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Amazon's HR Lead Uses AI Tool to Write 100,000 Lines of Code - 25 Years After She Last Coded

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By: EditorDavid
30 August 2026 at 23:34
In an Amazon News blog post, their HR leader describes using AI to write 100,000 lines of code — 25 years after she last coded. "Do you know how empowering it is to realize that after 25 years away from coding, you can actually build again?" First she built a calendar app for her family, but then used Amazon's AI-powered coding tool Kiro to write an app for Amazon's internal "Everyone Can Build" event. We opened the competition to every employee on our team, and within just a few weeks, more than 1,500 people were building. I couldn't believe what they built. One employee built an app that turned a nearly four-hour manual process into a one-second automated check, saving tens of thousands of hours annually. Another made a desktop pet named Momo that keeps your tasks, reminders, and shortcuts a click away. Since then, I've written over 100,000 lines of code with AI. What I've found is that the more you work with these tools, the more natural the process becomes, and the more you realize they're expanding what you're capable of, not replacing it. You don't need perfection to start. You just need to dive in. When I decided to build the submission app for our team competition, I didn't know how to begin, so I asked our internal AI workplace assistant, called Aza. It pointed me to the right tools and helped me take the first step. From there, I opened Kiro and started building. When you give employees the ability and tools to solve problems themselves, they will surprise you with what they create... At Amazon, every employee has access to AI tools. Whether someone needs a quick answer, wants to move faster in their day-to-day, or is ready to try building something new, the resources are there. The more people use these tools, the more capable they become with them, and that experience carries forward in their careers... We also want to make it easy for people to build credentials that are recognized across industries. That's why AI training is free for every Amazon employee. Amazon covers the full cost of one AWS AI certification exam per year, with options ranging from foundational AI concepts to professional-level generative AI. Employees can choose the path that fits where they are in their learning journey. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes that 7 months ago Galetti also took to Amazon News to announce the elimination of 16,000 corporate jobs, a move which CNBC noted coincided "with a push to invest heavily in artificial intelligence." The job reductions come just a few months after October's layoffs, when 14,000 employees were let go across Amazon's corporate workforce. At the time, the company indicated the cuts would continue in 2026 as it found "additional places we can remove layers."

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Question about Netbird vs Tailscale

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By: /u/joninjax1
30 August 2026 at 20:22

I see a lot of YouTube channels using NetBird, and when I look into it, I honestly don’t understand it. I understand that it’s similar to Tailscale, but that’s about as far as I’ve gotten. Can anybody offer comparisons of NetBird vs. Tailscale?One thing I saw was that there wasn’t an Android client for NetBird, but then I saw something that said they did have one. My network is very simple:4 computers (2 desktops — 1 Windows, 1 Linux; 1 laptop; 1 Chromebook) 2 cell phones 2 Android tablets 6 IoT devices (smart plugs/bulbs) a Ring doorbell and a Ring camera one Alexa device

My VPS setups are 5 different VPSes, with Pi-hole running on 2 of them (Gravity Sync between them; the second is a backup).Tailscale is on all of my devices except my wife’s cell phone (I can’t get her to install it). I have subnet routes for Alexa, but I could not get the other devices working. I’m also not really sure if Alexa is properly subnet-routed, since everything is wireless and my computer is wired with no wireless adapter.What, if anything, would I gain or lose if I switched to NetBird?

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DevOps/SRE engineers working abroad: What skills should I focus on?

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By: /u/abhixshH
30 August 2026 at 20:01

I'm currently working in DevOps/SRE and I'm trying to better understand the gap between my current experience and what is expected from DevOps/SRE engineers in other countries.

My long-term goal is to work internationally, so I'm trying to be realistic about where I stand and what I need to improve before making that move.

I'd really like to connect with DevOps/SRE engineers who are currently working in countries outside their home country, especially people who have gone through a similar transition.

I'm interested in learning about things such as:

  • What technical skills are most important for international DevOps/SRE roles?
  • Which areas did you personally have to improve when moving to another country?
  • How important are Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, security, and scripting in your current role?
  • Are there any skills that people often overlook when preparing for these roles?
  • What level of system design, troubleshooting, Linux, networking, and cloud knowledge is expected?
  • How important are communication and teamwork skills compared with technical skills?
  • What would you focus on if you were preparing for an international DevOps/SRE role from scratch today?

