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Constrained languages are easier to optimize

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 20:21:13

jyn, what the fuck are you talking about a recurring problem in modern “low-level” languages is that they are hard to optimize. they do not reflect the hardware, they require doing complex alias analysis, and they constantly allocate and deallocate memory. they looked at the structure/expressiveness tradeoff and consistently chose expressiveness. what does a faster language look like consider this paper on stream fusion in Haskell. this takes a series of nested loops, each of which logically

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 17:24:51

Why is everyone in such a rush? The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take. Let's analyze what a title like Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours could mean: Teach

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San Diego Comic-Con’s New ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Trailer Pops the Lid on Pocket Universe Madness

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-29 20:00:09

At San Diego Comic-Con, HBO Max unveiled a new trailer for the second season of DC Studios’ series, Peacemaker, starring John Cena. The brand-new Peacemaker trailer arrives two months after DC Studios teased fans with an initial teaser. In the teaser trailer, we saw Peacemaker being interrogated by Maxwell Lord (Sean Gunn), Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), and Hawk Girl (Isabela Merced). Peacemaker’s cameo in Superman, DC Studios’ summer blockbuster, highlights his role as DC Studios’ resident ant

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Oh Lord, ‘Peacemaker’ Has Its Foxy Season 2 Song

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-30 02:10:13

One of the best, most everlasting parts of that first season of Peacemaker was its opening credits as the antihero and friends (and his dad) danced to “Do You Wanna Taste It?” by Wig Wam. With season two less than a month out, everyone’s been wondering what its song would be, and the answer is…”Oh Lord” by Foxy Shazam. During Saturday night’s Peacefest at San Diego Comic-Con, James Gunn took to the stage to break the news, calling it a song “from my favorite band in the world that is objectivel

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Brave and AdGuard now block Microsoft Recall by default

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:26:02

The Brave web browser and the ad-blocker AdGuard have both announced that they are blocking Microsoft Recall by default . For the uninitiated, Recall is an AI-powered tool that accompanies Windows 11 and it records everything on a PC's screen . It's pretty obvious why a privacy-minded web browser like Brave and an ad-blocker would make this move. AdGuard said the decision was made due to a "privacy concern," going on to say that "the very idea of background screen captures is unsettling." A blo

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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 21:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 03:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Tech Companies Are Blocking Microsoft’s Creepy ‘Recall’ Feature

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-31 03:40:48

Microsoft’s much-maligned Recall feature, which automatically screenshots everything you do on your Copilot+ PC to create a “photographic memory,” is not making many fans across the app developer community. According to a report from The Verge, ad blocker AdGuard and privacy-minded browser Brave have decided to block Recall and its prying eyes. Brave announced its plans to block Recall in a blog post published earlier this year, in which it tipped its cap to Signal, the encrypted messaging app

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Google's new Search mode puts classic results back on top - how to access it

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-31 17:16:21

Google Google's new AI-powered feature aims to help organize your search results. Web Guide organizes links into helpful categories that break down a complex topic, the company said in a blog post, Thursday. It's intended for both open-ended searches like "how to solo travel in Japan" or detailed queries in multiple sentences like, "My family is spread across multiple time zones. What are the best tools for staying connected and maintaining close relationships despite the distance?" How Web G

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‘Gundam Wing’ Celebrated 30 Years at Comic-Con With an Epic New Short

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-31 22:30:32

It’s been an important year for Gundam, between the afterglow of the franchise’s 45th anniversary last year, the launch of a brand new series in Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and the alignment of several key anniversaries for major entries in the franchise—including the 30th anniversary of the show that introduced Gundam to America, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Of course then, Heero and the gang weren’t going to let an opportunity like San Diego Comic-Con come by without being able to celebrate 30 years of mech

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Here’s everything new Apple TV+ has coming in August

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-01 03:17:09

Apple TV+ is enjoying its biggest year ever, and has a strong fall lineup around the corner. Before summer ends, though, August will bring new seasons of high-profile shows like sci-fi drama Invasion and comedy Platonic, alongside brand new series like Chief of War. Here’s everything new coming to Apple TV+ in August. Chief of War When: August 1 What: TV Show Genre: Drama “Chief of War” is based on true events. With Hawaii’s four kingdoms divided by war, the ferocious warrior Kaʻiana (Jason

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Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 23:12:30

I’ve been working on Rye since 2018. It’s a project of joy — but also because I believe there is a potential to create something of value to others, eventually. Even people living under a rock know we’ve entered the age of LLMs. I don’t jump to ships too soon, but eventually, even I had to admit: code can get generated from prompts. And in many situations — with a smart prompter — the results are quite OK. Even if you disagree, genie can’t be put back in the bottle. Technical progress generall

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Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 17:51:17

