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Why domain expertise is the real prompting skill for LLMs
The common assumption is that LLMs flatten skill differences: since everyone queries the same models, a first-time user should get the same output as a seasoned
Wikimedia rejects card-check union, hires Littler Mendelson to fight NLRB vote
Wiki Workers United U.S. asked the Wikimedia Foundation on July 20 to voluntarily recognize its union after a supermajority of staff signed union cards. The Fou
A Turkish developer's German landing: trust, flat hierarchy, and social democracy in practice
A Turkish computer science student recounts how a 2017 internship in Hamburg upended every stereotype he'd absorbed about Germans being cold, humorless, and rul
AI agents make the case for open-source devtools by killing the plugin system
The author argues that AI coding agents have upended the economics of personalizing software. Historically, writing bespoke tools for yourself rarely paid off—m
Andy Pavlo Leaves CMU Full-Time to Lead New ClickHouse Labs Research Group
Carnegie Mellon database professor Andy Pavlo is joining ClickHouse to found and lead ClickHouse Labs, an industry research team modeled on the likes of IBM Res
Before the Tap: Milwaukee's Hand-Lettered Transit Passes, 1937–1992
Milwaukee claims to have invented the weekly transit pass, launching an experiment in 1919 that became permanent by 1921. What makes the passes notable to desig
California's DROP platform forces data brokers to honor bulk deletion requests
As of August 1, California's Delete Request Opt-out Platform (DROP) is enforceable, requiring the state's roughly 600 registered data brokers to honor consumer
eBay's Executive-Fueled Stalking Campaign Ends in $56M Payout
In 2019, a group of eBay employees waged a cyberstalking and harassment campaign against Ina and David Steiner, the Massachusetts couple behind EcommerceBytes,
EU Age-Verification App Requires Hardware-Bound Keys, Sparking Openness Fears
The EU's open-source age-verification project has confirmed that hardware-bound attestation is a non-negotiable part of its design, not just an implementation q
Fasttracker II Reborn: A Portable C/SDL2 Clone of the DOS-Era Music Tracker
A developer has released version 2.22 of an open-source, from-scratch clone of Fasttracker II, the classic MS-DOS music tracker beloved in the demoscene and chi
Fitting an Autoregressive Language Model into 25KB on a 1975 8-Bit CPU
A hobbyist project squeezes a working next-token language model onto a MOS 6502, the 8-bit chip behind the Apple II and BBC Micro. The entire system lives in 25
In Defense of Obsidian: Why 'What Has PKM Accomplished?' Is the Wrong Question
This is a point-by-point rebuttal to Brennan Kenneth Brown's essay questioning whether note-taking and personal knowledge management (PKM) tools have produced a