2025-04-11

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-terminate-51-billion-it-contracts-with-accenture-deloitte-others-2025-04-11/

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding

This PEP introduces template strings for custom string processing.

The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over th [...]

The qualities you value most in engineers are also creating your biggest problems. Here's how to handle this paradox.

Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for conformant and better-structured pages.

"You could count the number of skilled electronics engineers on US soil, and there's probably a million in Shenzhen alone."

Watch London Underground trains move in real-time on an interactive 3D map. See live tube trains across all lines including Central, Northern, Victoria, and more.

A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.

Adobe’s foray into Bluesky quickly backfired. Users on the platform's negative reaction prompted Adobe to delete the content.

https://stevana.github.io/erlangs_not_about_lightweight_processes_and_message_passing.html

Personal website of Doğaç Eldenk.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rLucLvwKoLdHSBTAn/playing-in-the-creek

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这篇文章探讨了科技产品设计从用户导向转向体验驱动的趋势，并以流媒体平台为例说明这种转变如何损害了用户体验。

作者首先引用了亨利·福特的名言——“如果我问人们想要什么，他们会说要一匹更快的马”——并指出，虽然创新很重要，但有时用户确实只是想要基础功能的改进（即“更快的马”）。

文章以Netflix和Spotify为例进行对比：

• 过去的平台：像一个组织良好的媒体库。Netflix拥有庞大的分类目录、稳定的推荐系统和用户可控的评分机制；Spotify则类似一个拥有海量曲目的iTunes库，核心是让用户更方便地管理音乐。
• 如今的平台：演变为一个不可预测的“体验”。Netflix的界面会随意更改封面图片，缺乏明确分类，个人列表和“继续观看”功能混乱；Spotify也变成了一个充斥着播客的、内容流不断变化的界面。

作者将这种现象概括为：一致性、用户控制和真正的用户体验创新正在衰落。所有平台都在向TikTok的模式靠拢——即无限滚动的信息流，用户只能被动切换内容，几乎没有控制权。作者用生物学上的“蟹化”现象来类比这种趋同演化：YouTube、LinkedIn甚至Substack等原本各具特色的平台，都在朝着TikTok式的短视频信息流形态演变。

最终，文章批判了当前科技产品设计中，将不可预测性与个性化推荐混为一谈、忽视基础图书馆管理功能的趋势。

WebRTC For The Curious # Introduction # WebRTC For The Curious is an open-source book created by WebRTC implementers to share their hard-earned knowledge with the world. It’s written for those who are always looking for more and don’t settle for abstraction. Key features # Focus on protocols and APIs, not specific software. Summarizes RFCs and collects undocumented knowledge. Vendor-agnostic approach. Not a tutorial - contains minimal code. WebRTC is a powerful technology, but it can be challenging to use.

https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/100-go-mistakes

Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/10/the-thing-about-europe-its-the-actual-land-of-the-free-now

Clarifying the shebang (#!) mechanism: A step-by-step look using strace and kernel code shows how Linux handles script execution directly, revealing the shell isn't involved initially.

A new progressivism embracing construction over obstruction must find new allegories for technology and the future

Fully neural approach for text chunking. Contribute to mirth/chonky development by creating an account on GitHub.

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

Wait, wasn't this solved by the Romans? Anyway, my grandma ate lead paint and she was totally fine.

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

Instructions on how to make Longbow and wooden Arrows, Yew Bows and Laminated English Longbows. Easy to follow videos on all aspects of bow making and how to make arrows.

Ecosystem of libraries and tools for writing and executing fast GPU code fully in Rust. - Rust-GPU/rust-cuda

A new algebraic method for hardware-accelerated bilinear interpolation on convex quadrilaterals is presented, using the Barycentric coordinate feature of modern GPUs.

We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.16.0 with several new features and bug fixes.

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:zombie: Inject bugs and see if your tests catch them! - sourcefrog/cargo-mutants

: Will future techies feel the same way about Copilot?