2025-05-25
Increase Your Influence at Work With This 5-step Framework
The hard part isn’t doing the work, it’s getting buy-in from others.
I Didn’t Learn Leadership in a Book — I Lived It
An honest, personal reflection on leadership in software teams—covering trust, culture, remote work, and how real leadership starts by showing up.
Unique Indexes: We Should Think Twice (Especially at Scale)
Database unique indexes sound pretty reliable, right? The last line of defense against data duplication. A better approach is often to handle the bulk of deduplication logic at the application...
Consider buying voting shares
Published on May 25, 2025 6:01 PM GMTOne of the best and easiest ways to influence a corporation is to own it. Google offers both $GOOG, class C non-voting, and...
'Majority of gamers are still playing at 1080p': AMD chief claims there's still a place for 8GB GPUs, and he's got a point
AMD's Frank Azor isn't forgetting the budget gamers out there
Can you donate to AI advocacy?
Published on May 25, 2025 5:54 PM GMTI posted a quick take that advocacy may be more effective than direct donation to alignment research. I am not an AI researcher...
Letting Someone Go When You Work Remotely
Firing someone remotely is tough. Here’s a short, personal guide to doing it respectfully, securely, and without making it worse than it has to be.
Rant: the extreme wastefulness of high rent prices
Published on May 25, 2025 5:04 PM GMT09:46: Everyone wants to be close to everyone else to do good business effectively. Like Silicon Valley for example, smart people want to...
Superbug That Can Feed on Plastic Is Spreading in Hospitals
A nasty bacterial superbug that kills hundreds of thousands of people per year is spreading through hospitals — and scientists have found what it feeds on. Researchers from the Brunel...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Help, My Prompt is Not Working! (5/25/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 25, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Oprah Winfrey...
AI Is Replacing Women's Jobs Specifically
With under three years of mass-market artificial intelligence available to consumers, businesses in nearly every industry have flocked to the tech like antivaxxers to a multi-level marketing scheme. By 2024,...
Scientists Intrigued by Strange Behavior of Distant Planet
A team of astronomers observed a confused exoplanet orbiting its two parent stars in a highly unusual way. As New Scientist reports, the planet, which was first discovered in 2004,...
Scientists Just Witnessed Two Lightning Bolts Collide and Unleash a Blast of Radiation
What happens right before two bolts of lightning smash into each other? An invisible blast of radiation a million times more energetic than a lightning discharge is unleashed in the...
New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that AI's being crammed everywhere. From Taco Bell drivethrus to eye glasses to schools, the AI boom is forcing the...
Forget Mach 6: SR-72 Darkstar Could End Up in the Danger Zone
Lockheed Martin’s super-secretive Skunk Works is actively working on a super-secretive aircraft, the SR-72 Darkstar. And despite going over budget by just a smidgen ($335 million), the Darkstar seems ever...
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38): The Battleship That Survived Pearl Harbor and Atomic Bombs
Key Points – The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), lead ship of its class of super-dreadnought battleships, was commissioned in 1916. -Though missing combat in World War I, it served as a...
Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size
You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, is the biggest game...
Everything that I like, dislike, and plan to change in my tech stack.
This tech stack has been really fun to learn, but it certainly hasn't been without it's challenges, and having built a full application with it now, I know what I...
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