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Why Low Latency Sports Streaming Is Essential for Live Sports OTT Apps

Reading time6 min
Reach and readers19

The demand for live sports streaming has grown rapidly across OTT platforms, IPTV services, and mobile streaming applications. Today’s viewers expect real-time access to sports events without buffering, lag, or playback delays. Whether it is football, cricket, basketball, esports, or live tournaments, audiences want an experience that feels as close to live television as possible.

Low latency sports streaming has become one of the most important technologies for modern OTT platforms. It reduces the delay between the live event capture and viewer playback, enabling sports fans to watch matches in near real time. For OTT providers, broadcasters, and streaming businesses, low latency delivery improves viewer satisfaction, engagement, and platform reliability.

Platforms that deliver ultra-low latency live streaming can create immersive sports viewing experiences while supporting interactive features such as live betting, real-time commentary, instant replay, and audience engagement tools.

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Did Dawkins Find Consciousness in Claude? And If Not, What Did He Find?

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time5 min
Reach and readers5.6K

Renowned biologist Richard Dawkins recently published an essay exploring the possibility of LLM consciousness following a two‑day conversation with Claude AI.

Let“s first look at why an essay by this particular author caused such a stir in scientific circles, while thousands of ordinary users fail to turn heads when they claim their AI companions are sentient. The latter constantly post endless walls of text from their chats with LLMs, where the density of words like ‘consciousness,’ ‘soul,’ ‘reflection,’ ‘recursion,’ ‘emptiness,’ ‘warmth,’ ‘love,’ and ‘pain’ exceeds all reasonable limits. It is worth noting that the semantic density of these dialogues is practically zero‑but we will return to that later.

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JWT: The Self-Contained Token

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time40 min
Reach and readers3.1K

In Part II we saw that an API key is essentially a long, secret password your software shows to a server. It works, but it has a hidden cost: every time the key is used, the server must look it up in a database to find out what the key is allowed to do, whether it has expired, and whether it has been switched off. A JSON Web Token (JWT) removes that lookup by carrying all of that information inside the token itself. This article explains the problem JWT solves and shows where it sits in the larger story of web authentication.

Part I covered Basic Authentication — sending a username and password with every request. Part II covered API keys — replacing that reusable password with a single opaque secret string that identifies an application rather than a person.

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Data and the EU. Two cases of empowering special services for the sake of democracy

Reading time7 min
Reach and readers4.2K

In early 2026, one new law and one far‑reaching legislative initiative are expected to seriously affect digital freedoms in the EU. The first allows police to collect biometric data and target individuals; the second aims to put all metadata into one box and then use AI to run investigations. Naturally, both laws were adopted under the mantra of protecting democratic values, rights, and freedoms. Xeovo has examined the sprawling regulatory texts and explains what exactly Members of the European Parliament are aiming at.

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VPN Age Checks

Reading time6 min
Reach and readers5.5K

VPN age checks are a new initiative by British authorities aimed at protecting children from “harmful information.” It follows a series of other puritanical ideas, such as banning social media for people under 16, introducing age verification for viewing adult content, and similar measures. Xeovo explains why VPNs do not actually contribute to the criminalization of teenagers — and what the introduction of age checks could lead to.

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Appeal to keyboard makers: Please Stop Adding FN Buttons

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time4 min
Reach and readers4.2K

Most of the famous and popular keyboard manufacturers make full-size keyboards with bad UX!

Yes, I'm talking about you: Logitech, Razer, HP, Dell, Corsair, and almost all other famous brands!

Almost all your modern keyboards miss a single crucial UX thing: separate media and other action buttons!

Instead, they provide a terrible FN button that is actually the UX ENEMY!

Let's kill that FN button together - join the movement!

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How to connect MySQL in your backend project (NestJS + Prisma)

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time3 min
Reach and readers4.8K

Hi, I thought about this problem because on the internet I couldn't find information on how to correctly connect MySQL in a basic backend project. Also, I'll show you how to use it in a monorepo project. In this lesson, we'll be using NestJS and Prisma, as they are the most popular tools in backend development.

Okay, now, create a folder wherever you're comfortable, and open the terminal. In the terminal, type these commands:

$ npm i -g @nestjs/cli

$ nest new project-name

$ cd project-name

The next steps — you can start building anything with your project. But when you need a database, you'll need to import Prisma into your project. It's easy — run this command:

$ npm install prisma --save-dev

As a best practice, it's recommended to invoke the CLI locally by prefixing it with npx:

$ npx prisma

$ npx prisma init

Nice! Now, the following files should appear in your project:

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The Philosophy of Automated Tests: Management, Maintenance and Flakiness

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time7 min
Reach and readers5.2K

My name is Vladimir Smirnov, and I am responsible for testing the trading backend at EXANTE. Development moves fast. Regression suites grow. With them come the chaos and inconsistency of test environments, and a steady rise in unstable failures, known as flakes. Real problems hide behind those flakes. How do we keep our automated tests in acceptable shape without spending too much time on it? That is what this article is about.

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Decoding LLM Clichés: A Fresh Perspective

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time4 min
Reach and readers4.8K

Like millions of others convinced they possess knowledge the world desperately needs to hear, I decided to write a book on prompting. In the process (which, by the way, turned out to be far more difficult than anticipated), I found myself examining LLM clichés. You know the ones. At least, in the comment sections of tech blogs, hundreds of self-proclaimed experts use them to spot AI-generated text.

Anyway, these clichés definitely exist, and many authors now routinely add blocklists of these phrases to their prompts to weed them out. Whether this is actually a good or a bad thing is what I’ll break down below.

