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151. The Missing Layer
152. A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?
153. What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
154. Bytes as Braille
155. Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch
156. Deno Sandbox
Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.
157. Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US
The steps to bolster Canada's auto industry come as Trump's tariffs strain the sector and threaten jobs.
158. Code Quality Analysis of Translations from C to Rust
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.00840: Code Quality Analysis of Translations from C to Rust
159. U.S. asks American citizens to 'leave Iran now'
Differences over the scope for the talks have also cast doubts on whether it will still go ahead, keeping open the risk of U.S. military action.
160. An Oral History of Unix (Thompson/Ritchie/12-More Interview Transcripts)
161. Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
When the eradication program began in 1986, there were a 3.5 million cases.
162. The Worst Programmer I Know
The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.
163. Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem
164. Triton Bespoke Layouts
Hopefully the previous articles covering linear layout concepts and examples facilitate building a solid understanding of the core generic layer powering various Triton code generation lowering and optimizations. Now let’s turn our focus to those bespoke layouts, which we still consistently interact with when working on Triton compiler internals. Additionally, developers can directly program layouts with Gluon now; writing those bespoke layouts is generally more intuitive than linear layouts.
165. Lily Programming Language
166. CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
A statement on the CIA's website gives no reason for the decision, simply stating that the Factbook has been "sunset" while encouraging readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it".
167. I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
Launch of an experiment to use AI-Scientists to accelerate research of a "solved" disease.
168. The Codex App
169. Software engineer mental health crisis
170. Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
171. Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web
Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web 26 Jan 2026 ...
172. Claude Code for Infrastructure
fluid.sh
173. Reality is losing the deepfake war
Why AI labeling efforts are falling flat in the face of slop, disinformation, and messy metadata standards.
174. AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines
AliSQL is a MySQL branch originated from Alibaba Group. Fetch document from Release Notes at bottom. - alibaba/AliSQL
175. Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"
176. Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested. He says it was AI
A California man is facing a criminal charge for allegedly BASE jumping off Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park during the federal government shutdown last year.
177. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
178. 221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
179. European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
180. Monty - A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust
A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - pydantic/monty