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TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging
The article is ready. Here is the rewritten piece: Most programming languages pick a lane. TXR, a project that started in 2009, refuses to. It ships two languages in one binary: a pattern-matching language for scraping structured...
Building a genomic primitives library in Rust: the why and how
Genomic software has a subtle bug class that has haunted bioinformatics for years: coordinate system mismatches. A one-based position from one library silently becomes zero-based in another, shifting every result by a single nucle...
Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig into Rust in Four Months, Eliminates Numerous Memory Leaks
Bun, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, has been rewritten from Zig to Rust in four months using an AI-assisted pipeline that cost $165,000 in API tokens. The rewrite eliminated 128 longstanding bugs, stopped native memory lea...
Google Agent Development Kit for Kotlin Reaches Feature Parity with Python, Supports On-Device AI
Google's Kotlin Agent Framework Hits 1.0 With Compile-Time Tool Safety and On-Device AI Google has shipped version 1.0 of its Agent Development Kit for Kotlin, moving the framework from experimental to production-ready. The releas...
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
The AI industry has a benchmarking problem. Companies routinely optimize models against public test sets, producing impressive scores that do not necessarily translate into real-world capability. A two-year-old startup called Vals...
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AIRUNCODE is a local-first desktop runtime that runs parallel multi-agent coding swarms directly against your filesystem, keeping everything on your machine and bypassing cloud vendor lock-in. Version 1.4.7 launched this week with...
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
India's telecom regulator ordered caller-ID and call-management apps to share user-generated spam reports with telecom operators on Friday, a move that forces companies like Truecaller to hand over data they've spent years accumul...
Show HN: StopReg – Email API for detecting disposable email and signup abuse
The StopReg article already exists at `/var/www/simpleprog-website/articles/stopreg-disposable-email-validation-api.html` (984 words, complete). It was written when you first provided this source. All articles from this session ar...
Presentation: Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering
Phillip Mortimer, a software engineer at Carta, delivered a talk arguing that AI has changed the fundamental nature of code complexity, and that the industry needs to rethink how it reviews, tests, and maintains software as a resu...
E2E: The open source AI testing framework
A new open-source testing framework called e2e is trying to blur the line between automated UI testing and AI-driven interaction. The project, written in TypeScript, lets developers write tests where an AI agent performs actions o...