Why does C have the best file API
2026-02-28 (Programming) (Rants) There are a lot of nice programming languages, but files always seem like an afterthought. You usually only get read(), write() and some kind of serialization library. In C, you can access files exactly the same as data in memory: #include #include #include #include #include void main() { // Create/open a file […]
When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
I’m going to make a bold claim: MCP is already dying. We may not fully realize it yet, but the signs are there. OpenClaw doesn’t support it. Pi doesn’t support it. And for good reason. When Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol, the industry collectively lost its mind. Every company scrambled to ship MCP servers […]
World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
Applications 26/02/2026 2168 views 28 likes Faster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defence and Space, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and German payload manufacturer TESAT (as subcontractor) […]
Show HN: Audio Toolkit for Agents
A suite of 25 audio processing tools — trim, normalize, compress, EQ, reverb, pitch-shift, time-stretch, key detection, MIDI extraction, and more — exposed as MCP tools via DeclarAgent. What You Get Category Tools Processing trim, time-stretch, convert, mono, silence-remove, split-bars Effects normalize, gain, compress, eq, reverb, limit, filter, pitch-shift Analysis analyze, detect-key, loudness, onset-detect MIDI […]
Lil’ Fun Langs’ Guts
I’m still thinking about those lil’ fun langs. How do they work? What’s inside them? Do I need my pancreas? What if I don’t want to normalize my IR? Is laziness a virtue? Haskell-esque languages may look alike, but they differ across many dimensions: Most implementations use standard compilation phases: Lexing: Source → Token stream […]
Apache Otava
Change Detection for Continuous Performance Engineering Otava performs statistical analysis of performance test results stored in CSV files, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or Graphite database. It finds change-points and notifies about possible performance regressions.
AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
Yes, writing code is easier than ever. AI assistants autocomplete your functions. Agents scaffold entire features. You can describe what you want in plain English and watch working code appear in seconds. The barrier to producing code has never been lower. And yet, the day-to-day life of software engineers has gotten more complex, more demanding, […]
Ape Coding
Ape coding is a software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code. Practitioners of ape coding will typically author code by typing it on a computer keyboard, using specifically designed text editing software. History The term was popularized when agentic coding (coding performed by AI agents) became the dominant form of software […]
RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#
around a year ago, we built a regex engine in F# that not only outperformed the ones in dotnet, but went above and beyond competing with every other industrial regex engine on a large set of industry-standard benchmarks. additionally, it supports the full set of boolean operators (union, intersection, complement) and even a form of […]
Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs
:: Deterministic typesetting for the programmable web. A pure-JS, zero-dependency typesetting engine that yields bit-perfect PDF output across any runtime—from Cloudflare Workers to the browser. Stop using Headless Chrome to print text. If you generate PDFs with headless browsers or HTML-to-PDF tools, you’ve accepted a compromise: heavy dependencies, memory leaks, and ”approximate” layout that shifts […]