You're attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. You're considering building a tool for semantic diffing in Emacs, after being dissatisfied with difftastic.
This is the combined work of @icculus @madebr @glebm @jayschwa @ccawley2011 and me rounding it off with stability fixes and missing features, thanks to everyone for pitching in. This is a fairly c...
The user had a good experience with Claude Code initially but encountered issues with poor quality responses and unhelpful customer support. They eventually cancelled their account due to scaling problems and poor handling of new customers.
The DeepSeek API uses OpenAI/Anthropic compatible format and can be accessed with an API key. Model names will be deprecated on July 24, 2026.
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The author, a software developer, has decided to abandon desktop app development in favor of web apps due to their superior sales, ease of development, and customer support. The author's experience with Bingo Card Creator, a desktop app turned web app, has shown that web apps offer better conversion rates, lower customer support costs, and more opportunities for experimentation and improvement.
Language models learn periodic features with dominant periods at T=2, 5, 10. Models acquire geometrically separable features from complementary co-occurrence signals or multi-token addition problems.
Assume others' intentions are malicious or ignorant, trust intuition, and pivot conversations to avoid weakness. Exploit your network, present curated details, and dismiss detractors' credentials unless agreeing with them.
Spinel compiles Ruby into native executables with significant speedups. It uses whole-program type inference and generates optimized C code.
A self-healing browser harness gives LLM complete freedom to complete tasks directly on Chrome with no framework or rails. It's free, supports 3 concurrent browsers, and can be contributed to with new domain skills.
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US soldier Master Sgt Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested and charged with stealing and misusing classified information after allegedly betting $32,000 on Venezuelan President Maduro's capture and winning $400,000. He faces five criminal charges and a related civil complaint from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
We can mount a tarball directly in memory without copying by generating a metadata file that lists file sizes and offsets, then using Emscripten's WORKERFS. This approach avoids unnecessary copying and improves performance, especially in memory-constrained environments.
Building an online casino or 18+ project is often driven by short-term goals and can be stigmatized, making it hard to find investment, employees, and reliable payment providers. Success in such a niche can be difficult to translate into a positive reputation outside of it.
To use Endless Toil, install it from the marketplace, restart Codex if needed, and invoke the plugin in a new thread. It plays escalating human groans as it scans code, printing results if an audio player is unavailable.
Researchers used machine learning to identify transient objects in historical astronomical plates and found a significant increase in transients near nuclear testing dates and a decrease in Earth's shadow. Results support the existence of an unrecognized population of transient objects.
Claude's responses worsened for some users due to three separate changes affecting Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. We've fixed the issues and will implement changes to prevent similar problems in the future.
Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 was compromised through a GitHub Action in its CI/CD pipeline as part of the Checkmarx supply chain campaign. Users are advised to review CI logs and rotate exposed secrets.
Intel released the E8087 software emulation package in 1980 to allow developers to write 8087 software without requiring 8087 hardware, and Microsoft later adopted and modified this mechanism for their own use. The emulation mechanism involves language translators emitting special fix-ups for floating-point instructions, which are then replaced with software interrupts by the linker, allowing ...
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, a more intelligent and efficient model that can handle complex tasks. GPT-5.5 excels at coding, research, and everyday work on a computer, providing better results with fewer tokens.
The author's early life influenced his writing, with a desire to escape loneliness and create a private world through words. He developed a habit of making up stories and describing scenes, which continued into adulthood.
Gova is a declarative GUI framework for Go that builds native desktop apps from a single codebase. It uses typed components, reactive state, and real platform dialogs with a single static binary.
Tesla acquired an unnamed AI hardware company for up to $2 billion in stock and equity awards. The deal's structure suggests Tesla is acquiring promising but unproven technology with a retention mechanism for the target company's engineering team.
Atomic organizes knowledge automatically with semantic search and tagging. It generates summaries, wiki articles, and visualizes knowledge as a graph with AI-augmented chat.
The author, a seasoned data infrastructure engineer, argues that the current state of software development is plagued by brittleness and tedium due to the use of fragmented systems, which are assembled from components with incompatible internal models. He proposes the development of a general-purpose, domain-aligned, sealed model for internet software that would enable coherent systems and ...
A team member, Andy Kirby, secretly used AI-generated code to take over the MeshCore ecosystem, sparking a dispute over ownership and control. The core team has now separated from Andy and will continue to develop and release MeshCore firmware and app updates on their official website, meshcore.io.
Meta plans to cut 10% of its workforce, around 8,000 employees, to boost efficiency and offset AI spending. Layoffs will occur on May 20, with 6,000 open roles left unfilled.
Aspartame is broken down into normal chemicals in the body, with no conclusive evidence of harm from its consumption. The current science suggests that aspartame's health impact is essentially zero, with every credible body agreeing on its safety.
A 40-year-old man in South Korea was arrested for sharing an AI-generated image of a missing wolf, misleading authorities and prompting a nationwide search. He faces up to 5 years in prison for disrupting government work by deception.
The author believes the internet has become a controlled echochamber where people are fed algorithmically generated content, and suggests using older technologies like RSS feeds, IRC, and email to reclaim agency over attention and information.