Search is changing at a breakneck pace, with Google rolling out new AI features so quickly it can be hard to keep up. So far, these AI implementations are being offered in addition to the traditional search experience. However, Google is now offering a sneak peek at how it may use AI to change the good old-fashioned list of blue links. The company says its new Web Guide feature is being developed to "intelligently organize" the results page, and you can try it now, if you dare. Many Google sear

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Google rethinks search results with its new AI-curated ‘Web Guide’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-02 17:44:03

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. On Thursday, Google launched Web Guide, a new AI-powered search feature that “groups links in helpful ways” for people who opt in to the test on Labs. Web Guide runs on a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model to process search queries, reorganizing the traditional “10 blue links” by sorting results and finding related questions using generative

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Everything Else

news.ycombinator.com Caitlín Doherty 2026-01-03 12:20:59

At the end of April, I travelled to Dubai to observe a violin competition. It was a commission for which I was profoundly unqualified, except in one regard: I wanted to visit Dubai. The editor of a classical music website got in touch to offer me a place on the trip after another freelancer dropped out. My lack of musical knowledge would not, he explained, be a hindrance. In fact, it might even help. The aim of the commission was not to evaluate the performances, but to report on what happened,

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There is no memory safety without thread safety

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 12:35:39

There is no memory safety without thread safety Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to languages that make sure that there are no use-after-free or out-of-bounds memory accesses in the program. This is then often seen as distinct from other notions of safety such as thread safety, which refers to programs that do not have certain kinds of concurrency bugs

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Must-Have Summer Essentials for Parents, as Recommended by the Mom of a 2-Year-Old

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 16:00:00

If you’re an active parent who easily gets cabin fever, a jogging stroller is a great way to get out of the house with your toddler. The Guava Roam Stroller is a jogging stroller on the smaller side, and according to the website, it’s 50% smaller than other jogging strollers. It folds up easily, so it works if you have limited space in your home. I’ve been using this stroller for part of the summer and love how it’s made it easier for me to go out for a run while also bringing my toddler along w

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This cheaper N64 FPGA console might be the best way to play your N64 carts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 14:45:11

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR ModRetro has announced pricing for its N64 FPGA console, the M64, at $199.99. This is $50 cheaper than the Analogue 3D, which ships next month. The video hints at a holiday release date, but no specs or details have been announced yet. The Nintendo 64 was one of the most interesting consoles of its time, but revisiting those classics isn’t easy. Unless you still have a microfridge-sized CRT in working order, you’re looking at spending hundreds of dolla

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Bandai Asks Japanese Politicians to Not Dress Up as ‘Gundam’ Characters to Campaign

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-04 17:00:01

Sure, America occasionally has a “The White House is photoshopping the president’s head onto Superman posters” problem, but it turns out plenty of other countries also have a bit of an issue with politicians leveraging pop culture cosplaying for political gain. It’s just that those other countries will have studios telling them to quit it. Earlier this week, Japanese politician Taro Yamamoto, the founder of the left-populist political party Reiwa Shinsengumi, went viral on social media for reco

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FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 22:09:47

Vision Language Models (VLMs) enable visual understanding alongside textual inputs. They are typically built by passing visual tokens from a pretrained vision encoder to a pretrained Large Language Model (LLM) through a projection layer. By leveraging the rich visual representations of the vision encoder and the world knowledge and reasoning capabilities of the LLM, VLMs can be useful for a wide range of applications, including accessibility assistants, UI navigation, robotics, and gaming. VLM

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Wow, James Gunn Really Hated Those ‘Peacemaker’ Cameos in the Old DCU

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-01-06 08:15:20

The second season of Peacemaker, starring WWE champion and actor John Cena, is just around the corner. With it comes a lot of questions about how the anti-hero will fit into both the old and new DC canon, given his limbo status, which has even led DC Studios head James Gunn to voice his frustration. Speaking with Den of Geek ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, Gunn reiterated that the second season of Peacemaker will address all the continuity confusion questions related to DC’s past and present. “T

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Newly Discovered Gut ‘Sense’ Could Change How We Think About Hunger and Health

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-06 08:30:39

There really is something to the concept of having a gut feeling. New research out today suggests our bodies can directly sense and communicate with the many bacteria lining our digestive tract. Scientists at Duke University led the study, published Wednesday in Nature. They found that nerve cells can respond in real time to bacterial signals from the gut—including signals that tell us to curb our appetite. The findings suggest the relationship we have with our microbial neighbors is even more

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‘Clayface’ May Be Adding a ‘Star Wars’ Star

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-06 17:00:04

Sarah Michelle Gellar has a teasing update for the Buffy revival. The next Evil Dead has begun filming. Get a look at Ne Zha II‘s western debut. Plus, Lestat returns in rocking fashion in new pictures from Interview With the Vampire season 3. Spoilers now! Clayface According to THR, Naomie Ackie has joined the cast of Clayface in a currently undisclosed role. Mr. Terrific As noted by Knife Edge Media’s Caleb Williams (via Comic Book), DC has filed a copyright for a potential Mr. Terrific pro

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Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-07 09:11:23

Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator 50 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Apple and Google may be required to change the way they operate some of their mobile services in the UK, according to proposed decisions by the UK's competition regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the tech giants over their app stores, browsers and operating systems. "Around 90-100% of UK mobi

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AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers

news.ycombinator.com Stan Lo 2026-01-07 05:39:13

For a decade (2014-2024), I was a Ruby-only developer. I worked across the Ruby ecosystem—from Rails development to Ruby’s core tooling like IRB, RDoc, and the debug gem. But while I moved around the stack, I stayed within Ruby’s boundaries. Ruby wasn’t just my primary language; it was essentially my only language. That changed in 2025. This year, I’ve contributed to Sorbet (C++), worked on RBS’s parser (C), and am now diving into ZJIT (Rust). A combination of factors enabled this shift—someth

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Gupshup raises $60M in equity and debt, leaves unicorn status hanging

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-01-07 09:30:00

Gupshup, a business messaging startup that began its journey in India over two decades ago and became a unicorn four years ago, has raised a new over $60 million round — but is keeping its new valuation under wraps. In 2021, Gupshup raised two funding rounds within four months, securing $340 million from prominent investors including Tiger Global, Fidelity Management, Think Investments, and Malabar Investments. These rounds — the startup’s first in roughly a decade — valued Gupshup at $1.4 bill

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The Escobar Phone scam saga has finally come to an end

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-07 17:27:49

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The former CEO of the company that marketed the sketchy-looking Escobar Fold 1 and Escobar Fold 2 phones — which you may remember from a 2020 video from Marques Brownlee — has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering, according to the US Department of Justice. In a plea agreement, United States attorneys detail how Olof Kyros Gustafsson and Escobar, Inc. took orders for t

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James Gunn Thinks ‘Anti-American Sentiment’ Is Hurting ‘Superman’ Overseas

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-07 22:45:27

James Gunn has a new Superman movie out—perhaps you’ve heard of it? The DC hero’s latest cinematic adventure, the first under DC Studios’ Gunn-led era, is a box-office hit and already has fans dreaming of sequels and spin-offs. But one notable quirk of those ticket sales is that Superman is doing better domestically than it is internationally, despite its seemingly broad appeal as a Hollywood superhero movie. Earlier this week, Variety reported that while Superman‘s numbers are impressive, earn

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A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention

news.ycombinator.com Chris Isidore 2026-01-09 02:44:04

CNN — For years, Tesla has earned billions of dollars from its competitors just for selling electric vehicles. But that windfall is about to go away, just when the company may need it the most. Regulatory credit sales have been a huge source of revenue for the automaker, which currently faces a sales and profit slump. Legacy automakers purchase credits from Tesla to keep selling gas-burning cars that would otherwise violate emission regulations and cost them a fine. But the Republican tax and

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What Is Xanthan Gum and Is It Safe? I Asked the Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-09 12:00:08

Even more attention is being given to food labels than usual. With people becoming increasingly conscious about their health, more ingredients are being scrutinized, especially additives. Xanthan gum is one such additive found in many foods, from salad dressings to gluten-free baked goods. It's even found in personal care, industrial and pharmaceutical products. Research suggests that xanthan gum can lead to several health benefits, such as relieving constipation, lowering blood glucose levels

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Constrained languages are easier to optimize

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

San Diego Comic-Con’s New ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Trailer Pops the Lid on Pocket Universe Madness

Oh Lord, ‘Peacemaker’ Has Its Foxy Season 2 Song

Brave and AdGuard now block Microsoft Recall by default

The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

Tech Companies Are Blocking Microsoft’s Creepy ‘Recall’ Feature

Google's new Search mode puts classic results back on top - how to access it

‘Gundam Wing’ Celebrated 30 Years at Comic-Con With an Epic New Short

Here’s everything new Apple TV+ has coming in August

Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs

Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results

Google rethinks search results with its new AI-curated ‘Web Guide’

Everything Else

There is no memory safety without thread safety

Must-Have Summer Essentials for Parents, as Recommended by the Mom of a 2-Year-Old

This cheaper N64 FPGA console might be the best way to play your N64 carts

Bandai Asks Japanese Politicians to Not Dress Up as ‘Gundam’ Characters to Campaign

FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

Wow, James Gunn Really Hated Those ‘Peacemaker’ Cameos in the Old DCU

Newly Discovered Gut ‘Sense’ Could Change How We Think About Hunger and Health

‘Clayface’ May Be Adding a ‘Star Wars’ Star

Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator

AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers

Gupshup raises $60M in equity and debt, leaves unicorn status hanging

The Escobar Phone scam saga has finally come to an end

James Gunn Thinks ‘Anti-American Sentiment’ Is Hurting ‘Superman’ Overseas

A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention

What Is Xanthan Gum and Is It Safe? I Asked the Experts

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