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What does "he got plucked" mean in "Jane Eyre"?

Get plucked, John Reed!

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Intel CPU bug in the 90s

Like all things in the 90s, the tabloids made it a bigger deal than it really was.

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Is the first "r" in "February" now considered a silent letter?

Actually, we’ve all just been saying it wrong.

workplace.stackexchange.com

Are workplace reorganizations that result in a change in job duties without employee consent a violation of the original job contract?

Your employer is only contractually obligated to do what’s in your actual contract.

Prevent agentic identity theft

Ryan is joined by Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password, to discuss the security challenges local agents present, how enterprises can create robust governance of credentials through zero-knowledge architecture, and the implications of agent intent and misuse in a world where AI agents are becoming more and more integrated into everyday applications.

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What’s new at Stack Overflow: March 2026

All that's new on Stack Overflow last month, including the redesigned Stack Overflow now available in beta and open-ended questions now available to all users, plus a shoutout to the community members earning the Populist badge.

What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026

This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges.

What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026

For this first edition of the new year, we’re taking a step back to highlight some of the most impactful features shipped over the last year and how they can help you start 2026 strong.

Your 2025 Stacked: A year of knowledge, community, and impact

From tough questions to standout answers, your team built a lot in 2025. Your 2025 Stacked brings those contributions together in one shareable snapshot—celebrating the people, posts, and topics that defined your year in Stack Internal.

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How everyone and anyone can use AI for good

There are big hitters in the AI space that use this tech for humanitarian and environmental good—from start-ups fighting climate change to voice recognition experts diagnosing diseases. But you don't need to be backed by AWS or Microsoft to do good. In part two of this series, we dive into how anyone can use AI for good.

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Is anyone using AI for good?

In a world where AI is replacing human workers, using up energy and water, and deepening disconnect, is AI for humanitarian good even possible? The answer is yes. In the first part of this two-part series, we're taking a look at just a few AI do-gooders and what they're doing to fight climate change, make healthcare more accessible, and help their communities.

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The cognitive dark forest

“The sheer act of thinking outside the box makes the box bigger.”

quantamagazine.org

The jellies that evolved a different way to keep time

A new meaning for “Peanut Butter, Jelly Time.”

answer.ai

So where are all the AI apps?

Where is my Sam Altman? Where is my Claude song? Where is my agentic ending? Where have all the AI apps gone?

jackhogan.me

Box of secrets

The difference between modding and hacking really comes down to how helpful the end result is.

promptarmor.com

Snowflake Cortex AI escapes sandbox and executes malware

The great sandbox escape, coming to an AI near you.

daringfireball.net

Your frustration is the product

A worse Internet is a better product.

aicode.swerdlow.dev

Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase

Slopify your codebase even faster with a swarm of agents!

spectrum.ieee.org

ENIAC’s 80th anniversary: a legacy of innovation

Eighty years ago, engineers invented a room that does math.

pbj.deliberateinc.com

Can you instruct a robot to make a PBJ sandwich?

The bots can’t take your job if you work at a Subway.

sharif.io

Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work

Willingness to look stupid is also what keeps this Overflow alive.

medhir.com

Your phone is an entire computer

Are you asking if people are down with A-P-P?

canirun.ai

Can your machine run AI models?

Your $2,000 custom gaming rig isn’t powerful enough for Llama 3.3, sorry.

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Issue 322: Moving too fast and breaking too much

Tech's been moving fast. But you gotta wonder…is moving fast actually working or just breaking things that can’t be fixed? This week, we’re taking a look at what’s moving and what’s working, which are sometimes not the same things. On the pod, HumanX’s Stefan Weitz helped us figure out if 2025 was really the year of AI agents, or if the hype outweighed the growth. Speaking of AI agents, we have a blog article on the expense of AI becoming your second brain (spoiler: you pay with your first brain). Plus, we have stories from around the web about frustration as a product and AIs escaping sandboxes, which will make you wonder if the Internet is broken or if that’s just part of its product design nowadays. But not everything is moving fast and breaking itself. On Leaders of Code, Netlify’s Dana Lawson shared with our CPTO Jody Bailey how they make their distributed engineering teams work successfully with the help of AI agents. And if you’re ever in doubt about what does and doesn’t work in the tech world, you can always look to open source. Chainguard’s Dan Lorenc joined the podcast to discuss keeping open-source projects alive by moving fast and fixing them. If you don’t want to break your codebase, maybe consider slowing down with your AI agents, as recommended by one dev in our stories from the web this week. You can take a page from ENIAC’s engineers, who are celebrating its 80th anniversary this week. And on our sites? Well, our users are wondering if they’re allowed to move fast and break things. Are you breaking your brain by using AI to understand research papers? Are unpaid contractors allowed to break the things they’ve built? Is this steampunk world moving too slow by not having electricity? You better get a move on, because we have all those answers and more already down below.

