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The Million-Dollar Kickstarter Spoon Scam?

2025-03-16

The Million-Dollar Kickstarter Spoon Scam?

A Kickstarter campaign for Polygons, innovative origami measuring spoons, raised over $1 million in 2016, promising delivery by 2017. Years later, over a third of backers haven't received their spoons, sparking fraud accusations. Designer Rahul Agarwal acknowledges delays, insists it's not a scam, and projects delivery completion in 2025. This highlights the risks of crowdfunding and the importance of investor caution.

(arstechnica.com)

Misc

Ship: A Feedback Management Tool for Building Better Products

2025-03-16

Ship: A Feedback Management Tool for Building Better Products

Ship is a new tool designed to streamline the process of collecting, prioritizing, and acting on user feedback. Users can submit feature requests and ideas in one central location. Developers can then rank requests based on votes and impact, simplifying decision-making. Finally, Ship allows developers to keep users updated on progress, turning feedback into tangible product improvements.

(usefeedlyst.com)

Development user feedback feature requests

Tonari: The Evolution of Connection, Rebuilding the Human Future

2025-03-16

Tonari: The Evolution of Connection, Rebuilding the Human Future

Humans are built for connection, yet we struggle with long-distance relationships, phone addiction, and poor video calls. Will we wither and be replaced by AI, or will we evolve? For millennia, we've grown from tribes to a global civilization, thanks to our unique capacity for connection, empathy, trust, and teamwork. We build families, teams, and communities, and tell stories that shape societies. Connection is humanity's cornerstone, the power to create the future together. Tonari is the evolution of communication, designed to foster genuine emotional connection, building a more empathetic global society to achieve our greatest aspirations and overcome shared challenges.

(tonari.no)

Misc human connection emotional communication future technology

A Fictitious Prince and European Prejudice: A Masterclass in Self-Promotion

2025-03-16

A Fictitious Prince and European Prejudice: A Masterclass in Self-Promotion

In the 1890s, Calfa, an Armenian, masterfully leveraged European media coverage of Sultan Abdul Hamid II's persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire to craft a narrative of himself as a deposed prince in Paris. He skillfully played into existing European stereotypes of an 'oppressed Christian prince' and anti-Muslim sentiment, presenting himself as a dethroned ruler to garner sympathy, support, and credibility. This allowed him to sustain his fabricated identity for an extended period. Calfa's story highlights the interplay between information manipulation and societal biases in achieving personal goals.

(publicdomainreview.org)

Misc political manipulation media strategy

Chan Chan: Unraveling the Mysteries of a Lost Andean City

2025-03-16

Chan Chan: Unraveling the Mysteries of a Lost Andean City

This article explores the rise and fall of Chan Chan, the capital city of the Chimú civilization in northern Peru. Built in the arid Moche Valley, Chan Chan, through remarkable irrigation engineering, became one of the largest urban centers in the Americas. Its unique architecture reflects a rigid social hierarchy. Recent archaeological discoveries reveal a far more complex social structure than previously understood, encompassing diverse elites and immigrants from various regions, not just artisans. The article also details the extensive child sacrifice rituals practiced by the Chimú, which were highly organized state-level ceremonies, not random events, serving to solidify power and maintain social order. Excavations at Chan Chan and surrounding areas continuously reshape our understanding of the Chimú, revealing a dynamic and complex ancient society.

(archaeology.org)

Tech Chimú Civilization Chan Chan Ancient City

DiceDB Benchmarks: Outperforming Redis?

2025-03-16

DiceDB Benchmarks: Outperforming Redis?

Benchmarks on a Hetzner CCX23 machine (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM) with `num_clients = 4` show DiceDB outperforming Redis in both throughput and GET/SET latency. DiceDB achieved 15655 ops/sec throughput compared to Redis's 12267 ops/sec. DiceDB also exhibited lower p50 and p90 latencies for both GET and SET operations. See the link for detailed benchmark numbers and reproduction instructions.

