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Writing Load Balancer From Scratch In 250 Line of Code

A developer rolled out a fully working **Go load balancer** with a clean **Round Robin** setup—and hooks for dropping in smarter strategies like **Least Connection** or **IP Hash**. Backend servers live in a custom server pool. Swapping balancing logic? Just plug into the interface... read more  

Writing Load Balancer From Scratch In 250 Line of Code
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Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What” - Aggressively Paraphrasing Me

One dev rewired their Slack setup by **engagement frequency**—not subject. Channels got sorted into tiers like “Read Now” and “Read Hourly,” cutting through noise and saving brainpower. It riffs off the **Eisenhower Matrix**, letting priorities shift with projects, not burn people out... read more  

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Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab - 18 Months of Strategic Career Development

To land a big career role like Mistral, mix efficient **tactical** moves (like LeetCode practice) with **strategic** ups, like building a powerful portfolio and a solid network. Balance is key; aim to impress and prepare well without overlooking the power of strategy in shaping a successful career... read more  

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Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents

MiQ plugged **Google’s Agent Development Kit** into their stack to spin up **LLM agents** that turn plain English into clean, validated SQL. These agents speak directly to **Apache Pinot**, firing off real-time queries without the usual parsing pain. Behind the scenes, it’s a slick handoff: NL2SQL .. read more  

Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents
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Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels

NVIDIA Hopper packs serious architectural tricks. At the core: **Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA)**, **tensor cores**, and **swizzling**—the trio behind async, cache-friendly matmul kernels that flirt with peak throughput. But folks aren't stopping at cuBLAS. They're stacking new tactics: **warp-gro.. read more  

Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels
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5 Free AI Courses from Hugging Face

Hugging Face just rolled out a sharp set of free AI courses. Real topics, real tools—think **AI agents, LLMs, diffusion models, deep RL**, and more. It’s hands-on from the jump, packed with frameworks like LangGraph, Diffusers, and Stable Baselines3. You don’t just read about models—you build ‘em i.. read more  

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Jupyter Agents: training LLMs to reason with notebooks

Hugging Face dropped an open pipeline and dataset for training small models—think **Qwen3-4B**—into sharp **Jupyter-native data science agents**. They pulled curated Kaggle notebooks, whipped up synthetic QA pairs, added lightweight **scaffolding**, and went full fine-tune. Net result? A **36% jump .. read more  

Jupyter Agents: training LLMs to reason with notebooks
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Implementing Vector Search from Scratch: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Search is a fundamental problem in computing, and vector search aims to match meanings rather than exact words. By converting queries and documents into numerical vectors and calculating similarity, vector search retrieves contextually relevant results. In this tutorial, a vector search system is bu.. read more  

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The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

A July 2025 METR trial dropped a twist: seasoned devs using Cursor with Claude 3.5/3.7 moved **19% slower** - while thinking they were **20% faster**. Chalk it up to AI-induced confidence inflation. Faros AI tracked over **10,000 developers**. More AI didn’t mean more done. It meant more juggling, .. read more  

The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants
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Shai-Hulud npm Supply Chain Attack

Malicious npm packages just leveled up: this one dropped a self-spreading worm that hijacks repos and leaks secrets the moment it lands. It abuses `postinstall` scripts to run TruffleHog and swipe tokens straight from your codebase. Then it uses GitHub Actions to exfiltrate the loot and auto-publis.. read more  

Shai-Hulud npm Supply Chain Attack
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