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Fripa, a Ruby client for the FreeIPA JSON-RPC API. Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/ruby The content outlines a Ruby client for the FreeIPA JSON-RPC API, an open-source identity management system for Linux/Unix that centralizes authentication and authorization. Key points include: - Users can see all qualifiers in the documentation. - The client allows for easy integration with FreeIPA server settings and user authentication. - The gem facilitates parameter validation and offers methods for resource handling and direct API calls. - Instructions are provided for setting up the client, running tests, and releasing new versions. - Contributions are |
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Addiction Markets Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: Hacker News Failed to fetch content - HTTP Status - 403 |
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Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: Hacker News The RFD describes a specific kind of deadlock in asynchronous Rust programming called "futurelock." This occurs when a resource owned by Future A is needed for Future B to continue, but the task managing both Futures is not actively polling Future A. The issue was highlighted by Oxide in a GitHub issue. An example program is provided, showcasing a predictable deadlock scenario. The program involves a background task that holds a lock for 5 seconds, during which two Futures are being awaited. One Future |
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C3 0.7.7 Vector ABI changes, RISC-V improvements and more Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/programming The release of version 0.7.7 of C3 introduces significant improvements in usability, specifically with changes to the vector ABI, which now handles vectors as arrays in function calls and structs. This eliminates the need for conversion between C structs and SIMD vectors, streamlining the development process. Additionally, alignment for vectors now matches that of structs and arrays, simplifying their usage. New features include a splat operator for initializer default values, implicit subscript dereferencing with the ability to use the .[ |
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I compiled my research on modern bot detection into a deep-dive on multi-layer fingerprinting (TLS/JA3, Canvas, Biometrics) Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/programming This module focuses on browser and network fingerprinting, which are crucial for web automation and detection systems. Fingerprinting combines elements from network protocols, cryptography, and behavioral analysis to identify and track devices and users without traditional identifiers like cookies or IP addresses. Each browser connection reveals various characteristics, such as TCP options order, GPU rendering patterns, and JavaScript execution timings, which collectively form a unique fingerprint for a device or browser. For automation engineers and privacy-conscious users, understanding fingerprinting is vital for creating |
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Horror Coding Stories: Therac-25 — A deadly race condition and overflow Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/programming The Coder Cafe discusses the Therac-25 accidents, highlighting how design and software failures led to multiple radiation overdoses and fatalities. This machine, which combined low-energy and high-energy radiation therapies for treating tumors, was attractive for hospitals due to reduced maintenance and operational simplicity. However, the shift to a computer-controlled system eliminated critical safety interlocks present in earlier models. An incident occurred when a radiology technologist, by habit, selected X-ray mode and then switched to Electron mode but encountered a |
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Are you drowning in AI code review noise? 70% of AI PR comments are useless Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/programming The article discusses the issue of high noise levels in AI code review tools, which typically generate many comments on pull requests (PRs), most of which are unhelpful. It introduces a framework for measuring the quality of AI code reviews based on a signal-to-noise ratio, where useful comments (categorized into three tiers) are compared to the total number of comments. A ratio below 60% indicates a tool that generates more noise than signal. It highlights a study analyzing comments from 22 |
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Friendly Attributes Pattern Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/ruby The author of RailsBilling, a gem designed for easy Stripe subscription integrations in Rails, discusses improvements made in creating subscription plans. Initially, the process involved manually creating standard, pro, and enterprise plans with various intervals, which although effective, had some drawbacks. The author introduced a new approach called the "Friendly Attributes Pattern," which simplifies the creation process by eliminating redundant keys and making the code easier to read and write. This new schema not only models a pricing page more clearly but is also idempotent |
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UUIDs for your database keys? Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/ruby The content appears to be binary data associated with a PNG image file, specifically the beginning of the file structure including the IHDR (Image Header) chunk and part of the IDAT (Image Data) chunk. This data includes various hexadecimal and binary values necessary for representing the image properties (such as width, height, bit depth, etc.) and the actual pixel data. However, due to its binary format, it is not easily interpretable in a textual sense. The content is truncated and cannot be |
