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What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

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The user discusses how Generative and Agentic AI can amplify cognitive debt, a gap between a system's structure and a team's understanding of how it works, and how this affects developers' mental models and well-being. They ask for real-world mitigation practices to manage cognitive debt and maintain shared understanding in teams using AI.

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust

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Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch

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A hands-on workshop builds a working GPT model from scratch in a few hours, covering the essentials of LLMs and transformers. The workshop uses PyTorch and character-level tokenization on Shakespeare, resulting in a ~10M param model that trains on a laptop in under an hour.

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers

The author set up a lab to run the Copy Fail exploit and traced it at the syscall level to verify that rootless Podman architecture would contain it. The exploit successfully overwrote /usr/bin/su in the page cache, executed the shellcode, and escalated to root inside the container.

Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting

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Journalist wins $15,000 for reporting on Assad regime's atrocities and Trump's humanitarian aid dismantling. Reporting exposed regime's harm to Syrians and vulnerable people worldwide.

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

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OpenAI rearchitected their WebRTC stack to improve real-time AI interactions by reducing latency and preserving standard WebRTC behavior for clients. They achieved this by introducing a relay service that routes packets to the correct transceiver, allowing for deterministic first-packet routing and a small public UDP footprint.

The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars

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Automotive journalist Zerin Dube discovered a promotional advertisement on his Jeep Grand Cherokee's infotainment screen, revealing how the vehicle had become a platform with monetized inventory and a data feed pointed back at the manufacturer. This transformation is part of a larger trend where vehicles are becoming subscription-based products with telemetry, and the automotive industry is ...

Agent Skills

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The author created Agent Skills to help AI coding agents follow senior engineer best practices by adding workflows and verification steps to their default behavior. This approach aims to prevent common engineering mistakes and ensure reliable software at scale.

Hand Drawn QR Codes

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User created a hand-drawn QR code on a 10x10 grid sticky note using the qrcode package in Python. The QR code successfully scanned when held flat or hung from a monitor.

Gaps in national food production, worldwide

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Most countries cannot meet their dietary needs through domestic production alone, with over a third unable to achieve self-sufficiency in more than two of the seven essential food groups. However, projections suggest that many countries have the potential to improve self-sufficiency, particularly in animal-source foods, with some regions expected to close the self-sufficiency gap by up to 28 ...

When Networking Doesn't Work

The user had trouble getting Windows 11 to communicate with an antique IPMI module over the network. The issue was caused by Intel NICs/drivers incorrectly validating UDP checksums.

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

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A company, Schemata, handling sensitive military data had no API authorization, allowing a low-privilege user to access users, organizations, and confidential training materials. The issue was fixed after 150 days of disclosure attempts, highlighting the importance of open disclosure channels and robust authorization testing.

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

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Researchers Noah Arman Kouchekinia, David Neumark, and Tim A. Bruckner received grants for their study on employment and cognitive decline. The study was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest

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pgBackRest is being replaced by pgxbackup, a new open-source tool under the same license. pgxbackup maintains compatibility with new PostgreSQL releases and existing backup repositories.

Redis array: short story of a long development process

The user implemented a new Array data type for Redis, taking four months with AI assistance, which helped with specification, implementation, and testing. AI provided a safety net for complex tasks, allowing the user to venture into higher complexity and achieve high-quality system programming.

Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

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The author tested the 2.0 ROMs for the Apple Network Server, which support Cirrus video and 53C825A SCSI, but found performance to be dismal in Mac OS.

Talking to strangers at the gym

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The user, who was struggling to make friends after college, approached 30 people at the gym over a month, resulting in some meaningful connections and friendships. Through this experience, the user became more resilient and confident in initiating conversations with strangers, eventually forming connections with people who share similar interests and hobbies.

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

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A Sacramento auto parts shop owner spent $40,000 and two years converting a 1966 Ford Mustang into a Tesla with a Model 3 drivetrain and Full Self-Driving capabilities. The project demonstrates Tesla's technology is portable and adaptable, despite licensing struggles with other automakers.

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

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2-D Mathematical Curves

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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%)

Y Combinator owns a 0.6% stake in OpenAI worth over $5 billion. This significant financial interest in OpenAI raises questions about Paul Graham's impartiality in publicly endorsing Sam Altman's trustworthiness.

I am worried about Bun

The author is concerned about Bun's future after Anthropic acquired it, citing Claude Code's decline in quality and restrictions. They're moving away from Bun for package management and recommend pnpm instead.

Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

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This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.

How Monero’s proof of work works

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Monero's RandomX proof of work makes mining expensive for custom chips by using CPU strengths like dynamic code and memory access. It generates random programs and uses memory-hard functions to make mining look like general-purpose computing.

PyInfra 3.8.0

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Big release with fixes and improvements, switching to full semver. It includes user-mode systemd fixes, SELinux port bug fixes, and new config options.

Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

Several apple varieties are described including Sekai Ichi, French cider apple, and Pink Lady. These apples have unique characteristics such as flavor, texture, and origin.

Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches

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UK age checks under the Online Safety Act are failing to keep kids away from harmful content, with 46% of children saying age verification is easy to bypass. Parents are also enabling their kids' online delinquency, with 17% admitting to actively helping them evade age checks.

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

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GameStop made a $55.5bn offer to buy eBay at $125 a share, with CEO Ryan Cohen planning $2bn in cost savings. The deal would link GameStop with eBay, lifting GameStop's valuation and giving eBay a national network for its business operations.

18th-century mechanical volcano roars to life 250 years later

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A centuries-old vision of a mechanical volcano has finally erupted into reality, as two University of Melbourne engineering students recreated a design first imagined in 1775 by volcanology enthusiast Sir William Hamilton. Drawing from an 18th-century watercolor and a preserved sketch, they used modern tools like LED lighting and electronic systems to simulate the glowing flows and explosive ...