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Klarna Halts Hiring, CEO Claims AI Can Do All Jobs

2024-12-17
Klarna Halts Hiring, CEO Claims AI Can Do All Jobs

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has claimed that AI can already perform all jobs currently done by humans, leading the fintech company to halt hiring a year ago. The company's workforce has shrunk from 4,500 to 3,500 employees through attrition. While Klarna's website still advertises open positions, a spokesperson clarified that the company is not actively recruiting to expand but filling essential roles, mainly in engineering. This announcement has fueled concerns about AI's impact on the job market.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
Tech Employment

Surrealist Supermarket Stroll: Ginsberg's 'A Supermarket in California'

2025-01-09
Surrealist Supermarket Stroll: Ginsberg's 'A Supermarket in California'

Allen Ginsberg's 'A Supermarket in California' is a surrealist poem depicting a shopping trip as a journey of the soul. The poem intertwines reality and fantasy, placing the speaker in a supermarket encounter with the ghost of Walt Whitman, embarking on a fantastical exploration of America, loneliness, and love. Rich imagery and profound symbolism prompt reflection on society, life, and the American Dream.

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(www.poetryfoundation.org)
Misc surrealism Allen Ginsberg

Garmin's $40B Pivot: From Car GPS to Fitness Watch King

2025-01-21
Garmin's $40B Pivot: From Car GPS to Fitness Watch King

GPS pioneer Garmin faced near-extinction from Apple and Google's rise. However, massive R&D investment allowed a dramatic pivot, transforming the company from a car navigation device firm into a leader in fitness watches and trackers. The article details Garmin's journey, from the invention of GPS and Garmin's founding to its transition from car navigation to the outdoor and fitness tracking market. Its sustained R&D spending enabled survival and growth in a fiercely competitive landscape, showcasing the importance of continuous innovation and adaptation.

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(www.readtrung.com)
Tech Transformation

Linux Desktop: Great; Linux Server: A Mess? FreeBSD's Elegant Response

2025-03-31
Linux Desktop: Great; Linux Server: A Mess? FreeBSD's Elegant Response

The author contrasts the desktop and server experiences of Linux, finding the desktop remarkably user-friendly. However, the server side suffers from excessive complexity due to systemd and abstraction layers like Docker and Kubernetes, making troubleshooting difficult. FreeBSD, conversely, shines with its simplicity, stability, and ease of maintenance, even in disaster recovery scenarios. However, a growing trend of open-source software relying heavily on Docker deployment, lacking native installation methods, poses a challenge for FreeBSD users. The author highlights deployment difficulties with Immich and BunkerWeb as examples.

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(aumont.fr)
Development Server Administration

YC Startup Curo Hiring Marketplace Supply Associate

2025-01-28
YC Startup Curo Hiring Marketplace Supply Associate

Curo, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a Marketplace Supply Associate. This business development role focuses on identifying EV charging and parking assets to meet fleet needs in specific locations. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, proactive, and a team player comfortable with cold calling and email outreach. Curo aims to accelerate electrification, offering cost-effective EV charging solutions for commercial fleets.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Google Translate Breaks React (and other Web Apps): A DOM Showdown

2025-02-14
Google Translate Breaks React (and other Web Apps): A DOM Showdown

Google Translate, Chrome's built-in extension, manipulates the DOM in a way that breaks many modern web apps, particularly those using React. The article dives deep into how Google Translate works, replacing TextNodes with FontElements, disrupting React's Virtual DOM and causing crashes or data inconsistencies. Common errors like `NotFoundError` and `insertBefore` failures are analyzed, along with workarounds such as monkey patching and wrapping TextNodes in `` elements, but these solutions have limitations. Ultimately, the article suggests developers weigh the pros and cons, potentially disabling Google Translate or implementing their own localization to ensure app stability and user experience.

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(martijnhols.nl)
Development Google Translate DOM manipulation

Dish: A Tiny, One-Shot Monitoring Service

2025-03-27
Dish: A Tiny, One-Shot Monitoring Service

Dish is a minimalist Go-based, one-shot monitoring service designed for quick testing of HTTP/S and generic TCP endpoints. It supports loading target lists from local JSON files or remote JSON APIs and offers various alerting methods, including Telegram notifications, Prometheus Pushgateway updates, and webhook callbacks. Users can configure it flexibly via command-line arguments, including custom headers. Dish boasts zero dependencies and easy deployment, whether through building a binary or using a Docker image, making it ideal for rapidly setting up a monitoring system.

