How to compromise your system with a job interview
https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
code and society | codedge
How to compromise your system with a job interview
The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.
Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
Y Combinator
Software Engineering Intern at Sixtyfour | Y Combinator
The Opportunity
Sixtyfour turns a single name, email, or domain into a full, verified picture of a person or company — by sending AI agents out to research the open web the way a sharp analyst would, then checking and scoring what they find. You'll build…
Sixtyfour turns a single name, email, or domain into a full, verified picture of a person or company — by sending AI agents out to research the open web the way a sharp analyst would, then checking and scoring what they find. You'll build…
GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/
Surfing Complexity
GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy
In yesterday’s post about the recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn’t say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the saturated Istio si…
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/
https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/
quailblog
I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence
Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk because I need some chill
Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
Berkeley Lab
Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe
Hold on to your telescopes: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all…
Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour
https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour
https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour
Niki
Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour
A blog about my unusual programming adventures
There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/
https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/
Jake Gold
There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue.
For decades a small…
For decades a small…
It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
Blogspot
It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use while huge corporations try to sue the Internet Archive out of…
This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...
Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default)
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/registrar/academic-rules/artificial-intelligence-policy/
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/registrar/academic-rules/artificial-intelligence-policy/
UC Berkeley Law
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
annas-archive.gl
AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload…