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Programmer/author/pundit Bob Nystrom: "Somehow I found myself writing a blog post about why nerds should try knitting: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com…

Russian hospital programmer gets 14 years for leaking soldier data to Ukraine https://therecord.media/russian-programmer-gets-14-years-for-leaking-info-to-ukraine

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russian group Laundry Bear hacked Dutch police, targets Ukraine-allied nations
--Iranian pleads guilty to Robbinhood ransomware,
--Vietnam-tied UNC6032 uses prompt-to-video AI tools to lure malware victims,
--Russia sends former programmer to prison for 14 years,
--Czech Republic says China's APT31 hacked its comms networks,
--Nigeria arrests 20 for…

Russian group Laundry Bear hacked Dutch police, targets Ukraine-allied nations
Iranian pleads guilty to Robbinhood, UNC6032 uses prompt-to-video AI tools to lure victims, Russia sends former programmer to prison for 14 years, Czech Republic says China's APT31 hacked its comms networks, Nigeria arrests 20 for exams hacking, Bad flaw found in GitHub MCP integration, much more

The deadline for FProper (SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Programming for Productivity and Performance) full-paper abstracts has been extended to June 14th. (Which is also when the papers themselves are due.)
Send us your paper!
https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-s

Spouse is a psychotherapist. I am a heavily-interdisciplinary computer programmer. We both work with complex systems.
We are diagnosing why the heat pump mini-split isn't working as expected
Their first hypothesis, of course, is "communication breakdown with partner unit"
Mine is "configuration error root-caused to bad UX design"
... We were both right

To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a
test load.

"Dr. Dobb’s would cover every month some programming topic with an excellent series of monographs and a wide array of sample code, interviews, and even excellent humor. In the latter case, an honorary mention goes to Verity Stob, because of their uncanny description of the daily life of a software developer in the Microsoft galaxy of the late 1990s. Those who witnessed the good old days of `On Error Resume Next` are now nodding their heads in despair. I hear you."

ParEval-Repo: A Benchmark Suite for Evaluating LLMs with Repository-level HPC Translation Tasks
Joshua H. Davis, Daniel Nichols, Ishan Khillan, Abhinav Bhatele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20938

ParEval-Repo: A Benchmark Suite for Evaluating LLMs with Repository-level HPC Translation Tasks
GPGPU architectures have become significantly diverse in recent years, which has led to an emergence of a variety of specialized programming models and software stacks to support them. While portable execution models exist, they still require significant developer effort to port to and optimize for different hardware architectures. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) can help us reduce some of this programmer burden. In this paper, we present a novel benchmark and testing framework,…

ReCode: Updating Code API Knowledge with Reinforcement Learning
Haoze Wu, Yunzhi Yao, Wenhao Yu, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20495

ReCode: Updating Code API Knowledge with Reinforcement Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable code generation capabilities but falter when adapting to frequent updates in external library APIs. This critical limitation, stemming from reliance on outdated API knowledge from their training data, even with access to current documentation, impedes reliable code generation in dynamic environments. To tackle this issue, we propose ReCode (rule-based Reinforcement learning for Code Update), a novel framework that mimics human programmer adaptatio…

How to feel inadequate: TIL that Michael Holding — Whispering Death — preferred being a computer programmer to a professional cricketer, and worked as one well into his career. (This is from an article about the 1976 Oval match.) #Cricket

Lawful Neutral
https://yac.grumpy-learning.com/@grmpyprogrammer/statuses/01JVYTEXHZQ9W2FNGM49DXE3SF

Not only do #Youtube's automatic AI voice-overs sound like customer-service hotline robots ... their translations aren't even correct!
Here's one of those funny "interview with a Javascript programmer / Linux user / etc." videos. It's subtitle right at the beginning mentions a "404 page" (you know, the web server "page not found" errors). The mo…

Oh hell no. Facebook is jamming this sick bastard into the "People you may know" feed. Some programmer's idea of a joke?

Programmer looking at LLM code: Where did you learn to write this kind of garbage?
LLM: *through tears* From you! I learned it by watching you!!

You know, I was just looking for a "chip download burn write probe spring needle flash eeprom chip burner cable" with a "flapper limit chip easy entry". Thanks, Monkey Electronics Store!

"Meanwhile, others see signs of success. That code (actually from 2006) is still there because, well, it is still there, because its authors did not get distracted by the shiny shiny and get bogged down in another rewrite, because as manufacturers and markets came and went, the Java runtime was still there, and the bytecode could still execute."

These arguments by @… resonate with my own reasons for not using LLMs in my work, and I appreciate these being written up in a clear manner: https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems
and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting
language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best
dangerous.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup in "The C Programming Language"

Spegion: Implicit and Non-Lexical Regions with Sized Allocations
Jack Hughes, Michael Vollmer, Mark Batty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02182 https://

Spegion: Implicit and Non-Lexical Regions with Sized Allocations
Region based memory management is a powerful tool designed with the goal of ensuring memory safety statically. The region calculus of Tofte and Talpin is a well known example of a region based system, which uses regions to manage memory in a stack-like fashion. However, the region calculus is lexically scoped and requires explicit annotation of memory regions, which can be cumbersome for the programmer. Other systems have addressed non-lexical regions, but these approaches typically require the…

Promises are a JavaScript programmer's way of saying "I promise you this code is complicated." 🤓
#technology #JavaScript #programming #nerd #joke #nerdJoke