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Inside Emacs: Why the 40-Year-Old Editor Still Can't Shed Its Single Thread
This Uppsala University bachelor's thesis by Erik J. Karlsson sets out to fill a real documentation gap: while Emacs Lisp is heavily documented, the internal C
Jellyfish close wounds in minutes — and their repair mechanics may map to human skin
Researchers led by Jocelyn Malamy at the University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory are studying Clytia hemisphaerica, a transparent hydrozoan j
JWST's Early Universe Breaks the Rules: Red Dots, Impossible Black Holes
Since the James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, it has surfaced a set of early-universe objects that don't fit established astrophysics, and researche
New Proof Ties Market Competition to P vs NP — and Warns AI May Kill It
A newly posted arXiv paper argues that competition in markets depends on a hard computational limit. The core claim: sustaining collusion requires firms to dete
Newer Claude models fumble tool schemas their predecessors handled cleanly
Armin Ronacher traced a two-day debugging rabbit hole to a counterintuitive finding: Anthropic's newest models are worse at conforming to non-standard tool sche
Notre Dame's Free Compiler Textbook Walks You from C-Like Syntax to X86 Assembly
Douglas Thain, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, offers his compiler-construction textbook as a free set of chapter PDFs, with optional hardcover and
Odin's Wikipedia Deletion and the Engagement Economy of Performative Disinterest
Wikipedia editors recently deleted the article on Odin, a well-known systems programming language positioned as a C alternative, through the standard Articles f
One Button, One Job: Why Interfaces Should Never Make You Wait for an Animation
A UI critique built around a mundane example: tapping the rotate button on a photo. On iPhone, rapid taps are buffered — press the 90-degree rotation eight time
Organic Maps: A Fully Offline, Tracker-Free Navigation App Hits 6M Installs
Organic Maps is an open-source navigation app built on OpenStreetMap data that runs entirely offline, covering hiking, cycling, and driving. Users download regi
Pandoc 2.0 Bakes a Lua Interpreter In, Killing JSON Filter Overhead
Pandoc has always let users hook into its document-conversion pipeline with filters that rewrite the abstract syntax tree between parsing and output. The tradit
Satire: A Postdoc Who Outsourced Her Brain to ChatGPT Bombs the Chalk Talk
This satirical opinion piece, framed as a first-person complaint from a fictional Stanford postdoc, skewers the growing habit of treating large language models
shadcn/ui Makes Base UI the Default, Retiring Radix as First Pick
shadcn/ui, the popular copy-paste component collection, has switched its default headless library from Radix to Base UI as of July 2026. The move is largely a f