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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Picol is a Tcl-alike interpreter in 500 lines of code that I released 15th of March 2007. Recentely I looked at the source code and realized this was a better C programming example compared to what I recalled, so I'm putting this on GitHub to archive it, together with the main points of the original article. When I built this code, I had some rule in mind: I wanted to use more or less my normal C style. In Picol you'll find normal C spacing…

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said. That this happened at Ars is especially distressing. We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years, and our written policy reflects those concerns. In this case, fabricated quotations were published in a manner inconsistent with that policy.…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: February 12, 2026 tl;dr I tasked Claude, Codex, and Gemini to build a SQLite-like engine in Rust. ~19k~ lines of code. Parser, planner, volcano executor, pager, b+trees, wal, recovery, joins, aggregates, indexing, transaction semantics, grouped aggregates, and stats-aware planning all implemented. 282 unit tests, all passing. background Treat software engineering like distributed systems, and force coordination with: git, lock files, tests, and merge discipline. harness ├── AGENT_PROMPT.md // main agent task prompt ├── BOOTSTRAP_PROMPT.md // bootstrap (initialization) prompt ├── COALESCE_PROMPT.md // deduplication prompt for coalescer…

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months. Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying detail for accounts that have criticized the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency or have reported the location of its agents. Google, Meta and Reddit have complied…

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Virtual Analog Synthesizer — a Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer built in Python with a tkinter GUI inspired by the Subsequent 37. ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ VOOG VIRTUAL ANALOG SYNTHESIZER │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ OSC 1 OSC 2 OSC 3 NOISE │ │ (Oct)(Semi) (Oct)(Semi) (Oct)(Semi) (Lvl) │ │ (Det)(Lvl) (Det)(Lvl) (Det)(Lvl) │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ FILTER FILTER ENV AMP ENV LFO │ │ (Cut)(Res) (A)(D) (A)(D) (Rate)(Depth) │ │ (Env)(Key) (S)(R) (S)(R) │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ┌─┬█┬─┬█┬─┬─┬█┬─┬█┬─┬█┬─┬─┬█┬─┬█┬─┬─┬█┬─┬█┬─┬█┬─┐ │ │ │ │ │█│ │█│ │ │█│ │█│ │█│ │ │█│ │█│ │…

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: in this blog post, starting from attention mechanisms and KV caching, we derive continuous batching by optimizing for throughput. If you've ever used Qwen, Claude, or any other AI chatbot, you've probably noticed something: it takes a while for the first word of the response to appear, and then words appear one-by-one on your screen with (hopefully) a regular and fast-paced frequency. That's because at the heart of it, all LLMs are just fancy next token predictors. An LLM first processes your entire prompt…