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Mako: Blazing Fast, Zero-Config Bundler Redefines Frontend Development

2025-03-09

Mako is a Rust-based frontend bundler boasting zero configuration, exceptional speed, and production-ready stability. It handles TypeScript, Less, CSS, React, and more out-of-the-box without requiring loaders or plugins. Used extensively at Ant Group and rigorously tested across thousands of projects and npm packages, Mako ensures compatibility. Features include Hot Module Replacement (HMR) with React Fast Refresh, built-in code splitting, and module concatenation for optimized performance and developer experience.

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Development frontend bundler

Your Second Brain: The Astonishing Gut-Brain Connection

2025-03-09
Your Second Brain: The Astonishing Gut-Brain Connection

The gut is far more than a digestive organ; it's intricately connected to the brain via the gut-brain axis. Through the vagus nerve and molecular signals in the bloodstream, the gut and brain are in constant communication. The gut microbiome, its neurons, and the molecules they produce influence mood, sleep, cognitive function, and even the development of Parkinson's disease. Research shows impaired gut-brain signaling in long COVID patients leads to cognitive impairment, while alterations in the gut microbiome are linked to exercise motivation and mental health. Targeting the gut microbiome or stimulating the vagus nerve holds promise for treating related diseases.

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(scopeblog.stanford.edu)
Tech gut-brain axis gut microbiome Parkinson's disease

News Overload: How Do I Process Information Effectively?

2025-03-09

The author canceled all daily newspaper subscriptions, keeping only a cooperatively-owned weekly and a French magazine. He finds that more and more online news sites have paywalls, ads, and intrusive scripts, leading him to abandon online news reading. He reflects on the changing attention economy and questions current payment models, finding per-article payments or multiple subscriptions too expensive and impractical. He considers subscribing to the Swiss digital newspaper Republik to support media diversity but struggles to process the vast amount of information effectively. The article concludes with a question about how to process news, reflecting the common dilemma of information overload.

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(alexschroeder.ch)
Misc paywalls media ecosystem

Exploiting Constraints for Significant Performance Gains: Optimizing Even Number Counting in C++

2025-03-09

This article explores optimizing the performance of counting even numbers in a uint8_t array in C++. By comparing two approaches—using `std::count_if` and a custom counting function—the author demonstrates that the custom function, leveraging the constraint that the number of even values is between 0 and 255, significantly improves performance, achieving up to a 9.5x speedup in tests. The article analyzes the assembly code generated by both methods, explaining the performance difference, and mentions a vectorization issue in specific GCC versions.

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(nicula.xyz)
Development C++ optimization vectorization

Gleam 1.9.0 Released: Improved Debugging, Dependency Management, and Performance

2025-03-09
Gleam 1.9.0 Released: Improved Debugging, Dependency Management, and Performance

Gleam, a type-safe and scalable language, has released version 1.9.0 with significant improvements. Key updates include a new `echo` keyword for enhanced debugging, support for Git repository dependencies, performance boosts for bit arrays and list pattern matching in JavaScript, and expanded language server capabilities such as go-to type definition and JSON encoder code generation. Additional improvements include enhanced HexDocs search integration, custom CA certificate support, and streamlined pipeline syntax conversion. This release is a testament to the vibrant Gleam community and its many contributors.

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Go's Error Handling: A Blessing or a Curse?

2025-03-09

Go's error handling, characterized by the ubiquitous `if err != nil` check, has sparked considerable debate. Critics find it verbose and cumbersome, while proponents argue it's a cornerstone of Go's philosophy, treating errors as first-class citizens. This article delves into the pros and cons, comparing Go's approach to exception handling in languages like JavaScript. It highlights best practices, such as creating actionable error chains using `fmt.Errorf` and leveraging libraries like `github.com/pkg/errors` for enhanced clarity and stack traces. While not without flaws, Go's explicit error handling empowers developers with full control over program flow, emphasizing simplicity and proactive failure planning.

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(rauljordan.com)
Development

Test-Driven Blogging: Using AI to Improve Your Writing Workflow

2025-03-09
Test-Driven Blogging: Using AI to Improve Your Writing Workflow

This post introduces unit-text, a tool leveraging GPT models to assist in blog post creation. The author emphasizes iterative writing, goal-oriented approaches, and draws parallels to Test-Driven Development (TDD) in software, proposing "Test-Driven Blogging." unit-text uses prompts and GPT feedback to help writers check for consistency, logical fallacies, and goal achievement, improving writing efficiency and quality. Currently a prototype CLI tool, future plans include interactive ideation, autonomous research, and API integration.

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(www.sealambda.com)
Development AI writing blog writing tool

Spark 1.2 Released: A Major Leap in GPU Texture Compression

2025-03-09

Spark 1.2 is finally here! This real-time GPU texture compression solution boasts major optimizations, new compression formats, and expanded platform support. This release focuses on improving vectorization performance on RDNA, consoles, and Mali GPUs, and includes many unexpected features such as an improved EAC codec, new BC3-YCoCg and HDR codecs, and an ETC2 codec. The development team will focus more on long-term goals, rather than chasing feature requests from potential clients who haven't committed to a license yet. Spark 1.2 also supports Android TV and consoles, and features improved ASTC 6x6 and streaming codecs, as well as sideband data codecs, significantly improving compression quality and performance.

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(www.ludicon.com)
Development GPU Texture Compression Real-time Rendering

Trump Admin Cuts Off Crucial F-16 Jamming Support: Ukraine's Response

2025-03-09
Trump Admin Cuts Off Crucial F-16 Jamming Support: Ukraine's Response

The Trump administration cut off vital support for the jamming capabilities of Ukraine's F-16 fighter jets, jeopardizing a critical air countermeasure. However, Ukraine isn't defenseless. They can leverage the jamming capabilities of French Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters, along with promised upgrades to their electronic warfare systems, to compensate for the American shortfall. While not a long-term solution, it buys Ukraine valuable time until more sustainable alternatives can be found.

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(ukrainetoday.org)
Tech military technology Ukraine conflict electronic warfare

The Layoff Lie: Why Companies Keep Doing It Despite the Evidence

2025-03-09
The Layoff Lie: Why Companies Keep Doing It Despite the Evidence

From the airline industry's post-9/11 layoffs to the 2023 tech sector bloodbath, corporate downsizing has become commonplace. Yet, research consistently shows layoffs damage company culture, morale, and productivity, often failing to deliver promised financial gains and even increasing bankruptcy risk. This article traces the roots of this practice back to the 1980s, when shareholder value maximization became paramount, and aggressive CEO strategies popularized mass layoffs. The long-term consequences are overwhelmingly negative, highlighting the need for alternatives such as delaying purchases, reducing hours, or implementing furloughs.

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(thehustle.co)
Startup corporate management

India's EdTech Crisis: A Call for AI-Powered Learning Ecosystems

2025-03-09
India's EdTech Crisis: A Call for AI-Powered Learning Ecosystems

An Indian company's hiring process reveals a stark reality: out of 2500 applications, only a handful could complete a simple real-world challenge. The author argues that India's education system stifles independent thinking, producing students dependent on spoon-feeding. The article calls for educational reform, shifting from rote learning to project-based learning and leveraging AI tools to create 'cognitive apprenticeships' that foster problem-solving skills crucial for the AI era.

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(saigaddam.medium.com)
Tech AI-powered learning India's education system

C++ Memory Management: A Deep Dive into RAII

2025-03-09
C++ Memory Management: A Deep Dive into RAII

This is part two of a series on memory management in C++. This post focuses on RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization), a powerful technique for simplifying and securing memory handling. The author contrasts C's manual memory allocation with C++'s more sophisticated approach, covering classes, objects, constructors, destructors, and containers. RAII automatically manages resource cleanup, reducing errors. The post also touches upon move semantics and previews the next installment on smart pointers.

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(educatedguesswork.org)
Development

Compiler Optimization: Improving Lemire's Nearly Divisionless Random Number Generation

2025-03-09

The author improved a nearly divisionless algorithm for generating bounded random numbers (Lemire's algorithm). A previous version reduced code bloat by inlining the fast path, but compiler optimization was limited. The author discovered that when the limit is a compile-time constant, the rejection threshold can be precomputed, and division avoidance is unnecessary. The new implementation has only one call to the random number generator, and the compiler automatically eliminates the loop when the limit is a power of two. This is more efficient than last year's version, and the author explores similar compile-time optimization techniques in Rust.

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(dotat.at)
Development random number generation Lemire's algorithm

Testeranto: AI-Powered ATDD Framework for Automating Test Fixes

2025-03-09
Testeranto: AI-Powered ATDD Framework for Automating Test Fixes

Testeranto is an AI-first Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) framework for TypeScript projects, currently under development. It uses a strongly-typed, Gherkin-like syntax for specifying tests and integrates with Aider.ai to automatically fix failing tests. Instead of directly testing your code, Testeranto requires wrapping your code with a semantic interface based on TS type signatures. It runs in the frontend, backend, or both, and can test anything bundlable with esbuild.

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(www.npmjs.com)
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Uber's H3: A Hexagonal Grid System for Geospatial Indexing

2025-03-09

H3, developed at Uber, is a discrete global grid system that indexes geographies into a hexagonal grid. Each hexagonal cell has a unique ID, allowing for fast joins across disparate datasets and aggregation at various levels of precision. H3 enables a range of grid-based algorithms and optimizations, including nearest neighbor search, shortest path calculations, gradient smoothing, and more, making it a powerful tool for geospatial data analysis.

