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**What Youโll Learn**: In early 2025 I predicted that AI will create many, many more programmers, and that new programming jobs would look different. In March I checked in and found startups substituting compute for labor at record rates, with the wave of new jobs nowhere in sight. This post is the next check-in, and I have good news and bad news. The bad news: AI has torched the market for junior programmers. The good news: the long tail of new programmers I predicted has materialized, but with…
๐ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: A simple x86 bare-metal tool designed to boot from a disk/USB and dump the system's RAM directly to the booting medium. It relies on BIOS interrupts to boot and perform disk operations, and enters unreal mode to access memory above the 1MB barrier. Background: Cold Boot Attacks โ๏ธ This tool was originally developed and successfully tested for experimenting with Cold Boot Attacks. By freezing a laptop's RAM (down to -60ยฐC) and quickly rebooting from a USB drive containing this tool, it is possible to dump…
โจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids (review). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon is moving everyone over to a new one ("Verizon Family"). But the new app doesn't work for watch-only accounts like ours yet, and they're still saying they're going to turn off the old app on July 6th. Without the app we won't be able to text back and forth, see where they are, or add new contacts (the watch blocks…
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**What Youโll Learn**: The Setup YouTube Studio has an AI assistant called Ask Studio. You open it, ask something like "what are my viewers saying?" and it goes off, reads your comments, and comes back with a summary. Useful feature. Completely normal. What's not normal is what happens when one of those comments contains instructions instead of feedback. The Helpful Stranger My initial theory was simple: if the AI reads comments and generates a response based on them, what happens if a comment tells it what to do…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Bug DescriptionApparent session leakage, despite authenticated to Enterprise ZDR workspace. Agent suddenly started asking me what kind of bricks I wanted for my Minecraft temple and confidently asserted in its recap that it's building a Minecraft temple. I thought cache was isolated to workspace? Maybe one of my colleagues is building a minecraft temple. That's one way to spend your token allowance, I suppose. Or maybe it's leaking from a consumer plan, in which case this raises some very serious questions about Enterprise ZDR and…
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**What Youโll Learn**: This wasnโt package.json or something deep in node_modules. It was tailwind.config.js. The file you touch once, when youโre setting up the project, figuring out whether your primary color is blue-600 or blue-700 . Then you never open it again. Half of us didnโt even write ours, it got spat out by create-next-app or a starter template and we never looked twice.I wasnโt even looking for anything wrong. I was just copying my old color tokens into a fresh tailwind.config.js file. Except the paste took a…
โจ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop. I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. That's not quite right. And also, why does it say 1.0? I decided to look everything up and document it here. They also say that the best way to learn something is to try to teach it. Table of Contents htop on Ubuntu Server 16.04 x64Here is a screenshot of htop that…
โจ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Have you noticed we like AMD? The demand for inference is skyrocketing and outpacing supply. With frontier models being released almost every other week โ Claude Fable, GLM5.2, and Minimax M3, to name a few โ the token craze is only getting crazier, and there arenโt enough Blackwells going around to support it. Thus, NVIDIA GPU prices are climbing fast, and tokens are getting really expensive. In comes AMD. At around 2.75x cheaper per GPU on average (MI355X vs B300) with comparable hardware specs, the…
๐ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Since its launch, Leanstral has offered an open, practical approach to proof engineering in Lean 4. Today, we are releasing Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 licensed model with 119B total and only 6B active parameters, delivering a performance upgrade that makes formal verification more powerful and accessible than ever. Leanstral 1.5 saturates miniF2F, solves 587/672 PutnamBench problems, and achieves a new state-of-the-art of %87 on FATE-H and 34% on FATE-X. Beyond benchmarks, it verifies complex code properties and uncovers previously unknown bugs in open-source repositoriesโproving…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Steam Controller Auto-Charge is an open-source web application designed to automatically pilot a Steam Controller into its magnetic charging puck using optical flow computer vision and WebHID telemetry. Optical Flow Tracking: Utilizes OpenCV.js to track user-selected points on the controller and the charging puck via an overhead camera. WebHID Telemetry & Haptic Navigation: Connects to the Triton Controller natively via WebHID, streaming input and telemetry (Report 67). Navigates the controller towards the puck by firing 70Hz asymmetric haptic pulses through the internal dual Linear…
