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Anthropic acquires Bun
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
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A 10x Faster TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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Gemini CLI
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.
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WASM 3.0 Completed
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.
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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms
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You should write an agent
They're like riding a bike: easy, and you don't get it until you try.
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Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
Over 1,000 NPM packages were infected using the same method as the previous attack, infecting with a fake Bun runtime. The attacker leveraged the `preinstall` script to download and execute a malicious payload, stealing sensitive information from the compromised machines.
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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
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Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Kimi K2 Thinking, Moonshot's best open-source thinking model.
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JavaScript Trademark Update
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.
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Why LLMs can't really build software
From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.
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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.
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Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Announcing the Beta release of ty
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
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We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
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Mistral 3 family of models released
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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The Future of Htmx
In this essay, Carson Gross and Alex Petros discuss htmx's future direction and philosophy. They explain how the project aims to emulate jQuery's success through API stability, minimal feature additions, and quarterly releases while continuing to promote hypermedia-driven development and support the broader web…
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You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Everybody hates working on legacy projects, me as well. Working on one, however, helped me get a deeper understanding of the dev process.
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Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
DeepSeek R-1 is the most powerful open-source reasoning model that performs on par with OpenAI's o1 model. Run the 1.58-bit Dynamic GGUF version by Unsloth.
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Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we’re excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct — a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 35B active…
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Vibe code is legacy code
Code that nobody understands is tech debt
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Ruby 4.0.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.
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PYX: The next step in Python packaging
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
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Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
From the Zed Blog: Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor. What's more, Zed's new AI features are also open-source, just like the whole editor.
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VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Migrating away from Rust
Why we moved Architect of Ruin from Rust and Bevy to C# and Unity in January 2025, and how the three-day experiment that decided it went.
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Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
Our legal battle over Oracle's claim on the word "JavaScript" is entering the discovery phase. Here's how you can help.