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Google Cuts Code Migration Time in Half with AI

2025-01-16
Google Cuts Code Migration Time in Half with AI

Google reports using its AI tools to halve the time required for code migrations. This involved projects like migrating 32-bit IDs to 64-bit IDs in the Google Ads codebase, upgrading JUnit testing libraries, and replacing the Joda time library. While human review is still necessary, the AI significantly sped up the process, reducing what would have taken hundreds of engineering years to just months. Google emphasizes the AI should be used in conjunction with traditional methods for optimal efficiency and cost management.

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(www.theregister.com)
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LA's Unreal and Disneyland's Disillusionment: Reflections on a Family Trip

2025-02-15
LA's Unreal and Disneyland's Disillusionment: Reflections on a Family Trip

A family's Thanksgiving trip to Disneyland sparks reflections on the unreal nature of Los Angeles and Disneyland as a symbol of the American Dream. LA is portrayed as a city lacking historical memory, filled with uncertainty and temporality, while Disneyland is seen as the ultimate manifestation of its unreality—a meticulously crafted utopia gradually consumed by commercialization and cultural shifts. The author contrasts Disneyland with Pleasure Island from Pinocchio, exploring its ironic commentary on the American Dream. Ultimately, the reflections extend to California's future, urging a return to authenticity, building deeper community connections, and a sense of belonging to the land.

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(fiddlersgreene.substack.com)
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Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0: High-Resolution 3D Asset Generation

2025-01-21
Tencent's Hunyuan3D 2.0: High-Resolution 3D Asset Generation

Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, a cutting-edge large-scale 3D synthesis system generating high-resolution textured 3D assets. Comprising two core components – the Hunyuan3D-DiT shape generation model and the Hunyuan3D-Paint texture synthesis model – it surpasses existing state-of-the-art models in geometry detail, condition alignment, and texture quality. A user-friendly platform, Hunyuan3D-Studio, simplifies manipulation and animation. Inference code and pre-trained models are now open-sourced, accessible via Hugging Face and the official website.

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(github.com)
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Nix@NGI: Streamlining Open Source Software

2025-01-24
Nix@NGI: Streamlining Open Source Software

The Nix@NGI team is on a mission to make running open-source software easier, both now and in the long term. Partnering with the NGI Zero consortium, they aim to integrate over 1200 NLnet-funded projects into the Nix ecosystem. The team boasts a diverse skillset, encompassing management, operations, development, and maintenance, and actively welcomes volunteers and trainees. Their work benefits NixOS contributors and enhances open-source accessibility. Future plans include improving tools, processes, and user experience, further propelling open-source software development.

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Global PC Performance Drops for the First Time: PassMark Data Reveals Unexpected Trend

2025-02-11
Global PC Performance Drops for the First Time: PassMark Data Reveals Unexpected Trend

PassMark's latest data reveals a surprising downturn: for the first time ever, the average global PC processor performance has dropped, breaking a long-standing trend of yearly increases. Laptop performance fell by 3.4%, while desktop performance saw a 0.5% decrease. Despite recent releases from AMD and Intel, actual performance gains have been minimal, falling short of expectations. PassMark speculates that factors such as users switching to more affordable machines, Windows 11 performance issues, and bloatware could be contributing to this unexpected decline. However, the exact cause remains undetermined, and future data may show changes.

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(www.tomshardware.com)
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Stratoshark: Extending Wireshark to the Cloud

2025-01-22

Stratoshark is an open-source tool bringing the power of Wireshark's network analysis capabilities to cloud environments. It captures system calls and log activity, offering advanced features for troubleshooting and analysis. Sharing the dissection engine and much of the UI with Wireshark, and supporting the same file format as Falco and Sysdig CLI, Stratoshark allows seamless workflow between tools. Available for Windows, macOS, and via source code, it provides an unprecedented view into application activity in your cloud.

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(stratoshark.org)
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Linux 6.14 Brings Much Faster Suspend/Resume Times

2025-01-26

Linux kernel 6.14 boasts significantly faster suspend and resume times for some systems thanks to an ACPI update. The change replaces msleep() with usleep_range() in acpi_os_sleep(), reducing spurious delays caused by timer inaccuracies. Testing shows dramatic improvements, with some Dell XPS laptops seeing suspend/resume times drop from 8 seconds to around 1 second. This optimization is particularly beneficial for systems relying on short sleep times, such as those using tight loops with ASL Sleep(5ms).

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(www.phoronix.com)
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Apache Cloudberry: Open-Source MPP Database, a Greenplum Alternative

2024-12-21
Apache Cloudberry: Open-Source MPP Database, a Greenplum Alternative

Apache Cloudberry, built by the original Greenplum Database developers, is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database. It features a newer PostgreSQL kernel and enhanced enterprise capabilities, serving as a data warehouse and supporting large-scale analytics and AI/ML workloads. Users can build from source or utilize a Docker-based sandbox for quick trials. A vibrant community provides support and encourages contributions ranging from code improvements to documentation enhancements.

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C3: A Refined Evolution of the C Programming Language

2025-04-03
C3: A Refined Evolution of the C Programming Language

C3 is a programming language built upon the syntax and semantics of C, aiming to evolve it while maintaining familiarity for C programmers. It's an evolution, not a revolution: C-like for those who like C. Full ABI compatibility with C allows seamless mixing of C and C3 code. C3 introduces modern conveniences such as generics, result-based zero-overhead error handling, and defer statements, while avoiding unnecessary complexity. Version 0.7.0 is stable and supports various operating systems with pre-compiled binaries and comprehensive documentation available.

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(github.com)
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Don't Use SQLite in Production!

2025-02-18
Don't Use SQLite in Production!

Terreateam shares their experiences using Fly.io and SQLite. While Fly.io heavily promotes server-side SQLite, the author argues against using it as a primary data store in production unless there's a compelling reason. This adds complexity with backups, high availability configurations (like LiteFS and Consul), and migration to other databases (like PostgreSQL) becomes challenging. The post uses the Atlantis project as an example, highlighting the high-availability challenges of using database-as-a-library solutions (like BoltDB and SQLite), ultimately recommending a traditional database architecture for production unless there's a very clear need to diverge for better scalability and reliability.

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(pid1.dev)
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In-Utero Treatment Shows Promise for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

2025-02-20
In-Utero Treatment Shows Promise for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl is thriving, showing no signs of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a devastating genetic disease, after receiving in-utero treatment with the drug Risdiplam. This groundbreaking study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, marks a significant advancement. The drug, administered to the mother during late pregnancy and continued after birth, boosts production of the SMN protein crucial for motor neuron survival. This approach offers a potential game-changer for SMA, a leading genetic cause of infant mortality, as previous treatments began only after birth.

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Tech Spinal Muscular Atrophy Gene Therapy In-Utero Treatment

Monster Cable's Cease and Desist Backfires Spectacularly

2025-03-22
Monster Cable's Cease and Desist Backfires Spectacularly

High-end audio cable manufacturer Monster Cable sent a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging infringement. However, Blue Jeans Cable's president, Kurt Denke, a former litigator, responded with a forceful rebuttal. Denke's response highlighted the lack of evidence supporting Monster Cable's claims and declared his extensive litigation experience. He stated he would only comply with a court order finding infringement, otherwise he would defend himself vigorously. He further accused Monster Cable of employing a pattern of 'shakedown' tactics. This event has drawn industry attention and emphasizes the importance of evidence in intellectual property litigation.

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(www.oncontracts.com)
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arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-03-30
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who adhere to them. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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(arxiv.org)
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Qualcomm Extends Android Software Updates to Eight Years

2025-02-25
Qualcomm Extends Android Software Updates to Eight Years

Qualcomm announced a partnership with Google to provide up to eight years of Android software and security updates for devices powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite and the next five generations of Snapdragon 8 and 7-series chips. This will enable OEMs to more easily provide longer-term updates for their devices, reducing costs and improving user experience. While ultimate update decisions rest with manufacturers, this initiative promotes longer device lifespans, starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite phones launching with Android 15.

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(9to5google.com)
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Netflix's Deep Downscaler: A Critical Look

2025-03-01

Netflix recently published a blog post about their "deep downscaler," claiming it uses neural networks to improve video quality. However, a blogger has sharply criticized the technology. The blogger points out severe flaws in the example image provided by Netflix, including ringing artifacts, bizarre color shifts, and seemingly fake "detail." Furthermore, the training process minimizes mean squared error while ignoring the effects of lossy compression, leading to suboptimal results. The blogger argues that Netflix's deep downscaler suffers from over-reliance on metrics while neglecting crucial human visual assessment and that simpler, more efficient solutions exist.

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(redvice.org)
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GM Forces Dealer to Halt Aftermarket CarPlay/Android Auto Kit for Ultium EVs

2025-03-24
GM Forces Dealer to Halt Aftermarket CarPlay/Android Auto Kit for Ultium EVs

General Motors (GM) forced a dealer to discontinue an aftermarket kit that restored Apple CarPlay and Android Auto phone mirroring in its Ultium electric vehicles. This follows GM's decision in December 2023 to remove CarPlay and Android Auto support from Ultium EVs, opting for its own in-vehicle infotainment systems in future models. While the kit's manufacturer, WAMS, claims rigorous testing, GM's action sparked industry criticism, as a study showed nearly half of car buyers wouldn't purchase vehicles lacking CarPlay or Android Auto. GM is effectively pushing dealers towards its built-in systems, leaving little alternative.

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(news.dealershipguy.com)
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Basketball's Data-Driven Revolution: From All-Arounders to Specialists

2025-02-15

Basketball is undergoing a data-driven revolution. Decision-making has shifted from intuition to precise data analysis, transforming the game from a reliance on points, assists, and rebounds to leveraging thousands of data points to optimize every aspect. The three-point shot reigns supreme, and the '3-and-D' player (three-point shooting and defense) is highly sought after. Technology, including motion capture and analytics systems, allows coaches to meticulously analyze player movement, maximizing possession efficiency. While this data-driven approach has made the game more predictable, it raises questions about the future of basketball.

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(nabraj.com)
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postmarketOS February 2025 Update: New Name, Audio Support, and More

2025-03-04
postmarketOS February 2025 Update: New Name, Audio Support, and More

February 2025 saw significant progress for the postmarketOS project. A name change is underway, with community input being sought. MSM89x7 audio support improved, and more Xiaomi devices joined community support. Security audits were completed, and infrastructure improvements, including backup and CI systems, were implemented. Numerous kernel updates and package upgrades were released, enhancing stability and performance.

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(postmarketos.org)
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38th Chaos Communication Congress: Technology, Society, and Utopia Converge

2024-12-24

The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) will take place in Hamburg from December 27-30, 2024. This annual four-day conference, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and volunteers, explores the intersection of technology, society, and utopia. The event features lectures, workshops, and various events on topics including information technology and a critical-creative approach to technology's societal impact. Participation is encouraged through volunteering, organizing events, and presenting projects, fostering a collaborative exploration of technology's future.

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Run DeepSeek R1 LLM Locally with Ollama

2025-01-29
Run DeepSeek R1 LLM Locally with Ollama

DeepSeek R1, an open-source LLM excelling in conversational AI, coding, and problem-solving, can now be run locally. This guide details using Ollama, a platform simplifying LLM deployment, to run DeepSeek R1 on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It covers installing Ollama, pulling the DeepSeek R1 model (including smaller, distilled variants), and interacting with the model via the command line. Local execution ensures data privacy and faster responses. The article also explores practical tips, including command-line automation and IDE integration, and discusses the benefits of distilled models for users with less powerful hardware.

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(workos.com)
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Building an LLM from Scratch: A Deep Dive into Dropout

2025-03-20
Building an LLM from Scratch: A Deep Dive into Dropout

This post documents the author's journey through the dropout chapter of Sebastian Raschka's "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". Dropout is a regularization technique that prevents overfitting by randomly ignoring some neurons or weights during training, thus spreading knowledge more broadly across the model. The author details the implementation of dropout and explores nuances of its application in LLMs, such as applying dropout to attention weights or value vectors, and rebalancing the resulting matrix. The post also touches upon practical dropout rate choices and the challenges of handling higher-order tensors for batch processing, setting the stage for further learning.

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(www.gilesthomas.com)
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Small but Mighty: Redefining Success in the Software Industry

2025-02-18

This article explores how small software companies can thrive against tech giants. The author highlights examples like SQLite, Hwaci, Pinboard, Tarsnap, Sublime Text, and Zig, showcasing their success despite their small size. These companies prioritize high-quality products, unique business models, and customer focus for long-term sustainability. They reject Silicon Valley's 'grow or die' mentality, opting for a more sustainable and fulfilling definition of success. Their human-centric approach fosters strong customer relationships. The author argues that this 'small but mighty' model isn't about lacking ambition, but choosing a different path to success.

