PREVENTING OUTAGES WITH PKILL'S NEW --REQUIRE-HANDLER FLAG
Missing the removal of signal senders when removing signal handlers (like SIGHUP) can cause services to terminate unexpectedly fleetwide.
2025.05.14
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31,958 matchesGOOGLE'S NEXT AI FRONTIER: AUTONOMOUS CODING AND VISUAL DISCOVERY SET TO DEBUT AT I/O
Google is developing an autonomous software development agent codenamed 'Codey' and a Pinterest-like visual discovery feature, both of which are expected to debut at the company's I/O conference, which starts on May 20.
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APTUM HYBRID CLOUD: RUN YOUR WORKLOADS WHERE THEY BELONG — PUBLIC CLOUD, ON PREMISE, OR EDGE
Dedicated infra performance + cloud agility = freedom to innovate. Aptum brings your Hybrid Cloud strategy to life by combining hardware, software, and human expertise, all in one place. Discover Hybrid Cloud
2025.05.14
GOOGLE IS REPORTEDLY PLANNING TO UNVEIL A PINTEREST ALTERNATIVE AT I/O 2025
Google may be debuting a Pinterest competitor to secure its ads revenue from commercial queries.
2025.05.14
ASK HN: HOW ARE YOU ACQUIRING YOUR FIRST HUNDRED USERS? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)
A discussion on how to acquire users and also what to avoid doing.
2025.05.14
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NFT PHENOM CRYPTOPUNKS WAS JUST SOLD TO A NONPROFIT
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other notable NFTs, has sold CryptoPunks to the NODE Foundation, a nonprofit focused on preserving digital art.
2025.05.14
TIKTOK AI ALIVE
TikTok has launched AI Alive, a new feature that animates static images within Stories. It uses intelligent editing tools to turn photos into short-form videos with dynamic effects.
2025.05.14
AUDIBLE IS EXPANDING ITS AI-NARRATED AUDIOBOOK LIBRARY
Amazon's audiobook service, Audible, is partnering with publishers to expand its catalog with AI-narrated audiobooks, offering over 100 voices in English, Spanish, French, and Italian. Spotify made similar updates earlier in the year in partnership with ElevenLabs.
2025.05.14
TENCENT HIRES WIZARDLM TEAM, A MICROSOFT AI GROUP WITH AN ODD HISTORY
WizardLM, a former Microsoft AI group, has joined Tencent's AI division, Hunyuan. It quickly released a new AI model, Hunyuan-TurboS 0416, claiming it outperforms Google's offerings. WizardLM will continue to develop AI models at Tencent.
2025.05.14
CHATGPT IS USED FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN COUNTRIES WHERE IT'S PROHIBITED
Using a classifier that detects distinctive AI word choices (like "delve") in academic papers, researchers found ChatGPT usage was higher in countries where it's prohibited by OpenAI. 22% of Chinese academic preprints included AI-generated content versus 11% from legal-access countries by August 2023, suggesting geographic restrictions can be easily circumnavigated. While ChatGPT use correlated with increased views and downloads, it showed no impact on citations or journal placements.
2025.05.14
5 MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH TODAY'S CONVERSATIONAL AI INTERFACES
While chat interfaces provide an accessible medium to LLMs for first-time users, they're a design dead-end that forces users to accommodate to the model rather than the reverse. The next generation of assistants will use more adaptive UIs and proactively communicate their capabilities.
2025.05.14
DUOLINGO'S PUSH TO BE AN AI-FIRST COMPANY
Duolingo announced a major shift to become an AI-first company, integrating AI tools across products and workflows. The company's new tenets include starting every task with AI, dedicating time for learning, careful experimentation, and preserving technical excellence. Leadership emphasized that while AI raises expectations, it's about working smarter, not harder.
2025.05.14
SAKANA AI UNVEILS "CONTINUOUS THOUGHT MACHINE" WITH BRAIN-INSPIRED NEURAL TIMING
Japanese AI company Sakana developed a new type of AI model that allows individual neurons to remember their previous actions and coordinate their activity based on timing patterns. While it underperforms compared to traditional models, it does allow researchers to understand how the model reasons, and similar to recent reasoning models like o3, its answers improve when given more time to “think”.
2025.05.14
VISUAL AUTOREGRESSION WITHOUT QUANTIZATION
EAR introduces a continuous visual autoregressive generation method that avoids quantization by leveraging strictly proper scoring rules like the energy score. This enables direct generation in continuous data spaces without probabilistic modeling.
2025.05.14
UNIFIED TRAINING AND SAMPLING FOR GENERATIVE MODELS
UCGM provides a shared framework for training and sampling across multi-step and few-step continuous generative models.
2025.05.14
LLAMACON HACKATHON WINNERS
Meta's first LlamaCon Hackathon hosted 238 participants who built projects using the Llama 4 suite of tools. The winners, selected from 44 submissions based on innovation and technical execution, have now been announced.
2025.05.14
HUGGING FACE FAST TRANSCRIPTION ENDPOINT
Hugging Face has released a new Whisper endpoint that delivers up to 8x faster transcription. The endpoint enables one-click deployment of optimized, cost-effective models for speech tasks through its Inference Endpoints.
2025.05.14
MICROSOFT IS GETTING READY TO HOST ELON MUSK'S GROK AI MODEL
Microsoft plans to host Elon Musk's Grok AI on Azure AI Foundry despite potential tensions with OpenAI. This move signals Microsoft's intent to diversify AI partnerships and strengthen its position as a leading AI platform provider. The plans to host Grok could be announced at Microsoft's Build developer conference on May 19.
2025.05.14
Y COMBINATOR REQUESTS FOR STARTUPS SUMMER 2025
YC's Summer 2025 investment themes will focus on AI agents that replace or augment traditional roles across industries, including voice assistants, healthcare automation, personalized tutoring, and tools that enable workers to build their own custom agents.
2025.05.14
AI2'S NEW SMALL AI MODEL OUTPERFORMS SIMILARLY-SIZED MODELS FROM GOOGLE, META
Ai2's Olmo 2 1B is a 1-billion-parameter model that outperforms similar-sized models from major tech companies on key benchmarks.
2025.05.14
OVER 250 CEOS SIGN OPEN LETTER SUPPORTING K-12 AI AND COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
Over 250 CEOs, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi, urged integrating AI and computer science into K-12 education to maintain U.S. competitiveness.
2025.05.14
ROBINHOOD TO ACQUIRE CANADIAN CRYPTO PLATFORM WONDERFI FOR $179 MILLION
Robinhood is acquiring Canadian crypto firm WonderFi for approximately $179 million in an all-cash deal, offering a 41% premium over WonderFi's last closing price. The acquisition aims to expand Robinhood's international footprint and deepen its presence in the cryptocurrency market.
2025.05.14
COINBASE TO JOIN S&P 500, MARKING A CRYPTO MILESTONE
Coinbase will become the first pure-play crypto firm to join the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services, following a strong earnings report and consistent growth. The announcement drove Coinbase's stock up 8% in after-hours trading, signaling growing investor confidence in both the company and the broader crypto sector.
2025.05.14
COINBASE UPDATES MASS PAYOUTS DEMO
Coinbase has updated its Mass Payouts demo app to showcase the capabilities of CDP Wallets v2. The tool enables developers to send crypto payments to thousands of addresses seamlessly, with no wallet key management required. The upgraded version supports high throughput and CSV-based batch transactions for fast, scalable payouts.
2025.05.14
CRYPTO AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE CAPITAL MARKETS
Blockchain presents a fundamentally improved architecture for capital markets by replacing today's opaque, rent-extracting systems with transparent, trustless frameworks. Tracing the transition from the 1970s paperwork crisis to the DTCC-dominated clearing model, the authors of this paper argue that policy decisions entrenched intermediaries that blockchain technology now seeks to disintermediate. They advocate for regulation that prioritizes transparency, programmability, and peer-to-peer ownership as tokenized securities evolve.