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How my Node.js code was causing a massive memory leak and how I solved it Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/programming The content discusses garbage collection in JavaScript, particularly in the context of long-running Node.js servers. It highlights that while the V8 garbage collector (GC) manages memory automatically, developers should write code that aligns with the GC’s assumptions to avoid performance issues, such as memory leaks. Over time, memory usage can increase subtly, leading to crashes when the system runs out of memory. The V8 engine organizes memory into New Space and Old Space, and understanding this structure is crucial for optimizing server performance |
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Summary report on CI run and more - This Week in Rails Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/ruby "This Week in Rails," dated October 31, 2025, is a newsletter that provides updates and insights related to the Rails framework. It is distributed using the HEY email service. |
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A Look at Antml: The Anthropic Markup Language Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: Hacker News The content discusses the workings of Anthropic's API, specifically how it handles requests involving model interactions. Users choose a model, set token limits, and send messages, with an option to enable "extended thinking" by adding a parameter. The API utilizes unique XML tags, referred to as ANTML (possibly "ANThropic Markup Language"), to signify when the model is engaged in thinking. These tags distinguish special processing from regular prompt tags. Anthropic regularly shares simplified versions of their system prompts, |
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AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: Hacker News A recent leak from industry insiders reveals that AMD's upcoming chip, named "Sound Wave," is set to be manufactured on TSMC’s 3 nm node and will target a thermal design power (TDP) range of 5 W to 10 W, competing with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite. Scheduled for integration into future Microsoft Surface devices in 2026, the chip features a 2 + 4 hybrid core design with two performance cores and four efficiency cores, along with 4 MB |
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A Refreshing Philosophy of Software Design [Book Review] Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: /r/programming The author expresses pride in being a candid blogger who shares his true beliefs, even when they are unpopular. He recently read "A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout and believes it should be mandatory reading for software engineers, praising its unique insights useful for both junior and senior developers. Ousterhout discusses complex topics like code dependencies, obscurity, modularity, and offers a nuanced critique of popular trends including OOP, Agile, and Testing. Notably, the author agrees with O |
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Show HN: Quibbler – A critic for your coding agent that learns what you want Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: Hacker News Quibbler is a background tool designed to critique and improve the performance of your coding agent by automatically observing its actions, correcting errors, and enforcing learned rules based on your coding patterns. It supports integration through two modes, requiring specific setup instructions depending on the type of coding agent you are using. To implement Quibbler, you will need to configure your agent's MCP server, create or update a documentation file for agent instructions, and start a Quibbler hook server. It learns from interactions with |
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Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture Published: 2025-10-31 | Origin: Hacker News The content emphasizes that user feedback is valued and taken seriously. It discusses the performance of Kimi Linear, an advanced hybrid linear attention architecture, which excels in various contexts, achieving 51.0 performance on MMLU-Pro and 84.3 on RULER, with significant speed enhancements. Kimi Linear provides up to 6.3x faster TPOT performance compared to traditional models at longer sequence lengths. Central to Kimi Linear is the Kimi Delta Attention (KDA), which |
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An interview with Ken Silverman, creator of the Build Engine (Duke Nukem 3d, Shadow Warrior, Blood). Ken programmed the engine at the age of just 17. Published: 2025-10-30 | Origin: /r/programming Sure! However, it appears that you haven't provided the content you want summarized. Please share the text you'd like me to summarize, and I'll be happy to assist you! |
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Tik Tok saved $300000 per year in computing costs by having an intern partially rewrite a microservice in Rust. Published: 2025-10-30 | Origin: /r/programming TikTok significantly improved the performance of its critical Go APIs by rewriting them in Rust, achieving 2x performance enhancement and $300K annual cost savings. The changes were necessary due to the APIs facing high traffic (100K queries per second), which led to CPU bottlenecks caused by intensive serialization/deserialization, garbage collection pauses in Go, and inefficient memory allocation. The team opted to rewrite only the CPU-bound APIs in Rust, leaving the remaining APIs in Go. This selective migration resulted in |
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Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works Published: 2025-10-30 | Origin: Hacker News Failed to fetch content - HTTP Error - Net::ReadTimeout with #<TCPSocket:(closed)> |
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Virtual List: Overcoming the 16,777,200px Limitation of Chrome Published: 2025-10-30 | Origin: /r/programming The content discusses the concept of virtual lists, which efficiently render large lists of items by only displaying visible elements and removing those that are out of view, thereby saving memory. The author employs `react-window` in the Superintendent.app and `svelte-virtual-list` for Backdoor, their tool for querying and editing Postgres data. However, both libraries face a limitation in Google Chrome, where no div can exceed a height of 16,777,200 pixels. This height presents issues as |