Pre-Commit Lint Checks Are Vibe Coding’s Kryptonite — Lessons Learned
TL;DR A developer ran a pre-commit hook and discovered 523 lint violations across 67 files, revealing how AI-assisted coding can…
Start your meetings at 5 minutes past — small scheduling habit to improve flow
TL;DR An engineering manager at Google says booking meetings to begin five minutes after the hour or half-hour creates short,…
AI tools autonomously generate and verify a solution to Erdos Problem #728
TL;DR Terence Tao reported that AI systems, working with human guidance and community reconstruction of the question, produced and formalized…
AI Zealotry: A Senior Engineer’s Practical Take on Developing With AI
TL;DR A senior engineer describes hands-on practices for using AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor in software development, arguing…
Testing an RTX 5090 eGPU on Raspberry Pi 5 and similar SBC platforms
TL;DR An NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition was connected to a Raspberry Pi 5 (and two comparable small PCs) via…
Erdos Problem #728 Largely Solved Autonomously by AI and Formalized
TL;DR Terence Tao reported that AI systems played the central role in resolving Erdős problem #728, after the problem was…
OpenAI Asks Contractors to Upload Past Work to Test AI Agents
TL;DR OpenAI has asked third-party contractors to submit actual files and task descriptions from current or prior jobs so the…
Betterment App Sent Users a Crypto Scam Notification Asking for $10,000
TL;DR Users of Betterment received an in-app (and in some cases email) message urging them to send $10,000 in Bitcoin…
At CES 2026: A roundup of the most memorable and unusual robots
TL;DR CES 2026 featured a wide variety of robots serving as demos and showpieces, from a ping-pong player to humanoid…
See it with your lying ears: What happens when image filters are applied to audio
TL;DR A writer experimented with applying common raster-image operations to audio data and vice versa, revealing how similar-looking manipulations produce…