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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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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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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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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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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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Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops

A teardown of Argo CD anti-patterns calls out 28 common misfires—stuff like skipping Git for Application CRDs or stuffing Helm/Kustomize config right into Argo CD manifests. Yikes. It pushes for a cleaner setup: use **ApplicationSets** instead of rolling your own YAML, turn on **auto-sync/self-heal.. read more  

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Demystifying Log Retention in Azure

Azure logs come in three flavors: **Activity Logs**, **Diagnostic Logs**, and **Log Analytics**. Each with its own rules for retention and billing. The catch? Those differences aren’t quirks—they’re baked in... read more  

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Observability for the Invisible: Tracing Message Drops in Kafka Pipelines

When an event drops silently in a distributed system, it is not a bug, it is an architectural blind spot. Detect, debug, and prevent message loss in Kafka-based streaming pipelines using tools like OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, Jaeger, and dead-letter queues. Make sure observability gaps in event strea.. read more  

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Introducing DigitalOcean Organizations, a new and comprehensive account layer

DigitalOcean just dropped **Organizations**—a real upgrade for anyone juggling multiple Teams. Think one top-level account to rule them all: centralized user control, one invoice to track, and org-wide settings for taxes, credits, and permissions... read more  

Introducing DigitalOcean Organizations, a new and comprehensive account layer
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