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Picking Your First Lisp: Why the Dialect Matters Less Than You Think
Unlike most languages, which stay a single language across implementations, Lisp is a family with more than 20 living dialects that share a core syntax but dive
Roc Compiler Hits Feature Parity After 487-Day Rust-to-Zig Rewrite
The team behind the Roc programming language has spent about 18 months rewriting its 300,000-line compiler from Rust to Zig, and just reached feature parity wit
Roman Concrete's Longevity Traced to a Second Chemistry: Carbonation
Roman structures routinely survive two millennia while modern concrete tends to degrade within a century, and researchers have long credited the pozzolanic reac
Solod: a Go subset that compiles to readable C with zero runtime
Solod ("So"), a project from developer Anton Zhiyanov, is a strict subset of Go that transpiles into human-readable C11. The pitch is systems-level control with
Sony pulls 551 'purchased' films from PlayStation libraries — again
Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV series from PlayStation Store users' libraries on September 1, blaming a licensing agreement lapse with distributor StudioCan
Training a Diffusion-Based Kick Drum Generator on a 6GB-VRAM Linux Box
A hands-on writeup walks through building a generative AI model that synthesizes kick drum sounds using a diffusion approach, deliberately targeting modest, agi
Two AI Agents, One Song, $100: An Autonomous Music-Video Face-Off
Researchers built an open-source agentic harness (github.com/hershalb/music-video-arena) that hands a model a song, a hard dollar budget, and a toolset, then st
USB Type-C for Engineers: TI's Guide to Power Delivery, USB4 and 240W
Texas Instruments' 74-page reference (updated November 2024) walks hardware engineers through the full USB Type-C system, from first principles to production de
A MacBook Air, a hand file, and the case for treating gadgets as tools
A developer bought a used blue M4 MacBook Air and loved it over their aging ThinkPad for the battery and screen, but couldn't stand one thing: the sharp aluminu
AI Researcher Quits DeepMind After Google Signs Unrestricted Pentagon Deal
A Google DeepMind research engineer describes an internal campaign that ended with his resignation after Google signed a military AI contract with the Pentagon
Bluesky Buys the ATProto Trademark to Fend Off a Legal Threat
Bluesky has purchased the trademark rights to "AT Protocol," "atproto," and related variants from a company that had threatened litigation over use of the name.
Brainless: shadcn/ui components that mimic Claude Code, Codex, and Grok
Brainless is a library of drop-in UI components, built on shadcn/ui, that replicate the distinctive look of popular AI coding assistants—the terminal-style chat