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(github.com)
Development

Meta's Massive Java-to-Kotlin Translation: Conquering Millions of Lines of Code

2024-12-22
Meta's Massive Java-to-Kotlin Translation: Conquering Millions of Lines of Code

Meta has undertaken a multi-year effort to translate its massive Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. This post details how Meta built the Kotlinator, an automation tool, to overcome challenges like slow build speeds and insufficient linters, successfully converting over half of its code. The Kotlinator comprises several phases: preprocessing, headless J2K conversion, postprocessing, and error fixing. Meta also collaborated with JetBrains to improve J2K and open-sourced parts of the process to foster community collaboration. The article highlights null safety handling and various code issues encountered and resolved during the conversion.

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(engineering.fb.com)
Development code migration

Optimizing League of Legends Builds with Linear Programming: A Kai'Sa Case Study

2025-01-26

A League of Legends player used linear programming to optimize item builds for the champion Kai'Sa. By defining an objective function (minimizing total gold cost) and constraints (meeting stat requirements for Kai'Sa's ability evolutions and inventory limits), the player, using Rust and a linear programming solver, found the optimal build. The article also details fetching item data from Riot's Data Dragon API and considers practical in-game factors like item components and movement speed, leading to refined strategies.

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(versary.town)
Game Linear Programming Game Optimization League of Legends

China Reveals Details of Alleged NSA Attack on Northwestern Polytechnical University

2025-02-19
China Reveals Details of Alleged NSA Attack on Northwestern Polytechnical University

A blog post details publicly available Chinese reports on an alleged NSA (APT-C-40) cyberattack against Northwestern Polytechnical University. The reports claim the NSA used over 40 unique malware strains, employing techniques including zero-day exploits, MITM attacks, and spear-phishing emails, to steal sensitive data. Chinese cybersecurity firms attributed the attack based on analysis of attack times, keyboard inputs, human errors, and toolkits. The author compares Western and Chinese incident response methodologies and discusses future cybersecurity trends. The authenticity of the claims remains unverified.

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(www.inversecos.com)
Tech APT attack

Belief Graphs: Understanding the Structure and Competition of Beliefs

2025-07-22
Belief Graphs: Understanding the Structure and Competition of Beliefs

This article explores the structure of belief systems and how they compete. Belief systems are visualized as graphs, with core ideas as nodes and connections between ideas as edges. Challenging core ideas is like shaking the foundations, while weakening connections is like damaging the structure. The author uses the conflict between Galileo and the Church, and modern examples like "Growth-First Capitalism" vs. "Ecological Sustainability," to illustrate the stability and competitive strategies of belief systems. Understanding the structure of belief systems is crucial to counter manipulation and polarization, the article concludes.

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(vasily.cc)
Misc belief systems

My Linkblogging Workflow: 7,607 Posts and Counting

2025-01-06
My Linkblogging Workflow: 7,607 Posts and Counting

Simon Willison shares his approach to running a successful link blog spanning over two decades. He details his methods for curating and presenting links, emphasizing the value of adding insightful commentary, giving proper credit to creators, and using technology (Django, Markdown, Claude) to enhance the experience. He argues link blogging is a low-effort, high-reward way to contribute meaningfully to online discourse and encourages others to adopt the practice.

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(simonwillison.net)
Development linkblogging blogging content creation

The Graphics Codex: Your Ultimate Guide to Computer Graphics

2025-01-26

The Graphics Codex is an interactive learning resource for computer graphics, featuring 400+ cross-referenced equations and diagrams, 14 chapters on physically-based shading and rendering, and multi-platform programming projects with links to external API documentation. It serves as a reference, textbook supplement, or standalone learning guide, updated monthly. Topics range from ray tracing and shadow map shaders to the rendering equation and Fresnel equations, making it ideal for students and professionals alike.

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(graphicscodex.com)
Development 3D rendering programming tutorial

EV Brake Dust: A Hidden Air Pollution Threat

2025-07-24
EV Brake Dust: A Hidden Air Pollution Threat

A new study reveals that while electric vehicles (EVs) produce significantly less brake dust than gasoline cars thanks to regenerative braking, it's still a substantial source of air pollution. Brake dust, containing metals like iron, copper, and zinc, is harmful to human health. The study found that up to 55% of non-exhaust traffic-related PM10 in cities comes from brake wear. Although EVs have slightly higher tire wear, brake dust is more likely to become airborne. Improving air quality requires not only promoting EVs but also addressing non-exhaust pollution sources and encouraging public transport, cycling, and walking.

