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How to Prepare for Leadership Roles in Software Engineering

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-11-04 09:35:39

Struggling between the comfort of an individual contributor (IC) role and the desire to move into software engineering leadership? It’s a tough fork in the road that many engineers face. The idea of stepping away from hands-on technical work to move into leadership requires mastering new skills, stepping into the spotlight, and strategic thinking. It feels like a major departure from their comfort zone of code development, testing, and debugging. But the truth is, growth happens outside the comf

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Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 10:56:26

Hi HN, we’re Neha and Akash from April ( https://tryapril.com ). We are building an AI executive assistant to help you get through emails and manage your schedule, hands-free while you drive to work, or whenever else you prefer voice interaction. Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKwEyuQQEo#t=50 ...and here's a second one showing more complex use cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8APprJ3-eY. While driving 40 mins daily from SF to Berkeley, my inbox would flood to 30+ email

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Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer-Space Radio Wave

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-02 09:49:17

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, known as fast radio bursts (FRB). Astronomers compare them to a powerful lighthouse that shines for milliseconds in the middle of a rough, distant sea. Detecting one of these signals is an achievement in itself, but identifying its origin and understanding the nature of its source remains one of the grea

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Deals: AirPods 4 $90, iPad mini 7 $100 off, M3 iPad Air $150 off from $449, AirTag from $17.50, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-11-04 16:48:41

Labor Day sales are now live at Amazon and Best Buy well head of time, and we have some fresh new Apple gear deals for today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Firstly, we have AirPods 4 down at $90, or within $1 of Prime Day all-time pricing, and next up are the iPads. Amazon has now slashed $100 off just about all iPad mini 7 models with deals from $399 alongside the return of Prime Day lows across the M3 iPad Air lineup at $150 off with pricing from $449. Those offers join discounts on AirTags, charging

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The Apple AirTag just dropped to $17 each when you buy four - Here's the deal

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-04 16:14:48

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it come some of the busiest (and most stressful) travel days of the year. Nothing ruins a trip more than losing your luggage, wallet, or even your keys. If you're an iPhone user, I have the perfect accessory to ease those anxieties before you head out. Amid rumors of a new generation of the Apple AirTag, we're seeing big

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Why most AI projects flop - and how your business can beat the odds

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-11-05 06:55:17

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Only 5% of AI projects deliver. It comes down to the ability to customize. With partnerships in place, AI success odds double. Ask the right questions before deciding between building or buying. There's a tremendous gap between AI aspirations and actual successful projects -- this was shown in the recent MIT study that found only 5 percent of generative AI projects have delivered measur

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LG S95AR Review: A Hassle-Free Dolby Atmos Soundbar

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2025-11-05 06:03:00

There aren’t many all-in-one soundbar solutions that give you as much sonic immersion for your money as LG’s S95. Many modern soundbar brands prefer to sell high-priced single bars, with add-on speakers available for an additional fee. LG provides a subwoofer, dual surrounds, and LG’s unique mix of five (not four) height channels to put you in the center of the action for 3D sound formats like Dolby Atmos and DTS:X from the get-go. The latest-model S95AR offers a modest upgrade over last year’s

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This Hidden iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 16:00:03

Apple released the fourh public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 18, and it brought call screening and more to the iPhone's of developers and beta testers. But you don't need to be a developer or beta tester to use Voice Isolation, a hidden iPhone feature that can make your calls clearer for the person on the other end of your call. Apple introduced Voice Isolation in 2023 with iOS 16.4. The tech company added the feature, alongside Wide Spectrum, to FaceTime calls with iOS 15 in 2021, but only Voice Iso

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Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 17:28:18

Existing TLS/SSL certificates will remain valid and functional until they expire or are revoked. Revocation services, certificate status services (CRL and OCSP), and other necessary support functions will operate as normal for all certificates within their validity period. Notification of the expiry date for existing certificates will be sent as per the standard procedure. More details on how the discontinuation affects certificates ordered in Buypass ID Manager, as well as the discontinuation

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Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that

venturebeat.com Sylvain Kalache 2025-11-05 10:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Software developers spend most of their time not writing code; recent industry research found that actual coding accounts for as little as 16% of developers’ working hours, with the rest consumed by operational and supportive tasks. As engineering teams are pressured to “do more with less” and CEOs are bragging about how much of their codeb

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Burner Phone 101

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 01:25:58

Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely. In August 2025, I hosted a Burner Phone 101 Workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library. Below is a summary of the workshop with key points in bold and additional resources that participants helped crowdsource. Secret Goals Before the workshop began

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Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 08:15:14

If you're trying to find out what a restaurant has to offer, you might look up its menu, or go to its Facebook page. Hell, you could call and ask. But that's all démodé. Why not query an AI chatbot, a piece of software notorious for inventing facts out of the tokenized ether of the internet, and treat its answer like the word of God? Here's why: because you'd annoy the hell out of the restaurant. Just ask the beleaguered owners of the Montana eatery Stefanina's Wentzville, who are begging thei

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'Love Island USA' Season 7 Reunion Special: Start Time, How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 10:00:06

Peacock costs more now, but there are still some deals and discounts available. Free Peacock could be on the table if you are an Instacart Plus, Spectrum TV or Xfinity internet customer, and you may qualify for discounted Peacock if you're a college student. Read our review for more on the streaming service.

