The Terse plugin for Claude Code reduces AI verbosity by up to 70% through strict writing rules that ban filler words, metaphors, and self‑referential phrases, while adding a context meter to manage token usage.
Read full article →This article discusses Pavel Krivanek's browser-based analog computer simulator called 'The Analog Thing', which allows users to simulate analog computing concepts directly in a web browser without physical hardware.
Read full article →One hundred days after Mozilla's independent report highlighted how Windows steers users toward Edge, the company continues to deploy design tactics that override user browser choices, according to Mozilla's latest research.
Read full article →The LRB article details editor Charles Monteith's pivotal role in transforming William Golding's rejected manuscript into Lord of the Flies through specific structural, tonal, and allegorical revisions, while tracing how their collaboration evolved after the novel's success amid Golding's pursuit of increasingly complex themes.
Read full article →GitHub has added two new repository settings that let maintainers either disable pull requests entirely or restrict pull request creation to collaborators only, giving finer-grained control over how repositories accept contributions.
Read full article →Critical digital infrastructure used by billions relies on a strikingly small number of developers, often working as volunteers or with minimal support, creating vulnerability as demonstrated by supply chain attacks and funding disparities.
Read full article →A developer built a tiny operating‑system kernel in Swift that boots on the QEMU emulator, demonstrating how Embedded Swift can run on bare‑metal hardware without an underlying OS.
Read full article →An experimental project called ts‑rs has ported Microsoft’s TypeScript 7 compiler to Rust using large language models, maintaining the original Go‑based behavior while delivering notable performance improvements on benchmarks.
Read full article →Zerobrew is a new package manager that promises dramatically faster installations by reusing Homebrew's pre-built bottles but installing them through a content-addressed store and in-process linking, avoiding Homebrew's Ruby evaluation and per-binary relinking steps.
Read full article →Researchers in Austria and China have independently built the first nuclear clocks that track time via thorium-229 nucleus transitions, achieving precision that loses only a second every few million years and opening paths to portable timekeeping and dark‑matter detection.
Read full article →The online pseudonym Cleo, known for providing expert solutions to complex integration problems on Mathematics Stack Exchange without showing work, was revealed in January 2025 to be Vladimir Reshetnikov, an Uzbekistani-American software developer and mathematician.
Read full article →At 194 years old, Jonathan the Aldabra giant tortoise holds the record as the oldest known living land animal. Researchers have sequenced his genome, uncovering distinctive genetic variants linked to DNA repair, insulin regulation, mitochondrial function, and an unusually pristine mitochondrial methylome that may contribute to his exceptional lifespan.
Read full article →Penguin Mail is an open-source email and calendar client for Linux written in Rust, offering a unified inbox for Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP/POP3 accounts, local data storage, and an optional AI assistant that runs on the user's machine via LM Studio or Ollama.
Read full article →The 2026 State of Devs survey reveals widespread career insecurity, burnout, and polarized views on AI among software developers, with over half experiencing burnout and nearly half anticipating a career change due to external factors.
Read full article →A two-year randomized trial in 18 Tennessee middle schools found that giving students access to Khan Academy's AI tutor, Khanmigo, during remedial math sessions raised achievement by about 1.3 national percentile ranks per term. However, the gains mirrored those from using Khan Academy without AI, and researchers concluded the binding constraint is engagement: most students barely used the tutor, and when they did, interactions were superficial.
Read full article →Ledge.sh is an open-source Markdown notes application that allows users to run shell commands, code, SQL, and AI prompts directly within their notes, with each note maintaining its own persistent shell environment.
Read full article →Lukas Vogel has implemented the original 1993 Doom game's logic and renderer within a SQL database using CedarDB, with a minimal Python client handling only input/output. The system achieves 35 FPS gameplay and includes multiplayer capabilities.
Read full article →The book *Quantitative Finance with OCaml* teaches core quantitative finance topics—derivative pricing, risk management, credit modeling, and algorithmic trading—using OCaml’s strong type system to eliminate entire classes of financial programming errors at compile time. It provides production‑quality code, honest mathematical derivations, and covers modern OCaml 5 features across seven parts and 31 chapters.
Read full article →Research into 1st millennium BCE Babylonian education reveals that while no separate religious education program existed, scribal students absorbed religious knowledge through their standard curriculum, learning about deities, temple practices, and god-human relationships as part of training for administrative roles.
Read full article →A 2012 blog post explains how fixed point mathematics from computer science applies to student union strike mandates in Québec, showing why intuitive approaches to determining striking unions often fail and how seeking the greatest fixed point provides the correct solution.
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