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Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech
Within five days of ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the artificial intelligence chatbot gained more than a million users. Today, more than half of all adults
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers
Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against offshore wind in the Northeast.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?
We have fried two Ryzen 9950X CPUs in a few months by running GMP tests and the GMP-based factoring program GMP-ECM . This is not expected, of course. In this page, we provide as much information as possible to help analysing the problem.
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Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
Rust is known for having a steep learning curve, but in this post we will be looking at another curve, the one showing developer productivity in relation to the project size.
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Implementing Forth in Go and C
I first ran into Forth about 20 years ago when reading a book about designing embedded hardware . The reason I got the book back then was to actually learn more about the HW aspects, so having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note and moved on with my life. Over the last two…
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Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI
From the Zed Blog: Zed now lets you use the agent of your choice through the new Agent Client Protocol, starting with Google's Gemini CLI.
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Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem
What is s1ngularity-repository? Nx is compromised and the malware steals wallets and API keys using Claude CLI or Gemini.
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What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?
Understand OpenTelemetry traces and spans with real code examples. Instrument Node.js/TypeScript apps for distributed tracing and faster debugging.
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Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor
On hosting images without the price tag.
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How to slow down a program and why it can be useful
Making programs slower can be useful to find...
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Delete tests
We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from holistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a folk wisdom around tests. That consensus seems to boil down to…
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Malleable Software
In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you.
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Thrashing
I’ve invested in a new odometer to help my car go faster. Accountability is important, and as a driver I believe the most important thing I can do is set measurable, achievable and inspiring goals for the people pushing my car down the road.
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How do I get into the game industry
Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how...
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Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
Google announced a program that is proving to be unpopular among Android app development experts. I have questions.
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AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
AI coding has made me much more productive—but at a strange cost. I can't listen to music when I code anymore.
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration.
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Stop talking to technology executives like they have anything to say
I do not enjoy writing about technology. Aside from the shiny, birdlike emotion I get from opening a new Apple product every three years, I do not enjoy using much of modern technology. I view my phone with mistrust and resentment, even as I allow it to eat my time with distractions to recover from a day of ostensibly…
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Why I'm declining your AI generated MR
Sometimes a merge request (MR) doesn't merit a code review (CR) because AI was used in a bad way that harms the team or the project. For example:
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Claude for Chrome
We're piloting Claude in Chrome to test browser-based AI capabilities while addressing prompt injection risks and building the safety measures needed before wider release.
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"Special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)
Half a century ago, the puzzling phrase "special register groups" started showing up in definitions of "CPU", and it is still there. In this...
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Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?
I was reading the latest issue of the journal Science , and a paper mentioned the compound Cr 2 Gr 2 Te 6 . For a moment, I thought my knowl...
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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Starting August 29th, new regulations have come into effect. Both DHL and UPS currently have no working solution, so on their advice, we are temporarily suspending all shipments to the USA effectiv…
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Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page
Windows 7 ESU extended support for all Windows 7 users out there!
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In Search of AI Psychosis
Folie a deux ex machina
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One universal antiviral to rule them all?
Taking inspiration from a rare mutation that makes people impervious to viral diseases, a Columbia researcher is developing a therapy that could bestow this superpower on the rest of us.