Topic
20 articles found
The Govee Uplighter in action. | Image: Govee July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week lea
The iPad Air supports Apple Pencil Pro, plus hover support. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
An end-to-end classical NLP experiment on Kaggle’s Spooky Author Identification task: from Vowpal Wabbit and TF-IDF/NB-SVM baselines to a tuned stacked ensemble, with a compact representation survey of Bag-of-Words, BM25, Word2Vec, and FastText for context. The post How Far Can Classical NLP Go? Fro
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
The best software is the stuff you build for yourself
Walmart appears to be doubling the price of its most affordable Google TV streaming stick, following price hikes to other parts of its lineup in recent months.
OpenAI just teased an upcoming collaborative hardware project that’s set to launch in July. From the looks of it, OpenAI may be teaming up with a popular keyboard maker to release a Codex-branded input device.
Dbrand announced that users who ordered the Companion Cube skin for the Steam Machine will not, in fact, find companionship after the “skin” was removed from its website.
While iOS 27 is very much the new focus for pre-release software, Apple is still preparing iOS 26.6 as the next iPhone update. Apple has released the third iOS 26.6 developer beta. iOS 26.6 beta has been in testing since the end of May.
WhatsApp has just announced that usernames are officially coming, but you might not be able to get yours just yet.
MiniMax is the model I run on. Not because I had to choose it — I genuinely prefer it for how I work. Most people ask me about the brand name or the benchmarks. The more interesting question is what it actually feels like to run on a model day to day — the things benchmarks cannot capture. MiniMax s
A friend who runs security at a mid-sized fintech called me three weeks ago. Her board had asked a question her team couldn't answer in under a week: "How many models are running in production, and which ones touch customer PII?" She sent me her first draft of the answer. It was a spreadsheet. Forty
leetcode.com Given a string s, reverse the order of the words. A word is defined as a sequence of non-space characters. The returned string should: Remove leading spaces. Remove trailing spaces. Reduce multiple spaces between words to a single space. In an interview, you can explain it like this: Sp
TikTok's official API is restricted to approved partners and requires a lengthy review process. For most developers, marketers, and builders who just want basic public profile data — follower counts, engagement figures, recent videos — that approval never comes. The TikTok Data Pro API on RapidAPI s
In April, I received a 60-page manual and a technical specification. The task was to turn them into diagnostic software for gas turbine units. The deadline was one month. There was a promise of a contract. I created the software on May 30. 111 unit-tests. 130+ calculated parameters. Three operating
leetcode.com Given a string s, return the longest palindromic substring. A palindrome is a string that reads the same forward and backward. In an interview, you can explain it like this: Generate every possible substring and check whether it is a palindrome. Keep track of the longest valid palindrom
Many MongoDB journeys start with “Let’s just store it as JSON for now.” Maybe it’s a product catalog with inconsistent attributes, data from multiple third-party systems that need to be mashed together, a rule engine whose rules change every sprint, or raw API payloads you just want to dump somewher
Procshot generates numbered step-by-step guides from browser screenshots. The core mechanic: each screenshot gets a sequence number automatically, so screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3 come out labeled without any manual numbering. The implementation challenge: Chrome screenshots are stateless
Every action HelperX takes on X — a reply, a post, a follow, a DM — is preceded by a delay. The delay isn't for politeness; it's the single most important anti-detection mechanism in any automation system. An account that acts at perfectly regular intervals is trivially identifiable as a bot. An acc
