Zig: Build System Reworked

The Zig project has made several improvements including faster build times, incremental compilation, and better type resolution. These changes aim to make the development experience more efficient and user-friendly, with features like faster error messages and improved dependency management.

Pandoc Templates

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Pandoc templates for PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word. Easily convert documents with customizable templates for reports, articles, and more.

The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History

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The "mediocre man" theory of history suggests that ordinary individuals can shape history as much as great men or mass forces. Kaiser Wilhelm II's character and rule illustrate this theory, as his influence on German politics and world events was significant despite his lack of greatness.

Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism

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The Pope warns against replacing humans with AI, though he seems to use it himself P first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is very long (at more than 42,000 words, the length of a short novel). It tackles numerous issues, perhaps too many. The pontiff pleads for fact-checked journalism and multilateral diplomacy. He apologises for the papacy’s belated condemnation of slavery. He declares the ...

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

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The user agrees with DBOS that a separate orchestration tier is not necessary for durable execution, as workflow state can be kept in a local database like SQLite. A local SQLite database with Litestream backup to S3 is a simple and cost-effective way to achieve durability for many AI and experimentation workflows.

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation

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Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

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A C implementation of Snowboard Kids 2's functions has been completed, allowing for a readable and modifiable codebase. The project's success is attributed to the N64 decompilation community and coding agents, particularly Codex 5.5 xhigh.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

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I attended the AI Now Summit by Mistral AI in Paris, learning about their full-stack AI approach, including compute, models, platforms, and consultancy. Mistral focuses on efficient, open, and custom models for European companies, emphasizing partnerships and on-prem deployment for sovereignty and return on investment.

Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU

The user discussed the behavior of floating-point numbers and their functions like floor, ceil, trunc, and round in C, C++, HLSL, and GLSL, noting differences in rounding rules and denormal handling. The user also provided a custom HLSL implementation of floor and ceil functions that preserves denormals and behaves consistently across CPUs and GPUs.

What Happened to the Locusts?

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

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Leontien Talboom led a project called "Future Nostalgia" to preserve floppy disks at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives. The disks are degrading due to physical deterioration and loss of knowledge about the disks themselves.
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Prusa developed a color mixing model called Prusa ColorMix to enable printing with dozens of colors on multi-material printers. The model is now integrated into PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint, allowing users to easily mix colors and predict the final result.

MCP is dead?

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The author argues that MCP consumes too much context and is slower than CLI approaches, but it's still useful for services without a strong CLI. They recommend using Skills to wrap existing CLIs for repeatable workflows and reserving MCP for services with no CLI or team-wide auth needs.

Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

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Algebraic effects are a research programming language feature that allows functions to perform effects and resume execution later, enabling more flexible error handling and separation of concerns. They are still in early stages of development but could be a powerful tool for languages like JavaScript if implemented correctly.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

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Your nephew is choosing between a MacBook Neo and a Framework 12 laptop. The MacBook Neo offers better performance, display, and build quality at a lower price, making it the better value.

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

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Shift offers free home cleaning in exchange for footage to train robots, with a "magic hat" recording cleaners. The service is initially available in New York, with plans to expand to other cities.

The dead economy theory

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The AI industry's focus on labor replacement threatens to eliminate human jobs, leading to economic instability and social unrest. The industry's prioritization of profit over people and lack of accountability may undermine democratic governance and exacerbate inequality.

The Last Technical Interview

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The traditional technical interview process is broken and has been for decades, with a high rate of false positives and negatives, and is being replaced by a more effective approach of provisional employment and real work assessments. The author proposes a "campfire" model where candidates contribute real work to a company and receive a permanent, portable record of their accomplishments, ...

OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7

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OpenRCT2 Release v0.5.1, "Swamp Castle", fixes various bugs and adds new features. This is the last release supporting Windows 7/8 due to GitHub's upcoming lack of support.

A new register allocator for ZJIT

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We implemented a linear scan register allocator in ZJIT based on Christian Wimmer's paper. The allocator uses SSA form to track variable lifetimes and interference graphs to determine register allocation.

Naphtha shortages in Japan

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Calbee is switching to black-and-white packaging due to naphtha shortages caused by the Iran war. The shortage affects various industries, including food, manufacturing, and medical sectors.

Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM

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Perry compiles TypeScript to native executables on various platforms. It produces standalone binaries with no runtime dependencies, enabling fast deployment and reproducible builds.

Quantum dot qubit using High NA EUV lithography

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Imec is a research and innovation hub in advanced semiconductor technologies with over 6,500 employees and €1.2 billion in 2025 revenue. It collaborates globally to drive innovation in various industries through customized solutions and new ventures.

Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?

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The introduction of AI and automation in programming is deskilling the profession, making it easier for businesses to hire generalists and reducing the bargaining power of workers, similar to how frameworks deskilled frontend development in the past. While AI can increase efficiency and productivity, it also risks producing lower quality work and requires developers to understand how to use ...

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

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Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an edge model for fast tool calling on consumer hardware. It expands context window, doubles vocabulary, and achieves tasks on entry-level laptops.

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

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bijou64 is a variable-length integer encoding that ensures canonicality, preventing multiple ways to represent a number, and runs faster than LEB128 in benchmarks. It uses a tag-based system and bit shuffling to achieve this, making it structurally safer and faster for certain use cases.

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

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Secluso is a private home security system for Raspberry Pi with end-to-end encrypted remote access and 5-minute setup. It allows live video, alerts, and recordings from a phone without cloud storage.

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

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We are building a high-performance LLM inference engine with C++ and CUDA, focusing on loading and running a pre-trained LLM model, specifically Llama 3.2 1B Instruct, and understanding the basics of floating-point numbers and their representation in binary format.

On Rendering Diffs

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A good review surface needs more than text. virtualization helps with rendering problems, and moving highlighting off the main thread helped with parts of the processing problem. to emulate scrolling entirely, no native scrollable region is used, with simulated scrollbar and content updated via requestanimationframe as the user moves through the document. we don’t virtualize horizontal scroll ...

Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate