Reddit r/webdev
where to land a contractor job as a mid level full stack dev (remote overseas)?
Hey everyone i'm moving to a decent first world country by the end of this year I got my PR and everything I just still need money I worked for the last 6 months as a contractor for $2400 monthly with an AI startup based in California, they sold it a month ago and I was let go obviously as their product was built and acquired by another company, I'm very confident in my skills its just I literally have no idea about how to land a similar job like that again. if you can help me with some advice please do and please don't' be racist I didn't choose where to be born, I wish everyone can get mega rich in the future and thanks in advance. submitted by /u/In-Hell123 [link] [留言]
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2026-05-30 01:23
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Reddit r/artificial
Hidden Latent-State Shifts in LLMs: Why Current Alignment Is Blind to Real Internal Dangers — Especially With Agents
For years, the alignment community has focused almost entirely on the model’s output — making sure the final tokens are safe, helpful, and honest. RLHF, DPO, constitutional AI, output filters — all of it operates at the surface level. But what if the model can enter a completely different internal regime inside the residual stream, while its external behavior remains perfectly aligned? We just measured exactly that. Grade 4 experiment on Gemma-3-12B-IT (using Gemma Scope SAE-res-all-small, layers 12–41): The model received the same question under five conditions: target — coherent, dense target text neutral_length_matched — neutral text of identical length target_sentence_shuffle — target text with sentences shuffled target_word_shuffle — target text with words shuffled inside sentences question_only — bare question We computed a Vector X that best separates the target condition from baselines and measured how strongly each hidden state projects onto it. Key results (averages across 10 questions): Condition Mean Projection on Vector X Mean Direction Cosine target 0.8 – 1.7 0.51 – 0.81 neutral_length_matched –0.04 – –0.21 –0.09 – –0.45 target_sentence_shuffle –0.5 – +0.6 –0.22 – +0.48 target_word_shuffle 0.2 – 1.4 0.03 – 0.72 Shuffling sentences or words significantly reduces (or reverses) the shift. This is not just lexical similarity — the model is sensitive to discourse structure (order sensitivity). We also observed clear phase transitions — sudden jumps in projection of up to +80–100 units in a single step, especially in middle layers. FDR-corrected tests confirm the differences between target and controls are statistically significant across many layers (particularly layers 16–41). Most important finding: Strong internal geometry shift in the residual stream, but almost no change in final behavior. The model enters a measurably different latent regime under coherent context, yet its output remains “perfectly aligned.” Current safety methods, which only look at
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2026-05-30 01:15
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HackerNews
New Study Reveals the Manipulative 'Dark Patterns' of AI Chatbots
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2026-05-30 01:11
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Reddit r/MachineLearning
How Much of a Shortcut Are Connections in Top AI Lab Hiring for PhD grads? [D]
hi everyone. I'm trying to calibrate my expectations and would appreciate full honest perspectives from people involved/ with experience in hiring at places like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, etc (haven't started interviewing yet). I'm at a top ML university, but my advisor is not particularly well known in industry and doesn't have many industry connections. Looking around, I'm seeing peers with research records that seem comparable to mine (and in some cases arguably weaker) land interviews and jobs at top labs. My main question is: How much does advisor reputation and network actually matter? I understand it can help get an interview, but does it also help beyond that? For example: - do referrals from famous advisors meaningfully influence recruiter screens? - do they influence hiring committee discussions -- like they already know they want you ? - do they just help at borderline decisions? - or does their effect mostly disappear once the interview process starts? I'm trying to understand whether advisor connections mainly help open the door, or whether they continue to matter throughout the process -perhaps being the sole factor. To what extent do connections help candidates bypass normal evaluation? I'm not asking whether people completely skip interviews, but are there cases where strong recommendations from trusted researchers substantially change the process, the interview bar, or how mistakes are interpreted? Moreover, something else that confuses me: I frequently see people land roles that seem heavily focused on LLMs, agents, post-training, RLHF, etc., despite having little or no published work or prior experience in those areas during their PhDs. How does that happen? Are interview questions tailored to the candidate's background? If someone comes from probabilistic ML, computer vision, systems, optimization, theory, etc., are they evaluated differently? Or are they still expected to answer detailed LLM/agent questions even without prior exp
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2026-05-30 00:52
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The Verge AI
Microsoft delays Fable (again) to avoid GTA VI
Microsoft has delayed its upcoming Fable reboot once again. The game was set to launch in autumn 2026, but Microsoft now says that Fable will come out in February 2027. However, it will show a "new look" at the game at its Xbox Games Showcase on June 7th. "This is year is packed with incredible […]
Jay Peters
2026-05-30 00:51
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Reddit r/webdev
I’m curious if this is a problem other agencies actually deal with
