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241. Meta CEO Knew Kids Were Being Hurt and He Covered It Up
242. Updating the Verge's Background Policy
On “on background.”
243. 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.
244. Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
245. Google Public CA is down
246. Async/Await on the GPU
GPU code can now use Rust's async/await. We share the reasons why and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
247. Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast
I’ve been working on Stoolap for a while now, an embedded SQL database written in pure Rust. It started as a Go project, grew into something much bigger, and recently hit a point where I thought: okay, this thing is fast, but how do people actually use it outside of Rust?
248. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp
249. China confirms visa-free travel for UK and Canadian nationals
Relaxed visa rules for British and Canadian passport holders will come into force on 17 February.
250. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
251. Cloudflare Issues
Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare is investigating connectivity issues.
252. Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought [video]
How asbestos ended up everywhere, and why we’re still using it today. Sponsored by Ground News - Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vanta...
253. Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too
A collection of modern Java code snippets. Every old Java pattern next to its clean, modern replacement — side by side.
254. OpenAI resets spending expectations, target is around $600B by 2030
OpenAI told investors it's targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spend by 2030, trying to clarify its plans after touting a $1.4 trillion figure.
255. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
256. The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.
257. Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss
Big changes are being made at the top of Microsoft's gaming division.
258. 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!
259. Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024)
260. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
Developing a standard for localizable message strings - unicode-org/message-format-wg
261. University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects"
Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.
262. Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification
TeamSpeak seems to be rather enjoying the technical issues
263. Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway submitted its latest 13-F filing on February 17, revealing some interesting changes in the portfolio. 
264. The Only Moat Left Is Money
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
265. Kung Fu Robo Choreography at Chinese New Year Event [video]
The routine fused traditional martial arts with advanced robotics, featuring synchronized stunts and sword and nunchuk sequences.The routine fused traditiona...
266. Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys.
267. Breccia: Single-file, append-only, blob storage with efficient random access
Contribute to petertodd/breccia development by creating an account on GitHub.
268. The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation
After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental LLM limits that emerged when tackling the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.
269. Assigning Open Problems in Class
270. Split Diffs Are Here
From the Zed Blog: View your code changes in a split diff view in Zed.