How-To Geek on MSN

5 things I wish I knew when I first learned programming

When I was new to programming, I focused way too much on learning the syntax, especially the brackets, the semicolons, and ...
PCMag

I Have Zero Programming Skills. My First Attempt at Vibe Coding Went Surprisingly Well

AI tools promise that anyone can build apps, so I put that claim to the test. After a few minor bumps, I built a custom ...

The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...
The Register on MSN

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...
GitHub

Cex.C - Comprehensively EXtended C Language

MOCCA - Make Old C Cexy Again! Cex.C (officially pronounced /ˈtsɛk.si/ "tsek-see") was born as alternative answer to a plethora of brand new LLVM based languages ...
Independent Online

Model C schools slammed for ditching African languages

The increasing trend of former Model C schools adopting English as an additional medium of instruction should not be seen as a milestone worth celebrating, but rather as a call to refocus on South ...
GitHub

Simple linear attention language models balance the recall-throughput tradeoff.

Based is an efficient architecture inspired by recovering attention-like capabilities (i.e., recall). We do so by combining 2 simple ideas: Short sliding window attention (e.g., window size 64), to ...