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Rune is now open source
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,293 posts.
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OpenAI Agents API
Build durable cloud agents with a managed Codex harness.
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JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by compiling application code to native code in a training run, storing the native code in the AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. If the…
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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. SWE-2 delivers highly competitive agentic coding performance across multiple effort…
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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.
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Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft into supporting the Rust Project, over the following years. Watch Mark’s keynote from last…
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Julia 1.13 highlights
Highlights of the Julia 1.13 release.
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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
It's random, really.
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven modern runtimes agree on what even the simplest async programs should do! In this paper we map the design space of…
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Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
Rietta patched a government client's Ruby on Rails site within hours of a 9.5 CVSS ActiveStorage CVE. Exploit attempts began before business hours resumed.
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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map
Go 1.24 replaced the built-in map’s bucket-based runtime with Swiss Tables. This article explains groups, control bytes, H1 and H2, probing, table growth, directories, deletion, load factor, and the experimental split-group layout.
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Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Preview of Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine to all lazy queries
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Music Theory for Programmers
I can't play an instrument, so I worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with code you can hear.
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Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)
It's time for another technical blog post about async Rust on embedded. This time we're going to pitch Embassy/Rust against FreeRTOS/C on an STM32F446 microcontroller.
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Xanadu was waiting for agents
From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
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The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
After 15 years at Google, the creator of JJ joins ERSC as Chief Technology Officer.
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Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters
The optimizations behind Wasmi 2.0, and how they compare to Wasm3 and Stitch.
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We are rebuilding Monica
We are rebuilding Monica from scratch, and this new series will document how.
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How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. The free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people at thousands of companies and universities around the world.
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How to build a diffusion language model
An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material…
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Don't use musl if you care about performance
I've spent most of my career working inside the JVM, with a sidebar of Python. So the first time I hit incompatible libc with containerized Bifrost, and GPT suggested musl as the solution, not only did I jump on it, I moved my other Rust projects to musl as
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Htmx 4.0
Release announcement, 2026-08-28.
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Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems
A customer's Go application kept crashing on a 32-bit embedded Linux system. We traced the fatal netpoll error to a pointer aliasing bug in the Go runtime.
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EVE Online moves to Python 3
How do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code?
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Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents
Self-guided agents that think continuously
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RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
I’m happy to announce that RISC-V platforms are now officially supported by CPython. 🎉 🚀
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NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
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New MCP Roadmap
An update on the Model Context Protocol roadmap and focus areas for upcoming specification releases.
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Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast