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Show HN: Karpathy's microgpt in Rust and an array language
A project called microgpt-mlpl takes Andrej Karpathy's famous microgpt.py — a roughly 200-line Python implementation that trains a small GPT on 32,033 names and invents new ones — and reimplements it across five different language...
Andrew Kelley Interview: Why He Built Zig, Banned AI Contributions, and Moved Zig off GitHub
Andrew Kelley, the creator of the Zig programming language, has taken positions on two issues that have divided the open-source community: banning AI-generated code contributions from his project and migrating the entire repositor...
Design your programming languages right (2024)
A developer and language designer recently published a set of principles for building new programming languages and their configuration systems. The post, dated December 2024, reads as a collection of hard-won frustrations about d...
Show HN: A fast, offline Markdown viewer for macOS built in Swift
There is a growing category of tools built around a simple premise: AI assistants and coding agents leave behind a lot of Markdown files, and sometimes a dedicated reader is more useful than a full editor. A developer named Tim Ta...
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
Snorkel AI has raised $350 million in a Series E round at a $3.5 billion valuation, a figure nearly triple the $1.3 billion the company was valued at when it last raised capital 17 months ago. The round was led by Insight Partners...
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
FoxDev Studio is a development environment that runs Visual FoxPro applications as they are, without requiring migration, conversion, or a rewrite. It opens existing projects, forms, class libraries, menus, and reports directly fr...
Show HN: OmniUil AI – PQC Scanner/Taint Analysis and Migration Intelligence Rust
Uilcol published OmniUil AI, a post-quantum cryptographic security scanner that runs entirely on your infrastructure. The tool statically analyzes codebases for algorithms that quantum computers will break by the end of the decade...
Ask HN: How to Learn Systems Programming
A junior backend developer posted to Hacker News this week with a question that resonates across the web development community. After spending years learning to build applications, they realized that modern frameworks and abstract...
Show HN: Accordia – Structured 1-on-1s for engineering managers
Why engineering managers keep losing track of action items The 1-on-1 meeting is supposed to be the highest-leverage hour in a manager's week. Instead it often becomes a document management problem: notes scattered across Notion,...
The bizarre world of the V Programming Language
What V promised at launch V entered the programming language scene in 2019 with a bold pitch: a language that combined the best parts of Go, Rust, Swift, and C while avoiding their complexity. Alexander Medvednikov, V's creator, d...