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Check out the polls at the end of this post to share your predictions for the Elite Eight rounds!Which states have education policies that best foster student excellence?It’s a question that gets aske

The engineer shipped seven features in a single sprint. DORA metrics looked immaculate. The promotion packet practically wrote itself. Six months later, an architectural change required modifying t

This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies that trains and inferences a GPT. This file contains the full algorithmic content o

Yes, writing code is easier than ever. AI assistants autocomplete your functions. Agents scaffold entire features. You can describe what you want in plain English and watch working code appear in sec

When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt. For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fetches some data from a database and outputs it as JSON the

Agentic Engineering Patterns > When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt. For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fetches some data fro

Thank you for being here. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Idée Fixe, the newsletter for curious minds. I’m Toni Cowan-Brown, a tech and F1 commentator. I’m a former tech executi

TL;DR – Please try Moonshine Note Taker on your Mac! For years I’ve been telling people that AI wants to be local, that on-device models aren’t just a poor man’s alternative to cloud so

EboSuite and SenSei, live visual add-ons for Ableton Live, got some nice updates this week. SenSei, the tool that puts the power of Unreal Engine inside Ableton Live, gets a particularly major expansi

"In 2025, global anti-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrations intensified, with ACLED recording more than 49,000 protests across 133 countries. Public sentiment shifted significantly, particularly fol

“add background job processing”Inngest is great for Next.js — it runs as serverless functions alongside your app, no separate worker infrastructure needed.pnpm add inngestexport const sendWeeklyDigest

In his latest memo – occasioned by massive changes he cites in just the 11 weeks since the last one – Howard Marks revisits the subject of AI, providing his observations on its essence and how it diff

tl;dr Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true: Gemini accepts the same keys to access yo

Whenever a new technology arrives, the impulse is to treat it as something that has never existed before. A clean break from everything that came prior. I catch myself doing this with vibe coding cons

Whenever a new technology arrives, the impulse is to treat it as something that has never existed before. A clean break from everything that came prior. I catch myself doing this with vibe coding cons

Formula 1 is heading into a 2026 season where energy management is going to be critical to laptime.But while the primary headache for this will be in races - because pace needs to be maintained over c

Welcome to the world of tessellation art, where talented artists craft a figure that interlocks with itself perfectly to fill the page. Dutch artist M. C. Escher mastered the form first, inspiring a

Location Is KeySo, I recently took on an interesting client project. It was interesting for many reasons, but a big one was a key feature they want

Navigate to your project directory and run:The process stays running in your terminal, waiting for remote connections. It displays a session URL you can use to connect from another device, and you can

Original Article: Claude Code Remote Control Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Commenters largely criticize Claude Code’s rel

Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. Yikes! It turns out Gemini and Google Maps (and other services) share the same API keys... but Google Maps API keys are designed to

For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching my 9-pound cavapoo Momo (cavalier king charles spaniel and toy poodle) to vibe code games. The key to making this work is telling Claude Code that a gen

I gave a talk this weekend at Social Science FOO Camp in Mountain View. The event was a classic unconference format where anyone could present a talk without needing to propose it in advance. I grabbe

My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that can clear your inbox, send emails, manage your calendar, and complete other tasks via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or any chat app you alr

This piece was republished with permission from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Six weeks before the US lau

Original Article: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Commenters admire the DIY

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

I have been tasked, by process of elimination, with developing exe.dev’s marketing strategy. In one very important sense, marketing exe.dev is easy. I am proud of what we have built, so I am happy

Thank you for being here. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Idée Fixe, the newsletter for curious minds. I’m Toni Cowan-Brown, a tech and F1 commentator. I’m a former tech executi

I’ve been using Claude Code as my primary development tool for approx 9 months, and the workflow I’ve settled into is radically different from what most people do with AI coding tools. Most developer

Formula 1 2026 will soon begin and everyone’s desperate to know who will flop and who’ll be on top.We’ve spent hours watching trackside, speaking to team insiders and drivers, trading information in t

Seedance 2.0 adopts a unified multimodal audio-video joint generation architecture that supports text, image, audio, and video inputs, leading to the most comprehensive multimodal content reference an

I built this because my home maintenance system was a shoebox of receipts and the vague feeling I was supposed to call someone about the roof.micasa replaces the shoebox, the binder you never open, an

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

Too much of what is going on with AI is a race to get to a theoretical end state of a whole new world of business and technology. Many pushing this were around for the tail end of the transition to an

Cafe, Analytic Scape (still), 2025, AI system, camera, video, 10 min, various installations. Analytic Scape is a series of scape videos reconstructed through the eye of AI. After capturing vario

Today I wanted to write a value to a SQLite database, and error if the database already had a conflicting value. There are a variety of ways you could do this – I decided to read the current stored

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When I first got into doing visuals, I was a pure clip hoarder. I’d collect videos online, upload them into Resolume or Modul8, and stack effects and timing tricks to stretch that content for as long

The leading international fair for audiovisual and tech professionals took place in Barcelona from February 3rd to 6th. It offered the perfect opportunity to engage with the latest industry trends, pr

