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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

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open-sourcetech-culture

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

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tech-culture

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

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tech-culturedevops

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

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aitech-culture

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

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aiopen-source

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

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aitech-culture

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

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policysupply-chain

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

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policysupply-chain

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

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aicloud

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

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aitech-culture

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

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aitech-culture

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

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