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Decoding the Invisible Rules That Almost Derailed My 8-Figure Exit There I was, standing outside a downtown office building, clutching a presentation I’d spent weeks perfecting. My hands were clammy. My heart was racing. In just minutes, I’d be pitching my vision for an AI-powered anthropological research platform to a roomful of executives who probably had … Read more

In modern web development, building robust and well-documented APIs is crucial for seamless communication between different parts of your application and third-party services. Effective API documentation helps developers understand how to interact with your API, reduces integration issues, and enhances the overall developer experience. Swagger and Zod are powerful tools that simplify API documentation and … Read more

On smaller screens like phones, every bit of space counts. It’s not ideal to have the navigation bar always visible. One way to fix this is by hiding it when the user scrolls down, and showing it again when they scroll up. In this guide, you’ll build the interaction from scratch using plain HTML, CSS, … Read more

1. Why SPA speed is your superpower asset As a frontend developer, I’ve always been obsessed with creating applications that don’t just work, but fly. Single Page Applications (SPAs) are the heart of modern web products, from dynamic dashboards to social platforms. But there’s a catch: the more complex the interface, the easier it is … Read more

:::info Authors: (1) Evan Shieh, Young Data Scientists League (evan.shieh@youngdatascientists.org); (2) Faye-Marie Vassel, Stanford University; (3) Cassidy Sugimoto, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology; (4) Thema Monroe-White, Schar School of Policy and Government & Department of Computer Science, George Mason University (tmonroew@gmu.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 Related Work … Read more

Hello! I’m so excited for this article. We’re going to learn about an important concept: character encoding. It acts as a bridge between human language and computer language. Let’s say you and I speak different languages. I understand only numbers, and you understand written symbols. How can we talk to each other? This is exactly … Read more

Our every step online can be traced—by websites, advertisers, governments, and even cyber hackers. If you care about privacy, need to access blocked content, or simply enjoy the concept of being invisible online, it’s time to learn how to remain anonymous. This blog will take you through the fundamentals of online anonymity and introduce you … Read more

Cyber attacks now pose a major threat to individuals, companies, and even countries. From data theft to crippling critical infrastructure, hackers demonstrated repeatedly how devastating a few lines of code can be. In this post, let’s travel through the timeline of some of the worst cyber attacks, see how they were possible, and discover their … Read more

MCP (Model Context Protocol) can be called as a buzzword of 2025, except it’s not just that. It’s a communication protocol launched by Anthropic — the company behind the family of Claude AI models. Almost all major AI companies including Google and OpenAI have embraced MCP and it’s on its way to become a standardized … Read more

Let’s be real. Great product photos can totally make or break your online hustle. But who’s got time (or cash) for a fancy studio setup? That’s where AI swoops in to save the day, turning your phone pics into pro-level shots without the stress. I’ve rounded up six of the coolest AI product photography tools … Read more

:::info Authors: (1) Evan Shieh, Young Data Scientists League (evan.shieh@youngdatascientists.org); (2) Faye-Marie Vassel, Stanford University; (3) Cassidy Sugimoto, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology; (4) Thema Monroe-White, Schar School of Policy and Government & Department of Computer Science, George Mason University (tmonroew@gmu.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 Related Work … Read more

ACL injuries are brutal. Over 100,000 reconstructive surgeries happen every year in the US alone — and many more athletes never make it back to full performance [1]. While there’s a mountain of research on treating these injuries, there’s surprisingly little on how to prevent them in the first place. At Hippos Exoskeleton Limited, we’re … Read more

Okay, so you’ve got this idea for a digital product. Something cool, maybe an app or a plugin, but you’re low on budget. I feel that—hard. But the crazy part is you don’t need money to make this real. Right now, digital products are a hot slice of consumer spending, like 2.5% of what people … Read more

If you’re running services that should be able to handle a high amount of traffic, you can load balance a lot of that traffic between your backend servers. There are lots of production-grade load balancer on the market (NGINX, HAProxy, etc.) but knowing how they work behind the scene is good knowledge. A Simple HTTP … Read more

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is one of the key pillars for organizations. SRE teams are responsible for maintaining the system’s scalability and reliability. One of the key challenges SRE teams face is dealing with alert floods, parsing cryptic logs, and the pressure of SLA timers. These challenges make Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of an incident … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Community Challenges Overview and 2.1 CCKS 2.2 CHIP and 2.3 CCIR, CSMI, CCL and DCIC 3. Evaluation Tasks Overview and 3.1 Information Extraction 3.2 Text Classification and Text Similarity 3.3 Knowledge Graph and Question Answering 3.4 Text Generation and Knowledge Reasoning and 3.5 Large Language Model Evaluation … Read more

