The Daily Index — Tuesday, February 18, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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DEBUGGING AN UNDEBUGGABLE APP

This article discusses how to debug an app with anti-debugging protections that blocked debuggers from being attached, caused an exit when any code was injected, and crashed the whole phone when run with jailbreak on. It walks through the steps of how to attach a debugger, bypass jailbreak detection, and inject code. The article is detailed and contains a lot of screenshots, logs, and code.

bryce.co · 31 min

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MY TIME AT MIT

Murat Demirbas, a principal research scientist at MongoDB Research, spent a year at MIT's Computer Science department as a postdoc twenty years ago. This post details his experience working with Professor Nancy Lynch. Demirbas was young and he felt like he didn't make as much of the experience as he could have. The post includes lessons learned from the experience.

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com · 2 min

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I WAS GIVEN EARLY ACCESS TO GROK 3 EARLIER TODAY, MAKING ME I THINK ONE OF THE FIRST FEW WHO COULD RUN A QUICK VIBE CHECK

Grok 3 has an around state-of-the-art thinking model that is able to solve some advanced questions. It is likely somewhere around o1-pro in terms of capability and ahead of DeepSeek-R1. DeepSearch can produce high quality responses to various research- or lookup-type questions, but it can still hallucinate information - even URLs. Overall, Grok 3 + Thinking feels somewhere around the state-of-the-art territory of OpenAI's strongest models, and slightly better than DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking.

threadreaderapp.com · 6 min

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WHAT ROLE DOES LLM REASONING PLAY FOR SOFTWARE TASKS?

It is still unclear whether reasoning models are really as big of a game changer for software development tasks as they are made out to be.

martinfowler.com · 10 min

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SEARCHCODE.COM'S SQLITE DATABASE IS PROBABLY 6 TERABYTES BIGGER THAN YOURS

searchcode.com's SQLite database is 6.4 gigabytes - this post discusses how the project got to that size, the technologies it uses, and why it uses SQLite.

boyter.org · 6 min

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THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS GREENLIT AI TOOLS FOR PRODUCT AND EDIT STAFF

The New York Times is still in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft as the tech companies allegedly violated copyright law by training generative AI on the publisher's content.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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TOWARDS COMPOSABLE DATA PLATFORMS

Open Table Formats enable a kind of virtualization - they allow for a headless architecture where different platforms can bring their own compute to the same data.

jack-vanlightly.com · 13 min