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421. Chris Lattner evaluates the Claude C Compiler
Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.
422. Catherine of Braganza, the Queen Who Brought Tea to England
An outsider in the English royal court, Catherine of Braganza was an unenviable figure who left the legacy of tea-drinking in England.
423. Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations for PCIe 7.0
While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0.
424. Humans, vampires, and why you aren't Steve Yegge
Reclaiming your humanity is necessary as protection against AI vampires. Even Steve Yegge will tell you so.
425. Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox
A massive leadership shakeup at Microsoft's gaming division sees Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond leaving the company.
426. Tiny Musical Intervals
Music theorists have studied many fractions of the form 2i 3j 5k that are close to 1. They're called 5-limit commas. Especially cherished are those that have fairly small exponents—given how close they are to 1. I discussed a bunch here: • Well temperaments (part 2). and I explained the tiniest named one, the utterly…
427. Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty
Something truly monumental happened in the world of software development in 2025. Safari shipped areasonable implementation of text-wrap: pretty:https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/. We are gettingcloser and closer to the cutting-edge XV-century technology. Beautiful paragraphs!
428. Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models
429. Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations
GOTO sucks and is evil and I hate it, but what if there were parentheses? `call/cc` is kinda like goto, so let’s use it to make goto.
430. South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection
Ex-leader sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour over failed martial law declaration in 2024
431. Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU90 released
432. Ancient bacteria strain discovered is resistant to some modern antibiotics
In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.
433. Cloudflare Issues
Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare is investigating connectivity issues.
434. ChatGPT ads are appearing on the first prompt, not after conversations
ChatGPT ads are spotted by U.S. users — and they're appearing on the very first prompt, not after lengthy conversations as some predicted.
435. Photopea-Online Photo Editor
Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. Do Online Photo Editing in your browser for free!
436. Micron Is Spending $200B to Break the AI Memory Bottleneck
437. Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial