Researchers have developed a new type of neural network called Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), which offer greater interpretability and accuracy compared to traditional neural networks. KANs learn complex functions at each connection, allowing them to represent data more efficiently and with fewer parameters. This new architecture has shown promising results in scientific tasks like solving partial differential equations and predicting topological knot attributes, outperforming traditional networks with significantly fewer parameters.
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is leaving OpenAI to pursue AI alignment research at Anthropic.
Pie Menu is a radial menu of shortcuts for macOS.
DARPA is developing TRACTOR, an AI-powered tool to automatically convert legacy C code into the more memory-safe Rust language to improve security.
SQLpage is an SQL-only web builder meant for data scientists, analysts, and business intelligence teams to build data-centric applications quickly.
Notion recently improved its browser performance by using SQLite for client-side caching. This led to a 20% increase in page navigation speeds through a SharedWorker architecture to manage concurrency and prevent database corruption. SQLite was implemented using WebAssembly for local data storage and offline functionality. In this post, the team at Notion goes through challenges they faced with slow disk reads and initial page load times.
This author recounts his experience working with a messy, yet strangely enjoyable legacy codebase. The system was riddled with quirks like a table with only one row used for generating IDs, a manually-updated calendar that controlled logins, and a daily data refresh process that could crash the system. The codebase itself was a chaotic mix of technologies, including outdated frameworks and a haphazardly built shipping application. Despite its flaws, the lack of overarching design allowed for independent development and quick fixes, which gave developers a sense of creative freedom.
The creator of the Impact JavaScript game engine rebuilt it in C and called it high_impact. This new engine is designed for 2D action games and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and the web. high_impact utilizes a simple framework with minimal code and is highly extensible, offering support for tile-maps, entities, collision detection, and rendering through OpenGL or a software renderer. The developer ported two of his original Impact games, Biolab Disaster and Drop, to high_impact to demonstrate the engine's functionality.
“Outline speedrunning” is a technique for accelerating the building process of any project. It involves recursively outlining a project into smaller and smaller components, then filling in these components as quickly as possible without focusing on perfection. Only after completing all components does one go back and refine the work, resulting in a faster and less stressful process. This approach is significantly faster than the traditional "loading bar" style of building, which involves working through the project sequentially.
Promotions to Staff Engineer focus on sustained, measurable impact aligned with company goals, often demonstrated over at least six months. Leveraging people, writing, and high-quality code multiplies your influence, differentiating higher-level ICs from others. Building a strong internal brand through quality work, collaboration, and effective communication is necessary.
LLMs are already providing tangible value, contrary to the claims of many who consider them just hype. This post details how the author uses LLMs to simplify code, automate boring tasks, provide API references, search for things difficult to find, explain concepts, solve one-off tasks, and various other tasks. While LLMs might not be able to solve complex or novel problems, their ability to handle mundane tasks can significantly improve productivity and allow developers to focus on the interesting aspects of their work.
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Over 2/3rd of dev teams test less than 50% of their workflows, causing bugs to sneak out. QA Wolf [11] gets your organization to 80% automated E2E test coverage in weeks, not years.
Ell is a command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash. You can chat with LLMs and have them call functions through your terminal.
Plain Vanilla is an explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. This means no tools and no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Morphic is an AI-powered search engine with a generative UI.
This developer jailbroke their Kindle Paperwhite to use as an e-ink monitor. The process involved jailbreaking the Kindle, setting up a listener server on it to receive image files, and using screen capture and image manipulation tools to send images from a computer to the Kindle.
Avoiding barrel files can prevent issues like circular imports and improve development speed by reducing unnecessary module loading. Consistency in file organization can be enforced by lint rules like `import/no-cycle`. A single casing format for filenames is useful for team style guides. While barrel files may be necessary for libraries, they often complicate application code and should be avoided.
Deno's initial HTTP imports aimed to simplify JavaScript development by using distributed URLs instead of a centralized registry, but this approach faced issues like long URLs, cumbersome dependency management, and reliability concerns. Deno introduced Import Maps and JSR to address these problems, offering better version management and reliability while maintaining the benefits of granular, HTTP-based module loading.
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A free ebook on WebGPU programming.
C++17, C++20, and C++23 have introduced improvements to enum classes, enhancing their type safety and usability through features like direct initialization from underlying types, the 'using enum' keyword, and the std::to_underlying utility.
This project uses breadth-first search to identify connections between a GitHub user and Linus Torvalds.
There are common myths about how Google handles JavaScript during the indexing process. Through a study involving over 100,000 Googlebot fetches, researchers found that Google can render and index JavaScript content, including complex SPAs, dynamically loaded content, and streamed content. The study also debunked the myth of a significant rendering queue, showing that most pages are rendered within minutes, not days or weeks. As a result, people should feel free to use JS frameworks in their websites while still making sure that pages load fast.
