Probably my first post ever...anywhere. In the last few months, I've had to switch between 3 coding agents for the same project just to barely get it working consistently and to my design (more on tha...
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Hey y'all. So I have started my journey of learning cybersecurity today, which also happens to be the first day of my second year of college. Mostly because I wasted my first year doing nothing, I dec...
I built a small Apify actor that watches Certificate Transparency logs for a domain, basically "tell me every SSL cert that's been issued for this domain or its subdomains recently." Useful for catchi...
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Birds sing the most around an hour before dawn, when the air is at its stillest. Theoretically, this enables sounds to travel further, making song up to 20 times more effective than if sung at midday....
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<ul> <li>James Webb 우주망원경이 관측한 <strong>작은 붉은 점</strong> 가운데 특히 붉은 두 천체가, 중심에 블랙홀을 품은 거대한 수소 천체인 <strong>블랙홀 별</strong>일 수 있다는 가설이 나옴</li> <li>두 천체는 은하에 필적하는 밝기를 내면서도 <strong>약 5,000K의 항성 표면</strong>을 ...
<p>직접 만든 단어 게임의 6글자 정답 313개(글자 1,878개)를 전수 집계해봤습니다.</p> <ul> <li>153개(48%)가 같은 글자를 2번 이상 씁니다. 초반에 서로 다른 글자만 채워 넣는 일반적인 전략과 정면으로 어긋납니다. 네 자리를 맞춰놓고 남은 두 칸에 새 글자가 안 들어갈 때, 답은 대개 이미 가진 글자를 한 번 더...
If you've ever built an e-commerce data pipeline and assumed hotel data would follow the same patterns — you're in for a rough ride. I learned this the hard way. E-commerce and hotel data differ at th...
Introduction When I first approached a health dataset in Power BI, I was more interested in the dashboard than the structure behind it. I wanted to create visuals that could answer practical questions...
Small applications often seem insignificant. However, if these apps solve a real problem, are technically sound, and are built with UX in mind, they can be more valuable than complex systems. In this ...
Lately, I’ve been encountering scammers who promise "free lessons," "career advancement," "business partnerships," and more. These ads frequently pop up on Instagram, and I often see many students com...
When I realized I had an interest in coding and wanted to pursue this field, I took a look at the degree programs offered by universities. The landscape I saw surprised me. Programming wasn't just a s...
After the success of Backrooms, it looks like A24 is trying to cash in on yet another internet horror craze with a new installment in the V/H/S horror anthology series set in the SCP Foundation univer...
[This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Sim...
One common take on the coding agents that I see goes something like this: “Sure, AI helps you output more code, but won’t the quality suffer?” It certainly will if you just blindly merge the PRs and s...
Demonstrate the emergence of life from chemical precursors in a laboratory setting. Specifically, demonstrate the unassisted emergence of self replicating RNA- and protein-based cells from a plausible...
For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses. One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed...
Launching today The 101 Plays Itself Five lanes of LA highway turned into an instrument 39 followers Five lanes of LA highway turned into an instrument 39 followers A live Caltrans traffic camera on t...
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Unknown .apc/ Paths Should Not Become Hidden Instructions A repository can contain a file under .apc/ without making that file part of the APC contract. The APC folder structure specification says con...
TPU rationing at Google is not primarily a story about running out of chips. It's a story about what happens the moment real demand for a finite resource exceeds what that resource can supply: allocat...
You have a Linux server. It is running an enterprise operating system. The operating system is still under vendor support. Your vulnerability scanner reports 37 vulnerabilities. The application team s...
Why This Article Exists There is a very common kind of application: it lives inside a company network, it is reachable over the VPN, and it has been running like that for years. Accounting systems, in...
Every Next.js app starts the same way. A few routes, a clean folder tree, and an easy-to-understand and maintain app. Then it grows. A year in, as the app scales the picture is different, your Next.js...
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming platforms, FAST channels, and the future of entertainment, follow Charles Pulliam...
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly “killing all humans,” our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack — and the risk is growing. Humans, not r...
The same calculator has been on most kids’ back to school shopping list since the early 2000’s and the dominance of Texas Instruments’ calculator division goes back even farther. The hidden monopoly b...