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The WebAssembly System Interface hits 0.3.0 with breaking changes, new APIs, and a clearer path to production. Here's what changed and why it matters.
A 2001 MIT paper resurfaces on Hacker News, sparking debate about why proactive engineering work goes unrecognized—and what it costs teams.
Microsoft's VS Code is adding 'Co-Authored-by: Copilot' to git commits whether you use the AI assistant or not, sparking heated debate about attribution.
Microsoft's VS Code faces backlash over auto-inserting Copilot co-author credits into git commits, even when developers don't use the AI assistant.
After decades of dominance in classrooms, the iconic Ti-84 graphing calculator gets its biggest update yet with the Ti-84 Evo, featuring Python support and a color touchscreen.
HashiCorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto is moving Ghostty, his popular terminal emulator, away from GitHub. Here's why this decision matters for developers.
A developer acquired the defunct social network Friendster for $30,000 and is rebuilding it as a platform for digital nostalgia and social archiving.
The social network that predated Facebook just changed hands for $30,000. Here's what the acquisition means for legacy platform preservation and web history.
A hobbyist mathematician leveraged ChatGPT to crack a decades-old mathematical conjecture, demonstrating AI's growing role in advanced problem-solving.
A hobbyist mathematician leveraged AI assistance to solve a decades-old combinatorics problem, signaling a new era of AI-augmented research and problem-solving.