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<strong>What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology? (3 minute read)</strong>
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Artificial intelligence should be viewed as a "normal technology.” This view, presented by Princeton computer scientists, suggests AI's development could follow the trajectory of previous technological revolutions. This means a slower adoption rate, a gradual impact on jobs with increased human oversight, and a focus on downstream defenses against misuse, rather than alignment.
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<strong>Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver (10 minute read)</strong>
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This dev modernized the ftape Linux kernel driver, which hadn't been updated in 25 years and was necessary for recovering data from old QIC-80 tapes. He used Claude Code to update the driver to be compatible with modern Linux kernels, addressing deprecated functions and build issues. Despite requiring some manual adjustments and prior kernel module knowledge, Claude Code made the process really fast comparatively.
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<strong>Nintendo secures $2 million settlement against Switch modder — Modded Hardware creator agreed to stop selling backup devices, but continued to, prompting lawsuit (7 minute read)</strong>
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Mac-Angle is a C++ library for reading the lid angle sensor data from supported MacBooks that provides real-time angle measurements with exception handling and a CMake build system.
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Package managers, while automating dependency handling, ultimately contribute to "dependency hell" and are a net-negative for programming due to their unnecessary automation, poorly defined package concepts, and encouragement of unvetted dependencies.
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