The story of how I thought I copied an attendance list, but ended up overwriting the original data—I had underestimated Python's "assignment"

After writing an article about character encoding, I had been gradually developing the same attendance management script.

"The history keeps growing every time I call it"—A story about falling into the trap of Python's default arguments

Last week, I was given a small assignment in class. It was a seemingly simple task: "Write a function that records test ...
Electronics For You

Needle 2 Runs Tool-Calling AI On Raspberry Pi 5

Needle 2 is a 45-million-parameter, 14MB model that turns plain-English commands into local Python function calls on a ...
How-To Geek

If this is you, you should consider switching to Linux

For aspiring developers, Linux provides an ideal learning environment that's hard to beat. I studied programming back in ...
Security Boulevard

Serverless, Not Riskless: Exploiting Unauthenticated API Gateways in AWS

Exploiting Unauthenticated API Gateways in AWS September 21, 2026 sara.pearlman@guidepointsecurity.com BLOG  5 min. Over the past year, GuidePoint’s Threat and Attack Simulation (TAS) team has ...
Hackaday

CircuitPython Goes Turbo With Precompiled Functions

It would not be at all original to declare that Python is the new BASIC. Like BASIC, it has been the first programming language for a whole generation of coders, and its main advantage is that ...
Unite.AI

Anthropic Says Claude Computed a Nine-Loop Particle Physics Amplitude

Anthropic on September 25, 2026 published a guest post on its research site reporting that two of its physicists used the ...
HackerNoon

Building an Urban Heat Island Detector with Python, Satellite Data, and Machine Learning

Urban heat islands are a solvable data problem: this piece shows how to combine free satellite imagery, standard ...
The Hacker News

Compromised MemTensor Packages Deliver sckit Credential Stealer via npm and PyPI

Compromised MemTensor npm and PyPI packages deliver sckit, a Go-based stealer targeting cloud, registry, source-code, and developer credentials.
Analytics Insight

Google Gemini API: How to Get an API Key and Start Using it in 2026

Overview:  Google AI Studio issues a free Gemini API key in minutes, no credit card needed.Pricing runs per token; Pro models ...
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Kate is the IDE you need to replace VS Code

It's simple and has all the necessary features ...
The Hacker News

FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials

FreeIPA and 389 Directory Server flaws let an anonymous client create an attacker-chosen Kerberos identity in the administrators group.