(dicedb.io)

Tech

Medusa Ransomware: Triple Extortion and Exploding Infections

2025-03-16

Medusa Ransomware: Triple Extortion and Exploding Infections

A joint advisory from the FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC warns of the escalating threat of Medusa ransomware, a RaaS operation exploiting vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-1709 and CVE-2023-48788, and phishing campaigns. Medusa employs a double extortion tactic, now evolving into a 'triple extortion' scheme where attackers demand further payments after receiving the initial ransom. Victims span critical infrastructure sectors, including healthcare, education, and legal, with at least 300 infections in the first two months of 2025. The advisory recommends multi-factor authentication, prompt patching, and other security measures to mitigate the risk.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech

Deep Dive into Intel Battlemage's Ray Tracing Performance

2025-03-16

Deep Dive into Intel Battlemage's Ray Tracing Performance

This article delves into the ray tracing performance of Intel's Arc B580 GPU under the Battlemage architecture. Analyzing Cyberpunk 2077's path tracing and 3DMark Port Royal benchmark, it reveals improvements in Battlemage's Ray Tracing Accelerator (RTA), including a tripled ray traversal pipeline, doubled triangle intersection test rate, and a 16KB BVH cache. While high occupancy in Cyberpunk 2077's path tracing didn't translate to high execution unit utilization, the improved cache and architecture excelled in Port Royal. The article concludes that Battlemage shows significant ray tracing advancements, but the memory subsystem remains a performance bottleneck.

(chipsandcheese.com)

Hardware

Male Blue-Lined Octopus Uses Venom to Conquer Mates

2025-03-16

Male Blue-Lined Octopus Uses Venom to Conquer Mates

A groundbreaking study reveals a unique mating strategy in the blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata): males inject females with tetrodotoxin during mating, temporarily paralyzing them to avoid being cannibalized. This differs from other species' use of venom for hunting or defense; it's a unique reproductive application. Researchers observed males precisely biting near the females' aorta to inject the venom. While deadly to most animals, females have evolved resistance, ensuring successful mating. Male venom glands are significantly larger, suggesting a need to overcome female resistance. This study highlights an evolutionary arms race between sexes for reproductive success.

(www.newscientist.com)

Tech octopus venom mating

Recreating Photoshop: A Developer's Summer Project from 2006

2025-03-16

Recreating Photoshop: A Developer's Summer Project from 2006

In the summer of 2006, a developer, aiming to improve his manga reading experience, created a manga reader named Fiew using C++ and the Windows API. Driven by ambition, he then tackled the formidable task of recreating core Photoshop functionality, resulting in the image editor, Fedit. Fedit adhered to principles of zero installation and a single executable file, and meticulously replicated Photoshop's interface and features, including floating tool windows, a color picker, and layer management. Months of development, overcoming numerous technical hurdles, culminated in a successful thesis, a software engineering job, and the open-sourcing of Fedit's code and documentation.

(f055.net)

Development Image Editor

General Fusion Achieves Global First: Steam-Driven Plasma in Fusion Reactor

2025-03-16

General Fusion Achieves Global First: Steam-Driven Plasma in Fusion Reactor

General Fusion, a Canadian fusion energy company, has achieved a world-first: generating plasma in a reactor driven by steam. This milestone was reached in their Lawson Machine 26 (LM26) prototype reactor, using magnetized target fusion (MTF), a technology employing steam-powered pistons to compress plasma instead of lasers. After 23 years of dedicated research, this breakthrough represents a significant step, although commercial power generation remains a future goal. The achievement offers promising advancements in clean energy technology.

(interestingengineering.com)

Tech

Florida's Elderly Face Medicaid Cuts: A Looming Crisis

2025-03-16

Florida's Elderly Face Medicaid Cuts: A Looming Crisis

Proposed spending cuts in Washington, D.C., threaten Florida's nursing home residents who heavily rely on Medicaid for care. Medicaid is the primary payer for nursing home care in Florida, crucial for two-thirds of residents to afford daily assistance. Potential cuts could lead to nursing home closures, job losses for caregivers, and increased burdens on families. The average annual cost of nursing home care in Florida is between $104,000 and $117,000, making Medicaid essential for most. The uncertainty surrounding the extent of these cuts has Florida's elder-care advocates deeply concerned about the future of senior care in the state.

(www.tampabay.com)

Misc Medicaid cuts Elder care Nursing homes

Toni Morrison's Forgotten Play: The Untold Story of 'Dreaming Emmett'

2025-03-16

Toni Morrison's Forgotten Play: The Untold Story of 'Dreaming Emmett'

This article unveils the untold story of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's little-known debut play, 'Dreaming Emmett.' Based on the murder of Emmett Till, the play explores the collision of race, gender, and history. Despite its initial box office success, the play vanished from the public eye. The article delves into its creation, Morrison's struggles, and its surprising influence on her celebrated novel, 'Beloved.'

(www.vulture.com)

Misc Toni Morrison Play Emmett Till

Debugging a Full-Viewport HTML Dialog Modal

2025-03-16

Debugging a Full-Viewport HTML Dialog Modal

The author encountered a height issue while using the HTML `` element to create a side panel: a gap appeared at the bottom, preventing it from taking up the full screen height. The debugging process involved various methods, including consulting AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. The culprit was a default Chrome style applied to the `` element: `max-height: calc(100% - 2em - 6px);`. Adding `max-height: inherit` or `max-height: 100vh` resolved the problem. Further investigation into the HTML specification revealed this default style was added to fix a previous bug, highlighting the ever-evolving nature of web standards.

(til.simonwillison.net)

Development

The Vanishing Web and the Promise of LLMs

2025-03-16

The internet is slowly forgetting: every year, a significant portion of web pages disappears forever. The Internet Archive (IA) stands as a crucial guardian of this digital memory, yet its survival faces increasing challenges. The author argues that while preserving everything is economically infeasible, the powerful information compression capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), despite inaccuracies, are better than complete loss. Models like DeepSeek V3 already offer a compressed view of the internet. We should support institutions like IA and ensure that publicly released LLM weights are not lost, and that IA is included in LLM pre-training datasets.

(antirez.com)

Tech information preservation

Docs: Open-Source Collaborative Document Editor Takes on Notion

2025-03-16

Docs: Open-Source Collaborative Document Editor Takes on Notion

Docs is an open-source collaborative document editor designed to simplify knowledge creation and sharing. It features offline editing, clean formatting, AI-powered actions (generate, summarize, correct, translate), real-time collaboration, and granular access control. Docs is easy to install and scale, offering multiple document export formats. Led by the French and German governments, this multilingual project is under active development and plans to incorporate wiki functionality.

(github.com)

Development collaborative editor

The End of the Golden Age: Software Engineering in a Post-Boom Tech World

2025-03-16

For a decade, software engineering was a dream job: high salaries, great perks, and rock-solid job security. But the past two years have seen massive layoffs across the tech industry, shifting the landscape dramatically. This article argues that the shift stems from a change in economic conditions. Low interest rates fueled lavish spending and generous engineer compensation, but rising rates have prioritized profitability, leading to widespread cuts. While AI is often blamed, the author contends it's not the root cause. The new reality demands a focus on directly contributing to company goals; failure to adapt risks job security. While the pampered days are over, a focus on delivering value offers a clearer, if less glamorous, path to success.

(www.seangoedecke.com)

Tech Tech Industry Software Engineers

40-Year-Old Conjecture on Hash Tables Shattered

2025-03-16

40-Year-Old Conjecture on Hash Tables Shattered

For four decades, computer scientists have accepted Andrew Yao's 1985 conjecture on the efficiency of hash table lookups. However, Krapivin and his team have developed a novel hash table that dramatically outperforms Yao's worst-case bound. Their new algorithm achieves a far faster query and insertion time, and surprisingly, the average query time is a constant, irrespective of the table's fullness. This groundbreaking result not only refutes a long-held belief but also opens new avenues for hash table optimization.

(www.wired.com)

Development

Lago: Open-Source Monetization Platform Hiring Backend Engineers

2025-03-16

Lago, an open-source platform (7k+ GitHub stars), helps engineers build better monetization systems, including usage metering, subscription management, billing, invoicing, and payments. Used by companies like Mistral, Together, Groq, and Laravel, Lago's team previously built Qonto's (a fintech unicorn) monetization system. They're a lean team of 25 (mostly engineers) seeking backend engineers. The role offers a competitive salary ($60k-$100k), remote-friendly options, and is based in LATAM (within +/- 1 hour of NYC timezone). Their values emphasize ambition, progress, humble confidence, paying it forward, and work-life balance.

(jobs.lever.co)

Development monetization backend

Global Privacy Control (GPC): A User-Powered Solution to Web Tracking?

2025-03-16

Global Privacy Control (GPC): A User-Powered Solution to Web Tracking?

Unlike its predecessor, Do Not Track (DNT), the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal has backing from the California Attorney General and aims for alignment with the EU's GDPR, empowering users like never before. DNT's ineffectiveness stemmed from its lack of legal enforcement, but GPC changes that. It transmits users' "Do Not Sell" requests to websites, compelling compliance. With support from browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Brave, and DuckDuckGo's Privacy Browser, GPC signals a potential turning point in the fight against web tracking.

(developer.mozilla.org)

Tech web tracking

NASA: 2024 Sea Level Rise Exceeds Expectations, Climate Change a Major Culprit

2025-03-16

NASA: 2024 Sea Level Rise Exceeds Expectations, Climate Change a Major Culprit

NASA's latest analysis reveals that 2024 saw a far greater-than-expected sea level rise of 0.23 inches, surpassing the predicted 0.17 inches. This is primarily attributed to thermal expansion of ocean water due to global warming. Melting land-based ice also contributed. Interestingly, in 2024, thermal expansion accounted for two-thirds of the rise, while ice melt contributed one-third, a reversal of previous trends. The rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled since 1993, with sea levels rising at least 4 inches since then. Since 1880, sea levels have risen between 8 and 9 inches. Human-induced climate change is the primary driver of current sea level rise.

(abcnews.go.com)

Tech

MIT Students Outperform State-of-the-Art HPC Libraries with Hundreds of Lines of Code

2025-03-16

MIT Students Outperform State-of-the-Art HPC Libraries with Hundreds of Lines of Code

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL have developed Exo 2, a new programming language that allows programmers to write 'schedules' explicitly controlling how the compiler generates code, leading to significantly improved performance. Unlike existing User-Schedulable Languages (USLs), Exo 2 lets users define new scheduling operations externally to the compiler, creating reusable scheduling libraries. This enables engineers to achieve performance comparable to, or better than, state-of-the-art HPC libraries with drastically reduced code, revolutionizing efficiency in AI and machine learning applications.

(news.mit.edu)

AI

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography – A Multi-Century Legacy

2025-03-16

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography – A Multi-Century Legacy

Joseph Luzzi's 'Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography' explores the enduring impact of this 14th-century epic. From initial ecclesiastical controversies to becoming a cornerstone of Italian literature and its embrace by Romantics and Modernists (Joyce, Pound, Eliot), the journey of the *Commedia* mirrors Dante's own tumultuous life. Luzzi dissects various interpretations, like the Romantic misreading of Ulysses as a hero, and the surprising solace found in Auschwitz. He also compares Dante to Milton, highlighting their differing views on free will. Ultimately, Luzzi reveals the *Commedia* as Dante's personal reflection and exploration of faith, truth, and human self-transcendence.

(www.newstatesman.com)

Misc Dante Divine Comedy

Analog 'Tennis for Two': Building a Retro Game with Op Amps

2025-03-16

This post details the construction of a 'Tennis for Two'-like game using operational amplifiers (op amps). The author leverages op amps' integration and differentiation capabilities to simulate a bouncing ball under the influence of gravity. Clever use of diodes and comparators handles ball bounces and player input. The post thoroughly explains the circuit design, including mathematical derivations, schematics, and oscilloscope waveforms. Challenges encountered during implementation, such as using an LED for damping, are also discussed. The author successfully creates a basic 'Tennis for Two' game and outlines future improvements, such as refined controls and a scoring system.

