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Language choice in programming is becoming less consequential as LLMs enable developers to work across unfamiliar…

English ↔ Claudish Translator

NetBSD and My Life (2005)

Gary Rolland, a UK-based network administrator, describes how NetBSD transformed his work environment by replacing…

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Apple has deprecated hdiutil in macOS 27 Golden Gate, replacing it with diskutil image for disk image operations.

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific…

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

A developer has created a tool that makes logos and text appear brighter on HDR displays by adding gain maps—tiny…

Things I want in a modern relational query language

The author argues that while SQL's declarative approach is powerful, its outdated implementation and syntax have…

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Local LLM implementations often underperform compared to reference implementations due to differences in hardware…

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

Figmimic is a bookmarklet that captures any webpage and converts it into editable Figma frames that can be pasted…

Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel

"Thinking in Python" by Bruce Eckel is a comprehensive guide covering Python fundamentals, advanced techniques, design…

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Moxie Marlinspike recalls moving to Pittsburgh in winter unprepared for the harsh conditions, finding a house without…

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

A traditionally published sci-fi author received over 50 scam book-marketing pitches in 33 days from fraudsters using…

Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Microsoft Fixes 'Perfect 10' Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely

The Entra ID flaw earned the highest possible severity score, but Microsoft says it patched the bug before publishing…

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say

Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"

Ken Thompson created Unix on a PDP-7 computer at Bell Labs after losing access to a GE-645 machine, initially aiming to…

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions…

US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense

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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

The author discovered a surprising naming trend among AI startups: companies using a number followed by "labs" (like…

Digging the grave of my job: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

Hollywood creatives facing a 35% production slump are taking lucrative gig work training AI systems to replicate their…

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

Racket is a modern descendant of Lisp, one of programming's oldest languages (born 1958), which pioneered concepts like…

Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade

Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative…

Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record

A Chinese humanoid robot named Lightning completed a 100-meter sprint in 9.32 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games…

The New MCP Roadmap

Anthropic has published an updated roadmap for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with five priority areas focused on…

A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds

Pew Research scanned nearly half a million webpages with an AI detector and found the fingerprints concentrated on .com…

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

California and 28 other states opened a landmark trial against Meta on Tuesday, accusing the company of using a "hook,…

A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been

The author argues that formal computer science education and algorithmic problem-solving skills are essential for…