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qawolf.com

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REFLECTIONS ON THE REACT COMMUNITY

React is boring tech at this point. It has one of the largest ecosystems of developers, packages, and educational content for building on the web. The composition model of React was the right architecture choice, and it continues to have benefits. However, the React of today doesn't feel like the React of 2015-2020. This article looks at what has changed and makes suggestions on how to grow the community today.

leerob.com · 14 min

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THE ENGINEERING MARVEL THAT CHINA HOPES WILL HELP WEAN IT OFF FOREIGN ENERGY

China has started building a giant hydropower project at the edge of the Tibetan plateau. The $167 billion facility could generate triple the output of the world's largest hydroelectric facility, China's Three Gorges Dam, which can power 40 million Chinese homes. China is determined to become self-reliant in areas of national importance. It imported nearly a quarter of its energy supply in 2023, a level of dependency that it is working hard to undo. The project has stirred accusations that it will give China power to strangle resources beyond its borders and raised fears of environmental damage.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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IT'S NOT 10X. IT'S 36X - THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO KILL A $30K MEETING WITH AI

Improvements in AI come from embracing constraints. Context engineering is about understanding the shape of a problem and working with constraints rather than against them. The constraint is the feature, not the enemy. You can become significantly more efficient not by making AI smarter, but by understanding why your current approach fights human nature, and stopping that fight.

cameronwestland.com · 8 min

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TESLA FSD V14 GETS TENTATIVE RELEASE DATE

Elon Musk stated during Tesla's second-quarter earnings call that he believes Unsupervised FSD will be available for consumers in certain geographies by the end of the year.

teslarati.com · 11 min

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RUMORED $599-$699 MACBOOK COULD BE IN THE WORKS — 12.9-INCH MODEL WITH IPHONE 16 PRO SOC TIPPED FOR Q3 2025 PRODUCTION

The cheaper MacBook will apparently use a 12.9-inch diagonal screen and have limited RAM and storage options.

tomshardware.com · 4 min

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GM PLANS RENEWED DRIVERLESS-CAR PUSH AFTER CRUISE DEBACLE

GM's new project will be focused on autonomous cars for personal use rather than a robotaxi service.

bloomberg.com · 4 min

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STRIPE BUILDS PAYMENTS BLOCKCHAIN ‘TEMPO' WITH PARADIGM IN CRYPTO EXPANSION

Stripe's Tempo will be a high-performance, payments-based Layer 1 blockchain that will be compatible with Ethereum's programming language.

thedefiant.io · 1 min

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WRITING A BRAND-NEW OS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE BY NOW

Creating a consumer-friendly, fully working OS from scratch also involves getting the OS adopted, which means convincing both users and developers of its unique features.

blog.wellosoft.net · 9 min