🎄 Advent of Code 2025 Cuts Its Puzzles in Half
Advent of Code’s evolution toward a more inclusive, less competitive format highlights how coding culture is maturing—valuing mastery and shared joy over speed alone.
The 2025 edition of Eric Wastl’s Advent of Code introduces major changes: only 12 puzzles instead of the traditional 25, no global leaderboard, and new rules around AI usage and puzzle sharing. Despite these updates, the event remains a beloved, language-agnostic programming challenge focused on learning and community collaboration.
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🎬 Downloadable Movie Posters from the 1940s–1970s
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🧠 Defining Artificial General Intelligence: A Quantitative Framework
This work transforms the abstract AGI debate into measurable science—providing a concrete, data-driven foundation for future research and policy discussions.
Dan Hendrycks and colleagues propose a psychometric definition of AGI grounded in the Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory of human cognition. Their framework benchmarks AI systems across ten cognitive domains, estimating GPT-4 at 27% and GPT-5 at 57% of human-level performance. The study quantifies AGI progress and pinpoints remaining weaknesses in reasoning and memory.
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💥 When ‘Perfect’ Code Breaks Everything
A powerful reminder that even elegant-looking code can fail when frameworks rewrite execution semantics behind the scenes.
A Next.js 14.1.3 app suffered a major security flaw: an equality check appeared correct but always returned truthy due to async server functions returning Promises. The bug exposed how framework abstractions can distort basic logic. Subsequent Next.js releases now prevent such silent logic traps.
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🧩 Property-Based Testing in Practice
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