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Perry Compiles TypeScript Straight to Native Binaries via SWC and LLVM

Perry is a new toolchain that takes TypeScript source and produces standalone native executables without Node.js, V8, or Electron in the picture. It parses with

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Pierre's CodeView Tackles the Hard Parts of Rendering Massive Diffs in Browsers

Pierre Computer Company has released CodeView, a virtualization-first React component built to render arbitrarily large diffs in the browser without the degrada

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Prusa releases MIT-licensed ColorMix model for multi-color FDM printing

Prusa has open-sourced ColorMix, a color-mixing model integrated into PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint that lets multi-material FDM printers produce dozens of color to

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Quandri Engineering: Why Skills and CLIs Beat MCP for Most Dev Workflows

Quandri's backend team measured the real cost of Model Context Protocol servers against their stack and found the architecture struggles to justify itself for t

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Rockstar Devs Form IWGB Union After Mass Firings Ahead of GTA 6 Launch

Staff at Rockstar Games have formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union under the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, going public this week with a video l

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Shift offers free home cleanings in exchange for robot training footage

Shift, an AI training data startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for the right to record the work using camera-equipped hats

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Snowboard Kids 2 Hits 100% Decompilation After Two-Year Community Effort

Chris Lewis has completed a fully matching C decompilation of the N64 game Snowboard Kids 2, meaning every original function now has a C implementation that com

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Stop Defending Human Value With Benchmark Comparisons to AI

The common defense of human worth in the AI era—that humans still outperform models on certain tasks, or produce subtler output—rests on a shrinking capability

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Tiny-vLLM: Build a CUDA LLM Inference Engine from Scratch in C++

Tiny-vLLM is an open-source project that pairs a working LLM inference server with a step-by-step course teaching readers how to build one themselves. The engin

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Veteran open source developer quits tech, citing AI's toll on the craft

A longtime open source contributor and Sentry employee announces he is stepping away from the industry entirely, choosing an offline life. He frames AI as the f

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Yegge: The Technical Interview Is on Borrowed Time

Steve Yegge argues that the traditional technical interview—whiteboard algorithms, live coding, system design quizzes—is rapidly becoming obsolete as AI coding

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Zig Splits Build System Into Configurer and Maker, Cutting `zig build -h` by 90%

Andrew Kelley landed a major rework of Zig's build system that separates the build pipeline into two distinct processes. The new 'configurer' compiles only the

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