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Development geospatial indexing hexagonal grid spatial analysis

LFortran Compiles PRIMA: A Major Milestone Towards Beta

2025-03-09

The LFortran compiler team successfully compiled and executed libprima/PRIMA, marking the eighth production-grade, third-party code compiled with bit-for-bit alignment to GFortran. This significant milestone brings LFortran closer to its goal of compiling ten such codes, a key step toward achieving beta-quality. Compiling PRIMA, a Fortran package for nonlinear optimization, presented challenges related to procedure variables, arrays with non-unit strides, and precision loss, all of which were overcome. Future efforts focus on compiling additional third-party codes, including fpm and LAPACK, to solidify LFortran's beta readiness.

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Becoming a Great Engineer: Beyond the Paycheck

2025-03-09

This article delves into what makes a truly excellent software engineer. It argues that passion and ambition are crucial, going beyond simply collecting a paycheck. The author emphasizes a deep understanding of computer fundamentals, continuous learning, critical thinking, and practical application of knowledge. Specific projects like building a compiler or emulator are suggested, highlighting the importance of building from foundational principles. The article also stresses self-critique and the pursuit of excellence as key elements for growth.

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Development Learning

Goravel: A Laravel-inspired Go Web Framework

2025-03-09
Goravel: A Laravel-inspired Go Web Framework

Goravel is a full-featured, highly scalable Go web application framework designed to help Go developers quickly build applications. Its design philosophy mirrors Laravel's, easing the learning curve for PHP developers. The project is open-source and welcomes stars, pull requests, and issues! Goravel boasts a rich feature set including HTTP authentication and authorization, ORM, migrations, logging, caching, gRPC, Artisan console, task scheduling, queues, file storage, mail, validation, mocking, hash cryptography, Carbon package integration, development and testing tools, localization, and sessions. Documentation and example projects are available; contributions to the documentation and development are encouraged.

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(www.goravel.dev)
Development

Go vs. Rust: Backend Battle Royale of 2025

2025-03-09
Go vs. Rust: Backend Battle Royale of 2025

A crab and a gopher stroll into a server room, the crab flexing its zero-cost abstractions, the gopher showcasing its goroutines. Welcome to the backend battle of 2025! This post compares Go and Rust for high-performance production needs, acknowledging TypeScript as a strong contender for new projects but highlighting Go and Rust's dominance when ultimate speed is crucial. A real-world JSON-processing HTTP server scenario is used for comparison, although specific performance benchmarks aren't detailed, emphasizing the complexities inherent in performance metrics.

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(effective-programmer.com)
Development Backend Performance

Regaining Sight: Stem Cell Transplants Repair Corneal Damage

2025-03-09
Regaining Sight: Stem Cell Transplants Repair Corneal Damage

A new clinical trial offers hope for patients with corneal injuries. Scientists have successfully repaired severe corneal damage using a transplant of stem cells from the patients' healthy eyes. The treatment, called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC), involves harvesting stem cells from the patient's uninjured eye, culturing them in a lab for several weeks, and then transplanting them into the injured eye. An 18-month follow-up showed a 92% success rate, with significant vision improvement in many patients, some even progressing from legally blind to low vision. This breakthrough offers new hope for treating corneal injuries and paves the way for larger-scale clinical trials.

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(newatlas.com)
Tech stem cells corneal transplant ophthalmic treatment

Self-Experiment: Magnesium Supplementation Yields Unexpected Negative Results

2025-03-09
Self-Experiment: Magnesium Supplementation Yields Unexpected Negative Results

A blogger conducted a months-long self-experiment with magnesium supplementation to improve mood and sleep quality. Initially using Solgar magnesium citrate, he ingested 800mg daily (approximately 136mg elemental magnesium). However, the results were unexpected: instead of improvement, mood significantly decreased. Data analysis and visualizations revealed potential negative effects from magnesium overdose. The blogger initially misinterpreted the supplement label, assuming 800mg referred to elemental magnesium, not citrate. The experiment highlights the importance of proper dosage and suggests that even seemingly safe supplements can have unintended negative consequences if taken in excess.

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(gwern.net)
Misc self-experiment magnesium supplementation

Rediscovering Programming: Rendering a PETSCII Image on the Commodore 64

2025-03-09
Rediscovering Programming: Rendering a PETSCII Image on the Commodore 64

A seasoned CTO with 23 years in IT, facing unexpected unemployment, decided to challenge himself by delving into retro computer programming. His goal: render a PETSCII image on a Commodore 64. He meticulously documented the entire process, from using an online editor to create the image, to converting data with a Perl script, and finally displaying it on the Commodore 64 using C64 BASIC and the VICE emulator. This story highlights his enthusiasm for learning new technologies and his passion for retro computing, offering valuable insights for anyone interested in retro computer programming.

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(medium.com)
Development

Christie's First AI Art Auction Sparks Controversy: $728K Sales Amidst Artist Protests

2025-03-09
Christie's First AI Art Auction Sparks Controversy: $728K Sales Amidst Artist Protests

Christie's held its first-ever AI art auction, generating $728,784 in sales and attracting a young audience. However, the auction faced protests from over 5,600 artists who claim AI models were trained on copyrighted works without permission, exploiting human artists. Christie's responded that art often builds upon previous works and that the auction aimed to explore the digital art space. Refik Anadol's 'Machine Hallucinations – ISS Dreams – A' fetched the highest price at $277,200.

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(www.cnet.com)
Art Christie's auction

Trump Admin to Use AI to Target Pro-Palestine Students

2025-03-09
Trump Admin to Use AI to Target Pro-Palestine Students

The U.S. State Department is launching "Catch and Revoke," an AI-powered program to scan news and social media for pro-Palestinian and Hamas sympathies among student visa holders. This initiative, starting October 7th, raises serious concerns about free speech and potential biases in AI. The program aligns with the Trump administration's broader efforts to combat perceived antisemitism and domestic terrorism, efforts criticized for their overbroad definitions and potential for silencing dissent. The passage of the "Take it Down Act," ostensibly targeting revenge porn and deepfakes, further exacerbates these concerns, potentially providing a tool for suppressing criticism. The combined actions represent a significant attack on free speech and expression, fueled by surveillance technology.

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(gizmodo.com)
Tech

Next.js Pre-rendering: How Much Traffic Can It Really Handle?

2025-03-09
Next.js Pre-rendering: How Much Traffic Can It Really Handle?

The author tested the traffic capacity of their Next.js pre-rendered site and found a VPS server could only handle around 200 concurrent requests, far lower than expected. This led to an upgrade to a dedicated server, resulting in a significant performance improvement, handling thousands of requests per second. In contrast, server-side rendering (SSR) performed significantly worse than pre-rendering, struggling under high traffic. The article also discusses the pros and cons of other solutions like Cloudflare and Vercel, ultimately opting for a dedicated server for scalability. Future tests will explore further optimizations.

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(martijnhols.nl)
Development Pre-rendering Server Performance

Does L-Theanine Actually Work? A Blinded Self-Experiment Yields Surprising Results

2025-03-09
Does L-Theanine Actually Work? A Blinded Self-Experiment Yields Surprising Results

The author, a long-time user of L-theanine supplements, believed in its anxiety and stress-reducing effects. To test this, they conducted a 16-month double-blind experiment, comparing L-theanine against a vitamin D placebo. Surprisingly, L-theanine showed no significant benefit over the placebo. While statistically, stress levels decreased slightly after taking L-theanine, the placebo group showed a similar trend. The author couldn't reliably distinguish between L-theanine and the placebo. This casts doubt on L-theanine's efficacy and encourages further blinded studies to verify its purported benefits.

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(dynomight.net)
Misc L-Theanine Double-Blind Experiment Placebo Effect

Open-Source Wi-Fi MAC Layer for ESP32 Takes Flight

2025-03-09

An ambitious open-source project is underway to create a fully open-source Wi-Fi MAC layer for the popular low-cost ESP32 microcontroller. Currently, the ESP32's Wi-Fi MAC layer is closed-source, limiting security audits, feature enhancements, and interoperability. This project reverse-engineers the hardware registers and software, resulting in two open-source MAC layer implementations in C and Rust. One utilizes FreeRTOS tasks, while the other is a pure async Rust implementation built on Embassy. The goal is to enhance ESP32's security, functionality, and research accessibility, paving the way for features like standards-compliant mesh networking.

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(esp32-open-mac.be)
Hardware

Index Funds Crush Actively Managed Funds: Time to Upgrade Your Investment Strategy?

2025-03-09
Index Funds Crush Actively Managed Funds: Time to Upgrade Your Investment Strategy?

For years, actively managed fund managers have claimed to beat the market, but data reveals a harsh truth: index funds significantly outperform them in the long run. The SPIVA report shows that the majority of actively managed large-cap US equity funds have underperformed the S&P 500 index for years. Ordinary investors should opt for the simplicity, low cost, and superior long-term performance of index funds, avoiding emotional investment mistakes. While concerns exist about the concentration of power in index funds, such as potential impacts on corporate governance and political agendas, their superior long-term returns make them the preferred choice for the average investor.

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(www.latimes.com)
Startup index funds actively managed funds
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