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(www.scattered-thoughts.net)
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Svelte 5 Migration: Performance Gains, Cognitive Overhead

2025-02-18
Svelte 5 Migration: Performance Gains, Cognitive Overhead

Upgrading a web application to Svelte 5 led to unexpected issues. Svelte 5's performance improvements, driven by "deep reactivity," introduce proxies and implicit component lifecycle state. While seemingly simpler, this adds abstractions, requiring developers to manage complex heuristics. Proxies aren't objects, and components aren't functions. The author details problems with proxies and callbacks, such as `DataCloneError` and props becoming undefined after component unmounting. Svelte 5 sacrifices developer agency, increasing cognitive load, leading the author to abandon it for new projects. The conclusion emphasizes choosing tools that leverage existing knowledge and promote understanding over cleverness.

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(hodlbod.npub.pro)
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Terraform Docker Provider: Handling Image Attribute Changes Gracefully

2025-03-27

When managing Docker containers with Terraform, the Docker provider transforms the `image` attribute into a SHA digest. This leads to subsequent Terraform refreshes incorrectly detecting image changes and forcing container rebuilds. Simply using `lifecycle { ignore_changes = [image] }` masks actual image changes, creating a potential risk. This article presents a solution: leverage a `null_resource` as a trigger. When the `image` attribute changes, the `null_resource` rebuilds, indirectly triggering a container rebuild, ensuring image updates while avoiding unnecessary container recreation.

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(blog.mattsbit.co.uk)
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From SQL Server to Key-Value Stores: A Postmortem of a Database Rewrite Gone Wrong

2025-06-15

A senior developer recounts their experience with a database rewrite at a previous company. The original system, using SQL Server, suffered from performance bottlenecks and frequent outages due to complex stored procedures. The rewrite opted for simple key-value stores, but due to data model mismatch and lack of transaction support, I/O operations skyrocketed, performance worsened, and a complex checkpointing system was introduced. The rewrite ultimately failed to solve the original problems and created new challenges. This humorous account reflects on the importance of technology selection and architectural design, and the negative impact of oversimplification.

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(www.luu.io)
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Control Your Roku with Hand Gestures: A Python and MediaPipe Project

2025-01-03
Control Your Roku with Hand Gestures: A Python and MediaPipe Project

HandiRokuRemote lets you control your Roku using hand gestures! This Python project uses Google's MediaPipe for real-time hand tracking, translating gestures into commands sent to your Roku via its External Control Protocol (ECP). The intuitive interface features automatic device discovery, customizable settings (debug mode, auto-start, skeleton view), and a range of supported gestures for navigation and media control. While current limitations exist regarding hand detection distance, future development aims to expand compatibility to other smart TVs and HDMI-CEC enabled devices.

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(github.com)
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Predictable Crowd Behavior: Insights from Pamplona's Running of the Bulls

2025-02-16
Predictable Crowd Behavior: Insights from Pamplona's Running of the Bulls

A study published in Nature reveals that the collective movement of large crowds becomes predictable above a certain density. Researchers tracked approximately 5,000 people at Spain's San Fermín festival for four years, using cameras and a mathematical model. They found that at a density of 9 people per square meter, the crowd spontaneously oscillated like a fluid with an 18-second period. This predictable behavior, also observed in data from the 2010 Duisburg Love Parade tragedy, offers valuable insights for anticipating and mitigating dangerous crowd dynamics in confined spaces.

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(phys.org)
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Apache Iceberg: A Reliable Table Format for Big Data Analytics

2025-01-26

Apache Iceberg is a high-performance format for massive analytic tables. It allows engines like Spark, Trino, Flink, and more to safely work with the same tables concurrently. Iceberg supports flexible SQL commands for merging data, updating rows, and targeted deletes, optimizing read and write performance through data file rewriting or delta updates. Furthermore, it offers hidden partitioning, time travel, and rollback capabilities for efficient querying and data management.

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(iceberg.apache.org)
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Mozilla's Privacy Policy Update: A Trust Crisis and Waterfox's Response

2025-02-28
Mozilla's Privacy Policy Update: A Trust Crisis and Waterfox's Response

Mozilla's recent privacy policy updates sparked controversy, with poor communication fueling user privacy concerns. Waterfox, a Firefox fork, maintains a transparent and stable privacy policy, emphasizing its formal governance structure and accountability mechanisms, differentiating itself from other open-source browser projects lacking accountability. The author argues that clear governance and transparent policies are crucial for building user trust in security-critical software like browsers, giving Waterfox a unique position in the market.

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(www.waterfox.net)
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