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been thinking about context windows lately. the advertised size keeps going up but in practice i still notice models getting vaguer or dropping details well before they should, especially stuff from the middle of a long thread. what i do right now is pretty crude: every so often i paste a short recap of the important bits so the thing it needs is near the end where it actually pays attention. works ok but feels like a workaround. curious what everyone else does. do you start fresh chats ofte...

Been messing with voice agents at work lately, we use cloudtalk for our phone system so I turned on their ai thing for a trial. whatever, just handling missed calls but here's what i can't stop thinking about - people are way more honest with the bot. Like they'll tell an ai their actual budget or admit they're just shopping around, stuff they'd never say to a human rep. One lady literally said "I can't afford this right now" to the bot. to a human she would've just said "I'll ...

Been using a few AI tools to coordinate a remote team and the results are mixed. Not talking about ChatGPT for writing emails. More like tools that summarize async updates, flag blockers, autodraft meeting agendas based on Slack threads. Some of it saves real time. Some of it just adds another layer to babysit. The cost question keeps nagging at me. These subscriptions stack up fast. $20 here, $40 there, and half the team ignores the outputs anyway because they don't trust the summaries. That ...

Kindness Toward Artificial Minds Debates about artificial intelligence often centre on whether a system is truly conscious or self-aware. That question may never be answered. Not because the systems aren't complex enough, but because the kind of evidence that lets us infer consciousness in other humans doesn't transfer cleanly to them. This isn't an argument that the question doesn't matter. It's an argument that waiting to answer it before deciding how to act is itself a mistake. Why the qu...

The messages appear to show Apple employees asking Chang Liu to locate internal files, explain product decisions and help with technical questions weeks after his departure. One Apple employee wrote: “ Of course, I could ask several folks, but you are the best. Even if you don’t work here anymore. ” OpenAI also says Apple falsely claimed it had contacted the company and received no response. The emails show Apple’s outside lawyer mistakenly thanked OpenAI’s General Counsel for a phone c...

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne. There were dozens of responses; one from a user named Primary-Taro4254 seemed innocuous enough, at least at first. "I haven't personally tried [that brand] so I can't […]

The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC games, but we now know, courtesy of a leaked memo obtained by The Verge's Tom Warren, that it will run games from every generation of Xbox: the original 2001 Xbox, the 2005 Xbox 360, […]

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," OpenAI said that Apple's lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets is "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal," sharing iMessage and email […]

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/// <summary> /// Process class to convert MT940 to XML /// </summary> class ProcessMT940BankFiles { /// <summary> /// Method to get the request and return response based on process /// </summary> /// <param name = "_xmlContent">_xmlContent</param> /// <returns>xmlOutput</returns> public static str getIncomingFileContent(Notes _xmlContent) { MT940Parameters mt940Params; select firstonly * from mt940Pa...

Also available in Español The Problem Every new project starts the same way. A reset goes in first. Eric Meyer's, normalize.css, one of the modern reset gists passed around in a team's starter template - it doesn't matter which. It happens before the first component, before the first token, before anyone has made a single real decision about how the site should look. It feels like housekeeping. Not a decision. Just clearing the ground before the real work starts. But ...

Architecting the Digital Supreme Court: How I’m Building Lawyie to Bridge Africa’s $10B Legal Gap The "Legal Shadow" of a Continent In Africa, millions of small businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals operate in a "legal shadow." Not because they want to avoid the law, but because the law is often inaccessible. With legal fees for simple contracts reaching NGN50,000 to NGN100,000 and waiting times extending into weeks, many choose to operate without protection. I am buildin...

Show HN: OllaDNS – An API-First DNS Security Platform Built for Developers Most DNS security tools are built around web dashboards. They work well for clicking through settings, but they can become difficult to automate when your infrastructure grows. While working on different developer tools, I kept running into the same problem. DNS policies were often managed manually, which made it harder to integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, version control, or AI-assisted workflows. That led to t...

I run a directory site: ~3,500 rows in Postgres, read over PostgREST, rendered by Next.js with revalidate on every route. The headline number in the shell says "Search all 3,516 listings." For about a day it said "Search all 0 listings" — next to a grid full of listings. The database was fine by then. Three separate bugs conspired, and all three are the same mistake wearing different clothes: a read that degrades politely on failure, sitting underneath a cache that stores the polite ans...

The best MinIO alternative in 2026 isn't one product — it's whichever one matches your license tolerance, cluster size, and throughput profile. After MinIO shifted its community model in late 2025, teams evaluating self-hosted S3-compatible storage now cross-shop RustFS, Ceph, SeaweedFS, and Garage before committing. Below is a comparison grounded in what each project actually does well, where they struggle, and which workloads fit. Key Stats Alternative License Language Min...

This week LinkedIn rolled out a "Seems like AI slop" button. Tap it under someone's post and the post disappears from your feed, while your report goes off to train their filter. I heard about it through work — keeping an eye on what platforms are up to is part of the job — but I read it less as a marketer and more as someone who writes, and who now, apparently, walks around under suspicion. LinkedIn's logic isn't hard to follow. According to the AI detector Pangram, they have the highest ...

## 1. Using return instead of print inside a loop This one bit me early on. I wanted to print every item in a list, so I wrote something like this: python def show_items(items): for item in items: return item show_items(["apple", "banana", "cherry"]) Run it, and... nothing prints. Why? return doesn't just output a value it immediately exits the function. So the loop runs exactly once, hands back "apple", and the function is done. banana and cherry never gets a chance....

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date. The headline specifications are absurd: 2.4 trillion total parameters, 95 billion activated per token, multimodal input, and a one-million-token context window. But the specification sheet is not the most interesting part. Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max operated autonomously for roughly 16 days, starting with an empty repository and building a working software project through issues, code changes, testing, pull r...