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-11-05 06:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

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How to Fix Your Context

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-11-05 08:09:53

Mitigating & Avoiding Context Failures Following up on our earlier post, “How Long Contexts Fail”, let’s run through the ways we can mitigate or avoid these failures entirely. But before we do, let’s briefly recap some of the ways long contexts can fail: Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. Context Distraction: When

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ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 04:23:33

ThinkMesh ThinkMesh is a python library for running diverse reasoning paths in parallel, scoring them with internal confidence signals, reallocates compute to promising branches, and fuses outcomes with verifiers and reducers. It works with offline Hugging Face Transformers and vLLM/TGI, and with hosted APIs. Note: This is still in it's early development phase and breaking changes can sometimes occur Highlights Parallel reasoning with DeepConf‑style confidence gating and budget reallocation

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A Treasure Trove of Key Minerals Is Being Wasted in the U.S., Study Claims

gizmodo.com Tik Root 2025-11-05 11:00:10

The United States is home to dozens of active mines. Some extract copper, while others dig for iron. Whatever the resource, however, it usually makes up a small fraction of the rock pulled from the ground. The rest is typically ignored. Wasted. “We’re only producing a few commodities,” said Elizabeth Holley, a professor of mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. “The question is: What else is in those rocks?” The answer: a lot. In a study published today by the journal Science, Ho

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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

news.ycombinator.com Vinci Rufus 2025-11-05 05:18:52

Published: Aug 13, 2025 | at 11:00 AM We’ve reached an inflection point in AI development. The scaling laws that once promised ever-more-capable models are showing diminishing returns. GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini represent remarkable achievements, but they’re hitting asymptotes that brute-force scaling can’t solve. The path to artificial general intelligence isn’t through training ever-larger language models—it’s through building engineered systems that combine models, memory, context, and determ

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Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

news.ycombinator.com Graham King 2025-11-05 05:40:33

Most models are excellent, so cost and latency dominate. It’s great that AI can win maths Olympiads, but that’s not what I’m doing. I mostly ask basic Rust, Python, Linux and life questions. So I did my own evaluation. I gathered 130 real prompts from my bash history (I use command line tool llm). I had Qwen3 235B Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro group them into categories. They both chose very similar ones, broadly (with examples): Programming - “Write a bash script to ..” Sysadmin - “With curl

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Kumail Nanjiani Reveals His ‘Eternals’ Future That Could’ve Been

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-05 08:00:53

It’s no secret the MCU entered the 2020s with some growing pains. A pandemic will do that to you, ditto a spottier output, and one of the more divisive projects was Eternals. At the time, it seemed Marvel had some plans for the immortal beings, and thanks to Kumail Nanjiani, we now know what that would’ve looked like. In a recent episode of Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out podcast, the one-time Kingo revealed he signed on thinking he’d be a longterm MCU player and alternate between that and non-

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Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-05 09:49:17

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, known as fast radio bursts (FRB). Astronomers compare them to a powerful lighthouse that shines for milliseconds in the middle of a rough, distant sea. Detecting one of these signals is an achievement in itself, but identifying its origin and understanding the nature of its source remains one of the grea

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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 00:00:19

Many media executives are betting the future of the industry on artificial intelligence, going as far as replacing journalists in an effort to keep costs down and cash in on the hype. The result of these efforts so far has left a lot to be desired. We've come across countless examples of publications inadvertently publishing garbled AI slop, infuriating readers and journalists alike. AI's persistent hallucinations are already infecting large swathes of our online lives, from Google's hilarious

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Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 06:15:27

There's no need to fear, for emergency drone swarms are here. To combat school shootings, three districts in Florida are set to trial a drone response system that's designed to subdue an assailant and buy time before law enforcement can arrive at the scene, Newsweek reports. It sounds like something you'd see in a satirical ad in a "Robocop" movie, but no — it's real. The drones can spring into operation within five seconds of a silent alarm being activated, and confront the shooter within fif

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Apple @ Work: Macs, AI, and the blind spot in enterprise security

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-11-05 05:00:00

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with

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Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-11-05 03:00:31

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research suggests refining our search parameters by using our own broadcasts into deep space as a helpful guide. Research published earlier this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests we search for alien signals by studying how we beam strong, directed transmissions during two-way communication with our de

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An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 02:00:57

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle actions that produce it. A patient has to physically attempt to speak to make these implants work, which is tiresome for severely paralyzed people. To go around it, researchers at the Stanford University built a BCI that could decode inner speech—the kind we engage in silent reading and use for al

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25 Best Early Labor Day Sales on WIRED-Tested Gear (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-11-05 02:44:27

Labor Day is not until September 1, but retailers are already offering oodles of Labor Day deals. The unofficial end of summer, a celebration of the American worker's contribution to our national prosperity, brings with it bargains on WIRED-tested gear, including home office essentials and some of our favorite gadgets. For the next couple of weeks, we'll be cruising and perusing for the latest true discounts on the gear we recommend to our friends—and rounding them all up for you below. Check o

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The use of LLM assistants for kernel development

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 23:02:05

On the use of LLM assistants for kernel development This article brought to you by LWN subscribers Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. By some appearances, at least, the kernel community has been relatively insulated from the onslaught of AI-driven software-development tools. There has not been a flood of vibe-coded memory-management patches —

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OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-05 11:25:35

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs). Models trained usin

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From Classroom to Career: Skills That Shape Your Path Beyond Coding

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-11-05 20:28:47

Key Takeaways Beyond building technical skills, new software engineers need to develop soft skills that enable them to work well with other team members. Understanding the unique needs of each industry in which a professional wants to work makes it easier to make meaningful contributions to the organization. SWEBOK streamlines your transition into the working world because it outlines certifications that give graduates a competitive edge in the technology job market. According to the U.S. Bu

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