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A short guide on UX audit and how it can benefit any software product

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time4 min
Reach and readers5.9K

UX audit is a professional review and evaluation of a software product's UX, aimed to identify any types of issues that have a negative impact on the product's performance and provoke user frustration. Its ultimate goal is to provide recommendations on which areas of the product need to be improved to make it more user-oriented and therefore more useful and profitable for the business. Let's discuss how to know when the product needs a UX audit, how to prepare for the process as the product owner, which steps the process consists of and what to do with the results. 

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Why did Australia ban social media for teens?

Reading time5 min
Reach and readers6.9K

What arе the most dangerous things in the world? Viruses, highways, processed foods, Australian spiders? And what is danger, really? Regardless of how we define it, there must be clear risks and measurable harm. 

Somehow social media platforms are not showing up on any list of the most dangerous things, although even antibacterial soap and apathy have had such an honour. Why, then, did the Australian government prohibit having a social media account for those younger than 16? 

Let’s uncover potential causes.

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The Problems with C++ and Its Evolutionary Dead End

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time3 min
Reach and readers12K

C++ has trapped itself in an evolutionary dead end due to backward compatibility and UB, and the only realistic successor capable of displacing it in large codebases will be a transpiler that generates C++ and enables gradual, low-risk adoption.

Это перевод на английский язык статьи моей статьи Ахиллесова пята C++ и будущая р̶е̶ эволюция

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The Executable Code of Culture: Why Memes Are Mere Data, While Narratives (.exe) Run the World

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time9 min
Reach and readers7.8K

In 1976, Richard Dawkins introduced the concept of the meme in The Selfish Gene—a unit of cultural information that behaves like a gene: it copies itself, mutates, and undergoes selection. The idea proved so infectious that it became a meme itself: it entered science, spilled over into popular culture, morphed into internet folklore, and... got stuck.

I propose patching memetics via an IT metaphor. A meme is not a virus. A meme is mere data. The actual virus is the Narrative—the executable code of culture.

Key takeaways:

The human as a server, not a user: We are hosting providers for ideas.

Emotion is the spike protein of the narrative virus.

The user is a biological USB flash drive for AI.

A meme is a corpse. A narrative is a zombie.

Consciousness is a narrative that evolved into an Operating System.

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Why SEO is Immortal — And the True Nature of GEO

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time11 min
Reach and readers6.9K

Marketers are in a state of panic. SEO is "dead," link-through rates are plummeting, and digital promotion seems futile as LLMs dominate user attention. Naturally, a wave of experts has emerged, offering advice on how businesses can get "noticed" by AI. And, like clockwork, "GEO" (Generative Engine Optimization) services have flooded the market.

In this article, I will explain why SEO isn't going anywhere and why most current theories on GEO are fundamentally flawed.

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GitHub Copilot AI Agents for Beginners: Setup & First Agent in 5 Mins

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time4 min
Reach and readers6.2K

In this article, I’ll show you how to unlock the full power of GitHub Copilot agents inside VS Code. There are actually three main types of Copilot agents-most people only know about one, but I’m going to show you all of them. By the end, you’ll be able to create custom agents that act as your own specialized “sub-agents.”

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Using the technologies of the future for the sake of the future itself — about the experience of the Sci-Fi club NX-01

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time7 min
Reach and readers6.7K

«Sci-Fi ship on the orbit of black hole»

I've long been interested in science fiction, especially that which paints a positive vision of the future. I'm also passionate about artistic expression, even though I'm a software engineer. Somewhere between these two passions, in 2021, I came up with the idea to create an online club dedicated to sci-fi art in addition to my main job. It all started with selecting and posting materials, primarily from DeviantArt and, to a lesser extent, ArtStation. But with the rapid development of AI, especially in image generation, the club became more unique, as I was able to translate my ideas into art. Chat and code assistants are also used behind the scenes. AI is clearly the technology of the future, and using it in a project that promotes a positive vision of that very future seems more than suitable. I'd like to share this experience. There won't be any deep technical details about AI, this is more of an overview and presentation text.

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Meet the Developer: Hysteria

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time4 min
Reach and readers5.5K


This is the pilot episode of our new interview series Meet the Developer, where we talk to the people behind anti-censorship tools. Our goal is to shine a light on the developers whose open-source solutions help millions of people stay connected.

In this first episode, we sit down with Toby, the lead developer of Hysteria, to discuss the project’s origins, technical challenges and his perspective on internet censorship.

Let’s start with an introduction. Tell us who you are and what you do.

Just call me Toby. I’m a software engineer. Previously, I have worked for a large company. But right now, I’m a co-founder of a startup with some friends.

Nice to meet you Toby! Would you like to share what type of startup it is, or is it a top secret project?

We are still in stealth mode.

Why did you decide to develop Hysteria?

It was originally a project I developed for myself when I was in college.
China’s global Internet connectivity has been notoriously bad for as long as I can remember (still not any better right now). Not just in the sense of censorship, but also in terms of connection quality.

For example, if you have a server in the US and want to connect to it from China, expect over 10-20% or more packet loss.

So if you set up a proxy server in another country to circumvent censorship, it would be painfully slow (the most popular tools back then were GoAgent and later Shadowsocks).

So Hysteria began as an attempt to improve my speed for watching YouTube videos.

It’s always great to see developers building something to solve their own challenges. I can relate to the packet loss issue. Either you suffer the packet loss, or you have to purchase an expensive server with CN2 routing, which will cost a lot.

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