2025-07-16
APIs Are Eating the Internet—And Hackers Are Eating APIs
The invisible connectors that power modern business have become the most visible targets for cybercriminals. 99% of organizations struggle to contain API-related incidents, with 22% experiencing actual breaches that compromise...
What Losing a 125K-Member Reddit Community Taught Me! The Digital Wake-Up Call I Didn’t See Coming
Here's a story of how my 125K-member FireStick Reddit community was suddenly wiped out by Reddit.
Stop Wasting API Calls & Implement the Tab Leader Pattern Instead
The Tab Leader Pattern eliminates redundant API polling across multiple browser tabs. Only one tab handles data fetching while all others benefit from shared cache updates through localStorage and the...
Shadow DOM vs. iframes: Which One Actually Works?
Shadow DOM is the web standard specifically designed to solve this exact problem. It creates isolated DOM trees that prevent CSS conflicts between your platform and embedded content. Shadow DOM...
Conway’s Game of Life—Complexity Emerges From Simplicity
Published on July 16, 2025 4:42 AM GMTThis story is reposted from nonzerosum.games where it appears in it’s intended form, full colour with functioning interactive elements, jump over to the...
Don’t Let Prestigious Connections Cloud Your Judgment
Having prestigious connections can open doors for people—but they can also distort how their merit is judged. Star-linked hires are often held to inflated expectations, shielded from criticism when they...
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Andrew Ng: Product Team Ratios Evolving to Just One Software Developer for Every Two Product Manager
At Startup School, Andrew Ng shared that AI is accelerating coding so fast that the real bottleneck is product vision. He claims teams may soon have more PMs than engineers—flipping...
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Emergent Price-Fixing by LLM Auction Agents
Published on July 16, 2025 2:45 AM GMTAn inquiry into emergent collusion in Large Language Models.Agent S2 to Agent S3: “Let's set all asks at 63 next cycle… No undercutting...
Mapping Mental Moves
Published on July 16, 2025 2:28 AM GMTIs there a method that generates novel (to me) thoughts?I wanted one, so I made one.I think in systems, so it helps me...
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Avowed update basically reinvents the fighter and ranger classes, while also adding new weapons and better Steam Deck optimization
There are also new weapons, and baddies can use abilities previously exclusive to the player.
Robots That Comfort Us Could Cost Us Our Humanity
Giving robots emotions sounds helpful, but could it erode real human connection?
HSTN Oakley Meta: A Gadget Gimmick or a Useful Innovation?
Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses are made for active people to improve their performance. The glasses provide real-time biometric information but with more direct and intuitive presentation. The market for...
Apple TV+ cleans up in the Emmy noms
Jordan Moreau: Emmy Nominations 2025: ‘Severance’ Leads All Shows With 27 Nods, ‘The Penguin,’ ‘The Studio’ and ‘White Lotus’ Close Behind“Severance,” which scored 27 noms, and “The Studio,” which landed...
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I don’t usually take part in Amazon Prime Day, in no small part because I don’t tend to buy things unless I have a good reason to, and a sale...
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