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What does wink and nod mean? In which context is it used?

No wink and nod awarded to this OP for having to ask. (edited)

money.stackexchange.com

Why would scammer transfer me to a restricted phone number?

*69: the weapon of both the scammer and the 12 year old prank caller.

astronomy.stackexchange.com

Would a planet hypothetically be able to create/maintain its own heat source, rather than using its sun?

Yes, but the gas bills in the winter are astronomical.

academia.stackexchange.com

How far to go after getting scooped by a friend who used my work to solve the project I started?

Learning that collaboration doesn't always feel nice is part of the collegiate experience.

Developers who move fast still need to do it together

At MS Build, Ryan is joined by Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub and former Stack Overflow Podcast host, to discuss how agentic coding is shifting dev work towards higher-level strategy while increasing decision fatigue; why human taste, community feedback, and mentorship are becoming more essential than ever for developer careers; and the new GitHub Copilot announcements coming out of Microsoft, including the new GitHub Copilot app.

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pigeonsandplanes.com

The lost joy of music piracy

The next frontier of piracy will be downloading a car.

mixfont.com

Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type

When the AI overlord takeover, magic eye posters will be the tool of the human resistance.

blog.exe.dev

Meet the conservationist who turned 40 terabytes of public data into a video game

If only there were cheat codes for fixing the summer heatwaves.

fabiensanglard.net

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

Remembering Sam Neill and all the prehistoric computers he used in this prehistoric-themed movie.

playcode.io

The same TypeScript costs 73% more tokens on Claude than GPT

So is it or is it not cheaper to just get a human to do it?

antirez.com

Control the ideas, not the code

We've abstracted the code, now just to abstract our own minds!

research.google

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

Now to collaborate on using our blinker when changing lanes.

bbc.com

The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally

The Morse code bubble has yet to pop, I see.

wakamoleguy.com

Don't make gates optional, make them flexible

Or you could just scream, “Open the gates!” like they did in Gladiator.

heyoncall.com

Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?

vitalik.eth.limo

Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography

Let’s see Mythos try to crack this one.

wangcong.org

Why I stopped arguing with people

But arguing with strangers online is one of our few modern pleasures!

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Issue 338: An earth rattling change in software

The world of software development has always been about big booms and tectonic shifts in the industry. You know as well as we do that AI has been one of those cultural shakers. Even now, after the first wave of changes have rocked our technical worlds, we’re still feeling aftershocks. This week is all about those smaller shifts and what they mean for software. Live from Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s Jay Parikh joined us to discuss how even agent harnesses are getting a major evolution with Microsoft’s newest releases. You.com’s Saahil Jain also sat down with us to explore the big changes we’ve seen in AI tools since 2024, and why heavy orchestration is a thing of the past. And it’s not just the harnesses and architecture that are changing around AI. We’ve basically added more layers of abstraction on top of our abstractions, which is why we have a piece from the web this week on controlling ideas instead of code. But abstracting everything is gonna cost ya: we’ve got the story of token costs between models, so you can be well-informed when you someday abstract your entire life away. But not everything in our bits and binary world is feeling earth-rocking shifts on the daily. No, one thing is always going to stay stable: the curiosity of our Stack community, who ask the questions we're all wondering about. For instance…what’s the likelihood of death by space debris? Does Lex Luthor use KryptonGPT? How did this rusty screw get in my laundry? Let’s not shake things up too much and end this Overflow like we always do. We've got all that and more ready for you down below.

Issue 337: Finding the eye in the AI storm

When new technology comes along, the hype can feel like a hurricane. One day we’re told to tokenmax and the next to try to save as many tokens as we can. Finding the eye in a hype storm takes real experience and expertise, which is why we’ve packed this Overflow with conversations with just such experts. We sat down with Fireworks AI's Benny Chen to explore the open-source protocols setting the standard for evaluating AI applications, and chatted with Snowflake's Vivek Raghunathan about turning the chaos of AI-assisted coding into a structured, five-stage repeatable playbook. Plus, Yobi's Frank Portman joined us to explore why standard LLMs aren't cut out for predicting human intent—and how they are building a "foundation model of behavior" instead. And AI isn’t the only place on the web that’s full of chaos that people are trying to cut through. From the web, we’ve got the stories of fixing memory leaks, the final frontier of cryptography, and why arguing with people may be fun but not good for your personal growth. And chaos may reign in technology nowadays but knowledge is still king—luckily, we’ve got plenty of that for you in this issue. For instance, what constitutes a full stop? Why won’t clients pay on time? Where do commas technically go? All of that chaos and knowledge is ready for you down below.

Issue 336: Tracking the evolution of software development

A lot has changed in technology in the last year. Our tried-and-true coding processes have now been replaced with AI workflows and autonomous agents that feel out of a futuristic science fiction novel. All these changes can be hard to track but lucky for you, dear reader, Stack Overflow has been tracking the evolution of software and the developer community for the last 16 years with our Annual Developer Survey. This year, we want to know your thoughts on all things technology, from the programming languages you’re using to how much ROI you’re really getting from autonomous agents. And just like the 16 years of our Developer Survey, this Overflow has been giving you 336 issues’ worth of stories and knowledge. This issue is no exception. We’ve got everything from dubious early-internet scripts to how investments really work in business to the woes of being a manager. It’s all ready to go, down below.

Issue 335: Did you build your software on quicksand?

You have to wonder…are we building castles on quicksand? Are the sleek new AI features just distractions from the major architectural flaws in our software? This week, we’re looking at what exactly happens when infrastructure, architecture, and process are forsaken. For instance, that recent Instagram hack that compromised Obama’s account? The attackers just had to ask Meta’s AI nicely to get in. Fabio Salvadori explores the event and what we can learn about judgment and secure architecture from it. On the pod, we’re talking with Apollo GraphQL’s Matt DeBergalis about structured semantic architecture and reining in token spend, and Infoblox’s Cricket Liu about the woes of infrastructure and why most people don’t really understand DNS. And we hate to call you out, but just because your tools are evolved doesn’t mean your processes are. Good thing we’ve got a piece on updating your workflows to match your updated tooling. Plus, we’ve got stories on everything from a malware campaign on GitHub to a web server running on a cracked phone, and the answers to your burning questions about the mysterious Professor Y and your rights as an AI-using dev. Luckily, this Overflow was built on a sturdy foundation of interesting links and vetted knowledge. You can check yourself down below.