Original Article: Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Commenters debate openne

Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Sitting in his family’s living room in New York City, 14-year

From Life’s April 7, 1958 issue. Join the Center for Educational Progress and receive all our content — and thanks to all our amazing paid subscribers for their support.When DeepSeek released R1 in ea

Read the full analysis below, or start with the key takeaways:What it is: The first federal tax credit scholarship program. Donors give to nonprofit scholarship organizations (SGOs), get a dollar-for-

The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived New opinion piece from Paul Ford in the New York Times. Unsurprisingly for a piece by Paul it's packed with quoteworthy snippets, but a few stoo

With the most recent Epstein release, the Economist collaborated with the folks who work on Jmail to breakdown the many pages of email between Epstein and others. He did not waste time on middle mana

The percentage of mortgages 90 or more days delinquent varies by location from 0% to 6%. Delinquency rates Insuff. data 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5%+

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Cracking the media management puzzle through insights, solutions and dataNews media is going through a massive transformation. The Grand Restructuring of Advertising Revenue has left many publications

Given the threat of cognitive debt brought on by AI-accelerated software development leading to more projects and less deep understanding of how they work and what they actually do, it's interesting t

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software develope

There is a scene in the movie version of Carl Sagan’s book Contact where the main character, an astronomer who has detected the first radio signal from an alien civilization, is being considered for t

I’m thrilled to announce msgvault, a new side project I have been building over the last two months with the assistance of many coding agents and some new agentic engineering tools I created (like rob

As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to "Briefly describe the organization’s mission or most signi

On February 4, the $300 billion Indian IT sector faced a moment of reckoning. The country’s benchmark IT stocks index slumped nearly 6%, reacting to Anthropic’s release of its Claude...

The Amazon-owned security system Ring was planning to partner with Flock Safety, who supplies security footage and contracts with law enforcement. Ring has canceled the partnership. In October 2025,

This post was originally triggered – and I choose that word carefully – by a recent experience on a cloud cost-optimisation project. These experiences prompted me to consider how things had ch

In July 2025, the Justice Department announced it would not make any additional files public from its investigation into child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The backlash against the decision was swi

Gemini 3 Deep Think New from Google. They say it's "built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering". It drew me a really good SVG of

A long, long time ago I can still remember how a protocol used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those botnets dance And maybe they'd be happy for a while But

Original Article: Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Commenters l

Buying a high‑end keyboard is an investment. It is a worthwhile investment for something you will use nearly every day, for hours a day, for years and years, but still, you're looking at anywhere from

JeongHo Park, a self-described "algorithmic composer" and artist, is building a delightful instrument that turns images into scores with full drawing capability for making paths. Inspired by the likes

Economic collapse. The most intuitive explanation is economic: that many organizations either lost technical staff or, in the worst cases, went entirely extinct. “The biggest barrier is just that Fi

32 commentsLetter Text (PDF) Washington (January 30, 2026) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, along with

Plenty has been said already about the energy management challenges that come with Formula 1's new 2026 cars.But there is another key area where F1 drivers are going to face a bigger headache than bef

It all started during Hivebrite’s PEAK Days 2025, which took place in mid-September 2025, with a hackathon project to explore “how to leverage AI to accelerate incident management.” We quickly brainst

Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks at the code the coding agents are producing. T

An Update on Heroku An ominous headline to see on the official Heroku blog and yes, it's bad news. Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security,

Agent teams are experimental and disabled by default. Enable them by adding CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS to your settings.json or environment. Agent teams have known limitations around session

The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined Op

17 commentsA new report featuring testimonies from North Korean defectors reveals that the country executes those caught consuming South Korean media, including K-Dramas and BTS songs. Crimehttps://ww

A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patr

Table of Contents My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of

I have been building a lot of new software in Go. Except that I’ve never actually written a line of Go in my life. What is going on? Anyone following my LinkedIn or Twitter/X feed has seen that I h

Defector almost didn’t exist. When 19 former Deadspin staffers — who’d resigned in November 2019 after parent company G/O Media told them to “stick to sports” — decided to launch a new website, “we

It’s an unfortunate truism that bad news in the real world is often good news for news publishers. Tragedy attracts eyeballs, and that’s even more true when the tragedy doesn’t have a clear ending. On

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Original Article: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT STRONGLY AGREED AGREEMENTS - Comment

80 commentsA 10-year-old girl, identified as "A," visited a pediatric clinic in Busan for cold symptoms. Shortly after receiving an antibiotic IV, the clinic fell into chaos. Emergency responders arri

2026-02-02 Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/ the investigation has continued in collaboration with external exp

Formula 1 2026's first pre-season test gave us a first proper chance to see how this year's liveries look in the flesh. So we asked The Race's Creative Lead, Oliver Card, to cast his expert eye over t

Jenson Button has joined Aston Martin’s Formula 1 team as an ambassador, a role he previously held at Williams.Unlike with Williams, which Button worked with as a special advisor then ambassador from

It’s been known for a while that Formula 1’s 2026 cars are going to be energy-starved, which means harvesting and deploying battery power will be critical to laptime.Initially this seemed to be releva