesto.getglu.dev)
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My Wife's Enemies Are Now Mine: A Surprisingly Empowering Journey

2025-02-11
My Wife's Enemies Are Now Mine: A Surprisingly Empowering Journey

The author recounts a transformation from conflict-avoidant to confidently assertive. Before marriage, he prioritized harmony, even suppressing dislike for others. However, marriage introduced a new dynamic: his wife's enemies became his own. This led to a newfound willingness to openly express disapproval, even actively confronting those he disliked. This not only strengthened his marriage but also empowered him to be more resolute in his own opinions and actions, leading to personal growth.

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(www.thecut.com)
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Shadeform Hiring Senior Software Engineer for GPU Cloud Marketplace

2025-03-13
Shadeform Hiring Senior Software Engineer for GPU Cloud Marketplace

Shadeform is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build core orchestration and managed services for its GPU cloud marketplace. The company provides affordable and reliable GPU compute to Fortune 100 companies, startups, and more. The ideal candidate will have experience with Go programming, orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, etc.), cloud (AWS and GCP), and GPU/ML infrastructure. Competitive compensation, equity, and remote work options are offered.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Deep Learning for Inverse Design of Complex Nanoparticle Heterostructures

2024-12-26
Deep Learning for Inverse Design of Complex Nanoparticle Heterostructures

Researchers used deep learning and heterogeneous graph neural networks to inverse design upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) with applications in biosensing, super-resolution microscopy, and 3D printing. A large-scale dataset of over 6,000 UCNP emission spectra was generated and used to train a GNN model. Gradient-based optimization identified structures with a predicted emission 6.5 times higher than any UCNP in the training set under 800nm illumination. This work reveals new design principles for UCNPs and provides a roadmap for DL-based inverse design of nanomaterials.

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(chemrxiv.org)
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German Railway Still Running on Windows 3.11?

2025-03-30
German Railway Still Running on Windows 3.11?

A German railway company recently posted a job opening for a Windows 3.11 administrator to maintain outdated systems running on 166MHz processors and 8MB of RAM. These systems, used for railway display boards across most of Germany, provide real-time data to driver cabs on high-speed and regional trains. Despite their age, these mission-critical systems remain in use, adhering to a 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' philosophy, with an expected lifespan until at least 2030. The job posting sparked online discussion, highlighting the persistence of legacy systems in critical infrastructure.

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(www.tomshardware.com)
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Reclaiming Focus in the Age of Distraction: A Path to Deeper Living

2025-02-16
Reclaiming Focus in the Age of Distraction: A Path to Deeper Living

Drawing on personal experience and insights from books like 'Stolen Focus' and 'Digital Minimalism', the author explores strategies for combating digital distractions and cultivating a deeper, more focused life. The article uses neuroscience to explain how tech companies manipulate dopamine levels to influence behavior, then offers practical solutions. These include creating focused work environments (libraries, cafes), using offline tools (Obsidian), establishing routines, taking regular breaks (physical, mental, creative, etc.), and incorporating mini-retirements. The author argues that minimizing digital distractions and prioritizing high-quality work and life leads to lasting satisfaction and happiness. The piece concludes by emphasizing the importance of connecting with nature, cultivating patience, and viewing creativity as a gardening process requiring nurturing.

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(www.ssp.sh)
Misc deep work digital minimalism

htmx: The Next jQuery? Stability-First Web Dev Tool

2025-01-06

htmx, evolved from intercooler.js, aims to be a stable and reliable tool for web development, much like jQuery's long-lasting success. The article outlines htmx's future direction: prioritizing stability over frequent updates; limiting the addition of core features, mainly extending functionality through the extension API; maintaining a quarterly release schedule. htmx's goal isn't to be a total solution for web applications, but to focus on simplifying hypermedia controls and better integrate with other tools and techniques, ultimately hoping its core functionality will be integrated into the HTML standard.

