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jordanhubbard/nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

jordanhubbard/nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A minimal, LLM-friendly programming language with mandatory testing and unambiguous syntax. NanoLang transpiles to C for native performance while providing a clean, modern syntax optimized for both human readability and AI code generation. Self-hosting: NanoLang supports true self-hosting via a Stage 0 → Stage 1 → Stage 2 bootstrap (make bootstrap); see planning/SELF_HOSTING.md. git clone https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang.git cd nanolang make build This builds the compiler: bin/nanoc - NanoLang compiler (transpiles to C) Create hello.nano: fn greet(name: string) -> string { return (+ "Hello, " name) }…
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situating and stabilizing the character of large language models \ Anthropic

situating and stabilizing the character of large language models \ Anthropic

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Left: Character archetypes form a "persona space," with the Assistant at one extreme of the "Assistant Axis." Right: Capping drift along this axis prevents models (here, Llama 3.3 70B) from drifting into alternative personas and behaving in harmful ways.When you talk to a large language model, you can think of yourself as talking to a character. In the first stage of model training, pre-training, LLMs are asked to read vast amounts of text. Through this, they learn to simulate heroes, villains, philosophers, programmers, and just…
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willmeyers/window-art: A minimal Python library for live coding visual scenes using desktop windows.

willmeyers/window-art: A minimal Python library for live coding visual scenes using desktop windows.

✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A minimal Python library for live coding visual scenes using desktop windows. import window_art as wa with wa.run(): win = wa.window(100, 100, 200, 200, color="coral") wa.move(win, 500, 300, duration=2.0, ease="ease_out") wa.wait(1) import window_art as wa with wa.run(): # Create windows win = wa.window(100, 100, 200, 200, color="red") # Animate wa.move(win, 500, 300, duration=1.0) wa.fade(win, 0.5, duration=0.5) wa.color_to(win, "blue", duration=0.5) # Display media img = wa.window(400, 100, 300, 200, image="photo.jpg") vid = wa.window(400, 350, 300, 200, video="movie.mp4") # Text txt = wa.window(100, 400, 200, 50, text="Hello!",…
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: As a theologian, Martin Luther King reflected often on his understanding of nonviolence. He described his own “pilgrimage to nonviolence” in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, and in subsequent books and articles. “True pacifism,” or “nonviolent resistance,” King wrote, is “a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love” (King, Stride, 80). Both “morally and practically” committed to nonviolence, King believed that “the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people…
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My Body Is Being Battered and Broken by an Unlikely Tormentor: Books.

My Body Is Being Battered and Broken by an Unlikely Tormentor: Books.

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For the 10th year in a row, my New Year’s resolution is to read more books. Ideally, as I tend to tell myself during these protean early weeks of January, 2026 will be remembered for languorous evenings on the couch, tearing through the inventory of novels that crowd the modest capacity of my living-room shelves, perhaps with a tumbler of scotch resting on a…
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a brief history of ralph

a brief history of ralph

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Ralph Wiggum Technique, created by Geoff Huntley, went viral in the final weeks of 2025. Here's the story of ralph since the first time I met Geoff in June of 2025. I've been messing with ralph since ~June 2025. Here's my story and what I learned along the way. tl;dr Jan 1 2026 - If you wanna skip to the end, I did a deep dive on ralph w/ Geoff Huntley on Jan 1 2026. It talks through the history, cursed lang, and…
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Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple is testing a new design for App Store search ads on iPhone. Some users on iOS 26.3 are noticing that the blue background around sponsored results is no longer shown, blurring the line between what paid ad results look like and the real search results that follow. This means the only differentiator between organic results and the promoted ad is the presence of the small ‘Ad’ banner next to the app icon. Right now, it appears to be in some kind of A/B…
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zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash · Hugging Face

zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash · Hugging Face

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 👋 Join our Discord community. 📖 Check out the GLM-4.7 technical blog, technical report(GLM-4.5). 📍 Use GLM-4.7-Flash API services on Z.ai API Platform. 👉 One click to GLM-4.7. Introduction GLM-4.7-Flash is a 30B-A3B MoE model. As the strongest model in the 30B class, GLM-4.7-Flash offers a new option for lightweight deployment that balances performance and efficiency. Performances on Benchmarks Benchmark GLM-4.7-Flash Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 GPT-OSS-20B AIME 25 91.6 85.0 91.7 GPQA 75.2 73.4 71.5 LCB v6 64.0 66.0 61.0 HLE 14.4 9.8 10.9 SWE-bench Verified 59.2 22.0…
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Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?

Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I've not found it that great at programming in cobol, at least in comparison to its ability with other languages it seems to be noticeably worse, though we aren't using any models that were specifically trained on cobol. It is still useful for doing simple and tedious tasks, for example constructing a file layout based on info I fed it can be a time saver, otherwise I feel it's pretty limited by the necessary system specifics and really large context window needed to understand what…
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GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North Suffers ‘Structural Damage’ Following Report of Explosion

GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North Suffers ‘Structural Damage’ Following Report of Explosion

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Fire services attended the offices of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar North this morning and secured "structural damage" following a reported boiler explosion.Seven vehicles were mobilized to attend the main Rockstar North building in Edinburgh, Scotland at 5.02am local time (just after midnight Eastern), following an incident that local news outlet Edinburgh Live described as an "explosion in a boiler room." Crews remained on-site for over four hours but have now left the scene, Scottish newspaper The Herald has reported."We were alerted at 5.02am…
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