I'm not looking for job offers or referrals. I'm mainly trying to identify my knowledge gaps, learn from people with real experience, and build a better learning path.

If you're working abroad as a DevOps/SRE engineer and are open to sharing your experience, I'd really appreciate a chat. Even a short 15–20 minute conversation would be very helpful.

Happy to connect with others who are on a similar path too. We can exchange what we're learning and help each other improve.

Thanks!

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Multikernel Linux Tree Released: Runs Multiple Kernels On Bare Metal Without a Hypervisor

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By: EditorDavid
30 August 2026 at 21:26
"Multikernel Technologies has put out mklinux v7.0-mk2, the first public release of the multikernel Linux tree it's been building since last year," reports the blog It's FOSS: The basic premise of the project is that one physical server can run several independent Linux kernels side by side, each with its own dedicated CPUs and memory. So, the same box could run a database on one kernel and a GPU training job on another without either kernel touching the other's resources... One kernel runs as the host, controlling the machine's CPUs, memory, and PCI devices. When it spins up a new kernel instance, that instance gets its own dedicated slice of hardware and boots straight onto it using Linux's kexec mechanism, running natively rather than under a hypervisor. The host tracks all of this through device tree overlays under /sys/fs/multikernel/, and it can shift hardware between running instances while everything stays up. That's a different setup from both VMs and containers. A VM still puts a hypervisor and a host kernel between the app and the hardware. A container skips the hypervisor, but every tenant on the machine shares one kernel... This release only supports x86_64 hardware, though Multikernel Technologies says the architecture-specific code is already modular enough for other ports to follow later. The article notes they're selling multiple products based on the kernel tree, including one for running AI agents in their own kernel with direct GPU access and one that promises to patch a running kernel without taking the system down.

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I’m building an open-source Canvas-based document editor with a React adapter

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By: /u/celsowm
30 August 2026 at 20:30

Hey r/reactjs,

I've been working on Oasis Editor, an open-source TypeScript document editor with its own Canvas-based rendering engine.

React sits on top as an adapter rather than owning the editor runtime, so the same core can be used from vanilla JS, Vue, or headless environments.

The editor handles paged layout, text rendering, selections, images, tables, and document geometry through its own rendering pipeline, and exposes a typed command/plugin API.

Live playground:
https://celsowm.github.io/oasis-editor/#/editor

GitHub:
https://github.com/celsowm/oasis-editor

I'd love feedback on the React integration, API design, and overall architectu

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Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen

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By: EditorDavid
30 August 2026 at 19:38
From the gaming news site Aftermath" Game developer and consultant Ryan Laley traveled to Cologne, Germany from Essex, England to showcase his upcoming horror social deduction game Mimic at the annual Gamescom event. He paid "thousands of pounds" to get a booth at the show, where other game developers and press could try the game ahead of its October release. But Laley's Gamescom was cut short when he realized Friday morning that his brand new Alienware laptop, purchased for the event, was missing. The laptop was stored in a cupboard in the booth, and Laley started asking nearby vendors to see if someone had moved it. That's when he realized it was stolen — and that he wasn't alone. Laley's booth in Gamescom's business area, specifically in the International Game Developers Association Lounge, had been hit in what appears to be a string of thefts at the convention center. The business area of the convention is not open to the public, only press and others with specific tickets. Laley said Gamescom advertised this area as having 24/7 security and limited access after hours... Publisher and merchandiser iam8bit, in a nearby booth showcasing Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School and Petal Runner, had two laptops with game builds stolen Thursday night from its booth, a representative confirmed to Aftermath. "Meanwhile, Tessera Studios had two laptops and a Steam Deck taken from its cabinet," reports Tom's Hardware: Gamescom organizers responded to the issues, saying that although they have arranged for uniformed guards to provide general security, individual booth security must be booked separately. They've also advised exhibitors to have insurance against theft, and said these warnings are noted in the terms and conditions for participants, as well as in the event's technical guidelines. "All cases have been reported to us and to the police, and investigations are already underway," the organizers' statement read. They also said that security is one of their priorities at the event, but also added, "At an event of this size, however, there will always be individuals attempting to take advantage of the situation."

