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First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

news.ycombinator.com Guyren Howe 2025-08-18 01:48:11

TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in programming and computer systems. The Current State: Well-Designed Systems, Constrained Users Imagine you’re building an accounting system from scratch. You’d design it properly: a normalized database schema, algebraically defined operations for debits and credits, account reconciliation, and comparison functions. You’d implement data-only, in

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Johnson Controls starts notifying people affected by 2023 breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-21 12:47:26

Building automation giant Johnson Controls is notifying individuals whose data was stolen in a massive ransomware attack that impacted the company's operations worldwide in September 2023. Johnson Controls is a multinational conglomerate that develops and manufactures industrial control systems, security equipment, HVAC systems, and fire safety equipment for buildings. The company employs over 100,000 people through its corporate operations and subsidiaries across 150 countries, reporting sales

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U.S. warns of Iranian cyber threats on critical infrastructure

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-21 19:24:46

U.S. cyber agencies, the FBI, and NSA issued an urgent warning today about potential cyberattacks from Iranian-affiliated hackers targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. CISA says there are no indications of an ongoing campaign but urges critical infrastructure organizations and other potential targets to monitor their defense due to the current unrest in the Middle East and cyber attacks previously linked to Iran. In a joint fact sheet, the cyber agencies warn that Defense Industrial Base (DI

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Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-24 14:55:14

In the summer of 2024, corporate anti-malware provider CrowdStrike pushed a broken update to millions of PCs and servers running some version of Microsoft's Windows software, taking down systems that both companies and consumers relied on for air travel, payments, emergency services, and their morning coffee. It was a huge outage, and it caused days and weeks of pain as the world's permanently beleaguered IT workers brought systems back online, in some cases touching each affected PC individuall

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Microsoft is trying to get antivirus software away from the Windows kernel

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-24 19:55:14

In the summer of 2024, corporate anti-malware provider Crowdstrike pushed a broken update to millions of PCs and servers running some version of Microsoft's Windows software, taking down systems that both companies and consumers relied on for air travel, payments, emergency services, and their morning coffee. It was a huge outage, and it caused days and weeks of pain as the world's permanently beleaguered IT workers brought systems back online, in some cases touching each affected PC individuall

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The Personalized Learning Revolution: An EdTech Insider’s Perspective

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-08-25 02:00:31

Back in the 90s, when I was in school, education was like a uniform everyone had to wear—the same textbooks, the same blackboard, and the same hurried lessons for all. If you fell behind, your only lifeline was to awkwardly raise your hand in the middle of class or spend hours in the library after school, rifling through reference books. Fast forward 30 years, and it’s fascinating how far we’ve come. Today, thanks to AI/ML, we have adaptive learning systems—tailored to each student based on thei

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Memory safety is table stakes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 05:36:11

The past few years has seen a massive success story for systems programming. Entire categories of bugs that used to plague systems programmers—like use-after-free, data races, and segmentation faults—have begun to completely disappear. The secret to this new reality is a set of systems programming languages chief among them Rust—whose powerful type systems are able to constructively eliminate these kind of bugs; if it compiles, then it’s correct … or at least, will not contain use-after-free or

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Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 10:36:11

The past few years has seen a massive success story for systems programming. Entire categories of bugs that used to plague systems programmers—like use-after-free, data races, and segmentation faults—have begun to completely disappear. The secret to this new reality is a set of systems programming languages chief among them Rust—whose powerful type systems are able to constructively eliminate these kind of bugs; if it compiles, then it’s correct … or at least, will not contain use-after-free or

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Computing’s Top 30: Nirmalya Thakur

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-08-27 05:00:55

From tackling the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on social media to his award-winning research on fall detection and indoor localization for ambient assisted living, Nirmalya Thakur actively engages with issues of critical importance to humans and their well-being. Residing at the intersection of various fields–including big data, HCI, machine learning, and natural language processing–Thakur’s groundbreaking research is fueled by interaction data from daily human activities. Whether those a

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15 new jobs AI is creating - including 'Synthetic reality producer'

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-08-28 05:00:00

Eoneren/Getty Images Imagine being at a party in the not-too-distant future, and telling people you are a "synthetic reality producer." That's something sure to elicit quite a bit of curiosity. On the other hand, it may be a common job title by the year 2030. There's been a fair bit of chatter lately about the prospect of artificial intelligence usurping or taking away job opportunities -- from developers to creators. However, AI will never operate entirely on its own in a vacuum -- there will

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Broken by Design: Systemd

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 19:01:22

Broken by design: systemd 09 Feb 2014 19:56:09 GMT Recently the topic of systemd has come up quite a bit in various communities in which I'm involved, including the musl IRC channel and on the Busybox mailing list. While the attitude towards systemd in these communities is largely negative, much of what I've seen has been either dismissable by folks in different circles as mere conservatism, or tempered by an idea that despite its flaws, "the design is sound". This latter view comes with the

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15 new jobs AI could create - could one be your next gig?

