Tesla shares slide after it=
reports first drop in annual deliveries (6 minute read)
Tesla shares fell by around 7% in tradi=
ng on Thursday after Tesla released its fourth-quarter vehicle production a=
nd deliveries report. The company's shares finished up 63% for the year. Th=
ey reached an all-time high in mid-December. Tesla aims to offer lower-cost=
and autonomous vehicles in 2025. This is predicted to lead to 20% to 30% g=
rowth over 2024.
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Starlink Users Cross 4.6 Mi=
llion Globally in 7 Months (2 minute read)
SpaceX's Starlink now serves over 4.6 m=
illion users across 118 countries and territories. The company reported 3 m=
illion users back in May. It has since expanded its services to 27 new mark=
ets. SpaceX completed 89 launches dedicated to building and enhancing the S=
tarlink satellite constellation throughout last year. The Starlink network =
currently has over 7,000 active satellites in low Earth orbit, with nearly =
350 designed to connect directly to LTE phones.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Meet the Anthrobots: a new =
living entity with much to teach us (17 minute read)
Anthrobots are synthetic biological pro=
to-organisms made of living cells with un-edited genomes. They could have m=
any future uses in the human body, including laying down pro-regenerative m=
olecules, clearing plaque from arteries, healing spinal cord or retinal dam=
age, dealing with cancer cells or bacteria in the gut, or informing doctors=
of the status of the surrounding tissues. Anthrobots do not exponentially =
reproduce and just biodegrade at the end of their lifespan. Scientists are =
still experimenting with these lifeforms to get a true idea of their capabi=
lities in various problem spaces.
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Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade lud=
icrous speed for the boring art of actually working (7 minute read)
Wi-Fi 8 looks to be focused on greater =
reliability rather than on pushing bandwidth even higher. It will make the =
speed gains promised by Wi-Fi 7 more of a reality. End users will not see t=
he full benefits until they have upgraded both their access points and endp=
oint devices to the new standard. The first devices with Wi-Fi 8 are not ex=
pected to roll out until the second half of 2028.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Zasper (GitHub Repo)
Zasper is an IDE designed to support ma=
ssive concurrency. It has a minimal memory footprint and provides exception=
al speed. Zasper can be used to run REPL-style data applications like Jupyt=
er notebooks. It is currently fully supported on Mac, with limited support =
on Linux.
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Notes on the new Deepseek v=
3 (10 minute read)
Deepseek's flagship model, v3, is a 607=
B Mixture-of-Experts model with 37B active parameters. The company achieved=
remarkable performance while keeping training costs surprisingly low. The =
model outperforms other alternatives at its price point. It excels at reaso=
ning and math, surpassing GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
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Ask HN: Where to Work After=
40? (Hacker News Thread)
Heaps of companies want employees with =
long-term experience. Many of these companies aren't attractive to younger =
workers and would be glad to hire someone with experience. Experienced work=
ers can also enter into consulting/professional services, which provides a =
varied and interesting work environment. The expiry date for a software eng=
ineer is definitely much later than 40 - many are still working late into t=
heir 50s and 60s.
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I still don't think compani=
es serve you ads based on spying through your microphone (4 minute read)
Many people are convinced that companie=
s are targeting ads to them by listening through their phone's microphones.=
For this to be true, companies would have to record audio snippets, transm=
it them back to their servers for additional processing, and then feed that=
data into a system that forwards it to advertising partners. This is far-f=
etched, especially for companies like Apple, which has a brand and reputati=
on as a privacy-first company and spends large amounts on product design an=
d engineering to prevent apps from doing exactly this kind of thing. The mo=
re likely scenario is that the quality of targeting is high and that people=
just aren't that different from each other.
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