Inside IEC 61850: MMS, GOOSE, Sampled Values, and Security
IEC 61850 is another one of those protocols that becomes more interesting the deeper you go. At first glance, it looks like another industrial protocol to dissect: identify the transport, decode the messages, enumerate the data model, and look for places where...
Are LLMs Really Making Developers Worse at Learning?
It's a widely held idea that learning is linked to memory. Reflecting on the years before LLMs, I have to confess: I didn't really remember a thing.When I started out as a coder, memory was everything. Memory, repetition, and a rapid feedback cycle. This is how I...
AI Didn’t Make Developer Work Easier. It Removed the Easy Parts
There is an old joke that every developer knows in their bones. A non-technical person asks for a small change, “can you just add a button that emails the report,” and six days later you are still untangling why the report generation blocks the request thread under...
Your Convex Agent Can Send and Receive iMessage with Photon
Convex developers can now add a durable iMessage inbox and outbox to an agent backend with @spectrum-ts/convex, the new Convex component for Photon Spectrum. The component receives Photon webhooks, writes each verified delivery to Convex before returning an HTTP 200,...
How to Evaluate an AI-Generated Literature Review
If a report has all the expected sections and reads smoothly, does that make it a high-quality academic literature review? Not necessarily. A tidy structure and polished prose do not establish that the report has covered the core literature or accurately represented...
Automating Technical Debt Triage in Enterprise Codebases
The iceberg beneath your code Every software team, no matter how skilled or disciplined, accumulates technical debt. In mature enterprise codebases, this debt is less like a pile of overdue tasks and more like an iceberg — a small portion is visible above the...
How Fast Can DeepSeek Run on 8GB VRAM?
So we left with an answer to a question but many more questions to answer, which is good for curious people. If 3.5 tok/sec is not the wall, what is? Are you telling me that on 8GB of VRAM and 24GB of RAM, with disk streaming, you can use DeepSeek? What is the maximum...
How I Use Playwright to Catch Broken Routes Before Deploying
Throughout the past month, I’ve been building a free guitar-learning site with interactive tools and blogs among other things. At present, it has hundreds of routes, and I needed something to test the pages before deploying. So I added a small Playwright workflow. It...
Why Localization Could Be the Next Big Differentiator in Fintech, per Opo Farsi
Financial markets in the modern day have never been more accessible. While the sector has seen significant developments in terms of speed and easy access, linguistic barriers remain surprisingly persistent. Lack of smartphone access or an internet connection is no...
Why Domain Intelligence APIs Need an “Unknown” State
Disclosure: I’m Esteve Castells, the maker of DomScan. Domain intelligence often enters an application as a simple question. Is this domain available? Does this DNS record exist? Is an email security control configured? Did a public identity signal appear on the...
What pg_stat_statements Actually Tells You About Your Queries
Your slowest query is rarely your most expensive one. A 4-second report that runs twice a day costs your database 8 seconds. A 3-millisecond lookup that runs 40,000 times a minute costs it two minutes of CPU every sixty seconds. Only one of those shows up in a slow...
I Mailed Microsoft an Internet Idea in 1998. Here’s What Happened
I built a push-indexing prototype in rural Russia. Microsoft said no. Two decades later, the industry built it. In October 1998, an envelope from Redmond, Washington, landed in my mailbox in Velikiye Luki. Inside was a five-line letter: "Although your submission is...
I Have Two Testers for my App. One of Them is my Wife
As I’m sipping from my Mojito on the French Riviera, I’ve decided that it’s about time to inform my readers about how I’ve managed to go from a wannabe indie app dev to making enough money to retire on my own yacht and sail into the sunset on the crystal clear waters...
UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it
The UK government has rejected proposals from members of the the House of Lords to bring AI vendors within the scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill. Cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra argued that regulating AI...
GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends
Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many government and agency geoportals. The project shipped fixes in versions 4.4.12 and 4.2.17 on...
Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin...
Acer’s Project DualPlay Mini is gaming handheld that becomes a tiny laptop
Acer's Project DualPlay Mini is gaming handheld that becomes a tiny laptop.
Acer shows off its AI desktop future with the RTX Spark design
It's a showcase of NVIDIA's latest chip tech.
Acer’s Vero 16 laptop is built to be easily repaired
The Vero 16 includes removable port covers, a detachable external hinge and a latch on the bottom that doesn't require tools to open.
Acer’s new monitors include a 24-inch, 1,000Hz screen for esports sickos
Acer is also introducing a new 34-inch ultrawide and several models with dynamic refresh rates.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 7 is the brand’s smaller handheld gaming flagship model
Acer is launching a 7-inch version of the Predator Atlas 8.
Connor Blakley used to tell America’s biggest brands what Gen Z wanted. He’s no longer waiting for them to listen
Mark Smucker probably should have taken the meeting. In 2018, Connor Blakley, then 18, mailed a handwritten letter to the CEO of J.M. Smucker Co., the fifth generation of the Smucker family to lead the business. Blakley was pitching the services of his Gen Z...
Why AI detectors can’t solve the problem they were built for
About a year and a half ago, I began deliberately deleting em dashes from my writing. It was for exactly the reason you’re thinking—because AI chatbots tend to overuse them; their presence was becoming a tell. Even if the words were 100% human-generated, I thought...
Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities
The browser refreshes fix multiple use-after-free, sandbox escape, and privilege escalation bugs. The post Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers and designers [Berlin, on-site]
Article URL: https://careers.telli.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533557 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on
Legacy government systems would have posed a significant barrier to the UK's abandoned national digital ID scheme, according to the country's spending watchdog. The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a review of the digital identity landscape and the lessons...
A comedian’s viral joke about Lovesac’s 24-box couch assembly wasn’t the problem. The company’s response was
Furniture brand Lovesac, best known for its premium cloud-like oversize beanbag chairs, is receiving backlash online after it attempted to create a cultural moment on social media. Last week, Dallas-based social media creator and comedian Deric Cahill posted a video...
23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted
The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown. The post 23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Before your next date, Stud or Dud wants to run a background check
With the rise of dating apps, cyberstalking one’s matches before meeting them IRL, or soon after, has become a routine part of modern dating. Now, a new website is offering to save curious daters some time and effort by doing the internet deep-diving for them. Stud or...
Why leaders struggle with negative feedback
Years of psychological research show that leadership—the ability to coordinate collective human activity to turn a group of people into a high-performing team or unit—can be effective only if leaders are capable of providing people with constructive feedback. This...