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HOW TO STAY SAFE FROM WALLET DRAINERS
Ethereum's recent EIP-7702 upgrade introduced batched transaction functionality, enabling multiple approvals or transfers in a single signed message. This feature allows wallet drainers to steal all assets (ETH, tokens, and NFTs) in one click. While rumors suggest that merely upgrading a wallet can result in asset loss, such claims are largely FUD. Mainstream wallets like MetaMask only upgrade to their own smart contracts. Nonetheless, signing malicious transactions, especially on phishing sites, remains riskier than ever.
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GEORGIOS KONSTANTOPOULOS: ACCELERATION IS THE NEW NORMAL
Crypto must adapt to an era where execution speed, not just innovation, is the core differentiator. Competing directly with AI and TradFi on performance, user experience, and talent, the ecosystem faces centralization risks as projects prioritize speed. Developers should build fast, open systems with transparent infrastructure, sub-second confirmations, and verifiable markets while preserving crypto-native principles like self-custody, composability, and censorship resistance.
2025.05.14
PORT CITY PROTOCOLS
Ethereum's “Port City Protocols” paradigm transforms simple swap stalls into structured trading hubs with controlled entry, tariff-style fees, and onchain warehousing of multiple assets within single contracts. By embedding protocol rules and asset management into one contract, these designs cut external calls and slash gas costs while offering clearer security and governance. Early examples like Uniswap V4 and ZAMM demonstrate how such systems can evolve into robust, organized “port cities.” EIP-7907's adoption is expected to spark a wave of similar scalable and efficient protocol designs.
2025.05.14
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOKEN LAUNCHES
Token launch strategies have evolved from Bitcoin's proof-of-work distribution through ICOs and IEOs to DeFi-era mechanisms like airdrops and yield farming. Innovations such as IDOs and liquidity-bootstrapping pools enabled permissionless market entry, while platforms like Pump.fun and DAOs.fun broadened access to issuance. Emerging tools from Zora and Believe now fuse social media dynamics with token creation. Doppler Protocol leads the next phase with dynamic auctions, multicurve pricing, and automated liquidity migration for secure, compliant token launches.
2025.05.14
USING STABLECOINS EVERYDAY
A freelancer in Libya used stablecoins for payments after local merchants began offering better exchange rates than for USD, highlighting crypto's practical utility in unstable markets.
2025.05.14
STABLECOIN USE ON BASE CONTINUES TO GROW
Stablecoin activity on Coinbase's Base network reached an all-time high in Q1 2025.
2025.05.14
CRYPTO IN 401KS
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong envisions cryptocurrency becoming a standard component of retirement planning, including 401(k) accounts.
2025.05.14
ANIMOCA BRANDS POTENTIALLY GOING PUBLIC
Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based crypto investment firm, is preparing for a New York IPO to capitalize on more favorable regulatory conditions under the Trump administration.
2025.05.14
REACTIONARY TIMELINES IN CRYPTO
1confirmation reflects on its early stablecoin bets, such as MakerDAO and the failed Basis project, and celebrates its first major win with Stripe's acquisition of Bridge.
2025.05.14
GOOGLE'S ‘G' LOGO JUST GOT PRETTIER
Google has updated its “G” logo with a gradient blend of red, yellow, green, and blue while keeping the original shape. The gradient in YouTube and Gemini balances modern style with a familiar identity.
2025.05.14
APPLE UNVEILS IOS 19 ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES: MAGNIFIER FOR MAC, APP STORE LABELS, MORE
Ahead of WWDC, Apple revealed new accessibility features across devices, marking 40 years of progress. Updates include Accessibility Nutrition Labels on the App Store, Magnifier for Mac, a more straightforward Personal Voice setup, and improved tools like Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, and Live Captions. CarPlay, Vision Pro, Eye Tracking, and Background Sounds also get enhancements with releases coming later this year.
