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Six months of LLM progress: coding agents grew up, laptop models punched above their weight

Simon Willison's PyCon US 2026 lightning talk frames November 2025 as an inflection point for LLMs, especially for coding. The frontier crown changed hands five

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Unix historian Peter Salus dies at 86

Peter Salus, the linguist-turned-computing-historian whose 1994 book A Quarter Century of Unix remains a foundational text on the operating system's origins, di

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Why Ruby's Date Class Has Constants Named ITALY, ENGLAND, and JULIAN

Ruby's Date class exposes oddly-named constants like Date::ITALY (2299161), Date::ENGLAND, Date::GREGORIAN, and Date::JULIAN. They turn out to be Julian Day num

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16 bytes of x86 that draw Sierpinski rain and play it as sound

A demoscene release at Outline 2026 packs an infinite Sierpinski fractal generator and a PC speaker synthesizer into 16 bytes of real-mode DOS assembly. The rou

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Awesome-CUDA-Books: A Curated Reading List for GPU Programmers

A GitHub repository maintained by alternbits collects what its author claims is the most comprehensive public bibliography of CUDA programming books, organized

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GenCAD turns images into editable parametric CAD programs, not just meshes

GenCAD is an image-conditional generative model that produces parametric CAD command sequences from a single rendering, yielding editable engineering models rat

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High-Entropy Alloys: Mixing Five-Plus Elements for Extreme Materials

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) break from the traditional metallurgy model of one or two dominant elements plus minor additions. Instead, they combine five or more

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How the Hindenburg Ran a Smoking Room Inside a Hydrogen Airship

The Hindenburg, despite carrying seven million cubic feet of hydrogen, had a dedicated smoking lounge on B Deck. Engineers isolated it behind a double-door airl

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Jank gains a Clojure-aware custom IR to close the gap with the JVM

Jank, a native Clojure dialect compiled through LLVM, has shipped its own intermediate representation tailored to Clojure semantics. Until now, the project lean

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Mercurial at 20: Why the VCS Git Fans Wrote Off Is Still Shipping

A FOSDEM 2026 talk takes on the widespread assumption that Mercurial died when Git won the distributed version control wars in the 2010s. The reality is messier

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Prolog's Coding Horrors: Why Impure Constructs Break Logic Programs

A Prolog advocate catalogs the language features that quietly sabotage programs written in it. The core sin is reaching for impure, non-monotonic constructs lik

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Searchable archive collects 333 hours of astronaut Q&A footage

A new web project, Ask an Astronaut, aggregates 333 hours of question-and-answer footage with astronauts into a single searchable archive hosted at issinrealtim

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