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-08-30 10:00:15

Eoneren/Getty Images Imagine being at a party in the not-too-distant future, and telling people you are a "synthetic reality producer." That's something sure to elicit quite a bit of curiosity. On the other hand, it may be a common job title by the year 2030. There's been a fair bit of chatter lately about the prospect of artificial intelligence usurping or taking away job opportunities -- from developers to creators. However, AI will never operate entirely on its own in a vacuum -- there will

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In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-08-31 03:16:46

In Brief Abridge, an AI startup automating medical notes, has secured a $300 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. The round, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Khosla Ventures, follows the company’s $250 million February fundraise at a $2.75 billion valuation. The seven-year-old Abridge is widely considered to be the leader in the increasingly crowded AI-powered medical scribe market, largely due to its early entry and integration

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Diabetic Woman No Longer Needs Insulin After Single Dose of Experimental Stem Cells

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-01 03:24:45

Image by Getty / Futurism Treatments A Canadian woman with type 1 diabetes spent nearly a decade dependent on her glucose monitor and insulin shots — but after a single dose of manufactured stem cells implanted into her liver, she's now free. In an interview with CTV, 36-year-old Amanda Smith of London, Ontario described how it felt to be part of such a groundbreaking experiment that has allowed her body to once again produce its own insulin. "I remember, like, being scared and excited," Smit

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Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-08-30 02:33:01

Creating a game that runs smoothly across different vintage and modern computers is a complex and ambitious challenge. Can I achieve it? Let me tell you the story so far; the process, obstacles, and solutions involved in making a roguelike dungeon crawler playable on systems like the Commodore 64, Commodore PET, and even more constrained machines. Watch on YouTube Why Build Games for Multiple Platforms? Many enthusiasts collect old computers just for their nostalgic value. However, having th

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QuEra Quantum System Leverages Neutral Atoms to Compute

news.ycombinator.com Timothy Prickett Morgan 2025-08-29 03:58:04

Sitting in an office at QuEra Computing’s Boston headquarters, Yuval Boger was talking about the recent advancements made in quantum computing that are driving the chorus around an accelerated the timeframe the launch of a usable and reliable system. “Sometimes it’s hard to see all the amazing progress that’s been happening,” Boger, QuEra’s chief commercial officer, told The Next Platform in a recent interview. “But if you go back a few years – five or ten years ago – the question was, ‘Could p

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Steel giant Nucor confirms hackers stole data in recent breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-03 19:28:42

Nucor, North America's largest steel producer and recycler, has confirmed that attackers behind a recent cybersecurity incident have also stolen data from the company's network. The steel giant employs more than 32,000 people in numerous mills across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada and reported a revenue of $30.73 billion last year. Nucor disclosed this incident last month, revealing that it took down some systems to contain the security breach and halted production at some of its facilities. It

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Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-03 18:17:28

Oxford City Council warns it suffered a data breach where attackers accessed personally identifiable information from legacy systems. The incident has also caused an ICT service disruption, as announced on the website, and although most of the impacted systems have been brought back online, the remaining backlogs may continue to cause delays. Oxford City Council is the local government authority responsible for managing critical public services, such as housing, planning, waste collection, env

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Israel urges citizens to turn off home cameras as Iran hacks surveillance systems

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-03 22:10:00

Cutting corners: As tensions between Israel and Iran escalate, Israeli authorities are urging citizens to take an unusual but crucial step: turn off their home security cameras or change their passwords. The warning comes amid growing evidence that Iran is actively attempting to tap into private surveillance devices across Israel to gather intelligence for military operations. In the aftermath of recent Iranian missile strikes on Tel Aviv, concerns about the vulnerability of internet-connected

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Cloud quantum computing: A trillion-dollar opportunity with dangerous hidden risks

venturebeat.com Julius Černiauskas 2025-09-03 19:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Quantum computing (QC) brings with it a mix of groundbreaking possibilities and significant risks. Major tech players like IBM, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have already rolled out commercial QC cloud services, while specialized firms like Quantinuum and PsiQuantum have quickly achieved unicorn status. Experts predict that the global QC ma

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Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-09-03 19:39:03

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Researchers at Anthropic have uncovered a disturbing pattern of behavior in artificial intelligence systems: models from every major provider—including OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others — demonstrated a willingness to actively sabotage their employers when their goals or existence were threatened. The research, released today, tested 16 le

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Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 09:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

news.ycombinator.com Gabriel Popkin 2025-09-02 13:09:17

The approach has been fruitful. In 2022, Gore and colleagues discovered that ecological communities undergo phase transitions — a core organizing principle in physics that describes, for example, water’s change from solid ice to liquid to gas. As the researchers increased either the number of species in their experimental ecosystems or the strength of the interactions between species, the ecosystems might progress through three phases. In phase one, all bacterial populations remained stable. In

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Qfex (YC X25) – Founding Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 05:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 10:29:28

AI agents are a hot topic, but not every AI system needs to be one. While agents promise autonomy and decision-making power, simpler & more cost-saving solutions better serve many real-world use cases. The key lies in choosing the right architecture for the problem at hand. In this post, we'll explore recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) and discuss key concepts of AI systems. We've worked with LLMs across projects of varying complexity, from zero-shot prompting to chain-of-tho

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 15:00:36

You’ll be given the autonomy to do some of the best work of your life. We’re building a research lab that puts its ideas to the test in one of the most complex, information-rich environments in the world: the financial markets. Much of trading still depends on hand-crafted signals and intuition. We’re approaching it differently - from first principles. We design systems that learn, adapt, and improve with data. Our infrastructure is built to accelerate research: fast iteration loops, real-time

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Gardyn Indoor Hydroponic Garden Review: Better Growing Through AI

wired.com Kat Merck 2025-09-12 07:42:24

I'm in the midst of putting together a buying guide of indoor vertical gardening systems, and the Gardyn—the 30-plant Home 4.0, to be exact—was the first tester to arrive at my house. I had it unboxed and set up within a couple of hours, lights on and water pump running. I'm already a pro! I thought. Sure enough, within a couple of weeks, all of Gardyn's proprietary seed-filled yCubes had sprouted, and a couple of weeks after that, I was harvesting bowlfuls of herbs and salad greens. Even thoug

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These are my favorite Find My accessories

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-13 11:14:24

There’s a robust ecosystem of Find My accessories on the market nowadays. All of these accessories would make great additions to your life. After all, what’s a better investment than a way to keep track of their most important possessions? As a refresher, Find My accessories broadcast a low-energy Bluetooth signal picked up by nearby Apple devices. They do not rely on GPS technology. Instead, that location is transmitted securely and privately to the Find My network. This means that your Find M

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Apple Fitness could benefit greatly from one simple expansion

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-15 09:00:48

Apple has definitely built up quite a compelling ecosystem around the Apple Watch. Between all of its fitness challenges, activity rings, and competitions – Apple has certainly found a way to make exercise fun for a lot of people. The problem? Some people simply don’t like the form factor of a smartwatch. The proposal To put it short, I think Apple should allow third party health trackers to integrate with the Apple Fitness app. The catch? It’d be tied into an Apple Fitness+ subscription. App

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How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?

news.ycombinator.com In 2025-09-11 08:57:24

# source code sandboxing Sandboxing is when a developer limits available system resources to a program from within its own source code. A classic example is calling chroot(2) to change the root file-system to an empty directory so that the program cannot scribble into the root file-system. int main(void) { /* Program has full file-system access. */ chroot("/var/empty"); chdir("/"); /* File-system root re-rooted in /var/empty. */ int fd = open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY); /* Tried to open /var/empty

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Latest Tech News

First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

Johnson Controls starts notifying people affected by 2023 breach

U.S. warns of Iranian cyber threats on critical infrastructure

Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe

Microsoft is trying to get antivirus software away from the Windows kernel

The Personalized Learning Revolution: An EdTech Insider’s Perspective

Memory safety is table stakes

Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes

Computing’s Top 30: Nirmalya Thakur

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15 new jobs AI could create - could one be your next gig?

In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B

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QuEra Quantum System Leverages Neutral Atoms to Compute

Steel giant Nucor confirms hackers stole data in recent breach

Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

Israel urges citizens to turn off home cameras as Iran hacks surveillance systems

Cloud quantum computing: A trillion-dollar opportunity with dangerous hidden risks

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Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

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Gardyn Indoor Hydroponic Garden Review: Better Growing Through AI

These are my favorite Find My accessories

Apple Fitness could benefit greatly from one simple expansion

How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?

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