At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html
NY Times
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.
Lossless video compression using Bloom filters https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md
GitHub
new_bloom_filter_repo/README.md at main · ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo
This repo contains a new way to use bloom filters to do lossless video compression - ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the
www.solarshades.club
Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.
GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability
invariantlabs.ai
GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.
Show HN: Lazy Tetris https://lazytetris.com/
Lazytetris
Lazy Tetris
No stress Tetris
How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting
Frontiers Science News
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
blog.benjojo.co.uk
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
Square Theory https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
Adam Aaronson
Square Theory | Adam Aaronson
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes delightful town square where total noobs, veteran…
Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26
LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from …
Japan Post launches 'digital address' system https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/
The Japan Times
Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
Under the system, users can input seven-digit codes on online shopping websites, and their addresses will automatically appear on the sites.
Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook https://commandline.stribny.name/
commandline.stribny.name
Command Line Handbook
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
CNN
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality.
Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox
GitHub
GitHub - microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code
Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code - microsandbox/microsandbox
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf
anematode
Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k
PoW is gone 🦀🦀
Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html
Photos taken inside musical instruments https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments
DPReview
Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments
Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.