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Uber has spent its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on Claude Code and Cursor, leading to a situation where the tools' success outpaces the company's ability to afford them at scale. Engineers have adopted these AI tools rapidly, with monthly API costs ranging from $500 to $2,000 per person.
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The discussion revolves around the integration of AI tools in software development, particularly their impact on performance evaluation and job responsibilities. Opinions vary on the quality and usefulness of AI-generated code, its potential to increase technical debt, and concerns about gaming metrics by developers. There is a debate on the cost-effectiveness and ROI of using AI in software development, with some suggesting that measuring productivity requires considering counterfactual scenarios.
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whohas is a command-line utility that enables users and maintainers to search for packages across various distributions, including Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware, Source Mage, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, MacPorts, and Cygwin. It provides URLs for more details about the package and allows users to refine searches using grep commands.
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The discussion revolves around an outdated Perl-based package search database, with suggestions for modern alternatives and potential uses in security.
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Sally McKee, a renowned computer science professor and originator of 'the Memory Wall' term, has passed away.
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The comment thread discusses the impact of a deceased computer science professor, known for her work on the memory wall, particularly her paper 'Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious'. The commenter shares personal insights about her and highlights discrepancies in academic citation practices.
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The article discusses how police have used license plate readers 14 times to surveil romantic interests and suggests steps individuals can take to prevent such surveillance in the future.
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The comment thread discusses the undercounting of stalking cases, with a focus on evidence for social change and accountability in police misconduct. There is disagreement over the prevalence of stalking cases and the effectiveness of available data.
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The comment thread discusses the history of PostScript, its role as a 'Linguistic Motherboard', and its potential for sending programs instead of data structures. Participants share personal experiences with NeWS and discuss related technologies.
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The article discusses the common misunderstanding about websites being primarily designed for their creators rather than users. It argues that websites should serve as tools to facilitate user actions, not just reflect the creator's preferences or aesthetics.
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The comment thread discusses various opinions on whether websites should be designed for creators or customers, with a focus on UX research and personal websites. There is agreement that websites should prioritize customer experience over creator's personal preferences, but there are differing views on the role of designers in web design.
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An open letter calls on NHS England to maintain its commitment to making new source code open, emphasizing the benefits of transparency and security in software development.
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The comment thread discusses the decision of a healthcare provider to close-source their code in response to a perceived threat. The main arguments are against this action due to its impracticality and lack of effectiveness, while also criticizing the motivations behind such decisions as being driven by optics rather than practical security measures.
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A pro-Iranian hacktivist group, The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq (313 Team), is conducting a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Canonical's web infrastructure. This disruption affects the Ubuntu website and its subdomains, preventing users from downloading Ubuntu distros or logging into their Canonical accounts.
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The comment thread discusses the reasons behind a cyber attack on Ubuntu, with users speculating about motives and potential connections. There is disagreement over whether Iran's actions are politically motivated or driven by other factors.
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Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new copy of the earliest known poem in English, Caedmon's Hymn, dating back to between 800 and 830 AD. The manuscript was found in Rome's National Central Library and contains the poem in Old English within its main text, making it the third oldest surviving version of the work.
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The comment thread discusses the influence of various languages on English, particularly Old English and its relation to Scandinavian and Germanic roots. It also touches upon the evolution of language through borrowing from conquered nations, the standardization of translations like the King James Version, and the potential for unified international communication.
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AutoRound is an advanced quantization toolkit for Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), designed to achieve high accuracy at ultra-low bit widths (2-4 bits) through techniques like sign-gradient descent. It offers broad hardware compatibility, ecosystem integration with tools like Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, and more, and supports multiple formats for maximum compatibility.
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The comment thread discusses various opinions and concerns regarding quantization methods in AI models. The main points include overstatement of accuracy benefits by quantization papers, degradation in model performance with lower bit depths, lack of transparency, and potential academic misconduct within the field.
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