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Why Bootstrapping a Compiler From Scratch Is Harder Than It Looks
Building the Go toolchain from source starting with its last C-based version works well in theory, but hidden dependencies on operating systems and outside tools can break the chain in practice.
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Is AI really that bad of a business?
Two things can be true I use AI every day, and I’m happy to pay for it. I also think the companies building it are priced for a future that cannot arrive. Those two statements don’t contradict each other. A product can be genuinely great and still be a terrible investment. This post is about…
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Apple Announces HomeView, a $299 Smart Home Hub With a 7-Inch Touchscreen
Apple has unveiled the HomeView, a smart home hub designed to act as a control center for connected devices such as doorbells, lights and thermostats. Pre-orders open today, and it launches on November 13.
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Why Kubernetes Rolling Updates Still Drop Requests, and How to Stop It
Kubernetes rolling updates won’t take a service down, but they aren’t zero downtime by default. A Dev.to guide explains how to fix the gaps at the start and end of a pod’s life.
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AI Coding Agents Boost Code Volume 30%, but Code Review Becomes the Bottleneck
A Harvard working paper covering 718 companies finds that AI coding agents increase how much code teams write, yet delivered output has barely changed. Time spent on code review rose by 49%.
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Meta Releases Muse Wonder and Wonder Full, Its First Frontier Models
Meta’s Superintelligence Lab has launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, larger and more capable models than the earlier Muse Spark. The company calls them its first attempt at a frontier model.
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Long-Standing Soundness Bug Found in Rust’s Borrow Checker
A GitHub issue reports that the Rust compiler accepts safe code that causes use-after-free errors. Commenters say variants of the problem have compiled since at least Rust 1.4.
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Linus Torvalds Uses Claude Code on a New Linux Kernel Performance Branch
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has published a kernel branch built with help from the AI coding assistant Claude Code. It aims to speed up small file reads from many threads.
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From turns to time: timed actions with two requests and one Redis key and PHP 8
Pulsar Online was an old browser space game that I developed 20 years ago. For most of its life it was turn-based: every move, dock or jump cost a unit of a resource called antimatter, which slowly refilled over the day. That model is simple to build. A request comes in, you check the balance,…
