COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyEarly in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission:…
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets
FeaturedCarl Franzen March 5, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI GPT-Image-1.5 on ChatGPTThe AI updates aren’t slowing down. Literally two…
Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
Andreas Kling — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI We’ve been searching for a memory-safe…
FCC asks stations for “pro-America” programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
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Please consider tagging a vibecoding griefpost or hypepost as a rant
Many of us going through the five stages of grief about AI. But processing our collective trauma is neither practices…
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
MessageFormat Working Group Welcome to the home page for the MessageFormat Working Group, a subgroup of the Unicode CLDR-TC. Charter…
AI is slowly munching away my passion
My passion has always been programming – one way or another, it always has been and all my life choices…
I started programming when I was 7. I’m 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
I Started Programming When I Was 7. I’m 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed I wrote my…
Vouch
Vouch A project trust management system. People must be vouched for before interacting with certain parts of a project (the…
Stories From 25 Years of Software Development
Stories From 25 Years of Software Development By Susam Pal on 06 Feb 2026 Last year, I completed 20 years…
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
That’s right — this little device is what stood between me and the ability to run an even older piece…
Automatic Programming
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Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
beautiful-mermaid Render Mermaid diagrams as beautiful SVGs or ASCII art Ultra-fast, fully themeable, zero DOM dependencies. Built for the AI…
Adaptive6 emerges from stealth to reduce enterprise cloud waste (and it’s already optimizing Ticketmaster)
Carl Franzen January 28, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Nano Banana Pro via Fal.aiThe generative AI era has sped everything…
[Meta] Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts?
They never do well in terms of Karma or engagement. All they do is take a spot in the feed…
Satya Nadella at Davos: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing
That "30-40% productivity gain" claim for GitHub Copilot? Independent research from Uplevel found a 41% increase in bugs introduced into…
Claude Code just got updated with one of the most-requested user features
FeaturedCarl Franzen January 15, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Pro Image / Nano Banana ProAnthropic’s open source…
Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston?
In 1988, James D. Johnston at Bell Labs and Karlheinz Brandenburg in Germany independently invented perceptual audio coding – the…
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
LLMs are an incredibly powerful tool, that do amazing things. But even so, they aren’t as fantastical as their creators…
Interview Coder Leaks Full Names, Addresses and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated
Interview Coder just betrayed their users and leaked their users’ full names and where they got offers on their home…