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Jane Street open-sources Bonsai, its OCaml framework for reactive web apps
Bonsai is the UI library Jane Street uses to build nearly all of its internal web tooling, from the corporate directory to interfaces that monitor live trading
Newfoundland Town Finally Rid of 900,000 Liters of 24-Year-Old Fish Sauce
For over two decades, 110 vats of fermenting capelin and salt have been rotting inside an abandoned factory in St. Mary's, a Newfoundland town of about 300 peop
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On-device runtime runs 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB by streaming MoE experts from SSD
Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen3-Next and Qwen3.5/3.6 mixture-of-experts models on Apple Silicon by keeping only each model's small d
The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Be a Statistical Mirage, Not a Real Bias
The Dunning-Kruger effect — the popular idea that incompetent people are too incompetent to recognize their own incompetence — may be an artifact of how the dat
To Avoid 'Cognitive Debt,' This Developer Retypes Every Line of AI Code by Hand
Blogger Ankur Sethi describes a deliberately inefficient workflow for coding assistants: rather than letting an LLM edit his projects directly or reviewing the
Twenty Years of Pandoc: How a Haskell Side Project Became a Universal Document Converter
John MacFarlane released the first version of pandoc on August 3, 2006 — roughly 3,000 lines of Haskell with no dependencies beyond the standard library. The pr
U.S. Burns Through Nearly All Long-Range Precision Missiles in Iran War
Five months of fighting Iran have drained almost the entire U.S. Army inventory of long-range surface-to-surface missiles — the ATACMS and its newer replacement
Why domain expertise is the real prompting skill for LLMs
The common assumption is that LLMs flatten skill differences: since everyone queries the same models, a first-time user should get the same output as a seasoned
Wikimedia rejects card-check union, hires Littler Mendelson to fight NLRB vote
Wiki Workers United U.S. asked the Wikimedia Foundation on July 20 to voluntarily recognize its union after a supermajority of staff signed union cards. The Fou
A Turkish developer's German landing: trust, flat hierarchy, and social democracy in practice
A Turkish computer science student recounts how a 2017 internship in Hamburg upended every stereotype he'd absorbed about Germans being cold, humorless, and rul
AI agents make the case for open-source devtools by killing the plugin system
The author argues that AI coding agents have upended the economics of personalizing software. Historically, writing bespoke tools for yourself rarely paid off—m