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Memory safety is table stakes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 00:36:11

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 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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Computing’s Top 30: Nirmalya Thakur

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

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 00:00:00

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

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-08-30 05:00:15

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 2025-08-30 22:16:46

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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Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C

news.ycombinator.com Chris Garrett 2025-08-29 21:33:01

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 2025-08-28 22:58:04

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 14:28:42

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 13:17:28

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 17:10:00

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 14:00:00

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 14:39:03

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 04:00:18

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 08:09:17

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 00:00:18

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 05:29:28

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 10:00:36

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 02:42:24

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

news.ycombinator.com In 2025-09-11 03:57:24

# 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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Best Cheap Home Security Systems for 2025: I Found the Real Deals

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-14 22:00:00

SwitchBot Not sure how to make up your mind? Here are the most important factors when considering a home security system that will spare your wallet. Pricing and subscriptions Security systems can be opaque when it comes to final pricing. The listed cost is often replaced by constant, rotating discounts which are more representative of the actual cost, and total subscription fees may not be obvious. For our list, we chose DIY companies with upfront pricing models so you can see what you get,

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What is systems programming, really? (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 22:42:04

$$ % Typography and symbols ewcommand{\msf}[1]{\mathsf{#1}} ewcommand{\ctx}{\Gamma} ewcommand{\qamp}{&\quad} ewcommand{\qqamp}{&&\quad} ewcommand{\Coloneqq}{::=} ewcommand{\proves}{\vdash} ewcommand{\star}[1]{#1^{*}} ewcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} ewcommand{ ul}{\varnothing} ewcommand{\brc}[1]{\{{#1}\}} ewcommand{\binopm}[2]{#1~\bar{\oplus}~#2} ewcommand{\mag}[1]{|{#1}|} ewcommand{\aequiv}{\equiv_\alpha} ewcommand{\semi}[2]{{#1};~{#2}} % Untyped lambda calculus ewcommand{\fun}[2]{\

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Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

news.ycombinator.com Netflix Technology Blog 2025-09-14 17:56:52

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix Netflix Technology Blog Follow 15 min read · 2 days ago 2 days ago -- 8 Listen Share By Alex Hutter, Alexandre Bertails, Claire Wang, Haoyuan He, Kishore Banala, Peter Royal, Shervin Afshar As Netflix’s offerings grow — across films, series, games, live events, and ads — so does the complexity of the systems that support it. Core business concepts like ‘actor’ or ‘movie’ are modeled in many places: in our Enterprise G

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The case for embedding audit trails in AI systems before scaling

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-09-15 14:13:09

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Emilia will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform this month. Register today. Orchestration frameworks for AI services serve multiple functions for enterprises. They not only set out how applications or agents flow together, but they should also let administrators manage workflows and agents and audit t

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Victoria’s Secret restores critical systems after cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-17 07:56:16

Victoria's Secret has restored all critical systems impacted by a May 24 security incident that forced it to shut down corporate systems and the e-commerce website. The company operates around 1,380 retail stores in nearly 70 countries and has reported net sales of $1.353 billion for the first quarter of 2025, with a forecasted net sales range of up to $6.3 billion for the year. In a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed that all restored criti

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Computing’s Top 30: Harini Hapuarachichi

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-19 02:00:22

In medieval Europe, kings wore diamonds to absorb the gemstone’s purported powers of strength and invincibility. Today, researchers are seeking to harness those same storied powers to fuel quantum computing’s next leap. Among those researchers: Harini Hapuarachichi, a computational physicist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)—and one of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024. In the following Q&A, Hapuarachichi discusses her g

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Air Traffic Control in the US Still Runs on Windows 95 and Floppy Disks

wired.com Benj Edwards 2025-09-19 15:30:00

On Wednesday, acting FAA administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems, which still rely on floppy disks and Windows 95 computers, Tom's Hardware reports. The agency has issued a Request for Information to gather proposals from companies willing to tackle the massive infrastructure overhaul. “The whole idea is to replace the system. No more floppy disks or paper strips,” Roche

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The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-09-18 04:00:00

It is a significant overhaul of a department that in 40 years has never before been placed so squarely on the chopping block. Here’s how today’s defense tech companies, which have fostered close connections to the Trump administration, stand to gain, and why safety testing might suffer as a result. The Operational Test and Evaluation office is “the last gate before a technology gets to the field,” says Missy Cummings, a former fighter pilot for the US Navy who is now a professor of engineering

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Tesla recalls more than 375,000 vehicles in U.S. due to failing power-assisted steering systems

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-06-04 09:16:23

Tesla models Y and 3 are displayed at a Tesla dealership in Corte Madera, California, on Dec. 20, 2024. Tesla is voluntarily recalling 376,241vehicles in the U.S. to correct an issue with failing power-assisted steering systems, according to records posted to the website of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In a safety recall report posted on the NHTSA website, Tesla said the recall includes Model 3 and Model Y vehicles that were manufactured for sale in the U.S. from Fe

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Latest Tech News

Memory safety is table stakes

Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes

Computing’s Top 30: Nirmalya Thakur

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

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

Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C

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

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

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

The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion

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

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

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

Gardyn Indoor Hydroponic Garden Review: Better Growing Through AI

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

Best Cheap Home Security Systems for 2025: I Found the Real Deals

What is systems programming, really? (2018)

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

The case for embedding audit trails in AI systems before scaling

Victoria’s Secret restores critical systems after cyberattack

Computing’s Top 30: Harini Hapuarachichi

Air Traffic Control in the US Still Runs on Windows 95 and Floppy Disks

The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

Tesla recalls more than 375,000 vehicles in U.S. due to failing power-assisted steering systems

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