(blog.qiqitori.com)

Development analog circuits video game op amps

D-Wave Claims Quantum Annealing Surpasses Classical Computation

2025-03-16

D-Wave Claims Quantum Annealing Surpasses Classical Computation

D-Wave is releasing a paper claiming its quantum annealer surpasses classical computation in solving the time evolution of an Ising model. Unlike Google's claims based on random quantum circuits, D-Wave focuses on quantum annealing, using its hardware to find optimal solutions to complex problems. While D-Wave has previously faced challenges to its 'beyond classical' claims, this research, focusing on Ising models rather than random circuits, may reignite the debate on quantum computing capabilities.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech quantum annealing

Become a 10x Developer in 30 Seconds with rust-stakeholder

2025-03-16

Become a 10x Developer in 30 Seconds with rust-stakeholder

Tired of actually coding? Meet rust-stakeholder, a CLI tool that generates impressive-looking, yet utterly meaningless, terminal output. Convince everyone you're a coding genius without writing a single line of useful code! Simulate development activity, generate progress bars, fake network traffic, and even create artificial crises. It's satire, of course – don't actually use this to land a job you're not qualified for!

(github.com)

Development programmer humor satire

Hyperion: The Tallest Tree's Secret and Its Protection

2025-03-16

Hyperion: The Tallest Tree's Secret and Its Protection

Hyperion, a coast redwood in California, stands as the world's tallest known living tree, measuring 116.07 meters (380.8 ft). Discovered in 2006, its exact location remained a secret until the Redwood National Park closed the area due to habitat destruction caused by excessive visitors. The park now issues hefty fines and potential jail time to those who get too close to the approximately 600-800 year old giant, highlighting the delicate balance between appreciating nature's wonders and protecting its fragile ecosystems.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Misc redwood world's tallest tree

Resurrecting a Lost Piece of Apple History: The Performa 550's Secret Recovery Partition

2025-03-16

While rescuing data from a failing hard drive in an old Apple Performa 550, the author uncovered a hidden recovery partition containing a fascinating piece of Apple's software history. This partition, designed to boot in case of system failure, allowed users to reinstall the OS. A three-year quest involving online appeals culminated in finding a pristine hard drive, revealing the partition's mechanics and leading to the sharing of its image. This compelling story highlights the thrill of tech archeology and software preservation.

(www.downtowndougbrown.com)

Tech tech archeology hard drive recovery

Bee: A $50 AI Wearable That's Both Helpful and Creepy

2025-03-16

Bee: A $50 AI Wearable That's Both Helpful and Creepy

Bee, a $50 AI wearable, promises to summarize your life, acting as an AI memory. It listens to conversations, integrates with your calendar and emails, and generates daily summaries and to-dos. However, a month-long test revealed accuracy and privacy concerns. It frequently misidentifies speakers, misinterprets context, and even fabricates facts. While developers assure privacy, the device's recording of private conversations and personal emotions is unsettling. Ultimately, the user resorted to manually muting the device to prevent excessive recording of private life.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech AI wearable

The AI Job Market Shift: Is 2025 a Career Winter?

2025-03-16

The AI Job Market Shift: Is 2025 a Career Winter?

The rapid advancement of AI, especially large language models, has created a challenging job market for many software engineers, particularly those who entered senior roles between 2010 and 2020. Traditional management skills are less valued now, replaced by a demand for meticulous detail-orientation, rapid project execution, and adaptation to the AI transition. This leaves many senior leaders feeling overwhelmed, while potential leaders skilled in technical details and rapid iteration struggle for promotion. Simultaneously, rapid AI advancements challenge established company advantages, demanding product and development process redesign. This creates immense pressure on job seekers, with reduced hiring, promotions, and slower salary growth. In short, the current job market is highly competitive, demanding more from job seekers.

(lethain.com)

Development tech transition

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