A series of characters ask a computer, Multivac, about the possibility of reversing entropy and extending the life of the universe, but it responds with "insufficient data for a meaningful answer." As the universe runs down, a cosmic computer, AC, eventually learns how to reverse entropy, but there is no one left to answer the question.
Ada is a programming language that was designed in the 1970s for the US Department of Defense and has been consistently described as verbose and arcane, but its design decisions have influenced many modern languages. Despite its lack of popularity, Ada's features such as its package system, generic units, and concurrency model have been rediscovered and implemented in other languages, and its ...
Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement over Opus 4.6 with better vision, more tasteful and creative task completion, and improved cybersecurity capabilities. It handles complex tasks with rigor and consistency, and is available today across all Claude products and APIs.
Fim is a universal image viewer inspired by gnu/linux concepts. it can display in full screen and you control it using the keyboard - e.g. to display more information about an image, use the _info_fmt_str variable! if you know the vi/vim text editor shortcut based usage interface then you appreciate the comfort and speed it gives..........................
Codex now operates alongside developers, generating images, remembering preferences, and taking on repeatable work, with deeper support for developer workflows and native web integration. The update includes over 90 new plugins, improved automations, and memory features to enhance productivity and collaboration.
LLMs have made average data creation cheap and easy, but users often struggle to extract meaningful information from their data. A data platform called rawquery uses LLM agents to help users query and visualize their data in plain language, making it easier to get insights without needing a data team.
Silicon Valley elites, including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, are attacking public science funding despite profiting from government-funded research. They redirect freed-up funding to the tech industry, exploiting newly displaced STEM researchers through gig work.
CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models. It lets you describe parts as code, making models easy to version, share, and parameterize - no GUI required.
The Python interpreter is a virtual machine that executes bytecode, which is an intermediate representation of Python code, by manipulating a stack and jumping to different instructions. The interpreter has a complex structure, including frames, which are collections of information and context for a chunk of code, and a call stack, which stores the frames, and a data stack, which stores the ...
The user had 90% token coverage in Chinese but struggled with semantic understanding due to missing 10% of tokens. They created a custom interface using Claude Code and Hack Chinese to improve learning efficiency.
The author reflects on 30 years of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and notes that despite significant hardware advancements, HPC programming notations have largely remained the same, with Fortran, C, and C++ still dominating the landscape. The author attributes this stagnation to a lack of investment in HPC software, a focus on hardware over software, and a community mindset that doubts its ...
Clojure is a Lisp dialect that originated from Rich Hickey's idea and has become a key language in the fintech industry. It features persistent data structures, software transactional memory, and a values-first approach to minimize complexity.
Android CLI is a new tool for Android development that simplifies workflows and improves efficiency with AI-assistance. It's part of a suite of tools including Android skills and the Android Knowledge Base for high-quality app development.
AutoProber is a hardware hacker's flying probe automation stack for safe pin probing. It uses a web dashboard, Python scripts, or the agent itself to control hardware and annotate maps.
You're experimenting with Claude Code for hardware development, finding it tricky to express complex designs in plain English but useful with immediate feedback. You've set up a workflow with Claude, oscilloscope, and SPICE simulator for validating circuits, programming, and data analysis.
HAR1 is a human accelerated region on chromosome 20 involved in neurodevelopment, found in the developing brain and adult cerebellum and forebrain. It is repressed by REST in Huntington's disease, contributing to neurodegeneration.
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
Duke University's GDDI program uses Playdate, a handheld game console, to teach game design fundamentals due to its simplicity and portability. The device's free development kit and simulator allow students to create and test games quickly, fostering an iterative design process.
reBot-DevArm is an open-source robotic arm project for learning Embodied AI, offering free tutorials and documentation. It promotes knowledge sharing and enables developers to access cutting-edge robotic arm technologies at minimal cost.
Davis Vaughan created an R grammar for the Tree-sitter parsing generator, unlocking improved developer experience for R. This grammar has been used to build various tools, including the {treesitter} R package, which allows parsing and searching R code, and tools like ast-grep and Air for code refactoring and reformatting.
In case you’re curious about how coding agents work, check out this post where I explore an open-source agent internals. You can also checkout my deep dive into how LLM inference engines like vLLM work. I recently undertook the delusional project of writing my own implementation of a Kafka Broker: MonKafka. Deep into that rabbit hole, I fell into a different one when trying to implement ...
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a sparse MoE model with 3B active parameters, delivering outstanding agentic coding performance and rivaling larger dense models. It's available as open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.
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Substrate (www.substrate.cc) is building the world’s first AI native BPO, starting with healthcare RCM. We’re focused on helping healthcare enterprises like physician groups, EMR providers, and BPOs accelerate AR, and get reimbursed quickly and cost effectively. We already touch over 500k healthcare claims each month. We're looking for an exceptional Harness Engineer to help build the ...
Mergetopus is a tool that helps teams manage large merges by splitting them into smaller tasks. It creates separate branches for each conflict and allows developers to resolve them individually.
The goal of this communication is to point out that 18 years after it was first developed, a century-bandwidth antenna has apparently been reinvented with only a decade bandwidth, and patented
Representative Josh Gottheimer's Parents Decide Act mandates age verification for all US device users, building a national ID layer administered by Apple and Google. This infrastructure erodes the First Amendment's protection of anonymous access to lawful content, shifting users from presumptively anonymous adults to identified subjects.
Cloudflare is launching AI Gateway, a unified inference layer that allows developers to access any AI model from any provider through one API. This simplifies AI development and management, enabling developers to build fast and reliable AI-powered applications.
The PROBoter platform automates embedded system security analysis tasks such as visual PCB inspection and reverse engineering. It uses a camera system, Neural Networks, and automated calibration to assist security analysts.
The author is concerned about the impact of large language models on society, citing their potential to displace human workers and exacerbate existing problems. They advocate for slowing down the development of these models to give time for regulation and adaptation.
Technology companies are facing supply chain limits, causing GPU rental prices to surge and limiting access to AI models. This scarcity is reshaping the industry with new challenges and opportunities for companies to adapt and diversify.