Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding

Working with AI is less predictable than traditional software. That makes leadership skills such as context, clarity, and feedback more valuable.

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode

Dampfkraft is a collection of beautiful chaos.

TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

Yadda 3.0.0 is out. The release modernises the JavaScript BDD library, but more interestingly, it was largely built by Claude Code and points to why executable specifications may become even more valuable in an agentic development world.

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

Dmitry.GR: I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is.

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

A fictitious employee of an Irish aircraft-parts company ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, companies keep mistaking me for him.

Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Eigendrum solves its real vibration modes with finite elements, so every frequency comes from your outline, not a sample.

The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake

In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands: The unique geography is of course manmade, the result of peat mining. In centuries

The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis

LymeAlert will hit the market in August. The latest tool against the tick-borne illness could become a medicine cabinet staple

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

About Voltair Voltair is building the world’s first distributed network of drones for earth observation. We envision a world where after a major storm, an operator of critical infrastructure can simply sign into our platform and dispatch a drone. Within minutes, we will identify high risk hazards and stream issues directly to crews on the ground. With our ground stations and long range drones, we can cover the continental U.S. with only ~5000 stations.  We operate as a full stack service, meaning we build drones, deploy them, capture data, analyze it, and deliver the results on our software platform. Our first market is power utilities. We’ve serviced multiple utilities already, and are preparing for our biggest deployment with a large mu

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem.

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

From glaciers shrinking to an exposed shipwreck,  satellites capture the impact of extreme heat and drought.

Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More

Heavy lift cargo drones in Darpa challenge, gecko-inspired robotic grippers, and a water-hunting UAV for Mars feature in this week's Video Friday showcase.

Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk

A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.,Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.

The Programming Ape (Code Hale, 2012) [video]

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