1. AI sticker shock hits corporate America (www.axios.com)
Companies begin to question the payoffs of toxenmaxxing.
2. Announcing Rust 1.96 (blog.rust-lang.org)
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
3. A New Typst Template for Pandoc (imaginarytext.ca)
4. Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime (github.com)
A JVM native WebAssembly runtime. Contribute to bytecodealliance/endive development by creating an account on GitHub.
5. Bitburner, programming-based incremental game (bitburner-official.github.io)
6. Show HN: Ktx β Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com)
ktx is the context layer for analytics agents. Contribute to Kaelio/ktx development by creating an account on GitHub.
8. US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal (arstechnica.com)
Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?
9. Zendesk forced a customer from 2016 to pay 4X more, they rebuilt it in 48 hours (tradecore.com)
Purpose-built CRM and back-office platform for forex and CFD brokers.
10. Rapira (Π Π°ΠΏΠΈΡΠ°) β Soviet programming language interpreter (github.com)
Rapira programming language / Π―Π·ΡΠΊ ΠΏΡΠΎΠ³ΡΠ°ΠΌΠΌΠΈΡΠΎΠ²Π°Π½ΠΈΡ Π Π°ΠΏΠΈΡΠ° - begoon/rapira
11. Social Animus (justine.lol)
This is my story about working in open source on AI
12. Commission fines Temu β¬200M for breaching the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
Highlights, press releases and speeches
13. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness (www.elodin.systems)
14. The Lone Lisp Heap (www.matheusmoreira.com)
The heap implementation of lone lisp.
15. Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar (spectrum.ieee.org)
Low-cost systems could improve robots, autonomous vehicles
17. Internet Traffic in Iran Increasing (radar.cloudflare.com)
18. Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin (tanin.nanakorn.com)
We've built a Claude Cowork DOCX plugin in Ruby, Java, and TypeScript. Java is the winner for supporting zip files and XML in its runtime with no issues. However, TypeScript is chosen due to the possibility of MCPB support.
19. Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us (retrogamecoders.com)
20. Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct (github.com)
Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct. - creusot-rs/creusot
21. Separate the Cord from the Device (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
23. The Green Side of the Lua (arxiv.org)
The United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights the importance of energy-efficient software to reduce the global carbon footprint. Programming languages and execution models strongly influence software energy consumption, with interpreted languages generally being less efficient than compiled ones. Lua illustrates this trade-off: despite its popularity, it is less energy-efficient than greener and faster languages such as C.
This paper presents an empirical study of Lua's runtime performance and energy efficiency across 25 official interpreter versions and just-in-time (JIT) compilers. Using a comprehensive benchmark suite, we measure execution time and energy consumption to analyze Lua's evolution, the impact of JIT compilation, and comparisons with other languages. Results show that all LuaJIT compilers significantly outperform standard Lua interpreters. The most efficient LuaJIT consumes about seven times less energy and runs seven times faster than the best Lua interpreter. Moreover, LuaJIT approaches C's efficiency, using roughly six times more energy and running about eight times slower, demonstrating the substantial benefits of JIT compilation for improving both performance and energy efficiency in interpreted languages.
This paper presents an empirical study of Lua's runtime performance and energy efficiency across 25 official interpreter versions and just-in-time (JIT) compilers. Using a comprehensive benchmark suite, we measure execution time and energy consumption to analyze Lua's evolution, the impact of JIT compilation, and comparisons with other languages. Results show that all LuaJIT compilers significantly outperform standard Lua interpreters. The most efficient LuaJIT consumes about seven times less energy and runs seven times faster than the best Lua interpreter. Moreover, LuaJIT approaches C's efficiency, using roughly six times more energy and running about eight times slower, demonstrating the substantial benefits of JIT compilation for improving both performance and energy efficiency in interpreted languages.
24. More Whimsical OEIS Sequences (www.jeremykun.com)
Here are some more whimsical OEIS sequences I came across.
XKCD 2016 joked that "OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions," including one that gives "Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica." Well, two days after that comic was published (2018-07-09), Hugo Pfoertner published A316600, with a very precise definition. Then he did Arial.
Randall Munroe missed a huge opportunity to commit to his bit and actually try to submit some of his sequences before publishing the comic.
XKCD 2016 joked that "OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions," including one that gives "Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica." Well, two days after that comic was published (2018-07-09), Hugo Pfoertner published A316600, with a very precise definition. Then he did Arial.
Randall Munroe missed a huge opportunity to commit to his bit and actually try to submit some of his sequences before publishing the comic.
25. Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix (rajveerbachkaniwala.com)
Three small problems pile up between the Windows clipboard and Claude Code. Each one is harmless alone. Together they make image paste fail completely. Hereβs whatβs happening and how to fix it.
26. Durable Execution the Hard Way (github.com)
Set up a durable execution engine from scratch using Postgres with no dependencies. - hatchet-dev/durable-execution-the-hard-way
27. Boston and Bermuda (askthepilot.com)
Vacations Now and Then. How New England Fell Out of Love With a Tiny Atlantic Island.
28. Google Hates You (www.sfgate.com)
"The repercussions of Google's pivot to AI will be vast and horrid."
29. AGI timelines shift with whichever lab is dominant (futuresearch.ai)
How the forecasts of Daniel Kokotajlo, Dario Amodei, Ajeya Cotra, Peter Wildeford, Demis Hassabis, and other top AI researchers have changed on when AI will automate all cognitive labor