Issue 321: Building good AI ain't so easy

Getting your tech news for the week is as easy as 1-2-3 in Overflow issue 321. What’s not as easy as 1-2-3, though, is building really useful AI. Clearly, there is still a gap between the stuff that works, and the stuff that doesn’t work and defining that gap hasn’t been the easiest for technical folks like us. Sometimes it’s the hardware—that’s probably why chip makers like NVIDIA have entered the model game. On the pod, NVIDIA’s Kari Briski told us about the co-design feedback loop they’ve made between model builders and hardware architects to circumvent some of these issues. Sometimes, it’s how much the model actually knows. On the blog, we’ve got a piece on solving the “context problem” in enterprise AIs. And sometimes, it’s the actual platforms and tools devs work with. Our own Adora Nwodo and Peter O’Connor wrote about how platform teams can become more productive through better organization. Being able to build stuff that works well isn’t just about AI. The rapidly evolving world of robotics is feeling it too. OpenMind’s Jan Liphardt sat down on the pod to discuss creating open source operating systems for robots that keep Asimov’s Laws in mind. And around the web, people are wondering if building stuff that works is possible during this “tech revolution.” Like, can you even get a robot to build you a PB&J? What about getting an AI model to run locally on your expensive personal hardware? How are you not able to download things outside of the app store when your iPhone is basically a whole computer? One thing that will always work as easy as 1-2-3, though, is the deep wealth of knowledge coming from our Stack Overflow community. How about we check out some Q&A to close out issue 321. Is it okay to go nude in public if you’re not bothering anyone? Will you finally have control of your life if you have perfect muscle control? Will Gen Z kids call me “unc” if I try to bring back the phrase “Lo!” in conversation? We have all those answers and so much more ready for you in the links below—easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Issue 320: AI code generating the ship of Theseus

The job of a developer can feel like the Greek myth of Sisyphus—always uphill, never down. Whether or not AI agents will help get that rock all the way up the hill is yet to be seen, but it’s certainly on our mind at Stack Overflow. While we can’t tell you the future like Apollo does, we can at least be like Hermes and deliver a message of knowledge to help you slow your roll and finally take a break from reviewing all those PRs. On the pod, we’re joined by the co-creator of MCP, David Soria Parra, to talk all things agent connectivity and keeping MCP open-source. Bedrock Robotics’ Kevin Peterson sat down with us to chat about the future of self-driving technology and bringing robots onto construction sites. Plus, on the blog we’re talking new updates on Stack Overflow, and taking a look at actually good AI tools from the floor of DeveloperWeek 2026. From the web, developers from all over are acting a bit like Hecate, the goddess of magic known for being the Keeper of the Keys. One dev is trying to unlock his encrypted ThinkPad while another is hacking into Super Mario 64 by using parallel universes and covering spaces—we’ll be honest, all of that is Greek to us. And that’s not to mention the cybersecurity team using actual lock-picks to test the security of the company they work at. Whether it takes magic to hack into systems both physically and online, we’ll let you decide. And we can’t end an Overflow without taking a chapter out of the goddess Athena’s book and sharing a bit of wisdom with you—in the form of Q&A, of course. If you die, are you still contractually obligated to do things? Why was it so expensive to buy a floppy disk in the 90s? How can you peace out at your job without burning bridges? When will Minecraft pillagers finally accept me as one of their own? Now’s the time for you to run straight to the links like Pheidippides did in the myth of Marathon, because we have everything you need to know ready down below.

Issue 319: Dogfooding your SDLC

Sometimes, the world of tech can feel a bit like a sci-fi movie—building AI tools with AI tools, AI self-help books, museums of old technology and webpages showcased for our viewing pleasure. If our SciFi Stack Exchange community is to be believed (and I want to believe), a movie about our current life would be considered Speculative Fiction which…yeah, that sounds right. What’s not so speculative is that this Overflow is chock-full of interesting stories and answers for you from around the web. On our pod, we’re joined by Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s engineering lead on Codex, to talk about dogfooding the future of agentic SDLC. Microsoft’s Marcus Fontoura sat down with us to discuss his new book, Human Agency in the Digital World, an “AI-era self-help book” about giving humans back the control in the tech revolution. Plus, we’ve got a new, redesigned Stack Overflow for your viewing pleasure, and a deep dive on our how we’re giving content creators back their agency with our partnership with Cloudflare. But not everything in the future needs to be new school…sometimes old school still reigns supreme. At least that’s the case with our Q&A with pompelmi, the open-source project fighting one of the oldest kind of attack vectors, file uploads. That’s why we’re making sure you get plenty of the vintage in this week’s not-so-speculative newsletter—like the world’s first webpage and a museum filled with every kind of plug and socket in the world. And in a world of the speculative, one thing is proven: Stack sites are where you go for answers for every question you have, new or old. Why are Olympic athletes so much faster than normal humans going both forward AND backwards? Why doesn’t anything rhyme with orange? How far in the future can a commit message go? No speculation needed. We have all of that and more in the links below.