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What comes after "octuplet"?

Madness. Madness is what comes next.

writing.stackexchange.com

How to come up with an original super power?

"Write what you know," is why the animator super power in Jujutsu Kaisen is OP.

academia.stackexchange.com

Am I already too old to consider pursuing an academic career?

"I encourage people not to give up their dreams unless they have other important dreams."

physics.stackexchange.com

Where does "plug-and-chug" physics break down and the necessity of manifolds become apparent in general relativity?

The Earth is round: confirmed.

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the-decoder.com

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

Fact checking the search engine we used to use for fact checks.

shkspr.mobi

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

But I believe, plain HTML can save us all.

inverse.com

Here's a dirty trick for speedrunning 'SpongeBob'

The gamer gunk theory is the Krusty Krab secret formula of speedrunning.

jivx.com

150 years of Japan, drawn in stations.

If you were wondering what people did before Waymos.

thebrockovichreport.com

If data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?

Figuring out what’s happening in your community shouldn’t be an Agatha Christie novel.

bbc.com

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work—but only for half an hour at a time

It's like smoke breaks but for being spied on.

copetti.org

PlayStation architecture

The only way you can get a PS5 is if you build your own.

law.stanford.edu

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford law study

ChatGPT: L.L.M, Ph.D, M.D, and now J.D.

tomshardware.com

Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

Why couldn’t they “accidentally” give me $500 million?

stevemagness.substack.com

The cost of safetyism

Kids need to go and touch grass.

nolanlawson.com

Using AI to write better code more slowly

AI, better code, and slowly aren’t mutually exclusive.

arxiv.org

Do language models need sleep? Offline recurrence for improved online inference

If I’m taking a nap and my AI agent is taking a nap, who’s raising shareholder value?

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Issue 333: The AI jackpot

We’re all taking a gamble with AI. Whether you’re someone strategizing AI adoption across your org or using a coding agent to vibe your way through a code base, you’re betting on AI being the tool of the future. Some may say we need to hedge our bets—especially when it comes to security—but the industry at large is still rolling the dice with the hope of big wins with AI. This week, we’ve got the spread on the wins and losses so far for AI. On our podcast, Tanya Janca joins us again to talk making secure bets with AI code and why the OWASP Top 10 release included vibe coding as an awareness item. Principal Venture Partners’ Songyee Yoon sat down with us at HumanX to chat being a player in the international AI game, and what VCs are looking for when going all-in on a global AI company. From the web, people in communities around The States aren’t feeling so lucky when it comes to transparency from data centers, while Stanford lawyers took a gamble on AI in their classes. We’ll let you be the judge on whether they cashed out big when they found out AI outperformed their instructors. And we won’t leave your knowledge up to chance. Lady luck must be in your favor because we’ve got Q&As from our site on everything from hot propellers to Nietzsche. You bet that’s all ready for you down below (with so much more).

Issue 332: The boring reality of AI

When novelty of AI fades, what we’re left with is the boring realities of enterprise workflows: back-office automation and payroll support. This Overflow is dedicated to those little, boring realities of this modern era of AI—the things that may not make us all 10x developers, but do make our work just a little bit easier. First up, we have a two-for-one pod episode for you with Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau on serious agentic systems and 1Password’s Nancy Wang for a conversation on making agent swarms secure. Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, sat down with us to discuss production-ready AI and avoiding the trap of over-architecting. On the blog, we’ve got our latest Stack Overflow Knows survey on agentic AI in the workplace, a piece on the artisan vs. builder dichotomy, and the first ever best-of round-up from The Heap, our engineering blog for everyone by our community. The realities from the world wide web are just a little more interesting—we’ve got articles on everything from extreme tokenmaxxing and sleepy LLMs to the positives of letting your kids run around alone outside. Plus, there’s nothing boring about the questions and answers coming from our community. They’re sharing their knowledge about Speedos in China, ignored resignation letters, and the will of the dead. If you’re looking to escape your boring AI reality, head on down below because we have all of that and more ready for you in this week’s newsletter.

Issue 331: Tomorrow's technology today

What exactly does it mean to be on the “cutting edge” of technology nowadays? With tech evolving at breakneck speed, it’s hard to keep a handle on what direction the industry is moving. So, this issue, we're talking to people on the cutting edge to understand exactly where that edge is. On the pod, we’ve got conversations on everything from storage on GPUs to security threats to enterprise chatbots with MinIO, CrowdStrike, and Slack. Plus, we’ve got blogs for you on everything coding agents: how they’re causing decision fatigue, how they’re changing the SDLC, and how leaders can get them to work at scale. And we’ve got a wonderful roundup of links and knowledge for you this week. From the web, we’ve got the scoop on mass allergies, a look into the operating systems of ye olden days, and the one simple trick to get your creativity going that Big Chair doesn’t want you to know. Plus, we’re satiating all your curiosity with answers straight from the mouths of our own community. Should you put “whistleblower” on your resume? Is it contradictory that western philosophy doesn’t believe in contradictions? What amount of ghosting is acceptable in academia? Trust us—if you want to be on the cutting edge, you should head down below because we’ve got all that knowledge and more ready for you.

Issue 330: We've got a Heap of news for you

Call us old-fashioned (and we know you do), but we think that software developers and engineers are better than AI at coding. That’s why we’re honoring the minds and work of the people with The Heap, our new software engineering blog written for the community, by the community. And we’re standing on business this week by dedicating this entire newsletter to engineering and software excellence. Besides The Heap, we’ve got conversations with some of the best and brightest minds in today’s technological landscape. Braze’s Jon Hyman joined us on Leaders of Code for a chat about engineering leadership in the age of AI, and how the last 15 years at Braze helped him transform his team to AI-first in just a few months. We’ve got conversations with Neo4j’s Philip Rathle on knowledge context for AI agents, Honeycomb’s Christine Yen on observability in the new world of AI-assisted SDLC, and Resolve AI’s Spiros Xanthos on the importance of retaining human intuition in codebases even when AI writes most of the code. Plus, our very own Josh Zhang is here to answer all our questions on cloud computing (even the dumb ones). And isn’t answering your heaps of questions what Stack does best? Outside of The Heap, our community is sharing knowledge on everything from AI and artistry to the heat of the sun, food supplies on sunken ships, and how to survive a plane crash if you wear glasses. Plus, we’ve got a heap of stories from around the web on tokenmaxxing, rendering the sky, and what time it is exactly in Italy. Don’t let your stack overflow—head down below because we have that and so much more ready for you this week.