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Twitch has launched a video stories feature that allows streamers to create and share 60-second videos directly on the platform. The feature aims to keep streamers connected with their audiences even when they're away from their setups, offering a way to share BTS content and promote upcoming streams. By expanding its story format to include video, Twitch hopes to reduce streamers' reliance on external platforms like Instagram.
Coca-Cola and Oreo are launching 2 limited-edition products: an Oreo Coca-Cola Sandwich Cookie and a Coca-Cola Oreo Zero Sugar beverage. The partnership includes a campaign designed to strengthen connections among friends through digital and physical experiences. Users can participate on Spotify to compare their music tastes with friends, generating a shared playlist. Additionally, a “Bestie Mode” merchandise line featuring socks, tote bags, and notebooks will be launched in collaboration with Forever21.
Gen Z is entering the workforce with priorities that favor long-term well-being over short-term perks. Retirement benefits are crucial, with 65% of undergrads unwilling to accept a job without them. This generation prioritizes skill-building, viewing advanced skills as essential for career success. 90% value learning and development benefits. Flexibility in work arrangements is seen as standard, with 82% wanting the option for remote work while still appreciating in-person community. Values alignment is also important, as 65% would not apply to jobs that misalign with their core values.
Use Pickfu for A/B asset testing, Dante.ai for creating your brand chatbot, and Harpa.ai for turning a webpage into an article.
A breakdown and analysis of Stripe's GTM strategy, including its digital ads, homepage, social content, videos, and more.
A notorious hack of a fast-food chain's mobile app exposed a loophole that allowed users to generate unlimited free meal vouchers. This incident shows the importance of securing both frontend and backend systems against vulnerabilities like XSS, CSRF, and IDOR. Proper input validation, content security policies, and secure handling of environment variables are important for security.
This is a compilation of best practices, pitfalls to avoid, and code snippets for using the Effect library. It emphasizes the importance of using Effect for fallible operations and avoiding unnecessary use of "any" and "unknown" types. Developers should also handle errors appropriately and avoid common mistakes like swallowing errors and misusing Effect.catchAll and Effect.retry.
Programmers should create their own programming language as a learning exercise. Creating a language, even if it's "bad," offers valuable insights into language design, parsing, runtime execution, and the inner workings of other languages. By experimenting with different language features and implementation choices, programmers can gain a deeper understanding of the tools they use daily.
Simplifying concepts beyond what is strictly accurate makes them easier to learn. This concept originates from Dante Alighieri's work, which in turn references Aristotle's observation that examples are not always the foundation of an argument. Simplifying beyond truth can be useful in the initial stages of learning something, allowing for learning complex concepts turn-by-turn.
Leaders who go beyond their expected roles to connect with employees are more memorable and influential than those who don't. Good leaders should focus on producing these memorable anecdotes that carry their desired message, rather than simply focusing on their official duties. This article goes over various stories and examples of good leaders who have done so.
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Sooner or later, any software business will be faced with the Build vs. Buy question. This free ROI calculator [9] (by Qrvey) will help you understand the financial impact of a decision to continue to build analytics in-house or integrate an embedded analytics solution. Calculate your costs (free tool, no forms) [9].
Run a full Postgres database locally in WASM with reactivity and live sync.
Convert unstructured tech specs, design docs, and code into structured datasets for model fine-tuning.
A gradient generator that lets you make colorful blends between different colors.
This post analyzes Hacker News posts to understand community sentiment and trends. Using a large language model, its author analyzed over 100,000 posts and millions of comments to identify popular topics, like programming and computer science, and topics that evoke negative reactions, such as FTX and police misconduct. Certain topics, like GNOME and Google, can generate both positive and negative reactions because they are divisive.
Rebecca Yi and Jordan Cutler, two Senior Web Engineers at Pinterest, share their onboarding experience, detailing the structured learning program they went through, from the first week's Pintro sessions to launching their first projects two months later. The onboarding program included a combination of company-wide engineering sessions (Basecamp) and team-specific web engineer curriculum, which covered topics like web architecture, data fetching, and performance optimization. They both found their first projects, a performance audit and a Pin video feature improvement, an impactful and valuable learning experience.
This blog post discusses the complexities of location-based programming and the challenges of accurately determining a user's location. There are various methods used like user reporting, device heuristics, IP address, and edge compute. However, none of these methods can be fully trusted due to user dishonesty, device manipulation, IP spoofing, and the inherent limitations of edge compute.
Focusing solely on data to measure developer productivity is ineffective and potentially harmful - actual human interaction and relationships should be focused on instead.
Puter is an advanced, open-source internet operating system designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible.
Good documentation is concise, well-structured, and uses plain language.
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Your engineers are brilliant, but even the best teams need expert support sometimes to accelerate growth or tackle complex projects. Whether it's development [5], architecture, team dynamics, or scaling [6], there comes a time where every organization needs a trusted partner.
SpaceX plans to perform the first-ever human space flight over the Earth's poles before the end of this year. The Fram2 mission crew will comprise a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur, a polar explorer, a roboticist, and a filmmaker. They will fly aboard Crew Dragon Endurance, which will be fitted with a cupola for both photography and filming. This will be SpaceX's third free-flying mission aboard Crew Dragon.
