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Strategies for Fast Lexers

In this blog post I’ll explain strategies I used to make the purple garden lexer really fast. purple-garden is an s-expr based language I am currently developing for myself. Its my attempt at building a language I like, with a battery included approach, while designing it with performance in mind. This doesn’t mean all approaches are feasible for your use case, architecture and design. I tried to bring receipts for my performance claims, so watch out for these blocks at the end of chapters: I

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The best streaming deals: Three months of Audible is on sale for only $3, plus save on Disney+, Spotify and others

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Whether you’re a true cord-cutter or you just want to watch the next season of Stranger Things when it drops, everyone’s on the lookout for streaming deals nowadays. Plenty have chosen VOD and live TV streaming services over traditional cable in recent years, but the savings that choic

Quicken Simplifi plans are half off right now

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Budgeting is really hard. Basics like groceries, rent and transportation are expensive enough without all the tempting extras like a nice dinner or new gaming console. It's all too easy to end the month with no idea where all your money went. But, right now, one of our favorite budgeti

Sony’s Best-in-Class ANC Headphones May Have a Major Design Flaw

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones might sound great, but that’s only if they don’t break before you put them on your head. While it’s too early to say whether Sony’s latest world-class headphones have a widespread issue, the first reports of broken hinges are starting to roll in, and they feel ominously reminiscent of similar problems with the WH-1000XM5. See Sony WH-1000XM6 at Best Buy In a Reddit thread that’s actually pulled from a Red Note post (sorry for the convolution; that’s just the way li

How AI can make us better decision-makers, with Cassie Kozyrkov

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell Overtime, and creator and host of the Fortt Knox podcast. As you just heard Nilay say, I’m stepping in to guest host a few episodes of Decoder this summer while he’s out on parental leave, and I’m very excited about what we’ve been working on. For my first episode of Decoder, a show about how people make decisions, I wanted to talk to an expert. So I sat down with Cassie Kozyrkov, the founder and CEO of AI

Here are the 10 biggest shows in streaming this year, Apple TV+ included

We’re over halfway through 2025, and Apple TV+ by all appearances is having its best year ever. But one of the most important metrics in streaming has just been revealed: the Nielsen top 10. Here’s the full list of the 10 biggest shows in streaming this year, and how Apple TV+ fared. Nielsen reveals top 10 streaming shows of 2025 so far Last night in his Screentime latest newsletter, Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw revealed the Nielsen top 10 shows of 2025 through the first half of the year. Here’s th

Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think

It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the years, heating and cooling cycles stress the materials. Small cracks develop, precipitation corrodes the frame and layers of materials can start to peel apart. In 2023, about 90% of old or faulty solar panels in the U.S. ended up in landfills. Millions of panels have been installed worldwide over the past few decades – and by about 2030, so many will be ready to retire t

Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

Arch is a proxy server designed as a modular edge and AI gateway for agentic apps Arch handles the pesky low-level work in building agentic apps — like applying guardrails, clarifying vague user input, routing prompts to the right agent, and unifying access to any LLM. It’s a language and framework friendly infrastructure layer designed to help you build and ship agentic apps faster. Quickstart • Demos • Build agentic apps with Arch • Route LLMs • Documentation • Contact Overview AI demos a

Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 19:11:02 EST From: simsong To: druby Subject: cube burning Cc: edit To: Dan Ruby, Editor, NeXTWORLD Magazine From: Simson L. Garfinkel, Senior Editor, NeXTWORLD Magazine Subject: NeXTCube Serial Number AA001032 Date: March 16, 1993 Dear Dan, I am writing this memo to explain what happened to the case our NeXTCube Computer, Serial Number AA001032. As you know, years ago, when NeXT first contemplated making computers, Steve Jobs decided that machines should be in th

Myanmar’s proliferating scam centers

'Modern slavery' Human trafficking victims, pictured in Thailand's Tak province in February, show scars left by electric shocks and beatings. (Reuters) Criminal networks amassed such enormous profits that they were able to sustain -- and even expand -- these sprawling compounds. One man who claimed to have perpetrated scams recalled that a deep, resonant beat from a Chinese-style drum would echo through the compound each time a deposit of over $100,000 was received. The profits are built not

Binding Application in Idris

I’ve recently implemented binding application as a language feature in Idris. This feature allows writing types such as Dependent pairs in a more ergonomic way without relying on special compiler magic. Or rather, the compiler magic is made available to everyone. This post is a collection of uses for this feature. This feature is not publicly available yet, but I intend to make it available in the near future. What is it? Binding syntax and binding-application is an idea I had a couple of yea

Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

Is my data truly private? Yes, absolutely. Your documents, text, and writing never leave your Mac. We don't collect, store, or transmit any of your personal content. All processing happens locally using offline large language models (LLMs) that run directly on your machine. What apps does it work with? Works with most macOS apps including Mail, Messages, Safari, Chrome, Pages, Word, Slack, Notion, and many more. What about system requirements? Requires macOS 14.0 or later. Works with both Appl

The human harbor: Navigating identity and meaning in the AI age

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Image generated by ChatGPT. We are living through a time when AI is reshaping how we work but also how we think, perceive and assign meaning. This phase is not just about smarter tools or faster work. AI is beginning to reshape how we define value, purpose and identity itself. The future is not just unpredictable in terms of unknowable eve

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 raises $2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders

Another weeklong round-the-clock spree of speedrunning video games has come to a close, with Summer Games Done Quick raising $2,436,614 for Doctors Without Borders. Held in Minneapolis, the event saw 37,776 donations, with the highest contribution being a solo $61,200 donation. This year, 2,600 in-person attendees got to experience a hectic relay race pitting two teams of four against each other to complete a Super Mario Maker 2 level and a full playthrough of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat in less th

How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

TLDR: Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next training technique for building frontier-level AI models. To make it better, we need to train on more data. The current approach of scaling many environments simultaneously is messy and complicated. Instead, I propose we find a way to do next-token prediction on the Web using RL. This way, we learn to reason from general web data, instead of just math and code. I’ve spent a good part of the past year in denial. I was in denial because when OpenAI r

Bethesda Wants to Meet ‘Fallout’ Hype With Show Tie-Ins and New Games

If you’re a fan of Prime Video’s Fallout show and the games it’s based on, it sounds like Bethesda’s getting ready to capitalize on its current and future success. Talking to Variety, Fallout 76 creative director Jon Rush teased that game’s team and the creative forces behind the series have discussed “lining things up with the seasonal releases of the show.” The implication is some in-game tie-ins to the show, maybe skins for the key characters or an in-game event reminiscent of certain episod

How to Watch Chelsea vs. PSG From Anywhere Free: Stream FIFA Club World Cup Final Soccer

The inaugural 32-team FIFA Club World Cup comes to its conclusion on Sunday, as 2021 winner Chelsea takes on current UEFA Champions League holder Paris Saint-Germain in a showpiece finale in New Jersey. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch every match of the tournament as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are, along with a full match list. PSG comes into the game as the favorite, ha

China Working On Levitating Train That Could Get You From New York to Chicago in Two Hours

As the United States struggles to keep its major cities connected by even the most barebones rail systems, China is screaming into the future with the development of a levitating bullet train. Called "maglev," short for "magnetic levitation," the train system is designed to levitate via magnets as opposed to wheels. Maglev systems can reach higher speeds much more efficiently than their wheeled counterparts, though the infrastructure needed to run them is incredibly expensive. While there are

5 features I don’t care about when buying a new phone

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority When it comes to buying a new smartphone, it’s easy to get caught up in all the hype. Manufacturers constantly push the latest and greatest features, leading many of us to buy more phone than we actually need. When I’m in the market for a new phone, I always try to narrow down my options as much as possible. I do that by making a list of not only the features I want in my next smartphone but also those I don’t care about. This approach helps me cut through th

