2025-02-24
Changing Keys, Losing Values
When you use mutable objects as keys in hashed collections, changing them breaks contracts.
Are AI Chatbots Crossing the Line?
A woman upgraded her ChatGPT subscription to $20 per month, which let her send around 30 messages an hour. She asked it to “Respond as my boyfriend,” along with explicit...
India's Digital Playbook Raises Eyebrows at the Sri Lanka DPI Summit
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is being hailed as a tool for inclusion, but it also enables surveillance, financial tracking, and exclusion. India’s Aadhaar-backed DigiLocker system showcases both its advantages and...
The TechBeat: I Asked ChatGPT What The Future of Labor Market Holds—Here's What It Said (2/24/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
Faster AI Code Generation with Bifurcated Attention
Bifurcated attention enhances AI code assistants by enabling large-scale, efficient sampling with minimal latency. This improves AI inference speed and accuracy.
When Your Only Job Is to Cuddle. “On that day, I rocked...
When Your Only Job Is to Cuddle. “On that day, I rocked him for three hours. My left shoulder ached, my arm went numb, but I would not let go,...
Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs. “That’s 240 browser tabs in a...
Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs. “That’s 240 browser tabs in a tight 8x30 grid. And they’re running pong!” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
2025-02-23
Linus Sebastian’s Thoughts After Switching to an iPhone for 30 Days
I’ve been meaning, since it came out in December, to link to this video from Linus Sebastian of “Linus Tech Tips” fame, and with the iPhone 16e dropping this week,...
Speaking of Amy Sherald, she’s got an exhibition at The Whitney that...
Speaking of Amy Sherald, she’s got an exhibition at The Whitney that opens on April 9th! “This exhibition includes a billboard across from the Museum’s entrance on Gansevoort Street.” 💬...
Deep Market Researcher AI Agent for Product Managers
Things just got serious. This is probably the most specialized and fastest AI research agent for Product Managers.
Roxane Gay’s lovely obituary for her mother Nicole: It Was Always Going...
Roxane Gay’s lovely obituary for her mother Nicole: It Was Always Going to be Too Soon. “She had an unwavering moral code, a profound inclination toward justice, and her standards...
OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems
OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models can't really solve the coding problems put in front of them. In a new paper that's awaiting peer review,...
Hypocrite Elon Musk Is Criticizing OpenAI for Not Open Sourcing ChatGPT While Refusing to Do the Same With Grok
Last week, multi-hyphenate billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk made a gigantic $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. Musk cofounded the ChatGPT maker alongside current...
Key Design Principles for Startups: Things You Must Prioritize
Vlada Zdorovenko is a Senior UX Designer and a mentor at Startupbootcamp. She shares key Design principles that every startup must embed into its DNA from day one to build...
An AI Pseudo-Experiment: Blocking All The AI Tools I Use for a Day
The Programming and Doodles blog is a weekly, off-beat look at what’s happening in the world of programming. This week, we look at a pseudo-experiment: blocking all the AI tools...
Async map with limited parallelism in JavaScript
Using generators and promises to control backpressure
There’s Another Reason Flights Have Been So Messed Up Lately: UFO Sightings
Amid a terrifying spate of plane crashes, an uptick in UFO sightings seems to be making plane travel even more anxiety-inducing. According to the English-language site Turkiye Today, air traffic...
My favorite Europeans are nine years old
A view from a school in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Woman Whose Last Name Is "Null" Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems
Ever felt like you're just not meant for this modern age? Try having the last name "Null." Err, sorry. Please try again. Null is the same word used in computer...
Open-CUAK: The Open-Source Alternative to OpenAI’s Operator
Open-CUAK is an open-source platform for managing automation agents at scale. You can run workflows locally, using any vision-compatible frontier model.
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