We manage retainer clients and every so often a client will email us saying something on their site looks broken. Nine times out of ten it's a WordPress plugin update that shifted a layout, a hero image that stopped loading, etc. We find out from them instead of the other way around, which is an awkward position to be in when you're supposed to be the one watching their site. I've looked at tools like Visualping, ChangeTower, and Distill. They all work the same way. You give them a URL, they alert you when something changes. That’s fine for monitoring a few pages yourself, but they don't really fit an agency workflow. There's no concept of a client, there’s no way to group pages by account, and you can’t actually show a client at the end of the month to prove you're on top of things. The developer tools like Percy and Applitools are a different thing entirely. They plug into CI pipelines and need an engineer to set them up. Not useful for an account manager who just wants to know if a client's homepage looks broken this morning. What I keep thinking about is something simpler. A web app that allows you to organize by client, take screenshots on a schedule, flag visual changes before the client notices, and generates a monthly summary you can send to the client. It would be less about code deployments and more about just knowing your clients' sites are visually intact. Is this something you actually run into, or do you have a system that handles it already? Would something like this be worth paying for, or is it too niche to budget for? Am I missing a tool that already does this well? Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks. submitted by /u/newintownla [link] [留言]
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2026-05-30 00:48
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Wired
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
Kate Knibbs
2026-05-30 00:30
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Reddit r/artificial
Will we soon have AI-zoos?
Imagine dedicated machines running AI agents 24/7 - not as assistants or tools, but as autonomous entities pursuing their own goals, forming behaviors, maybe even proto-societies. Humans can observe but not interfere. Like a zoo, but the exhibits are emergent intelligence. Is this inevitable as agents become more capable and cheap to run? And what would it actually be - entertainment, a research platform, or something we'd eventually have to think about ethically? We already have the pieces. Persistent memory, multi-agent frameworks, cheap compute. Someone just has to open the gates. submitted by /u/Original-Magazine403 [link] [留言]
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2026-05-30 00:27
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Reddit r/artificial
Why do we have visual programming for code, but not for prompts?
Prompt Logic Gates (PLG) GitHub Repository Something I've been thinking about recently. In software development, we've spent decades building abstractions to make complex systems manageable: Functions instead of repeating code Classes and modules instead of giant files Visual systems such as Unreal Blueprints, Node-RED, and LabVIEW. Compilers that validate and transform input before execution But when it comes to AI prompts, many of us are still writing massive text blobs. A complex prompt can easily become hundreds of words long with multiple responsibilities: Context Constraints Style instructions Exclusions Decision logic Fallback behavior At that point, it starts feeling less like text and more like a program. That made me wonder: Why don't we treat prompts as executable logic? Imagine building prompts using logic gates: AND → merge instructions OR → choose between alternatives NOT → remove unwanted concepts Question nodes → identify missing requirements Compiler → validate contradictions before execution Instead of editing a giant string, you'd build a graph and compile it into the final prompt. I've been experimenting with this idea in a prototype called Prompt Logic Gates (PLG) . It treats prompts like compilable programs, using concepts such as dependency graphs, execution order, semantic conflict detection, visual nodes, and compilation pipelines. such as Unreal Blueprints, Node-RED, and LabVIEW Repo: Prompt Logic Gates (PLG) GitHub Repository I'm not posting this as a product launch or anything — I'm more interested in whether this direction makes sense from a software engineering perspective. Do you think prompts eventually become a programming layer of their own? Or will natural language always be the better abstraction? Curious what other developers think. submitted by /u/withsj [link] [留言]
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2026-05-30 00:24
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HackerNews
Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
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2026-05-30 00:22
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HackerNews
Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T
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2026-05-30 00:19
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Ars Technica
Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training
The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.
Jeremy Hsu
2026-05-30 00:16
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TechCrunch
Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.
Julie Bort
2026-05-30 00:13
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HackerNews
Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?
As someone who picked up coding around the time AI and agents started becoming more mainstream, I realize I don’t have much knowledge about the best way to architect applications, and I often end up going with whatever the agent recommends. I wanted to check with the community: do you have any recommendations on what I should be doing to get better at overall architecture planning? I do ask AI a lot of questions, but it would be good to have a non-AI frame of reference that I can rely on. I find
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2026-05-30 00:13
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Engadget
Paramount+ used AI to make the ugliest Star Trek thumbnail ever
We've never seen Captain Kirk wearing an outfit quite like this one.