It's the last day to get two months of Paramount+ access for only $2

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . This is just in time for the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Another hot streaming deal is here to match the summer heat. This time is comes from Paramount+, which is offering a two-month subscription for only $2. Put another way, you'll pay $1 per month for your first tw

Monitoring My Homelab, Simply

Monitoring my Homelab, Simply Date: 2025-07-09 I have a middling self-hosted/homelab setup, and it occasionally breaks. Alas, no monitoring tool has ever sparked joy in me. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that they’re essential for large fleets of services with fast-changing software and teams of oncallers working around the clock to understand the complex ways that complex systems fail… but my stuff doesn’t change that often, failures are mundane and low-scope, and I’m the only person comi

Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI

✅ What Spring AI Handles for You ✅ Tool schema generation ✅ Argument binding ✅ tool_call_id mapping mapping ✅ Message state management ✅ Parallel tool orchestration ✅ Sequential tool routing ✅ Spring Boot DI, validation, and observability ✅ Compatible with OpenAI, Mistral, Gemini, and others You keep writing business logic. Spring AI wires up everything else. 🔌 Bonus: Tool Calling via MCP — No Extra Code Need your tools to work beyond just chat — like inside other agents or frontend c

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Best Internet Providers for Streaming for July 2025

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Garmin Forerunner 970 Review: A Very Extra Running Watch

Why, look at the leaves. It’s Garmin running watch season again! The sweatiest time of the year! As luck would have it, we’ve got a new flagship running watch to pore over in the form of the Forerunner 970. It features Garmin’s brightest AMOLED screen yet, built-in maps, a flashlight, a speaker, a mic, and more data fields than most of us mere mortals can process. It also costs $150 more than the previous running flagship, the Forerunner 965. Let’s see if it’s worth it. New Look Photograph: B

I’ve tested all the best smart rings in 2025, and these are the only ones I would buy

While fitness trackers and smartwatches are the better-known devices in the wearable tech world, there is a third, less popular option. Smart rings are slowly becoming more attractive alternatives. I’ve tested more than a dozen of these minimalist devices, and below are the best smart rings you can buy. Oura Ring 4: The best smart ring overall Oura Ring 4 Thinner design • Refreshed app experience • Smarter health sensing MSRP: $399.00 The top smart ring gets an upgrade. The Oura Ring 4 is the b

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil Jun 20, 2025 GPT-3 showed that simply scaling up language models unlocks powerful, task-agnostic, few-shot performance, often outperforming carefully fine-tuned models. Before GPT-3, achieving state-of-the-art performance meant first pre-training models on large generic text corpora, then fine-tuning them on specific tasks. Today’s reinforcement learning is stuck in a similar pre-GPT-3 paradigm. We first pre-train l

Show HN: Pyhoff – Connect Python ML Models to Beckhoff/WAGO IO Hardware

Pyhoff Description The pyhoff package allows you to read and write the most common Beckhoff and WAGO bus terminals ("Busklemmen") using the Ethernet bus coupler ("Busskoppler") BK9000, BK9050, BK9100, or WAGO 750_352 over Ethernet TCP/IP based on ModBus TCP. Key Features Supports a wide range of Beckhoff and WAGO analog and digital bus terminals. Very lightweight: no dependencies; compact code base Easy to extend Using standardized ModBus TCP. Provides high-level abstractions for reading

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Context Engineering Guide

What is Context Engineering? A few years ago, many, even top AI researchers, claimed that prompt engineering would be dead by now. Obviously, they were very wrong, and in fact, prompt engineering is now even more important than ever. It is so important that it is now being rebranded as context engineering. Yes, another fancy term to describe the important process of tuning the instructions and relevant context that an LLM needs to perform its tasks effectively. Much has been written already