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Testing is better than Data Structures and Algorithms

People should spend less time learning DSA, more time learning testing. I see new learners asking about “DSA” a lot. Data Structures and Algorithms are of course important: considered broadly, they are the two ingredients that make up all programs. But in my opinion, “DSA” as an abstract field of study is over-emphasized. I understand why people focus on DSA: it’s a concrete thing to learn about, there are web sites devoted to testing you on it, and most importantly, because job interviews oft

Fine-grained HTTP filtering for Claude Code

Posted on September 12, 2025 Fine-grained HTTP filtering for Claude Code Default‑deny HTTP(S) for dev tools and AI agents. Script rules in JS or shell, log every request, and keep egress within your policy. Coding agents are becoming more powerful every day without commensurate security and governance tooling. The result is a world where solo developers happily run claude --dangerously-skip-permissions for hours unmoderated while many of the world's most important organizations have barely tr

TikTok is tagging videos from Gaza with product recommendations

TikTok has been tagging videos from war-ravaged Gaza with product recommendations, as reported by The Verge . The publication detailed a scenario in which footage of a Palestinian woman walking amidst rubble presented TikTok shop recommendations that matched what she wore in the video. The algorithm suggested products with names like "Dubai Middle East Turkish Elegant Lace-Up Dress" and "Women’s Solid Color Knot Front Long Sleeve Dress." The original footage showed the woman searching for lost

DeepMind AI safety report explores the perils of “misaligned” AI

Generative AI models are far from perfect, but that hasn't stopped businesses and even governments from giving these robots important tasks. But what happens when AI goes bad? Researchers at Google DeepMind spend a lot of time thinking about how generative AI systems can become threats, detailing it all in the company's Frontier Safety Framework. DeepMind recently released version 3.0 of the framework to explore more ways AI could go off the rails, including the possibility that models could ign

Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects

Perhaps the only thing worse than having a boss who thinks your job can be replaced by artificial intelligence is having a boss who thinks he can do your job for you with AI and wants to show you his work. Unfortunately, depending on your role at the company, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is guilty of both. Futurism recently highlighted the CEO’s unfortunate insistence on vibe coding prototype features with AI and then making his actual, professional engineers review his work and try to im

Amazon has the best price on Apple’s new AirPods Pro 3

AirPods Pro 3 are among the best earbuds we’ve tested recently, and you can pick them up for $239.99 ($10 off) at Amazon. The small discount is notable because Apple’s latest earbuds have only been available for three days. In our tests, the AirPods Pro 3 were an improvement over their predecessor in three significant ways: fit, active noise cancelation performance, and audio quality. Apple improved the AirPods Pro 3’s chances of staying securely in your ears by changing the shape of both the b

9to5Mac Daily: September 22, 2025 – iPhone Air durability, more

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?

(See the full results at compilebench.com) Now on the front page of Hacker News — join the discussion. When ChatGPT first launched in 2022, it could barely write short snippets of working code. Today, the best LLMs can generate entire applications from scratch and even win prestigious coding competitions (like IOI 2025). But can they tackle the messy reality of software development – dependency hell, legacy toolchains, and cryptic compile errors? We created CompileBench to find out. Based on

Elizabeth Stone on what’s next for Netflix — and streaming itself — at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

As chief technology officer (and interim chief product officer) of Netflix, Elizabeth Stone is shaping the future of entertainment for over 300 million members worldwide. She’ll join the Disrupt Stage this fall for a fireside chat on What’s Next for Netflix and for Streaming Itself, part of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, where 10,000+ startup and VC leaders will gather to shape the future of tech. Driving innovation at massive scale Stone wil

10 ChatGPT Codex secrets I only learned after 60 hours of pair programming with it

David Gewirtz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Step-by-step builds beat full-spec instructions for AI coding. AIs can destroy code as quickly as they create it. Use AGENTS.md, screenshots, and refactoring to keep projects stable. Last week, I put in somewhere between 50 and 60 hours of pair programming with, and getting to know, ChatGPT Codex. Pair programming is an old term with a new meaning. Pair programming is t