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Changing to flexbox

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By: /u/Reubqn_
30 August 2026 at 18:53

Hello, so im going over an old website I made back when I first started developing, and silly me decided to build the entire thing with "position: relative, right: -233px" 😭

Am I going to have to redo the entire site CSS to flexbox so it doesnt move about on different screen sizes, or is there an easier way to save this site?

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الحب والخير والجمال

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By: /u/atta_dorgham
30 August 2026 at 18:26

لا بد أن يغمر الحب قلوبنا ويتسع للجميع ولا مجال للكراهية ،ويجب أن نحب الخير للناس،وكن جميلا تر الوجود جميلا ،فالله جميل يحب الجمال

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AI's 'Creepy' Crawlers Criticized by Linux Foundation's IT Infrastructure Director

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By: EditorDavid
30 August 2026 at 17:38
The Linux Foundation's director of IT infrastructure says they now spend more CPU cycles "rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access." At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering git commits as html.... [W]hen a source is guaranteed to be LLM-free, like the entire history of kernel commits, it's worth its weight in gold as a source of training data... At the time of writing, linux.git is about 1.48 million commits. Oh, and we have about 922 forks of it on git.kernel.org — but don't worry, it's actually extremely efficient on the backend, since it's mostly the same objects in every fork. Unless, of course, you're a scraper, in which case you have, oh, several BILLION valid URLs you can scrape, only to get 922 duplicates of the same 1.48 million commits — which is exactly what the scrapers are doing. But wait, it's not just commits itself. You can also ask for patches, plain renders, diffs between arbitrary commits — cgit is happy to let you, which was perfect for the times when the Internet was for humans or crawlers who obeyed robots.txt, and is AWFUL right about now, because we can generate 1.2 METRIC BAJILLION valid URLs just for a single fork of linux.git. Initially, this was the solution — look through the logs, find out which IPs are obvious scraper bots, and fail2ban them. At first, this was easy, because the bots helpfully told you who they were via their user-agent. Then, they wised up and started pretending that they were random vanilla browsers. So, we started banning them by IP — after all, it's easy to figure out that an IP that is trying to grab every possible commit in a 8-year-old abandoned fork of linux is not really some lone Chrome on Windows user who is just furiously clicking every link that comes across their screen. The bots then started fanning out to entire subnets, but this was still meh, because obviously an IP coming from Google Compute is just pretending to be a Firefox user... And... that's when things turned really, really ugly. Suddenly, the crawlers were coming from millions of random residential or mobile IPs, all pretending to be random modern browsers. An IP like that would make 4-5 requests and then never show up in the logs again... They descended like swarms of locust, hit hard and fast until the system fell over and then moved on to the next target until you recovered. Then, they returned. Rinse. Repeat. They still do that — welcome to the wonderful world of "proxy SDK monetization." It's big business, and your TV is probably doing it... Today, git.kernel.org receives about 6M daily requests demanding to see random commits. Of these, 66% are still immediately batted away with the Anubis challenge, but 33% are now solving the math and getting through to the main site — because apparently what we have to offer is worth spending a ton of cycles to calculate the Anubis challenge... With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers... [W]e're turning off features to reduce the number of crawlable URLs and to gate off actions that are expensive for us to run. Expect to lose some functionality, at least when accessing our resources anonymously. Trust me, we hate it just as much as you, but at this point it's a necessity... [W]e promise to still offer all of our data for download to anyone who asks. You just may have to jump through more hoops to get it. Sorry.

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Out of control spam filtering I can't control

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By: /u/MyKidsArentOnReddit
30 August 2026 at 16:20

I own the domain [mylastname.com]. For decades I've had a "real" email address at yahoo, gmail, or a university and I forwarded email from [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to my "real" account. No one new my real account and I never needed to update people that my email address was changing. (I adopted this initially with bigfoot in the 90s). A few other members of my family do the same.

Now for the problem - in the last year or so spam filtering has gotten overly aggressive and I can't get my email. What happens is this:

  1. email comes in to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) at my webhost.
  2. Webhost forwards it to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), but now it considers it outgoing mail
  3. The outgoing spam filter sees a mailing list or something else slightly commercial and blocks it.
  4. No one is notified of the block. The sender doesn't even get a bounce message.

