Research roadmap update, May 2025

Stack Overflow isn’t just a platform for asking and answering coding questions, it’s also a rich ecosystem for understanding the challenges, trends, and behaviors within the developer community. Behind the scenes, a dedicated team of researchers employ a variety of methodologies to gain valuable insights into how developers learn, collaborate, and problem solve. This research […]

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Understanding RL Vision

Contents In this article, we apply interpretability techniques to a reinforcement learning (RL) model trained to play the video game CoinRun . Using attribution combined with dimensionality reduction as in , we build an interface for exploring the objects detected by the model, and how they influence its value function and policy. We leverage this […]

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Learn a Smarter Way to Defend Modern Applications

May 17, 2025The Hacker NewsDevSecOps / Threat Detection Modern apps move fast—faster than most security teams can keep up. As businesses rush to build in the cloud, security often lags behind. Teams scan code in isolation, react late to cloud threats, and monitor SOC alerts only after damage is done. Attackers don’t wait. They exploit […]

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Why Queues Obliterate Lists in the Digital Battlefield

Welcome, my fellow denizens of the cyber realm. If you’ve ever dared to manipulate a Python list like some medieval peasant, let me introduce you to a tool so blazingly efficient that it makes lists look like dial-up in a fiber-optic world: Queues. The Setup We’re running a little duel here—Python’s list.pop(0) versus deque.popleft(). The […]

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Code. Create. Commit. Welcome to dev/core

What does it mean to be a developer? That question was at the heart of our thinking behind the new GitHub Shop collection: dev/core. The collection celebrates the developer’s layered experience—from the code, through the world of creation, to the unique identity of you, the developer, the builder, the person at the core of it […]

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