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What climate targets? Top fossil fuel producing nations keep boosting output

The last two years have witnessed the hottest one in history, some of the worst wildfire seasons across Canada, Europe and South America and deadly flooding and heat waves throughout the globe. Over that same period, the world’s largest fossil fuel producers have expanded their planned output for the future, setting humanity on an even more dangerous path into a warmer climate. Governments now expect to produce more than twice as much coal, oil and gas in 2030 as would be consistent with the go

It’s time for iPhones to go eSIM-only worldwide

While Apple first started supporting eSIMs back in 2018, it’s only this year that it has taken full advantage of the technology. For the first time, Apple is using the space previously occupied by an insertable SIM card slot for additional battery capacity … A quick history of SIMs SIM is short for Subscriber Identity Module and refers to an integrated circuit or smart card used to store your phone’s identity number and other data. In the early days of mobile phones, it was usual to store you

Apple’s new AirPods Pro 3 get their first discount

It's barely been two weeks since Apple announced the AirPods Pro 3, but you can already find them at a slight discount. The new earbuds are currently listed as $239 on Amazon, which is $10 cheaper than their normal price. The AirPods Pro 3 were introduced at Apple's "Awe Dropping" iPhone event, boasting Live Translation, heart-rate tracking and significant improvements to sound quality and active noise cancellation (ANC). But, if you're not looking to shell out that much, the AirPods Pro 2 are o

DeepSeek reports shockingly low training costs for R1 in new paper

NurPhoto/Contributor/NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways DeepSeek drops how much its R1 model cost to build. R1's capabilities make investors question exorbitant AI spending. Nvidia declined to say if it ever plans to use Intel's factories. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that shook up the market with its impressive open-source R1 model in January, has finally revealed the secret so many were wondering about: how it trained R

How to use Live Translation on your AirPods - not just the newest ones

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET \Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Live Translation needs iPhone 15 Pro or newer with iOS 26 Works on AirPods Pro 2, AirPods 4, and Pro 3 with ANC English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish supported. My wife and I typically travel to another country once or twice a year. This past year, we visited Paris. Next year, we plan to visit Italy or Amsterdam. Though many people in other countries speak Engl

What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?

It's funny how quickly humans adjust to new technology. Only a few months ago Claude Code and other agents felt like magic, now it increasingly feels like browsing the internet in the late 90s on a dialup modem. Firstly, Anthropic has been suffering from pretty terrible reliability problems . And looking at OpenRouter's data they are not alone (nb. OpenRouter's data is not conclusive, but I believe it does give a somewhat interesting overview of reliability). If you've been using coding agents,

CEO Says He’s Showing His Engineers How to Get Things Done by Sending Them Stuff He Vibe Coded

Buy-now-pay-later platform Klarna went public on the US stock market last week, sending its stock surging to well above its expected range. The company’s CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, has thrown the entire company’s weight behind artificial intelligence, infamously boasting that the tech was doing the work of “700 full-time agents” last year — only to regret his decision months later, admitting that humans play an important role after all. But Siemiatkowski’s obsession with AI hasn’t disappear

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OpenAI Tries to Train AI Not to Deceive Users, Realizes It’s Instead Teaching It How to Deceive Them While Covering Its Tracks

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company’s AI to stop “scheming” — a term the company defines as meaning “when an AI behaves one way on the surface while hiding its true goals” — but their efforts backfired in an ominous way. In reality, the team found, they were unintentionally teaching the AI how to more effectively deceive humans by covering its tracks. “A major failure mode of attempting to ‘train out’ scheming is simply teaching the model to scheme more carefully and covertly,” OpenA

Long hikes, steep slopes, and complicated trails — Hypershell X Ultra helps you handle them all

Spending time outdoors and exploring the beauty of nature can truly be a wonderful experience. But even if you’re a seasoned hiker or cyclist, everyone has their limits when it comes to how much they can push themselves. And when you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, exhausted, with sore legs, and wondering how you’ll get back to camp or your car, the view is probably the last thing on your mind. Thankfully, modern technology is here to lend a hand, in the form of exoskeletons. These slee