When I first started creating Curve Finance in 2019, I had a choice to make. I could have followed the popular trend and used Solidity, which is arguably the most popular language for Ethereum smart contracts. But instead, I decided to pick a different route, going with Vyper instead. The language was created by Vitalik … Read more

By Bhavy Metakar, Hippos Exoskeleton Incorporated Introduction Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are among the most serious threats to athletes. At Hippos Exoskeleton Incorporated, we are developing the world’s first Smart Adaptive Knee Brace — a wearable device designed to reduce the likelihood of these injuries. Central to our prototype is a high-speed airbag system … Read more

Building Vaani (वाणी) – A Minimal, Private, Universal Speech-to-Text Desktop Application A few days back, I was religiously watching the latest video from Andrej Karpathy where he introduced Vibe Coding. https://youtu.be/EWvNQjAaOHw?t=4690&embedable=true I have been using AI code assistants for a while but am still highly involved in the coding process. AI is mostly acting as … Read more

If you are finally done creating your Ghibli avatars, hear me out. OpenAI’s moat keeps growing and it’s almost scary. Two months ago, in the second edition of this newsletter, I said you would be paying the $20 per month to “GPT wrappers” that in turn call LLMs, likely from different companies, in their product. … Read more

I dreamed of creating Zootopia World — a platform where wildlife enthusiasts could connect and explore the animal kingdom, but website development seemed daunting. n n Then, I discovered SiteNear. In just 3 minutes, my impossible dream transformed into a professional reality. Without coding skills or expensive developers, I built a complete hub for sharing … Read more

The Excel NETWORKDAYS Function returns the number of available working days between the starting date and the ending date. NETWORKDAYS Function: A Brief The NETWORKDAYS function in Excel is used to calculate & return the number of working days between two dates (starting date and the ending date). It automatically excludes weekends (Saturday and Sunday) … Read more

I’m starting a series of articles where I will decode, in detail, Go-to-Market strategies and marketing solutions of the biggest crypto and Web3 projects. Uniswap has solidified its place as the leading decentralized exchange in the DeFi space, boasting a total value locked (TVL) that hit $3+bn in 2025 and making UNI one of the … Read more

(Who Also Does the Dishes) Let’s get one thing straight: Your morning routine isn’t the secret weapon you think it is—if your night before looked like chaos, doom-scrolling, and falling asleep in a burrito of laundry. Truth is, high-performance starts the night before. Your morning is just reaping whatever mess (or magic) you left yourself … Read more

Victoria, Seychelles, April 22nd, 2025/Chainwire/–Paydify offers an easy plug-in payment layer that enables any business to accept crypto payments from any wallet or blockchain network — with instant stablecoin settlement and zero fees. Paydify, a universal gateway for any crypto payments, has officially launched to enable businesses to accept crypto payments from any wallet or … Read more

Willemstad, Curacao, April 22nd, 2025/Chainwire/–Following the success of its first Battlepass season, Whale.io is excited to launch Battlepass Season 2, bringing players a fresh wave of rewards and features. This new season builds on the strong foundation of Season 1, offering enhanced benefits like the chance to win two Lamborghinis, $Whale Tokens, and a range … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 COCOGEN: Representing Commonsense structures with code and 2.1 Converting (T,G) into Python code 2.2 Few-shot prompting for generating G 3 Evaluation and 3.1 Experimental setup 3.2 Script generation: PROSCRIPT 3.3 Entity state tracking: PROPARA 3.4 Argument graph generation: EXPLAGRAPHS 4 Analysis 5 Related work 6 Conclusion, Acknowledgments, … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 COCOGEN: Representing Commonsense structures with code and 2.1 Converting (T,G) into Python code 2.2 Few-shot prompting for generating G 3 Evaluation and 3.1 Experimental setup 3.2 Script generation: PROSCRIPT 3.3 Entity state tracking: PROPARA 3.4 Argument graph generation: EXPLAGRAPHS 4 Analysis 5 Related work 6 Conclusion, Acknowledgments, … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 COCOGEN: Representing Commonsense structures with code and 2.1 Converting (T,G) into Python code 2.2 Few-shot prompting for generating G 3 Evaluation and 3.1 Experimental setup 3.2 Script generation: PROSCRIPT 3.3 Entity state tracking: PROPARA 3.4 Argument graph generation: EXPLAGRAPHS 4 Analysis 5 Related work 6 Conclusion, Acknowledgments, … Read more

:::info Authors: (1) Aman Madaan, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (amadaan@cs.cmu.edu); (2) Shuyan Zhou, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (shuyanzh@cs.cmu.edu); (3) Uri Alon, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (ualong@cs.cmu.edu); (4) Yiming Yang, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (yiming@cs.cmu.edu); (5) Graham Neubig, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, … Read more