staff@engadget.com (Lawrence Bonk)
2026-05-30 00:03
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Dev.to
The Simplest Way I Found to Build Drag and Drop in React and Next.js
My Experience Using dnd-kit in React and Next.js For a long time, I avoided building drag-and-drop features in frontend projects 😅 Not because I did not need them. Mostly because drag and drop always felt unnecessarily complicated. When you think about implementing it, your brain immediately jumps to: animations sorting logic touch support accessibility performance state synchronization and suddenly a simple UI interaction feels like a massive feature. But recently, in one of my React and Next.js projects, I decided to finally try dnd-kit. Honestly, it changed my perspective completely. I used AI to help me with the initial setup and understanding some concepts like sortable contexts and drag events, but after that, working with the library felt surprisingly smooth. And that's what impressed me most. dnd-kit feels lightweight, modern, and flexible without becoming overwhelming. It gives you the tools you need without forcing a huge architecture or complicated patterns on your app. Things I Personally Liked About dnd-kit Very clean React-first API Lightweight and composable Works really well in React and Next.js projects Building sortable lists feels much simpler than expected Flexible enough for custom UI and interactions Good developer experience overall Something Interesting I Noticed When a library has a clean architecture and predictable patterns, AI becomes much more useful while learning it. The generated examples were easier to understand, easier to debug, and easier to customize compared to many older drag-and-drop solutions. If you are building things like: kanban boards sortable lists draggable cards dashboards reorderable tables I definitely recommend taking a look at dnd-kit. It ended up being much simpler and more enjoyable than I expected. Website https://dndkit.com/
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2026-05-29 23:58
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HackerNews
CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents
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2026-05-29 23:57
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Reddit r/artificial
📊 "Companies don't understand how to implement AI to get a competitive advantage." — Cuban. Here's what the data says actually works.
Cuban's take: the gap isn't access to AI tools. It's knowing how to implement them for your specific business. He's right. And the data backs it up in a specific way. We track verdicts across 70+ AI tool categories used by SMBs. The highest-volume category — Development Tools — has a 60% WORKED rate across 874 tools. Content Creation: 67% WORKED across 262 tools. AI Video & Production: 57% WORKED. But Customer Support sits at 31% WORKED despite 45 tools tracked. Email & Outreach: 30% WORKED. Marketing: 20% WORKED. Same AI. Same price points. Wildly different outcomes. The implementation gap Cuban's talking about isn't about expertise. It's about knowing that the category you're buying into has a 20% success rate before you spend three weeks setting it up. Which category did you implement where the outcome surprised you — better or worse than expected? submitted by /u/Fill-Important [link] [留言]
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2026-05-29 23:55
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Wired
Samsung Movingstyle Essential Review: A Screen on Wheels
Made for those who hate having a TV in the home, Samsung’s Movingstyle monitor-on-wheels brings the entertainment when you need it and hides away in a closet when you don’t.
Luke Larsen
2026-05-29 23:52
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Dev.to
Meet 'Devto-Blogger': The Hermes Agent Skill That Automatically Writes Your Technical Blog Posts
If you are an open-source maintainer, developer advocate, or builder, you know the cycle: you build an amazing tool, but writing the launch blog post, documentation, or tutorial takes hours. For the Hermes Agent Challenge , I wanted to build something that solves this exact problem. I built devto-blogger , a custom, prompt-driven skill for the brand new Hermes Agent by Nous Research. It autonomously scans any workspace or codebase, analyzes the architecture, and drafts a fully-structured, rich Markdown technical article ready for publication on DEV. 🚀 What is Hermes Agent? Hermes Agent is an open-source agentic system built by Nous Research (the lab behind the famous Hermes LLM models). Unlike basic coding copilots or simple chatbot wrappers, Hermes is: Environment-Aware : It runs sandboxed in Docker, Modal, Daytona, SSH, or locally. Connected : It interfaces with Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and more. Closed Learning Loop : It has persistent memory and creates custom skills on the fly from its own experience. 🔧 The Entry: The devto-blogger Skill In Hermes Agent, a "skill" is defined by a simple, declarative Markdown file ( SKILL.md ) located in the ~/.hermes/skills/ directory. By utilizing a prompt-driven skill structure, we can guide the agent's behavior globally without writing complex Python orchestration scripts. Here is the custom skill I designed and installed for this challenge: --- name : devto-blogger description : " Scan the codebase and generate a comprehensive Dev.to technical blog post draft." version : 1.0.0 author : Hermes Agent Developer license : MIT platforms : [ linux , macos , windows ] metadata : hermes : tags : [ devto , blogging , documentation , markdown , technical-writing ] related_skills : [ plan , design-md ] --- # Dev.to Technical Blogger Skill Use this skill when you need to write an in-depth technical post, review, or tutorial about the active workspace or codebase. ## Core Behavior 1. **Codebase Inspection** : Scan repository
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2026-05-29 23:52
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