2025.05.14
META'S ASSETGEN 2.0 AI MODEL WILL GENERATE HIGHER-QUALITY 3D ASSETS, AND EVEN ENTIRE WORLDS
Meta's AssetGen 2.0 is a much-improved 3D asset generation AI with better detail and geometry. It uses a single-stage 3D diffusion model trained on 3D assets to create higher-quality objects from text prompts. Currently used internally, it will be added to Horizon Desktop Editor later this year as Meta works toward generating full 3D scenes and making 3D content creation as easy as 2D.
2025.05.14
HOW MOTION DESIGN AFFECTS UX
Effective motion design enhances interface usability and user engagement. It offers feedback, clarifies transitions, guides focus, shows state changes, and shapes product identity, making interfaces intuitive and memorable. Good motion design needs a clear purpose, subtlety, consistency, technical feasibility, and accessibility for motion-sensitive users.
2025.05.14
SMASHING ANIMATIONS PART 1: HOW CLASSIC CARTOONS INSPIRE MODERN CSS
Andy Clarke's modern CSS animations for composer Mike Worth's site were inspired by classic Hanna Barbera cartoon methods. Early animators used looping backgrounds, minimal frames, and layering to save costs like CSS animations today. These principles use CSS, SVG, and keyframes to add ambient effects, feedback, and storytelling while keeping performance high.
2025.05.14
95% OF HOMEPAGES ARE INACCESSIBLE
Global Accessibility Awareness Day stresses the need for digital products accessible to people with disabilities, yet 95 percent of websites fail basic WCAG standards. Common issues, like low contrast text and missing alt text, block users needing screen readers or keyboard navigation. Designers and developers can prevent this with better practices, handoffs, and free accessibility tools, creating a more inclusive web for all.
2025.05.14
CALL-TO-ACTION (CTA) DESIGN INSPIRATION
Curated gallery of Call-to-Actions (CTAs) designed to inspire creativity and maximize conversions.
2025.05.14
INSTANCE COMPONENT GENERATOR (FIGMA PLUGIN)
Generate all possible instances for your components in a tidy, labeled table, including every combination of variants and component properties.
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TERMINAL USER INTERFACES (TUIS) CSS LIBRARY
WebTUI is a modular CSS library that brings the beauty of Terminal UIs to the browser.
2025.05.14
WHY LEARNING TO INTERACT WITH TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS IS KEY TO CREATIVE SUCCESS
Three technicians share how they mentor and solve problems to help students bring ideas to life. Intense creative technical work relies on respect, clear communication, and early collaboration with technicians as creative partners, not just service providers. Success today requires working with specialists early, staying curious, respecting their skills, and embracing true partnership.
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WHAT COLOUR BLIND DESIGNERS CAN TEACH US ABOUT SEEING DIFFERENTLY: THE HIDDEN ADVANTAGE
Colour blindness, often seen as a design limitation, can enhance focus on essentials like structure, contrast, and usability. Throughout history and across fields like science, military, and art, those who perceive differently have uncovered insights others overlook. Designing from the perspective of outliers, rather than the assumed “average” user, leads to more inclusive and effective solutions for all.
2025.05.14
BRUSSELS AIRLINES GETS A NEW IDENTITY, BUT STICKS WITH ITS OLD LOGO
WeWantMore rebranded Brussels Airlines without altering its logo or color palette by focusing on refined details that express warmth and individuality, aligning with the brand essence “You're in good company.” Through subtle updates, like a custom typeface, warmer hues, and a focus on a single red dot, the identity feels more cohesive, premium, and distinctively Belgian, reflecting a boutique hotel-in-the-sky experience.
2025.05.14
MEET FEMALE CHARACTER DESIGNS WITH ATTITUDE IN THIS ARTIST'S DISTINCTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
Natalie Pellmann's distinctive illustrations blend modern aesthetics with fantasy elements to create memorable, colorful characters with unique personalities.
2025.05.14
VIBRANT DIGITAL ART BY ILLUSTRATION ARTIST ARONNE NEMBRINI
Milan freelance artist and designer Aronne Nembrini blends illustration and design to craft striking visuals that help brands and editorials stand out with unique art and packaging.
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A REALLY WELL CURATED DECK WILL HAVE THE IMPACT YOU WANT
A paid portfolio site is not essential.
2025.05.14