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Earlier sources: Software
Software turns computational ideas into tools and services. This region follows open source projects, developer tools, programming languages, databases, operating systems, and web and cloud platforms.
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Open in the map ↗2045 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. Recent momentum: steady. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
NetLexicon: Learning Discrete Behavioral Representations for Encrypted Web Traffic Analysis ↗
Encrypted Web traffic analysis requires effective representations of observable communication behavior. Existing pretraining methods often adapt NLP/CV objectives and sequence architectures, motivating learning objectives that capture traffic-specific interaction patterns. We present NetLexicon, a discrete pretraining framework that learns reusable behavioral states from unlabeled traffic. It converts contextual traffic windows into discrete states through vector quantization, constructing a compact traffic lexicon. We design two complementary pretraining objectives. State Transition Predictio…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Retrieve, Reproduce, Reveal: Dissecting Retrieval-Augmented Software Vulnerability Detection ↗
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly used to enhance Large Language Model (LLM)-based software vulnerability detection by grounding predictions in retrieved vulnerability knowledge, such as vulnerability reports. However, existing RAG-based software vulnerability detection (RAG4SVD) systems are often evaluated using proprietary models, which challenges open science and reproducibility. Further, studies use different datasets, custom knowledge bases, different backbone models, and diverse metrics, which hinders meaningful cross-system comparison. In this work, we study six open-…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Beyond Productivity: Measuring Developers' Cognitive Load During GenAI-Supported Software Development ↗
Generative AI (GenAI) is changing software development workflows and how developers work. Industry evaluations of GenAI adoption often monitor productivity gains, usage, and output quality, but limited attention is paid to the interaction experience and cognitive load of the actual adopters and drivers of GenAI technology - the software developers. Understanding whether GenAI changes or shifts developers' cognitive demands during everyday development is important for a developer-centered evaluation of GenAI-supported software development. It can inform organizations in designing and evaluating…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Read Kafka Like a Database ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
RingStitch: Demand-Aware Optical Stitching for Fragmented TPU Clusters ↗
Large-scale AI training clusters increasingly use optical circuit switching (OCS) to reconfigure rack-level interconnects and create elastic accelerator slices. In multi-tenant TPU-style clusters, however, small and medium jobs often leave partial free capacity stranded inside racks. Although the aggregate free capacity may be sufficient for a new job, it cannot be used by local placement or coarse full-rack stitching. This paper presents RingStitch, an OCS-based defragmentation scheduler that turns fragmented rack capacity into schedulable resources. RingStitch follows a local-first policy, s…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Independent Verification Paths Are Not Independent: A Case Study of Common-Mode Failure in a Satellite Catalogue Pipeline ↗
A common safeguard for a data pipeline is redundant computation: derive each published number by two routes built on different technology and refuse to exit when they disagree. We report one such gate failing, in a cross-catalogue integrity study of two open registers of Earth-orbiting objects. A gate comparing a set-based Python path with SPARQL queries over the emitted RDF graph printed ALL CROSS-CHECKS AGREE on seven counts. Three were wrong, one overstated more than fourfold (932 against 220). Both paths imported the same constants, which encoded a misreading of the source's status vocabul…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Show HN: FullThrottle – F1 telemetry and session replays in the browser ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
The Linux Basics Cheat Sheet ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Why browsers need a native API for open-weight models ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Rust coreutils acknowledges copying of GNU GPL code ↗
Hacker News discussion.
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