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A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals GPT-5, available as gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat with "major improvements" in reasoning, code, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/752091/openai-gpt-5-model-announceme…

OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
OpenAI’s GPT-5 announcement has been leaked early by GitHub. A now-deleted blog post reveals there are four GPT-5 model variants on the way.

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Nanowar Of Steel - HelloWorld.java
https://github.com/NanowarOfSteel/HelloWorld
saved 2025-03-13 https://…

GitHub - NanowarOfSteel/HelloWorld
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Hrmm, I think I'm going to do a bit of work on the MOS6502 emulator. I still need to implement interrupts and get those ironed out. Not 100% sure how I want to do it, but figure it shouldn't be too horrible. Also, I improved the docs as well because I couldn't remember how to compile the assembly code...lol
https://github.…

wayland is a governance failure https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/880

Mouse position portal · Issue #880 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Some apps (a small minority, I will admit) have features that pair with being able to track the mouse. One such app is the Virtual Puppet Project's mouse tracker plugin, which uses the mouse instea...

Beautiful palettes based on art for R and python: #rstats #ggplot

GitHub - BlakeRMills/MetBrewer: Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - BlakeRMills/MetBrewer

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
PS. Here’s where to go: @…

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.

Woof. This made my brain hurt over a few weeks between delighting customers, but I persevered.
Firecracker is the tiny, lightweight VM technology behind AWS Lambda "serverless" Function as a Service. You can run these tiny, tiny, fast VMs on-premises if that solves a business problem.
Anyway, here is an actual working tutorial that I wrote as most of the major tutorials out there did not work for me. Enjoy.

GitHub - DennisFaucher/firecracker: Learning Firecracker "Serverless" MicroVMs
Learning Firecracker "Serverless" MicroVMs. Contribute to DennisFaucher/firecracker development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Lambda calculus cooked N ways: Benchmarks for capture-avoiding substitution.
https://github.com/sweirich/lambda-n-ways
saved 2025-06-14

GitHub - sweirich/lambda-n-ways: Benchmarks for capture-avoiding substitution
Benchmarks for capture-avoiding substitution. Contribute to sweirich/lambda-n-ways development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19

GitHub - annacrombie/meson-raytracer
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