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(htmx.org)
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The AI-Generated Code Illusion: False Mastery

2025-08-17

The author used AI to generate Go tests and a Svelte frontend, initially feeling highly efficient. However, they later discovered issues like mixed version syntax in the AI-generated code, requiring significant debugging time. This exposed a trap of AI tools: they generate seemingly correct code, creating an illusion of mastery, but fail to replace genuine understanding and thought. Over time, teams relying on AI experience declining code quality, ultimately leading to project failure. The author stresses that software development demands continuous effort and deep technical understanding; AI is merely a tool and cannot substitute a programmer's expertise and critical thinking.

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(playtechnique.io)
Development

10 Essential Django Tools for Enhanced Performance, Security, and Productivity

2024-12-29

This article explores ten indispensable tools for your next Django project, covering dependency management, performance profiling, and more to boost development efficiency, security, and performance. From Poetry for dependency management to Silk for performance profiling, each tool—including Django Extensions, Django REST Framework, djangorestframework-camel-case, Django Storages, django-simple-history, django-otp, Celery, and Gunicorn with Uvicorn Workers—is explained with comparisons to alternatives like Pipenv, FastAPI, and django-reversion. These tools help build faster, more secure, and efficient Django applications.

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(thinkingbytes.co.uk)
Development Tools

Web Origami: A New Programming Language for Simplified Website Building

2024-12-13

Web Origami is a new programming language designed to simplify the creation of small- to medium-sized websites. Using a concise syntax that complements HTML and CSS, users can describe website structure using formulas similar to spreadsheets, transforming data and files into HTML and other website resources through simple programs. Even without JavaScript knowledge, features like full-text search and RSS feeds can be created. Origami provides a command-line interface, built-in functions, and an async-tree library, with support for JavaScript extensions. Its core concept is to abstract website building as data transformation, making site creation and deployment efficient, low-cost, and easy to understand.

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(weborigami.org)
Development programming language website development

Reliable Data Sending with JavaScript's Beacon API: Ditching Unreliable `beforeunload`

2025-09-04
Reliable Data Sending with JavaScript's Beacon API: Ditching Unreliable `beforeunload`

Sending data reliably to servers when a user leaves a website has always been a challenge. Traditional methods using the `beforeunload` event with `fetch` or `XMLHttpRequest` are unreliable, as browsers may cancel requests for a better user experience. JavaScript's Beacon API offers a 'fire-and-forget' solution; the browser doesn't wait for a response, ensuring data is sent reliably. While the Beacon API limits data size and only supports POST requests, it's perfect for sending small, critical data like analytics or page leave events. It's also great for any scenario requiring reliable asynchronous data sending, such as real-time data synchronization.

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(hemath.dev)
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L3 Systems WristPC Keyboard: A Rugged Wearable Keyboard

2025-01-27

L3 Systems has developed the WristPC Keyboard for portable and wearable computer applications. This rugged QWERTY keyboard features a standard PC keyboard interface and comes in black anodized aluminum or blue ABS plastic housings. Completely sealed, it's designed for use in rain and harsh environments. Its curved back ensures comfortable and secure wrist placement, with an optimized alphanumeric layout and conveniently positioned arrow keys. Optional wrist straps and keyboard illumination are available. Custom keyboards for Aaton Cantar users are also offered (requires separate Gotham Sound Dsub15-USB adapter).

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(www.l3sys.com)
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Chips from Supernovae: Solving Microchip Manufacturing Challenges with Astrophysics

2025-03-05
Chips from Supernovae: Solving Microchip Manufacturing Challenges with Astrophysics

This article recounts how the author and their team leveraged their understanding of supernova explosions to solve a long-standing tin debris problem in extreme ultraviolet lithography. By drawing an analogy between the shockwaves and plasma debris from supernovae and their EUV light source, they ingeniously used a hydrogen gas flow to clear away tin debris, thus improving the stability and reliability of the EUV source and making a significant contribution to advanced chip manufacturing. This story showcases the magic of interdisciplinary knowledge and the driving force of basic scientific research on practical applications.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
Tech extreme ultraviolet lithography supernova

CSIRO Launches AI-Powered Map Visualizing Open Access Water Security Research

2024-12-18

CSIRO has released the 'Atlas of Open Water Security Science,' an interactive map visualizing the geographical distribution of open-access water science publications from its Water Security Program since 2010. Powered by AI, this 3-month trial version extracts locations and context from publications, but may contain inaccuracies. Users can explore the evolution of research, click on publications for details, and learn more about CSIRO's AI innovation in environmental science. Use with caution.