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(modernengineeringmarvels.com)
Tech Brake Dust

Ambermoon Advanced: A Massive RPG Expansion Released in Episodes

2025-03-31
Ambermoon Advanced: A Massive RPG Expansion Released in Episodes

Indie developer Pyrdacor is releasing Ambermoon Advanced, an unofficial expansion for the RPG Ambermoon, in episodic installments. Five episodes are planned, with the first three currently available, featuring content like "Mysteries of the Sea" and "Elemental Creatures." The game runs on Amiga and modern systems, though the Amiga version is still under development. The developer notes that the game is a work in progress and may contain bugs and imbalances. A physical manual is also planned, containing game information and Ambermoon lore.

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(github.com)
Game Game Expansion

TikTok Ban Takes Effect: Data Shows Sharp Traffic Drop, Shift to Alternatives

2025-01-19
TikTok Ban Takes Effect: Data Shows Sharp Traffic Drop, Shift to Alternatives

The US TikTok ban went into effect on January 19, 2025. Cloudflare data reveals a significant impact after 03:30 UTC, with DNS traffic to TikTok-related domains plummeting by as much as 85%, and traffic from ByteDance's network dropping by 95%. Concurrently, alternatives like RedNote (Xiaohongshu) saw a massive surge in traffic, with a 74% increase in the US and a staggering 500% increase in Mexico. This highlights US national security concerns and the rapid user adaptation to alternative platforms.

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(blog.cloudflare.com)
Tech Traffic Data

The Enigma of HMAS Sydney's Disappearance

2025-02-23
The Enigma of HMAS Sydney's Disappearance

The loss of HMAS Sydney (II), a pride of the Australian navy, in late 1941 off Western Australia remains a mystery. After a Mediterranean tour, it encountered a ship claiming to be a Dutch freighter, which was actually the German raider HSK Kormoran. The ensuing battle resulted in the disappearance of HMAS Sydney and all hands, a tragic event that continues to puzzle historians and naval enthusiasts.

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(archaeology.org)
Misc naval history wartime mystery HMAS Sydney

Salesforce Halts Software Engineer Hiring in 2025 Thanks to AI Productivity Boost

2025-01-08
Salesforce Halts Software Engineer Hiring in 2025 Thanks to AI Productivity Boost

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced that the company will not hire any more software engineers in 2025 due to significant productivity gains from its AI product, Agentforce, exceeding 30%. While Salesforce anticipates growth, the focus shifts to Agentforce, with plans to increase sales staff to promote the AI's value. This decision comes after recent years of layoffs, following earlier mass redundancies attributed to over-hiring during the pandemic.

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(www.salesforceben.com)
Tech

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)
Tech German railway

Mistral CEO: Nations Must Build Their Own AI Infrastructure to Avoid Economic Dependence

2025-03-24
Mistral CEO: Nations Must Build Their Own AI Infrastructure to Avoid Economic Dependence

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch argues that AI will have a double-digit impact on every country's GDP in the coming years. He urges nations to build independent AI systems to avoid economic dependence on others, likening it to the importance of building electricity factories a century ago. He sees AI not just as technology, but as a vehicle for cultural and societal values, requiring greater involvement. Mistral, a rapidly growing European AI company, is focused on developing open-source large language models, competing with companies like OpenAI, and boasts faster model speeds. Mensch is a strong advocate for open-source, believing it accelerates AI development, a principle that guided Mistral's creation.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
Tech economic dependence

Google AI Killed Me (and Then Brought Me Back to Life)

2025-07-20
Google AI Killed Me (and Then Brought Me Back to Life)

Author Dave Barry discovered Google AI had marked him as deceased and incorrectly identified him as a political activist from Dorchester. Despite repeated corrections, the AI system wavered, declaring him dead and alive multiple times. This humorous account highlights AI's limitations and inaccuracies in handling factual information, prompting reflection on the reliability of AI technology.

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(davebarry.substack.com)
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Treasury Department Access Investigation: The Marko Elez Case

2025-02-13
Treasury Department Access Investigation: The Marko Elez Case

New court documents detail the actions of 25-year-old Marko Elez, a DOGE employee, within Treasury Department payment systems. The documents extensively describe the systems Elez accessed, security precautions implemented to limit his access, and the changes he made. Contrary to prior government statements, Elez briefly held write access to a sensitive database, granted in error for a single day. No evidence suggests he altered data. The incident spurred questions about DOGE employee access, leading to a lawsuit seeking to restrict their access to Treasury systems.

