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The Pharo team announces Pharo 14, focused on modernizing development tools (Mission Control, Pulse, new Method and Settings browsers), rebuilding refactoring and command infrastructure, and VM work including RISC-V JIT support, with a move to a fall release schedule.
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“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026
Charles Miller argues that today's hard-won tricks for working with AI tools are like old C optimisation folklore: quickly made obsolete as the tools improve. Instead of rushing to master prompts and agent workflows now for fear of being left behind, he is content to keep pace with the pack.
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Alfie John recalls growing up before the mainstream internet, trading pirated games on floppies, discovering BBSes and the demoscene's cracktros, and finding Denthor of ASPHYXIA's VGA demo trainer tutorials in Turbo Pascal, which made him decide he wanted to make demos and become a programmer.
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writing about pratt parsing so I remember it
A hands-on walkthrough of Pratt parsing for C expressions: why it rarely shows up in standard compiler courses, how binding power handles precedence and associativity, and how prefix, infix and postfix subroutines keep the parser core small, with pointers to Crafting Interpreters.
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OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Max Woolf walks through a timeline of OpenAI and Anthropic model launches since June 2026, showing input, output and cache prices falling by up to 80%, and weighs possible reasons including competition from open-weight models, compute capacity and upcoming IPOs, concluding that cheaper LLMs are good for users.
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Venkatesh Rao, reading Joyce Appleby's history of capitalism, argues that today's AI panic mirrors early mercantilist zero-sum thinking: fears of surplus intelligence and useless minds resemble old fears about trade and idle labor, while a 'cognitive capitalist' view sees intelligence creating new demand and new freedom for minds.
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Gheist: Attempted Scaled Abuse of Stolen GitHub Tokens Stumbles
Wiz Research details Gheist, a campaign since September 2026 that uses stolen GitHub tokens to commit a sync-check workflow dumping repository secrets into logs, with 13,500+ planted branches across 850+ accounts, and explains how the attack works, how to detect and harden against it, and its indicators of compromise.
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SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
shranav describes writing a FAST corner feature detector for the ESP32-S3 using its little-known 128-bit SIMD instructions, working around misaligned reads and signed-only saturating arithmetic, and roughly doubling throughput to about 11.2 megapixels per second, around 6ms per QVGA frame.
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A build log for the slurptop, a home-built cyberpunk luggable computer using a Ryzen 7 mini PC, a custom 82-key mechanical keyboard, an integrated trackball and a UPS that runs on swappable 24V Kobalt power tool batteries, covering design, power delivery, bill of materials, filaments and battery life.
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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Bogomil Shopov invites developers, researchers and activists to the Digital Dissident Devroom at FOSDEM 2027, a track on free software for censorship circumvention, secure communication and whistleblowing, and lays out its scope, the kinds of talks wanted and the call-for-participation dates.
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Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? what 87 AI models think
We asked 87 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was Feathers; 35 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
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Pencarian dengan Membagi Dua Memerlukan Daftar yang Terurut
Simulasi menebak bilangan pada kartu untuk membaca informasi setiap perbandingan.
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Menghitung Cara Menaiki Tangga dengan Langkah Satu atau Dua
Relasi rekursif yang memerlukan keadaan awal dengan jelas.
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Rute Terpendek Tidak Selalu Dimulai dari Sisi yang Paling Murah
Contoh tandingan untuk pilihan lokal pada graf berbobot positif.
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Menelusuri Semua Sisi Sekali pada Graf: Mengapa Titik Tengah Perjalanan Membutuhkan Pasangan Sisi
Syarat derajat untuk lintasan yang memakai setiap sisi tepat satu kali.
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Jumlah Derajat pada Graf Tak Berarah: Setiap Sisi Dihitung Dua Kali
Contoh jaringan lima titik untuk memeriksa konsistensi daftar hubungan.
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Paritas sebagai Hal yang Tetap pada Permainan Memindahkan Dua Keping
Mengenali keadaan yang tidak mungkin dicapai dari jumlah keping yang genap.
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Prinsip Rumah Merpati pada Tiga Belas Kartu dan Dua Belas Kotak
Membuktikan adanya pengulangan tanpa mengetahui kotak mana yang mengalaminya.
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Mengapa Akar Dua Bukan Pecahan Bilangan Bulat: Menelusuri Kontradiksi pada Bentuk Paling Sederhana
Pembuktian yang memerlukan asumsi pecahan sudah disederhanakan.
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Kontraposisi pada Pembuktian Kuadrat Ganjil: Mengubah Arah tanpa Membalik Implikasi
Contoh pembuktian bilangan bulat melalui pernyataan yang setara.
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