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Racket: The Lisp That Lets You Build Your Own Programming Language
This tutorial introduces Racket, a modern descendant of Lisp, the 1958 language that pioneered ideas now considered standard: garbage collection, first-class fu
The NetBSD email: how one admin's OS switch saved his weekends (and his marriage)
A 2005 advocacy email resurfacing on Hacker News tells the story of Gary Rolland, a UK network admin who migrated his company's mission-critical infrastructure
The Z80 at 45: Why a 1976 CPU Refuses to Die
Zilog's Z80, released in 1976, became one of the most enduring microprocessors ever made. Designed by a team under Federico Faggin — who had already led Intel's
typ.ing: a minimalist web typing trainer, not a security story
The linked page is the landing screen for typ.ing, a browser-based typing trainer built to improve speed and accuracy on a physical keyboard. Beyond the pitch a
Users Claim Anthropic Is Quietly Throttling Claude Code's 'Effort' in an A/B Test
A widely-shared post alleges that Anthropic is running a server-side experiment that compresses the 'effort' scale for Fable 5 sessions in recent builds of Clau
Your Local LLM Isn't Dumb — Your Inference Stack Is Diverging From the Lab's
The gap between a model's advertised benchmarks and how it feels on your own hardware isn't imagination — it's the inevitable result of running the same weights
AI firms are shredding books for training data — Anna's Archive races to scan them
Anna's Archive, the largest shadow library on the internet, warns that AI companies are quietly buying used and rare books in bulk, cutting off their spines, an
Canada halts US trade talks, will match $28B in retaliatory tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney has suspended trade negotiations with the United States and recalled Canada's negotiators to Ottawa, ending an 18-month effort to rea
Canada vows 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliation as US trade talks collapse
Trade negotiations between the US and Canada broke down minutes before a Friday-night deadline, triggering a new round of 50% US tariffs on roughly 5% of Canadi
DESI team publishes largest 2D sky map: 4 billion objects, 5.6 trillion pixels
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the most detailed two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled, stitching together 263,407 exposures tak
Dev builds a Gemini-powered Claude Code skill to strip out the clickbait voice
A developer has published an open-source Claude Code skill called nobuzz (invoked as /debuzz, jokingly branded "Claudette") that rewrites Claude's chattier outp
Ditch the TUI: LLMs Make Native GUIs Cheap Enough to Stop Settling
The author walks through a series of native macOS apps he built over a few months without hand-writing meaningful code, instead generating them with frontier LL