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pldb is a searchable database of programming languages papers, spanning 1973–2026, aggregating 33,580 papers (26,107 with abstracts) from venues such as POPL, PLDI, ICFP, OOPSLA, ECOOP, ESOP, ICSE, TOPLAS, JFP, and more. It provides venue-based counts and timelines, metadata from dblp (CC0) and abstracts from SIGPLAN OpenTOC, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar. Users can filter and search by topics (e.g., gradual typing, separation logic) and authors. It is a public bibliographic resource for PL research.
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Explores Australopithecus africanus from its disputed 1920s discovery to status as evidence of Africa’s early humans. It covers Piltdown Man, a fraud that misled researchers for decades about human origins in Europe, and Dart’s Taung Child, which faced European skepticism but was later vindicated by Robert Broom’s finds at Sterkfontein and Kromdraai. By 1953 fluorine dating debunked Piltdown; African fossils showed early hominids lived in Africa. A. africanus, 3.2–2 million years old, was bipedal with a mixed diet; its place in ancestry remains debated.
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56k.rip recreates a 1996 dial-up experience in the browser. You start at a desktop, dial up, and a page arrives byte-by-byte at a chosen speed (14.4/28.8/56k). Images load line-by-line, downloads stall, and calls can drop. Behind the modem is a mini 1996 service with pages like fishing, recipes, guest book, webring, classifieds, missed connections, weather, and an “internet” article, plus mail, chat, games, paint, a command prompt, and screensavers. Sounds are browser-generated; the handshake is a real modem recording. Everything is client-side; no accounts or server storage. JavaScript required.
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EDG Compiler Project is an open-source C/C++ front end with strong parsing compatibility and bug emulation to ensure code that compiles under Clang, GCC, or MSVC also compiles with EDG. It includes a C and C++ back end, a prelinker, a minimal runtime, utilities for the intermediate language, a name demangler, and development tools. Documentation and build/contributing guides are available (docs at edgcpp.org). Partial clone is recommended for building; see contributing and development guides for setup. The repo provides license, contributing, and project information.
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Groundrun enables hardware-in-the-loop automated testing of ESP32 Wi‑Fi setup across five methods: Bluetooth, Soft AP, captive portal, SmartConfig (ESPTouch v2), and WPS. Using an ESP32-C6 devboard and an Android phone connected to a Groundrun rig, they built a minimal app (one button per method) and had Claude generate firmware for the flows. They ran interactive and CI regression tests, timing phases (Flash/boot, app install, AP setup, mechanism, wait). Findings: flash/boot ~22–24s; mechanism times vary; Soft AP and captive portal slowest; WPS fastest; SmartConfig slower with rare failures. Groundrun enables reliable Wi‑Fi setup testing.
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Lathoa is a critical-thinking app for ages 10–14 that trains kids to spot wrong AI reasoning in math using Errol, a deliberately incorrect tutor. Students review Errol’s step-by-step solution, tap the mistaken step, and write a short explanation before seeing a correct solution. The aim is to learn to question AI, not just get answers. Features include calibrated wrongness levels (Obvious–Expert), no grades, a rank ladder (Rookie to Sherlock), replayable case files, COPPA-safe, ads-free, and flexible pricing with free trials and family plans. Subjects span arithmetic to early geometry; school licenses are available.
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The article explains Coltrane’s Tone Circle, a diagram overlaying the circle of fifths with chromatic rings to reveal harmonic shapes behind jazz harmony. It covers the circle of fourths, the Nashville notation, and how quartal relationships underpin 2–5–1 progressions, tritone substitutions, and Coltrane Changes (Giant Steps). It identifies symmetric shapes on the circle—diminished 7th 'squares', augmented-triad 'triangles', whole-tone 'hexagon', and octaves 'pentagon'—and how modes map around it. It notes uncertainty about Coltrane’s intent and invites exploration.
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The piece reacts to Marques Brownlee’s video about YouTube's rumored A/B video variants. It highlights questions about whether viewers and commentators are seeing the same version, and how linked timestamps would work. It argues the feature could fracture the shared viewing experience that makes YouTube culturally coherent. It also distills takeaways for software makers: focus on storytelling and finishing work over chasing metrics; avoid endless variant testing; stand by creative choices. The post links YouTube’s insecurity and competitor focus to the urge to ship such variation features.
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Secret hitchhiker ELINT satellites launched on HEXAGON in the 1960s–70s evolved into URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH under the NRO’s Mission 7300. URSALA (2–12 GHz) searched radar side lobes for tactical data; RAQUEL (4–18 GHz) did directed, high-detail ELINT. FARRAH units merged general search with electronic order-of-battle data (2–18 GHz), grew into large 'tuna can' platforms for shuttle and Titan launches, and added on-board processing and direct downlinks to mobile ground stations and ships. Later, LORRI, GLORIA, and CARRIE extended high-frequency surveillance. By the 1990s, Mission 7300 and related programs waned; 7100 ended 2008; 7300 legacy informs modern satellite intelligence.
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Quarry is a TUF-based client and publishing tool for distributing immutable images built with tine. It serves static blobs over dumb hosting, enabling autonomous, granular, need-to-know updates with per-machine repositories and cross-repository links. Using The Update Framework (TUF), it separates root, timestamp, snapshot, and targets roles for resilient key management and supports multiple owners and key escrow. It integrates with systemd-sysupdate as a minimal installer and adds extensions for repository listing, cross-repository links, and per-machine repositories to improve mirroring and security.
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Investigates recursive make and -j across GNU Make versions 3.81–4.3. When a rule invokes make -C subdir, the jobserver isn’t forwarded, so parallelism can be lost and the child may run a different make binary. Fixes include prefixing the recipe line with + or using $(MAKE) instead of make. The author tests many combinations (ser, par, parplus, sermake, etc.) and reports version‑specific warnings (jobserver unavailable, -jN forced, resetting jobserver). Conclusion: tradeoffs remain; no single best solution, and some idioms are non-portable.
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Repeated HTTP 403 Forbidden error with timestamp Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:49:46 UTC.
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Functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) tracks rapid brain blood flow and volume via backscattered ultrasound speckle. Using unfocused plane waves and delay-and-sum reconstruction, it can reach ~100 μm resolution at high framerates, with percent signal changes up to ~20%. It measures hemodynamics like fMRI but without a magnet, and can pair with low‑intensity focused ultrasound for neuromodulation. Core steps include clutter filtering (often via SVD), motion correction, and Power Doppler to estimate blood volume; autocorrelation offers velocity. Analyses resemble fMRI (GLMs, decoding, MVPA). Early-stage with high ceiling; skull limits; open Python notebooks available.
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CS 240 prohibited AI/LLMs for assignments; reminders were given in lectures. Argus, a static-analysis tool (not an LLM), flagged 267 of 584 cases (≈45.7%). An AI Integrity team used a self-report form; 117 responses: 108 admitted, 9 disputed. 144 students dropped; 74 re-enrolled. Retroactive findings were discarded; Argus continued for later work. Takeaways: improve due-process, avoid near-deadline enforcement, and protect innocents. Most flagged cheaters performed worse on midterms; learning suffers from shortcuts.
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Marcin Wichary explores modular industrial dashboards seen in German and Polish museums, arguing they foreshadow software dashboards. He catalogs displays from the Deutsches Museum (air-traffic control), Fernmeldemuseum Stuttgart (rail/subway monitors), Nuremberg and Stuttgart train/tram museums, Warsaw’s train museum, and DASA Dortmund’s power-plant panel. He notes how modules light up to show status, counters and annotations about fixes, a day/night toggle, and a striking typographic tension between DIN and Dymo. He ends with a wish to twist a grand switch.
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Gitea 28.0.0 is released (dropping the 1.x prefix). Highlights include audit logging, bot accounts, HTTPS deploy tokens, admin impersonation, code-owner rules, diff file filters, and an Actions queue view. It adds security fixes and upgrade notes. Major breaking changes route Git network operations through an internal proxy with new egress rules; review allowlists and set EGRESS_MODE (strict) as needed. Other updates: Git 2.25+ required; self-registration off by default; ROOT_URL replaces DOMAIN; stricter Actions workflows. Also added shared Redis config, repository-scoped deploy tokens, WebSocket-based live notifications, and expanded API/package features.
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Singapore's government launches FirstDate, a dating app powered by the Gale-Shapley stable-marriage algorithm (Nobel-winning game theory) used in hospital residencies and kidney exchanges. Users build a ranked list from preferences/dealbreakers; proposers pitch to top picks, receivers hold best offer, repeat until stable. UX: one match per cycle, 72-hour decisions, mutual-yes reveals contact info, Singpass-verified. The app's success metric is reducing its own user base. Targeting public servants aged 21–35 for now, it's a pilot to test whether state-sponsored game theory can beat the free-market dating app ecosystem; outcomes are proposer-optimal.
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