Google's Pixel hardware event is scheduled for today. The company has already confirmed it will be launching the Pixel 9 and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold at the event. There may be other announcements, such as a smaller Pro option, AI features, the Pixel Buds Pro 2, a Pixel Watch 3, and more. This article summarizes the rumors for all the things Google may present at the event.
Scientists at Northwestern University have invented a goo that could open the door to regenerating human knee cartilage. The goo mimics the chemical structure of cartilage. Animal subjects who had their joints treated with the biomaterial grew new cartilage within six months. If the goo works in humans, it could benefit people who need knee replacement surgeries, athletes who experience ACL tears, and people who suffer from degenerative diseases like arthritis.
Simon Westbrook started a biotech company with his wife Dominique after they were made redundant by Pfizer in 2011. Their mission was to develop a game-changing drug to treat osteoarthritis. 14 years after starting their mission, the effectiveness of their company's treatment has exceeded all expectations. The treatment, which restores protective processes to diseased joints and enables the regeneration of affected tissues, can be delivered via a once-a-month injection. This article tells the story of how the drug was developed.
Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) can be disabled in Python version 3.13. GIL is a mechanism used by the C Python interpreter to ensure that only one thread executes the Python bytecode at a time. Free-threaded mode, which disables GIL, is currently experimental. Disabling GIL makes a massive difference in the performance of multithreaded tasks.
Go can do basically anything. It's simple, easy to read, and consistent. Using only Go means less context switching and leads to a deeper understanding of the language. There are basically an infinite number of projects out there, so there's still plenty to build even if only knowing one language was a restriction.
Replika offers customizable AI-powered avatars for users to interact with. Users can talk to these avatars through a chat interface, through video calls, or in virtual and augmented reality. This article contains an interview with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda, where she discusses how AI tech makes companions possible and what the limits of current models are. Kuyda says the company's goal is not to replace real-life humans, but instead create an entirely new relationship category - a virtual being that can be used for whatever purposes users might need.
The stagnation in hiring has resulted in a rise of 'stuck' workers who want to quit their jobs but are staying put due to a fear of a potential recession. Americans are quitting their jobs at the slowest pace since the pandemic, despite job satisfaction falling. Job market forecasters say the slowdown in hiring will likely continue.
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Harvard researchers canceled plans to send sunlight-reflecting particles up into the atmosphere because the project struggled with intense attention from the media and the scientific advisory committee.
Netscape built SSL, a protocol for creating secure channels between clients and servers that can be run over HTTP: combining HTTP and SSL resulted in HTTPS.
Tesla's Cybertruck has been outselling Ford's F-150 Lightning despite Lightnings being available with price tags $20,000-$30,000 less.
CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas said it was important that he accept the award in person so that CrowdStrike could 'own' its mistakes.
Patreon will move all creators to Apple's iOS in-app purchase system by November 2025.
TikTok users can now create group chats with up to 32 people.
YouTube is trialing 'Brainstorm with Gemini,' a feature that helps creators generate video ideas and thumbnails using Google's AI. Available to selected creators for testing, this tool could differentiate YouTube from competitors by leveraging AI for content creation. The platform is evaluating creator feedback before deciding on a wider release.
OpenAI's founding team is experiencing significant turnover, with only 2 of the 11 original members currently active, as concerns grow over the organization's shift away from its initial non-profit ideals toward a more profit-driven structure. This exodus includes co-founders Greg Brockman (on sabbatical) and Ilya Sutskever (who has left), amid speculation of burnout and lucrative secondary financial rewards. The organization faces challenges as it may require a new major cash partner and anticipates delays in the release of GPT-5, while the industry considers the merits of "open" versus "closed" AI models.
Flux AI, by Black Forest Labs, has emerged as the latest promising open-source AI image generation tool. It is capable of running on consumer-grade laptops. It excels in rendering people and prompt adherence, outperforming competitors like Midjourney in some aspects. The model is available in Pro, Dev, and Schnell versions, with a forthcoming text-to-video model announced as open-source as well.
A few weeks ago, DeepMind released a number of sparse autoencoders on the Gemma 2 suite of models. This is now the companion paper where researchers discuss the training paradigm and some interesting results.
Researchers propose a method to improve event stereo matching by integrating a stereo event camera with a fixed-frequency LiDAR sensor.
The UGrid solver is a newly developed neural solver for linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) that combines the strengths of U-Net and MultiGrid techniques.
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With advancements in AI, businesses can automate more complex tasks than ever before. This guide [11] covers the current state of AI and business automation, practical tips to adapt your strategy, and how Camunda uses AI technologies [11] including OpenAI and Hugging Face
The LLM-Aided OCR Project improves OCR accuracy using advanced NLP and LLMs, supporting features like error correction, markdown formatting, and header/page number handling. It works with both local and API-based LLMs, offering asynchronous processing and quality assessment.
ECG-FM is a transformer-based foundation model designed to improve ECG analysis by reducing the need for extensive labeled data.
ProxyCLIP is a new framework designed to improve open-vocabulary semantic segmentation by combining the strengths of CLIP models and Vision Foundation Models.
Apple may eventually charge for advanced Apple Intelligence features, but this is expected to be at least three years out. Its initial AI offerings will remain free as the company develops more sophisticated functionalities. Current features, such as an updated Siri, run on-device, suggesting Apple is still catching up in AI.