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(www.zetter-zeroday.com)
Tech

Java 8 Collection Utilities: A RingBuffer Implementation

2025-02-05
Java 8 Collection Utilities: A RingBuffer Implementation

j8cu is a Java 8 collection utility library featuring a high-performance RingBuffer implementation. This RingBuffer supports ordered and unordered read modes; the ordered mode is FIFO, ideal for maintaining a buffer of the most recent N objects. Additional features include event listeners, bulk copying, and clearing/resetting capabilities, simplifying RingBuffer usage in Java 8.

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(github.com)
Development RingBuffer Collection Utilities

AI: The Coming Fragmentation of Software Engineering

2025-03-30

The author's wife uses Lovable, an AI tool, to build a social platform. While efficient, the AI frequently gets stuck, requiring human intervention. This observation leads the author to predict a future where software engineering is fragmented: a large pool of low-skilled 'AI prompters' supported by a smaller number of highly skilled specialists who resolve issues and optimize performance. AGI, the author argues, is overhyped; the reality is an AI-assisted development model where AI handles routine tasks, but complex problem-solving and architecture remain crucial human roles. This shift will result in fewer software engineering jobs, but survivors will ascend to higher-level positions requiring stronger architectural design skills and leadership. The future is bright for the adaptable, bleak for the complacent.

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(verdikapuku.com)
Development

GPT-4.5: Hype Train Derailed?

2025-02-28
GPT-4.5: Hype Train Derailed?

The recent release of GPT-4.5 has failed to deliver the revolutionary breakthroughs promised, fueling skepticism about the AI development model that relies solely on scaling up model size. Compared to expectations, GPT-4.5 shows only marginal improvements, still suffering from hallucinations and errors. Some AI experts have even lowered their predictions for the arrival of AGI. This contrasts sharply with the previously overly optimistic expectations for GPT-5 and reflects the lack of commensurate returns on massive investment. Nvidia's falling stock price further underscores this point. The article concludes that the path of simply scaling models may be nearing its limit.

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(garymarcus.substack.com)
AI AI Development Bottleneck

I Couldn't Submit a PR, So I Got Hired and Fixed It Myself

2025-08-01
I Couldn't Submit a PR, So I Got Hired and Fixed It Myself

For over a year, a race condition in Mintlify's search caused wonky results. As the founder of Trieve, the company powering their search, I tried submitting a PR to fix it but failed. Finally joining Mintlify, I added an AbortController to the debounced search function, solving the issue and making search results consistently relevant. This experience highlighted the power of open source and the satisfaction of directly fixing a persistent problem.

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(www.skeptrune.com)
Development

DeepSeek R1 Brings AI to the Edge on Copilot+ PCs

2025-02-01
DeepSeek R1 Brings AI to the Edge on Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft is bringing the power of AI to the edge with DeepSeek R1, now optimized for Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon and Intel Core Ultra processors. Leveraging the Neural Processing Unit (NPU), DeepSeek R1 runs efficiently on-device, enabling faster response times and lower power consumption. Developers can easily integrate the model using the AI Toolkit to build native AI applications. This initial release of DeepSeek R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B, along with upcoming 7B and 14B variants, showcases the potential of edge AI for efficient inference and continuously running services.

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(blogs.windows.com)
AI Edge AI

Learn Japanese Grammar with TypeScript: Introducing Typed Japanese

2025-03-29
Learn Japanese Grammar with TypeScript: Introducing Typed Japanese

Typed Japanese is a TypeScript type-level library that allows you to express complete Japanese sentences using the type system. It creates a domain-specific language (DSL) based on Japanese grammar rules, enabling the writing and verification of grammatically correct natural language using TypeScript's compiler. The project also explores an intermediate format for AI in language learning, potentially replacing JSON with a type-checked representation for improved accuracy. It supports various verb and adjective conjugations, phrase and sentence construction, aiming to create a type system for learning and verifying Japanese grammar. While still in early stages and relying on LLM-generated rules, it offers a unique approach to language learning and grammar verification.

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(github.com)
Development Japanese Language Learning

Musl's Default Allocator: A 7x Performance Nightmare!

2025-09-08
Musl's Default Allocator: A 7x Performance Nightmare!

A real-world benchmark revealed a shocking 7x slowdown using Musl's default allocator compared to alternatives. The author strongly recommends all Rust projects immediately switch to a different allocator like mimalloc or jemalloc by adding a few lines of code to their `main.rs`. The root cause is thread contention during memory allocation, worsening with more threads or allocations. Switching is advised even if not targeting Musl or for single-threaded programs. The author explains the reasons for using Musl (cross-compilation and static executables) and details the discovery process. Numerous other projects have encountered this issue, with benchmarks on various core counts showing slowdowns up to 700x! The author concludes by urging a switch to a more performant allocator.

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(nickb.dev)
Development Memory Allocator
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