"You are a software worker. And you are able to do your job in more or less good conditions only because you are standing on the shoulders of countless others. We are talking about the fact that if you have 20 days of holidays, if you only work 5 days a week, if you are able to take some days or weeks off after the birth of your child, it is because some others before you have sacrificed their lives so you can work in decent conditions."
How do Pre-Trained Models Support Software Engineering? An Empirical Study in Hugging Face
Alexandra Gonz\'alez, Xavier Franch, David Lo, Silverio Mart\'inez-Fern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03013
Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…
The evidence here is very simple: if you go into DOGE actually trying to improve efficiency, and then try to work transparently and report the truth that existing government teams are functioning very efficiently already, they will can you. https://sahillavingia.com/doge
The 81st edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we worry about the perils of vibe coding in the minds of new generations of software developers; in the Library section, we review "Geek Sublime" by Vikram Chandra; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a 1986 interview of Grace Hopper at "Late Night with David Letterman".
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01136 has been replaced.
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iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
Davide Gorbani, Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Giuseppe L'Erario, Gabriele Nava, Punith Reddy Vanteddu, Shabarish Purushothaman Pillai, Antonello Paolino, Fabio Bergonti, Saverio Taliani, Alessandro Croci, Nicholas James Tremaroli, Silvio Traversaro, Bruno Vittorio Trombetta, Daniele Pucci
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Gone with the Wind: JWST-MIRI Unveils a Strong Outflow from the Quiescent Stellar-Mass Black Hole A0620-00
Zihao Zuo, Gabriele Cugno, Joseph Michail, Elena Gallo, David M. Russell, Richard M. Plotkin, Fan Zou, M. Cristina Baglio, Piergiorgio Casella, Fraser J. Cowie, Rob Fender, Poshak Gandhi, Sera Markoff, Federico Vincentelli, Fraser Lewis, Jon M. Miller, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Alexandra Veledina
„Amerikanische Waffen vermeiden“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9921