Partial Pre-Rendering (PPR) in Next.js combines the best of static site generation, server-side rendering, and client-side rendering. By pre-rendering static portions of a page at build time and streaming dynamic content at request time, PPR is able to have fast initial page loads, personalized content, and interactivity in a single HTTP request. This article goes into how PPR works.
Incident.io chose React Native for its on-call mobile app because it could provide a native feel, a single codebase for iOS and Android, and code familiarity for its team. The team initially used Expo Go for rapid development and iteration during a hackathon, then transitioned to the "managed workflow" setup for production, using Expo's build services and implementing native features through Expo's "modules" system.
React introduced the concept of a "virtual DOM" to optimize web app rendering. Its popularity led to widespread adoption, but also to criticisms regarding its learning curve, state management, and performance. While React's defenders highlight its improvements in recent versions, alternative frameworks like Svelte and Astro offer simpler approaches without relying on the virtual DOM.
Technical debt, often confused with cruft, is intentionally simplified code with a plan to address it and business alignment. Cruft is unintentional and lacks a plan. To avoid the technical debt trap, developers should prioritize clean code practices and communicate effectively with management to make sure technical debt is understood and addressed eventually.
A checklist to write bug reports that developers love. It discusses what to put in the bug report and how to write it. Some important points include: titles should be short and specific, steps to reproduce the bug should be easy to follow, and screenshots should be added if possible.
Gitopper enables a GitOps workflow for non-Kubernetes environments by automatically pulling changes from a Git repository and restarting services based on those changes, using sparse checkouts and bind mounts for efficient resource utilization.
An implementation of Shazam's song matching algorithm in Golang.
Proofpoint observed an increase in malware delivery through the abuse of Cloudflare Tunnels, particularly with the TryCloudflare feature. The campaign delivers remote access trojans (RATs) and has been evolving to bypass detection. It involves sending malicious emails with URLs or attachments, leading to the download and installation of malware like Xworm, AsyncRAT, VenomRAT, GuLoader, and Remcos.
Python's `__all__` attribute is meant to define a module's public API, but it doesn't enforce it, allowing access to private elements. This can lead to tightly coupled modules and broken domain boundaries, especially in large projects. A custom `ModuleWrapper` class can enforce `__all__` but has downsides like runtime impact and limited scope.
Oscar is an open-source project that aims to improve software development by automating repetitive tasks for maintainers using large language models and deterministic code.
A word processor that runs in the console.
Google Cloud is partnering with Y Combinator to provide early-stage AI startups with subsidized access to GPUs and TPUs.
Neat is a minimalist CSS framework that's only 3KB.
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Coding forms is rarely a value-add activity. Instead, use SurveyJS UI components to generate and style dynamic JSON-based forms [4] of any complexity, right in your JavaScript application — no need for manual coding.
The DOM allows developers to interact with and manipulate web documents as a tree of nodes using APIs like querySelector(), createElement(), and appendChild(). Efficient DOM manipulation can improve performance by preferring methods such as textContent over innerText and using insertAdjacentHTML over innerHTML. Proper memory and event management, along with performance profiling, are also necessary in performance-sensitive scenarios especially.
Amazon's Business Data Technologies (BDT) team is migrating from Apache Spark to Ray for large-scale data processing to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The migration was driven by the need to address scaling and performance issues with their existing Apache Spark compactor. The migration itself involved rigorous testing and validation to ensure data quality and reliability.
A junior developer doesn't want to go through the competition this job market is showing. Commenters suggest they apply to federal jobs, old companies, utilize their network, and more.
Cognitive ability and focus fluctuate throughout the day, influenced by factors like caffeine intake. This author encourages the strategic use of caffeine to improve productivity during peak focus periods and the importance of rest to recharge mental energy. These principles can be applied on both daily and yearly cycles to optimize creative and work output.
A guide to building React hooks from scratch to deepen your understanding of how they work.
Embedding.io allows you to turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs. You can crawl, chunk, and vectorize any websites so you can use their content with LLMs.
A performant interactive bottom sheet in React Native with fully configurable options. It supports smooth gestures, snapping animations, and keyboard handling for both iOS and Android. It is also compatible with Expo.
An audit of Homebrew, the popular package manager for macOS and Linux, identified vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to load executable code at unexpected times and compromise the integrity of package builds. The audit focused on Homebrew's core codebase, its CI/CD system, and the repositories responsible for package management. It found issues in Homebrew's CLI that could allow malicious code execution, as well as vulnerabilities in its CI/CD system that could enable attackers to tamper with package builds and potentially gain persistent access.
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, which began on July 26, significantly impacted Internet traffic, particularly in France, with notable drops during key moments of the opening ceremony. Global traffic trends showed less pronounced effects, though there were significant reductions in several countries, like Argentina and Mongolia. Interest in official Olympic websites surged, with DNS traffic peaking as the games progressed.
This discusses the keynote speakers and talks presented at the React Conf 2024.
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