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The Engineering Design Revolution - A History of CAD

David E. Weisberg chronicles the 80-year evolution of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) through extensive interviews with industry pioneers and detailed company histories. The comprehensive 650-page document covers CAD's development from its 1950s origins through the early 2000s, offering insights into the technology, companies, and individuals who revolutionized engineering design.

Closing the “green gap”: from the mathematics of the landscape function to lower electricity costs for households

Mathematical advances in 'landscape function' theory have significantly improved LED light bulb efficiency, leading to substantial energy savings in US households. The technology enables more accurate simulation of LED designs, particularly helping solve the 'green gap' problem through V-shaped defects in semiconductor layers. US consumers are projected to save $890 billion by 2035 through LED adoption.

Hyperspace

Hyperspace, a new Mac app developed to leverage APFS clone files functionality, helps users reclaim disk space by converting duplicate files into clones that share a single data instance. The app represents a significant advancement in file system management, allowing space savings without deleting files, and is now available on the Mac App Store as a free download with paid features.

ChatGPT Saved My Life (No, Seriously, I’m Writing this from the ER)

A person's critical medical condition was identified by ChatGPT through analyzing lab results showing zero platelets, leading to a timely ER visit and emergency treatment. The AI served as a crucial intermediary between patient and healthcare system, demonstrating its potential as a life-saving medical translator and decision support tool.

DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email

Federal employees were requested to submit bullet points of their weekly accomplishments, with responses potentially being analyzed by AI to determine job necessity. The directive, initiated by Elon Musk, faced significant pushback from various agencies and unions, while receiving praise from President Trump. Multiple government departments instructed their employees not to respond, citing security and confidentiality concerns.

Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents

Cloudflare announces the agents-sdk framework for building AI agents, along with updates to Workers AI including JSON mode and longer context windows. The platform enables developers to create autonomous AI systems that can execute tasks through dynamic decision-making, with seamless deployment and scaling capabilities on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

GitHub - Hawzen/hdp: What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?

An experiment explores the feasibility of creating and transmitting custom network protocols across different operating systems and the internet, revealing significant challenges with OS compatibility and network infrastructure limitations. Results demonstrate that while custom protocols can work locally, they face major obstacles when traversing NAT gateways, firewalls, and cloud providers, ultimately suggesting TCP/UDP remain the most practical choices.

Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

Y Combinator-backed Optifye.ai uses artificial intelligence to monitor and control factory workers' performance, raising ethical concerns about workplace surveillance and worker treatment. The startup, founded by Duke CS graduates from manufacturing families, markets their solution as a stress-reducer for company owners at the potential expense of worker well-being.

Xcode constantly phones home

The article discusses performance issues with Xcode builds caused by unnecessary connections to Apple's servers during the 'Gather provisioning inputs' phase. The author discovers that blocking certain Apple domains through Little Snitch significantly improves build times while exploring Xcode's seemingly unnecessary tracking and analytics connections.

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

An in-depth exploration of Git configuration settings reveals numerous options that could enhance Git's default behavior, backed by core Git developers' preferences. The article categorizes settings into three groups: those that clearly improve Git, harmless but helpful options, and taste-dependent configurations. Several recommended settings focus on improving diff visualization, branch management, and push/pull behaviors.

How to Change Your Meta Settings

A comprehensive guide details step-by-step instructions for enhancing privacy settings on Meta platforms, specifically targeting ad preferences and data collection. The guide walks users through disabling targeted advertising, preventing cross-platform data sharing, and unlinking third-party data collection on Facebook and Instagram accounts. Additional privacy recommendations include using Firefox browser and Privacy Badger extension.

GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepEP: DeepEP: an efficient expert-parallel communication library

DeepEP is a communication library optimized for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and expert parallelism, providing high-throughput GPU kernels and low-latency operations. The library supports both intranode and internode communication, offering specialized kernels for asymmetric-domain bandwidth forwarding and low-latency inference decoding, with comprehensive support for FP8 and RDMA networks.

1950144 - DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse

DigiCert's legal team sent a threatening letter to Sectigo regarding critical comments made in a Bugzilla discussion about PKI security practices. Sectigo's General Counsel responded by defending their right to open discourse, emphasizing that legal threats to silence criticism could damage WebPKI's transparency and self-regulatory system.

The Wrongs of Thomas More (Wrong 5)

An exploration of Thomas More's 1529 'Dyaloge' reveals his complex stance on religious authority and heresy, leading to his role in executing Protestant reformers. The text shows More's transformation from a humanist intellectual to an authoritarian figure, highlighting his struggle between rational thought and absolute religious submission. The analysis connects More's public submission to authority with broader patterns of authoritarian behavior across history.

Launch HN: SubImage (YC W25) – See your infra from an attacker's perspective

SubImage, built on the open-source Cartography security graph, helps security teams identify and fix infrastructure vulnerabilities before attackers find them. The platform maps infrastructure, emulates adversary behavior, and provides actionable recommendations through a hosted solution that allows deep customization and integration with various data sources.

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