Show HN: Coding Agents swarming your codebase

Canvas Using canvas, approve or edit affected items of your task. The list of repositories, file diffs, etc. can be modified by the canvas. InfraAsAI Use our canvas and chatbot to share what's on your mind. Our agent will define a task and cook a bunch of PRs for you. Pull requester One task may require multiple PRs, we will help you create them and track them without the need to open IDE or any other dashboard. Rulebooks Runbook for your agent. Define behavior based on rules and templates yo

I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years

Imagine you close your laptop lid to put it to sleep, but instead of pausing, it reboots. Not every time, just often enough to be infuriating. You try to save your work, but the machine decides to start over. For eight years, this has been the reality of using my Dell Inspiron 5567. A bug I couldn't explain, happening across every OS I installed. This is the story of how I dug into the firmware's source code and found the single, flawed command responsible. Intro This laptop has been my compa

LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users

LinkedIn is preparing to switch on generative-AI training that draws from European members’ data, setting November 3, 2025 as the go-live date. The company says it will rely on “legitimate interests” as its legal basis and will offer an opt-out so members can refuse use of their data for training—promising that private messages are excluded. The change applies across the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. This is a pivot from last year’s pause. In September 2024, after criticism and scrut

Biconnected components

There are many articles online about graphs and (1-)connected components, but not many about biconnected components (BCCs), even though these are way more interesting and can be used to solve many problems! Especially in competitive programming it is vital to know about this concept. I will outline what biconnected components are, how they work similar to/different from connected components, and how to find them algorithmically (with C++ code included). Presumed knowledge is knowing what a grap

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Non-Toxic Alternative to ‘Forever Chemicals’

A pair of engineers has won the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a non-toxic, recyclable, and compostable replacement for plastic and toxic “forever chemicals”—per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—in food packaging. The question Can we reduce plastic and PFAS pollution by replacing it with a non-toxic alternative? The results Northwestern University professors Timothy Wei and SonBinh Nguyen teamed up to create a water- and oil-resistant material called “GO-Eco.” It’s well on its

Apple steps up war of words with European regulators

Apple steps up war of words with European regulators 2 hours ago Share Save Lily Jamali North America Technology Correspondent, Cupertino, CA Share Save Bloomberg via Getty Images "Bureaucrats in Brussels" are unfairly challenging Apple's closed ecosystem and denying users the "magical, innovative experience" that makes the firm unique, Apple said. "We have a serious threat to that in Europe," executive Greg Joswiak said in advance of the recent launch of its newest products and features. The

Obsidian Note Codes

Obsidian Note Codes 🦔 🦔 🦔 Obsidian with the Note Code plugin on the bottom right showing the code for a note about hedgehogs. I made a little plugin for Obsidian: Note Codes. It will assign a 4-character code to every note in your Obsidian vault. Those codes let you quickly reference notes in your vault from other places such as hand-written notes. Click here to try it out. To make things nicer, there's also a protocol handler, so something like obsidian://note-codes/open?code=XX-XX will o

Simulating a Machine from the 80s

Simulating Фахівець-85 2025-08-10 The book I recently read a book on the history of computing in Ukraine: Innovation in Isolation. It has the story of Fahivets-85 - my first computer I got as a birthday gift when I was 6. The urge to try this machine again was so big I decided to simulate it and run some programs (and games) I remember from the childhood. Even though there are several existing emulators of this and similar machines, I wanted to take the implementation path myself. The code

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 22, #364

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. As a Seattle sports fan, I immediately solved the blue category in today's Connections: Sports Edition. The purple one, though, took some thinking. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the

Some iPhone 17 models are reportedly prone to very visible scratches

Early shoppers are taking to the web to warn about the potentially scratch-prone nature of specific iPhone 17 model and color combos. According to a Bloomberg report, those demoing the latest iPhone in-store noticed that the iPhone 17 Pro in Deep Blue and the iPhone Air in Space Black models already had very noticeable scratches and scuffs. The report is backed up by social media posts following the release, where users recorded display models with residual marks from being used with a MagSafe c