I talked to my webhost and the best they could do was migrate me to another web server that used MailChannels instead of SpamExperts, but hat only made it worse. I talked to tech support at MailChannels and they basically said my best bet was to stop using their product. My web host won't opt me out of spam filtering because of fairly obvious reasons.

What are my options? I understand that ignoring a tech system for 15 years leads to some obsolescence, but at this point I've resigned myself to be dragged (kicking and screaming of course) into whatever the newer solution is. I really don't want to go back to thunderbird/whatever has replaced pop3. I don't want to do google hosting since not everyone in my family likes google (my sister uses hotmail. No, I can't explain why). The other thing is that all of us do hybrids - we have some email going to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), and some email goes directly to the gmail/hotmail/whatever account. Having two email accounts to check is a pain in the neck. Is there some way to combine these two accounts without using forwarding? Any webhosts that won't do content filtering on my mail? Another obvious solution I'm missing?

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I am a "marketing intern"

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By: /u/OverUnderstanding132
30 August 2026 at 16:18

I am working for a small-medium sized corp that has 5 child companies that I am designing websites for and building out in Wordpress. Initially I got some time to do some research in data analytics and web designing. Now though, I am literally just making the sites in wordpress and am still an intern. Like I make the pages in wordpress, and then present it to my superivsor and marketing manager for them to review weekly.

I work 3 days a week and get paid 19 an hour.

They basically told me that they wont have the budget to actually hire me but want me to stay till the end of the year to try and get as many of the websites made as I can. I *want* to do this but I am afraid that I am getting underpaid to do this kind of work.

I am aware im not a full blown web dev, but I do write basic scripts for funcitonality and I am making the site essentially fully on my own. I feel like I should at least get like a different job title so that I can put it on my resume.

My goal is eventually to be an actual web dev. I have an associates in computer and web programming and have built websites from scratch with html/css/js, php, sql servers. I am still working on growing my knowledge of technologies but Its a start.

I guess I just want some advice on what I should do not only with my position, but moving forward with careers.

Thanks in advance.

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Surveiling the competition (freelancers) and I don't get it

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By: /u/Standard_Addition896
30 August 2026 at 15:33

I tried finding the +$100/h hourly rated freelancers and I don't see anything out the ordinary.
API integrations, AI like chatbots with RAG, junior devs tutoring, setting up ERP.
Idk what I was expecting, maybe crazy performance optimizations with in-depth breakdowns of what was cut or optimized and not "made a database be updated by pulling data from a public API, charged $5000".

Not sure what I'm doing wrong as someone who struggles to find work even as I drive my hourly rate lower and lower.

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A website and a TUI for learning German verbs, one-armed-bandit style

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By: /u/progapandist
30 August 2026 at 14:54
A website and a TUI for learning German verbs, one-armed-bandit style

This is free and open source and requires no sign-up, I gain nothing from this and I think it's interesting enough from the architecture PoV to share it here. Especially the TUI part that is served from actual binary running in a disposable container accessed through in-browser terminal emulator: https://progapanda.org/tja

If you feel this should be moderated — I don't mind.

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I am a "marketing intern"

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By: /u/OverUnderstanding132
30 August 2026 at 16:18

I am working for a small-medium sized corp that has 5 child companies that I am designing websites for and building out in Wordpress. Initially I got some time to do some research in data analytics and web designing. Now though, I am literally just making the sites in wordpress and am still an intern. Like I make the pages in wordpress, and then present it to my superivsor and marketing manager for them to review weekly.

I work 3 days a week and get paid 19 an hour.

They basically told me that they wont have the budget to actually hire me but want me to stay till the end of the year to try and get as many of the websites made as I can. I *want* to do this but I am afraid that I am getting underpaid to do this kind of work.

I am aware im not a full blown web dev, but I do write basic scripts for funcitonality and I am making the site essentially fully on my own. I feel like I should at least get like a different job title so that I can put it on my resume.

My goal is eventually to be an actual web dev. I have an associates in computer and web programming and have built websites from scratch with html/css/js, php, sql servers. I am still working on growing my knowledge of technologies but Its a start.

I guess I just want some advice on what I should do not only with my position, but moving forward with careers.

Thanks in advance.

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