🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods.
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The article explores how AI, particularly tools like ChatGPT, impacts software engineering. AI simplifies coding, making it more accessible to non-professionals through "vibe-coding," but it cannot substitute the nuanced expertise required for complex software development. Consequently, AI represents an evolutionary step, offering efficiency but not replacing fundamental engineering skills.
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OpenAI has restructured its executive team and acquired Statsig, a product analytics company, for $1.1 billion. Fidji Simo, former CEO of Instacart, is now OpenAI's CEO of Applications. Key roles were reassigned to enhance product engineering and B2B applications.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) raised $863 million, backed by major investors including Nvidia and Google. The Massachusetts-based fusion power startup, now equipped with nearly $3 billion, aims to commercialize fusion energy. CFS is developing Sparc, a prototype reactor, targeting scientific breakeven by 2027, and plans a commercial-scale reactor, Arc, by 2028.
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WhatsApp fixed a critical security flaw in its iOS and Mac apps used in advanced "zero-click" spyware attacks targeting specific users. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-55177, was exploited alongside another flaw patched by Apple, affecting around 200 users.
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Asteroid 2025 QD8, roughly 71 feet wide, will pass close to Earth on September 3. It will come within 136,000 miles of Earth, offering a unique observation opportunity. The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream the event. Despite its proximity, it poses no impact risk.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: IterTools TS
(Extended itertools port for TypeScript and JavaScript. Provides a huge set of functions for working with iterable collections (including async ones).)
Why: Clear task scope with reference implementation; good for understanding project basics.
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⭐ 2861, 🖖 326
The production-scale datacenter profiler (C/C++, Go, Rust, Python, Java, NodeJS, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Perl, ...)
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⭐ 35, 🖖 5
I built a deep research tool for local file system
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⭐ 10359, 🖖 1516
Unit, API & Integration Testing Agent for Developers. Generate tests, mocks/stubs for your APIs that actually work!
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⭐ 7290, 🖖 288
A simple, open source bilingual translation extension & Greasemonkey script (一个简约、开源的 双语对照翻译扩展 & 油猴脚本)
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⭐ 2155, 🖖 363
Module Federation is a concept that allows developers to share code and resources across multiple JavaScript applications
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