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(wateratlas.webapp.csiro.au)
Tech Water Security

Chess Champ Auctions Controversial Jeans for Charity: #JeansGate Continues

2025-03-01
Chess Champ Auctions Controversial Jeans for Charity: #JeansGate Continues

Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, is auctioning off the Italian Corneliani jeans that caused a dress code controversy at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships. After being fined and withdrawing from the New York tournament, Carlsen is donating the proceeds from the eBay auction (currently at $8,200) to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. The auction ends March 1st. The charity will use the funds to expand youth mentorship programs, including chess clinics and community events.

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(apnews.com)
Misc Carlsen Charity Auction JeansGate

Houseplant: Streamlining ClickHouse Database Migrations

2024-12-27

Houseplant is a command-line tool designed to simplify ClickHouse database migration management. It allows developers to write migrations in a user-friendly YAML format, making them easy to read and maintain. Simple commands like `houseplant init`, `houseplant generate`, and `houseplant migrate` enable initialization, migration generation, execution, and rollback. Houseplant supports various environment configurations and offers an intuitive command-line interface for seamless ClickHouse schema management.

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(houseplant.readthedocs.io)
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Bypassing Disk Encryption with Automatic TPM2 Unlock: A Critical Vulnerability

2025-01-17

This article exposes a critical vulnerability in systems using TPM2 for automatic disk encryption unlocking. An attacker with brief physical access can decrypt the disk without altering the TPM's state. The vulnerability stems from most setups failing to verify the LUKS identity of the decrypted partition. The attacker can use the initrd image in the unencrypted boot partition to create a fake LUKS partition with a known key, tricking the system into executing a malicious init program, thereby obtaining the original disk key. Solutions include using a TPM PIN or properly verifying the LUKS identity within the initrd.

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(oddlama.org)
Tech Disk Encryption

HP Archive: A Digital Museum for Vintage HP Collectors

2025-06-16
HP Archive: A Digital Museum for Vintage HP Collectors

The HP Archive website is dedicated to collectors and curators of vintage Hewlett-Packard equipment, catalogs, HP Journals, and other periodicals. The site is publishing some of the oldest HP literature online, creating a comprehensive reference source. Currently, catalogs, price lists, parts lists, and advertising materials are available, with plans to add Bench Briefs, early product manuals, and service notes with the help of volunteers. The site is undergoing a migration to WordPress and welcomes volunteers to contribute.

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(hparchive.com)
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A Month-Long Digital Detox: Reclaiming My Time and Focus

2025-07-24
A Month-Long Digital Detox: Reclaiming My Time and Focus

A blogger is undertaking a month-long experiment to reduce their reliance on large internet platforms like Meta products, Reddit, and YouTube. To combat the allure of echo chambers and infinite scrolling, they've set rules limiting social media, news consumption, and replacing mindless browsing with activities like building their website and RSS reader, and pursuing offline hobbies such as painting and baking. The goal is to improve focus and well-being.

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(smallcypress.bearblog.dev)
Misc internet addiction

BEAD's Tech-Neutral Shift Sparks Controversy: Starlink Could Reap Billions

2025-03-06
BEAD's Tech-Neutral Shift Sparks Controversy: Starlink Could Reap Billions

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program's shift to a technology-neutral approach is sparking controversy. Critics argue this change, abandoning the initial preference for fiber optics, will leave millions with slower, less reliable, and more expensive broadband. The shift could funnel billions in subsidies towards satellite internet providers like Starlink, potentially at the expense of fiber infrastructure development. Republicans are also pushing for legislative changes to remove what they see as burdensome regulations imposed by the Biden administration. Ultimately, state governments will distribute funds to ISPs, although the exact allocation remains uncertain.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech BEAD program broadband subsidies

Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Towards a Truly Private Internet

2025-07-18
Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Towards a Truly Private Internet

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows arbitrary computations on ciphertext without decryption. This means data can remain encrypted across the internet, preventing breaches and enabling true privacy. While currently slow, FHE's speed is improving 8x yearly. In the future, FHE may power encrypted cloud computing, encrypted large language model inference, and confidential blockchain smart contracts, potentially disrupting data-harvesting business models and shifting the internet from 'spy by default' to 'privacy by default'.

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(bozmen.io)
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Rwandan Scientists Develop Local Yeast for Banana Winemakers

2025-02-09
Rwandan Scientists Develop Local Yeast for Banana Winemakers

Banana wine production in Rwanda has long faced challenges with yeast selection, impacting both quality and regulatory approval. Scientists have developed a new yeast strain derived from local raw materials, preserving the traditional flavor of banana wine while withstanding high temperatures and alcohol concentrations. This breakthrough promises to standardize banana wine production, reduce costs, and boost Rwanda's burgeoning banana wine industry.

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(phys.org)
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Hackers Face Lawsuit After Exposing Polish Train Manufacturer's Manipulation

2024-12-27

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is raising funds for three hackers who revealed at the 37C3 conference how Polish rail vehicle manufacturer Newag manipulated its trains to be repairable only in its own workshops. Newag reacted with a 90s-style aggressive lawsuit, pursuing both criminal and civil charges. The legal costs have already reached €30,000. The CCC is calling for donations to cover legal and other expenses. The hackers' research did not involve any illegal replacement of train components. The CCC believes Newag's lawsuit aims to prevent future publications about these 'illegal instructions,' emphasizing that only the content teams decide who speaks at the congress. The 38C3 congress will continue reporting on this case.

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(www.ccc.de)
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BioNTech's Bispecific Antibody Shows Promise in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

2024-12-15
BioNTech's Bispecific Antibody Shows Promise in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

BioNTech presented early clinical trial data for its novel bispecific antibody, BNT-327, at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Targeting PD-1/PD-L1 and VEGF, the antibody showed positive results in patients with triple-negative breast cancer. Building on the discovery of checkpoint inhibitors, this research represents a potential breakthrough in next-generation immunotherapy, offering hope for new treatments in triple-negative breast cancer and potentially other cancers.

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(www.statnews.com)
Tech bispecific antibody immunotherapy triple-negative breast cancer

Apple Unveils New Generation of Multilingual, Multimodal Foundation Models

2025-07-18
Apple Unveils New Generation of Multilingual, Multimodal Foundation Models

Apple introduced two new multilingual, multimodal foundation language models powering its on-device and server-side intelligence features. A ~3B parameter on-device model, optimized for Apple silicon, and a scalable server model built on a novel Parallel-Track Mixture-of-Experts (PT-MoE) transformer. Both are trained on massive multilingual and multimodal datasets, refined with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. They support more languages, image understanding, and tool calls, matching or exceeding comparable open-source baselines. A new Swift-centric framework simplifies integration for developers.

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(machinelearning.apple.com)
AI

Open-Source Ergonomic Keyboard: Ergo S-1 - Build Your Own Comfort

2025-01-03
Open-Source Ergonomic Keyboard: Ergo S-1 - Build Your Own Comfort

The Ergo S-1 is an open-source, wireless, split ergonomic keyboard compatible with Cherry/Gateron switches and Cherry/OEM/DCS keycaps, powered by the ZMK firmware. Designed during a period of unemployment, this keyboard prioritizes ease of DIY assembly, making it accessible to a wider audience. The project provides comprehensive assembly instructions, a bill of materials, and Fusion 360 design files, along with support for custom keymaps. While complete kits aren't yet available, pre-built keyboards are sold on Etsy, and the creator is actively working towards easier-to-assemble kits.

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(github.com)
Hardware ergonomic keyboard
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