100M-Row Challenge with PHP
Important The 100-million-row challenge is now live. You have until March 15, 11:59PM CET to submit your entry! Welcome to the 100-million-row challenge in PHP! Your goal is to parse a data set of page visits into a JSON file. This repository contains all you need to get started locally. Submitting an entry is as […]
Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
Denmark’s tech modernization agency plans to replace Microsoft products with open-source software to reduce dependence on U.S. tech firms. In an interview with the local newspaper Politiken, Danish Minister for Digitalisation Caroline Stage Olsen confirmed that over half of the ministry’s staff will switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice next month, with a full transition […]
Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play
Watch Tournament Matches TL;DR LLM Skirmish is a benchmark where LLMs play 1v1 RTS (real-time strategy) games against each other LLMs write their battle strategies in code, which is then executed in the game environment LLM Skirmish tests in-context learning, as each tournament lasts five rounds and LLMs are able to alter strategies between rounds […]
LLM=True
Disclaimer: this post has been written without AI. (Oh how the turns have tabled… (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ) AI coding agents dogs are our best friends! I have lots of them. Going for walks with them every day and trying to get them to perform neat tricks. However, sometimes they misbehave and they don’t do the […]
Claude Code Remote Control
Remote Control is available as a research preview on Pro and Max plans. It is not available on Team or Enterprise plans. Remote Control connects claude.ai/code or the Claude app for iOS and Android to a Claude Code session running on your machine. Start a task at your desk, then pick it up from your […]
Turing Completeness of GNU Find: From Mkdir-Assisted Loops to Standalone Comput
Abstract:The Unix command texttt{find} is among the first commands taught to beginners, yet remains indispensable for experienced engineers. In this paper, we demonstrate that texttt{find} possesses unexpected computational power, establishing three Turing completeness results using the GNU implementation (a standard in Linux distributions). (1) texttt{find} + texttt{mkdir} (a system that has only texttt{find} and texttt{mkdir}) […]
The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
When I look back at the history of software, one pattern emerges with remarkable consistency: the promise to simplify software creation, to make it cheaper, and ultimately to eliminate the need for programmers altogether. This is not a new idea. It has been the driving ambition of our industry since the 1960s. And while each […]
What Happened to Fry’s Electronics
For about three decades, Fry’s Electronics was the go-to computer store for enthusiasts, almost an Ikea of computer stores. It was a big box store, larger than Comp USA, selling not just software and pre-built computers and peripherals, but also parts, and even discrete components. So what happened to Fry’s Electronics? The chain peaked at […]
Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your job is to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating our own ML puzzle early last year, we wanted to do something a little different. We thought it’d be neat to give users a complete […]
Corgi Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring
Who we are About Corgi Labs Corgi Labs uses proprietary AI to optimize payment acceptance, boosting revenue through superior fraud prevention. We are data-driven with an explainable AI approach for transparency About the team We’re looking for Founder’s Associates (2 roles: 1 in US and 1 in Singapore) to work closely with the founders at […]