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Vjeux » Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I read this post “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases [from C++ to Rust]. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.” and it got me curious, how difficult is it really? I've long wanted to build a competitive Pokemon battle AI after watching a lot of WolfeyVGC and following the PokéAgent challenge at NeurIPS. Thankfully there's an open source project called "Pokemon Showdown" that implements all the rules but it's written…

Australian Open 2026: Schedule changed with 42C temperatures expected on Tuesday

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💥 Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Although all players are affected by extreme temperatures, Lapthorne highlighted the additional physical challenges facing wheelchair competitors. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the 35-year-old men's wheelchair doubles champion said: “There are players in our category who cannot sweat if they have a spinal cord injury. “They don't have the ability to cool down, so it can be very dangerous if they're in really intense heat.“I've had it [cramp] "On my forearm before because we push a wheelchair and we also hit the ball,…

Nigella Lawson has been confirmed as a new British judge on Bake Off | television

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,The Great British Bake Off,Nigella Lawson,Food TV,Culture,Television & radio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nigella Lawson has been announced as a new judge on The Great British Bake Off. She replaced Prue Leith, who quit after nine seasons of judging contestants' culinary creations, so she could spend the summer enjoying her garden, explaining: "I'm 86 years old!"Lawson will join the program for its next series, its seventeenth, which will launch later this year. She will work alongside Paul Hollywood, who will continue in the role he has held…

Six Nations 2026: Ireland’s injury list ‘bigger than usual’ ahead of France opener, says Andy Farrell

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🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ireland enter this year's tournament after a disappointing 2025 in which they conceded the Six Nations title to France and suffered a mixed autumn with defeats to New Zealand and South Africa and victories over Japan and Australia. Farrell - who did not coach Ireland in last year's Six Nations due to commitments with the British and Irish Lions - urged his side to learn from the November tests. “A different kind of season for us. There are no excuses, it's just a matter…

Scientists Identify Brain Waves That Define The Limits of ‘You’ : ScienceAlert

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins?It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary. Now, scientists have linked a specific set of brain waves in a certain part of the brain to a sense of body ownership.In a series of new experiments, researchers from Sweden and France put 106 participants through what's called the rubber hand illusion, monitoring and stimulating their brain activity to see what…

FIA Foundation: Charity Commission launches formal investigation into the foundation

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💥 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Charity Commission has launched a formal investigation into the FIA's road safety charity.The move comes after Mohamed Bin Sulayem, president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), replaced David Richards - UK motorsport boss - as president of the organization last year.The Charity Commission, which regulates all charities in England and Wales, has issued a temporary safeguard order, preventing the FIA and its trustees “from entering into certain transactions without the prior written consent of the Commission”.A spokesperson for the FIA Foundation said: “The Charity…

‘The most stressful TV experience ever’: Alex Honnold and the potential rise of death as live entertainment | television

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Netflix,Extreme sports,Sport,Taiwan,Asia Pacific,Rock climbing 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWell, have your balls left your body yet? Skyscraper Live has disappeared from Netflix, and it may qualify as the most stressful viewing experience ever. Alex Honnold's unassisted ascent of 508 meters at Taipei 101 was an absolutely extraordinary achievement. But whether or not it represents the future of television is a different matter entirely.Honnold's work is already well known. As the star of Free Solo — a feature-length, again nerve-racking documentary that the only way to…

We strapped on the exoskeletons and raced. There is one clear winner

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🔥 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Health and Fitness,Cyborg Contest 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: They were personal exoskeletons Everywhere at CES 2026. There were ambitious designs from newcomers WiRobotics, Sumbu, Ascentiz and Dephy, while Skip Mo/Go returned to promote its long-awaited tech pants. Dnsys (pronounced Deen-sis), a relatively established name, had some new launches to excite, Hypershell returned with its premium model, and Ascentiz had us sprinting across the show floor.An exoskeleton is a relatively new class of wearable devices designed to enhance, support, or assist human movement, strength,…

Gordon McQueen death: Inquest found headed footballs ‘likely’ contributed to death

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Repeatedly heading the ball "most likely" contributed to the brain disease that was a factor in the death of former Scottish and Manchester United footballer Gordon McQueen, an inquest has found.McQueen, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia, died in 2023 at the age of 70.The inquest into his death, held in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, concluded with a narrative verdict on Monday, with Chief Coroner John Heath telling the court: “I found that Mr McQueen had suffered repeated impacts to the head during his career.“I…

Show HN posts per month more than doubled in the last year

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💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: After building some things recently using LLMs and agent workflows, I was noticing more ‘Show HN’ posts. Assuming there had been a rise in folks building things, but wanting to rule out confirmation bias, I looked at the numbers. Looking at https://hn.algolia.com/api, we can see that for Jan (yet to complete), we’re already +125% more Show HN posts compared to Jan 2025. Show HN posts have gone from 3.5% → 15% of total submissions. ┌───────────────────────────────┬──────────┬────────────────────┬────────┐ │ │ Jan 2025 │ Jan 2026 (26 days) │…