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Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. It's an Original
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NY Times
Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.
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Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels
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The current state of TLA⁺ development
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Andrew Helwer
The current state of TLA⁺ development
The 2025 TLA⁺ Community Event was held last week on May 4th at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
It was a satellite event to ETAPS 2025, which I also attended, and plan to write about …
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The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
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Stack Overflow is almost dead
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The Pragmatic Engineer
Stack overflow is almost dead
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
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Show HN: Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag
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Undetectag
Make your AirTag more efficient against thieves
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Demystifying Ruby: It's all about threads (2024)
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import { Posts } from 'blog';
Demystifying Ruby
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(1/3): It's all about threads
Is Ruby a true parallel language ?!
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A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde
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ohadravid.github.io
A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde
Years ago, I worked on reimplementing some Python code in Rust and needed to adapt Python’s dynamic reflection capabilities (aka __getattr__) to the strict and …
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Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals
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Codeberg.org
tek
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a colorful music making program for your linux terminal
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Refactoring Clojure
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Orso Labs
Refactoring Clojure (1)
Refactoring some Clojure code that implements an order-1 word-level Markov text generator.
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A leap year check in three instructions
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hueffner.de
A leap year check in three instructions
How to test for leap years (until year 102499) in the proleptic Gregorian calendar with just three 32-bit instructions, with detailed explanation of the bit-level tricks.
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Dr. Dobb's Journal Interviews Jef Raskin (1986)
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Substack
Dr. Dobb's Journal Interviews Jef Raskin (1986)
They discuss interface design and Raskin's hatred of the mouse.
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Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)
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Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent
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WSJ
Walmart Is Preparing to Welcome Its Next Customer: The AI Shopping Agent
As consumers begin to use AI agents to do their shopping, retailers are trying to figure out how to market to bots in addition to humans.
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If AI is so good at coding where are the open source contributions?
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Pivot to AI
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
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NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
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The Register
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
: Failure could've triggered a small explosion
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Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
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I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to
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I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here’s what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to
Elizabeth Holmes had more resources, talent, and opportunity than most founders will ever see — and she blew it. Now, writes Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz, she seems to be trying again.
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Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
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easel.games
Make Games with Easel | Easel
A 2D game programming language that makes multiplayer as easy as singleplayer. Whether you are a beginner or expert coder, you'll love making games with Easel!
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"The Mind in the Wheel" lays out a new foundation for the science of mind
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Experimental-History
New paradigm for psychology just dropped
OR: the ideas your mother warned you about
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Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
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Ollama
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models· Ollama Blog
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
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