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academia.stackexchange.com

Not letting me include 3 years of research in PhD thesis

Important context hidden in the comments: colleagues really don’t like this user’s advisor.

law.stackexchange.com

Any advantage to charging a dollar for my car?

Besides getting an extra dollar?

astronomy.stackexchange.com

Will be, or were, there any solar eclipses with a duration very close to the theoretical maximum?

No, but there have been plenty of total eclipses of the heart.

music.stackexchange.com

What exactly is a Yodel, and how do singers make it happen?

I’m pretty sure you just need to take a Ricola and you can do it.

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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.

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unsung.aresluna.org

“Gravity is worth asking about.”

Sir Isaac Newton should have been focusing on ensh*ttification instead of apples falling.

chipsandcheese.com

NVIDIA’s vera whitepaper has a thread loose

“The benchmark section is where the whitepaper, ostensibly about a CPU, starts wearing an AI conference badge it found on the floor.”

scalex.dev

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40,000 plays

In a game simulation, to be clear.

mayerowitz.io

Mario meets Pareto

So 80% of all the Princess Peach kidnappings are caused by 20% of the Bowsers?

pudding.cool

How the words we teach English language learners changed, and what that says about us

Why isn’t tokenmaxxing on the list of words we teach English learners?

inkandswitch.com

Convergence is not enough

Merges—the bane of both the programmer and student driver.

yegge.ai

The shape of things to come

All you need is infinite tokens to really get things done with AI.

gruhn.me

Don't be a meat proxy

Also, don’t be a meat energy source unless you want to end up in The Matrix.

e360.yale.edu

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa

So that's where Nemo was.

armaangomes.com

Running DOOM on our custom CPU and going viral

But can DOOM run on a vape?

thecastlemap.com

Explore 2,435 castles, fortresses & palaces worldwide

Odysseus would have made it home earlier if he had this.

blog.exe.dev

Claude is not a compiler

Has anyone tried vibe-compiling?

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Issue 341: Are you a human or a robot?

What happens when our bots start acting more like us and we start acting more like our bots? And look, unless the robots are Robin Williams as The Bicentennial Man, it probably isn’t good. The truth is, our tools aren’t the only things evolving—the way we’re using them is changing too. This week, we’re taking a look at the good, the bad, and the slop of human-AI interactions. On the pod, WPEngine’s Ramadass Prabakar chats with us about how our online world is changing because of bots disguised as humans and what we need to do to keep human actions protected on our internet. Komodor’s Asaf Savich joins us to discuss the evolving world of AI-powered SRE and where humans still need to be in the loop for reliability. On the blog, we’re exploring what happens when we become too attached to our developer tools in a world where those tools are constantly changing (spoiler: we stop trusting the tools we’re so attached to). And speaking of trust, we’re diving into how context is the best risk mitigation strategy for unwieldy AI-powered programs, and taking a look at the new features launching in Stack Internal that are helping build that context. From the web, we’ve got stories on how not to use AI in human interactions, what we can achieve with infinite tokens, and how our language—and how we learn it—is evolving. And of course, this wouldn’t be your trusty Overflow newsletter if we didn’t satiate your curiosity. If you’ve been wondering about the legality of the original Trojan Horse, if Odysseus had weird feet, or how original your academic career is, we’ve got all of that and more ready for you down below.

Issue 340: Friends in code places

Personally, we think we could all use some coding friends in this day and age. For instance, good friends give you a reality check when you need it most. In this issue, some of our buddies are here to give us a reality check on the state of software development. We sit down with Snowflake’s Umesh Unnikrishnan to break down why the future of dev is full-stack and how enterprise software is adapting to autonomous agents. We welcome back VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht to discuss Cloudflare acquiring VoidZero, proving that good friendships can keep major open-source ecosystems like Vite alive. Plus Stack’s very own Michael Foree teaches us about context engineering in the latest No Dumb Questions. If you’re looking for something fun to do with your friends, we’ve got stories from around the web for inspiration. You could, for instance, explore one of the 2,435 castles around the world with them. Or find some deep sea coral together. Or port DOOM onto a custom CPU. And what would friendship be without some occasional tough love? No one gives out tough love better than our Stack community, who are sharing their knowledge on everything from bad teaching practices to seeing in the dark to shared memories. We have all of those links and more ready for you down below, bestie. No need to thank us. I mean, what are friends for?

Issue 339: Summertime and the codin's easy

If you had asked us last summer what dev life would be like in 2026, we probably wouldn’t have guessed right. But now that the summer of 2026 is upon us, there’s not much we can do but roll with the punches and get a little tan while we can. To really celebrate the warmth of summer, this week we’ve decided to look at the sunnier side of agentic workflows. On the pod, we’re chatting with new friends and old about how the latest tools out of Microsoft and GitHub are making code generation easier than ever—with the caveat that easier code doesn’t always mean easier work. Microsoft’s Sarah Bird shares with us how we can build more responsible AI to combat some of the negatives of agentic workflows, and what research is saying about responsible human-AI collaboration. And what feels like summer more than catching up with longtime pals? GitHub dev advocate née Stack pod host Cassidy Williams returns to weigh-in on the newest updates to GitHub Copilot and the current state of the developer community. Beyond the blog, we’re dipping our toes into the vast pool of interesting internet stories, covering everything from the joys of piracy to the latest ways to fool AI. And get your sunblock out—this week’s round-up of burning questions from our community is in. Whether you’re dealing with scammers or bad collaborators, like an umbrella on a hot beach day, the curious minds of the Stack community got you covered. It’s looking like it’s going to be a scorcher—might as well dive right in at the links below.

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.