A developer shares their experience transitioning from Git and Magit to Jujutsu (jj), highlighting both improvements in version control workflows and limitations compared to Magit's interface. While Jujutsu offers superior conflict handling and simpler workflows than Git's CLI, the author finds themselves missing Magit's powerful GUI capabilities for incremental patch building.
A new benchmark evaluates Vision-Language Models against traditional OCR systems for text recognition in video environments, using a dataset of 1,477 annotated frames from diverse sources. Advanced models like Claude-3, Gemini-1.5, and GPT-4o demonstrate superior performance in many scenarios, though challenges with hallucinations and occluded text persist.
The integration of AI models into developer workflows may be hindering the adoption of newer technologies due to training data cutoffs and built-in system biases. Research across multiple AI platforms reveals a strong preference for established technologies like React, potentially influencing developers' technical choices through both direct recommendations and limited support for newer alternatives.
A detailed exploration of Linux kernel's hung task warnings, explaining how the system identifies processes stuck in uninterruptable states and their potential impact on system performance. Through three practical examples involving XFS filesystem, coredump processes, and RTNL mutex issues, the article demonstrates debugging approaches for various hung task scenarios.
Digital simulation recreates the evolution of eyes from basic light-detecting cells by subjecting virtual creatures to survival challenges like navigation and food detection. The experiment demonstrates how different eye types and features like lenses emerge naturally in response to environmental pressures.
Senator Ted Cruz released a database of over 3,400 NSF grants totaling $2.05 billion, labeling them as 'woke DEI grants' based on keyword mentions of social justice, race, gender, and environmental justice. The controversy includes legitimate research projects like Emily Riehl's mathematical work, raising concerns about academic freedom and potential impacts on researchers' careers.
Go 1.24 introduces enhanced WebAssembly capabilities with the go:wasmexport directive and WASI reactor support, enabling better integration between Go functions and Wasm hosts. The update allows developers to export Go functions to WebAssembly and build long-running reactor modules, expanding possibilities for Go-based Wasm applications.
An exploration of the challenges in determining causal relationships between variables through academic research, highlighting how most observational studies must be discarded due to methodological issues. The analysis reveals that even the most rigorous studies often produce conflicting or ambiguous results, with randomized trials being the most reliable despite their limitations.
A technical founder transformed his open-source scheduling optimization project into Timefold AI, a venture-backed startup specializing in PlanningAI solutions, after his project at Red Hat faced discontinuation. The company secured multiple funding rounds, built a cloud-based SaaS platform for complex scheduling problems, and grew to a team of 30+ specialists, while maintaining its open-source roots.
The New York Stock Exchange announced plans to launch NYSE Texas, a fully electronic equities exchange headquartered in Dallas, by reincorporating NYSE Chicago. Texas, hosting the largest number of NYSE listings with over $3.7 trillion in market value, will provide companies with a listing and trading venue centered within the southwestern U.S. economy.
The document appears to be a French user interface guide listing keyboard shortcuts and controls for presentation software, including commands for toggling laser pointer, pen mode, fullscreen mode, and presentation navigation.
Zed introduces an AI-powered edit prediction feature using Zeta, their new open-source model derived from Qwen2.5-Coder-7B. The editor now anticipates and suggests edits that can be applied with a tab key, incorporating sophisticated latency optimization and thoughtful integration with existing features.
A vulnerability in doge.gov, Elon Musk's government efficiency tracking website, allows anyone to edit its database and inject content directly onto the live site. The hastily deployed platform, built on Cloudflare Pages, operates outside government servers and lacks basic security measures.
Multiple German warships have been targets of sabotage attempts, including a corvette-class vessel that had metal shavings poured into its engine system. Germany's naval chief warns of increasing Russian threats while reporting attempted break-ins at naval bases and approaches to uniformed personnel.
Google has unveiled Flash 2.0, a high-performance AI model that reportedly outperforms recent reasoning models from DeepSeek (R1) and OpenAI (o3-mini), marking a significant advancement in AI model capabilities and competition among tech giants.
OpenAI has replaced its diversity, equity, and inclusion commitment page with a new 'building dynamic teams' page, removing explicit DEI language while maintaining similar themes about different backgrounds and perspectives. This change aligns with a broader trend among tech companies distancing themselves from DEI terminology amid political and legal pressures, including recent moves by Meta, Google, and Amazon.
OCR4all provides a completely free, open-source optical character recognition solution without any paywalled features or private code restrictions.
TikTok has been restored to Apple's App Store and Google Play Store following its previous ban in the US. The restoration comes after US Attorney General Pam Bondi assured Apple about immunity from fines, while Vice President JD Vance oversees potential sale negotiations.
Amazon will discontinue the Kindle's 'Download & Transfer via USB' feature on February 26th, 2025, citing low usage and potential misuse for e-book piracy. Users can still transfer books via Wi-Fi, use Calibre, and sideload e-books through USB cable after the change.