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Hillel Wayne discusses how LLMs, while popular for writing formal specifications like TLA+ and Alloy, often produce shallow, tautological properties that fail to capture subtle bugs, based on analysis of community projects.
Mitchell Hashimoto shares advice for technical non-profits on improving donation processes and marketing to attract donors, drawing from his own experience with donor-advised funds and other philanthropic causes.
Ars Technica reviews the Velotric Discover M e-bike, highlighting its upgraded mid-drive motor, Shimano Cues components, and comfortable commuter design at a reasonable price.
This article discusses how AI-generated code and agentic AI are overwhelming open source maintainers with low-quality pull requests and bug reports, causing projects like curl to drop bug bounties and leading to harassment of maintainers.
The article argues that teams should choose boring, well-understood technology for reliability, while being free to innovate in development practices like TCR (test && commit || revert), which are easier to adopt and abandon without long-term maintenance burden.
A reflective essay emphasizing that beyond meeting specifications and delivering demos, great software must evoke the right feeling in its users—a quality that cannot be measured by checkboxes alone.
Pennsylvania residents at a town hall meeting voiced strong opposition to the rapid growth of data centers, citing inadequate zoning, tax breaks, and lack of transparency. State legislators proposed a moratorium and reforms to give communities more control.
This blog post details how to set up Frigate with a Hailo AI coprocessor on a Raspberry Pi for object detection, including steps to fix a PCIe descriptor page size error. The setup works with the cheaper Hailo-8L and achieves low inference times.
Mitchell Hashimoto announces plans for libghostty, an embeddable library for terminal emulation, starting with libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency terminal sequence parser extracted from Ghostty.
Routine vaccines like those for flu, shingles, and Tdap are linked to lower dementia risk, with a new hypothesis suggesting they may train the innate immune system, previously thought untrainable, offering potential new avenues for dementia prevention.
Apple has removed the secure erase option from Disk Utility in macOS Tahoe, forcing users to use the Terminal command `diskutil secureErase` to securely wipe hard drives.
This article argues that a comprehensive specification is not equivalent to code, because a spec defines a set of possible implementations while code is one concrete instance. It discusses the role of abstraction and why programmers are still needed to write specs even with automated code generation.
Zig 0.15 shows significant compile-time improvements over 0.14, with build script compilation dropping from ~7s to ~1.7s and full builds from 41s to 32s, even while still using LLVM. The article highlights progress toward self-hosted backends and incremental compilation.
A roundup of space industry news covering SpaceX's upgraded Starship test flight, NASA's SLS hardware progress, Russia's successful Sarmat ICBM test, and Indian startup Skyroot Aerospace nearing its first orbital launch.
TopResume offers professional resume writing and career services to help job seekers navigate AI-driven application tracking systems. Packages start at $179 with additional features like LinkedIn makeovers and dedicated career coaches.
Jeff Geerling upgrades his Pi-based open-source surveillance server using the Exaviz Cruiser CM5 carrier board and DeskPi mini rack enclosure, running Frigate with a Coral TPU for local AI object detection.
Mitchell Hashimoto details how he used agentic AI coding tools to develop an unobtrusive macOS automatic update feature for Ghostty, walking through each AI session and his iterative process.
A critical analysis of a company's claim to harness the Casimir force for free energy, explaining why the proposed mechanism is unlikely to yield useful energy.
Ghostty, a terminal emulator, has become a non-profit organization fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, ensuring its open-source future and allowing tax-deductible donations.
TLA+ semantics guarantee nonordered updates, but the TLC model checker breaks these guarantees by requiring ordered assignments and adding effectful operators like PrintT, causing confusion for beginners.