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The Problem Sometimes, we want to move the memory of an agent we're using over to a different agent. This usually comes up in situations like: * The agent starts acting up, you can't tell where the problem is, and you want to try a reinstall to
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The Pixel 11 was meant to push Google's security forward. Instead, one of the most valuable hardware protections from the last few Pixel generations is reportedly gone. A GrapheneOS project discussion says the Pixel 11 lineup does not support ARM Memory Tagging Extension, or MTE. The GrapheneOS team
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Mobile applications can be complex, and when performance issues or crashes occur in production, finding the root cause is often a slow, manual process. Engineers may spend minutes or hours stitching together logs, metrics, and release notes from multiple tools before even identifying where to look. PulseLens is an open-source
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Lately I’ve been struggling seriously to stay focused during pair and mob programming. Sometimes we hand a single task to a coding agent, and while it’s working, we drift into other topics. Sometimes we hand off multiple tasks at once, one moves forward while we try to review
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An analyst runs KMeans(n_clusters=4) on a dataset of customer purchase history; it gets back four groups, and he/she writes up the report as "from the data, it revealed four customer segments!" Management simply loves this - after long periods struggling to grasp their customer
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A Production Case Study in Batching, Ordering, and Offset Management In one of our event-driven applications, the Kafka consumer was processing approximately 4,000 events per second, while the production readiness SLO required at least 8,000. The gap forced us to reconsider the consumer design rather than continue tuning
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A twenty-year-old in a cold Helsinki apartment thinks the entire trillion-dollar architecture of machine intelligence is in bad taste. He may be the most dangerous kind of person in tech: the kind who is bored. An editor's note on this story. What follows is a work of speculative
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Last weekend the season finale of House of the Dragon ran for seventy-five minutes. I decided that was long enough to build an agentic chatbot. That was my goal. And I was determined to make it. So I watched the episode on one screen with a terminal open on the
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Two weeks. That’s how long I lasted. I signed up for Claude Pro with the same excitement I get every time a new tool shows up promising to make my day easier. And for about 5 days, it delivered. Then the honeymoon ended on a Tuesday, mid-task. First, the
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AI can make social media safer for kids by verifying age, detecting harmful content, redesigning recommendations around wellbeing instead of engagement, identifying harmful content patterns, and enabling independent algorithm audits. The goal isn't less technology. It's better technology designed for children. We spent two decades teaching
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NewsGuard is currently monitoring 3,749 AI-generated content farms across 16 languages. The figure was, as one would expect, smaller last month and will, of course, be greater next month. The main point is that it has definitely become cheap to publish large amounts of plausible text. The thing that
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Shipaton 2026, one developer, two months, and a dungeon you have to walk into. To my dearest 12 readers from my last HackerNoon post, I know you 12 must have been on the edge of your seats, losing sleep and unable to focus at work. For that I am truly
