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CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

https://turkeyland.net/thoughts/ai.php
22•ArchAndStarch•2h ago

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warkdarrior•28m ago
Wow, universities still teach deprecated programming languages.
warkdarrior•22m ago
And in case anyone is not sure what I am talking about, see this: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI...
aesthesia•14m ago
Note that the word "deprecate" appears nowhere in that document.
warkdarrior•10m ago
The wording at the end is quite clear, even if it does not use the exact word "deprecate":

> "NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++ and assembly, to a memory safe language when possible."

aesthesia•6m ago
Deprecation is a speech act. It's something that can only occur if you use the word itself.
fxwin•21m ago
Universities teach one of the most influential and ubiquitous programming languages, crazy
woopwoop•22m ago
> Second, while the percentage of students identified was substantial, it was still less than 50%.

No doubt the student body will learn this lesson, and in the future the number of students identified as having cheated will be near zero.

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https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
644•bradleyg223•1h ago•404 comments

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EDG C++ front-end goes public

https://edgcpp.org/#transition
90•iandinwoodie•2h ago•32 comments

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https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude
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https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/
72•jbott•3h ago•25 comments

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36•luu•2h ago•6 comments

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
191•rbanffy•7h ago•76 comments

You said no MCP

https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/
567•yarapavan•12h ago•325 comments

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https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really-caused-the-bronze-age
10•AnodicElegy•1d ago•3 comments

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https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/doing-a-machine-learning-phd-while-working-in-japan
10•pwim•14h ago•3 comments

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https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records
225•luispa•2d ago•98 comments

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https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258
56•rzk•12h ago•8 comments

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9•pminimax•1h ago•1 comments

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

https://turkeyland.net/thoughts/ai.php
23•ArchAndStarch•2h ago•9 comments

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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dAbC3Gd-founding-product-engineer
1•rooppal•4h ago

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https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/
152•megalomanu•8h ago•351 comments

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https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/
112•b-man•8h ago•27 comments

Gitea 28.0

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/
43•porridgeraisin•1h ago•15 comments

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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-software-makers/
24•speckx•2h ago•7 comments

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https://www.software3d.com/MillersMonster.php
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https://ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com/p/burning-man-death-rates-a-short-lesson
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https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon
40•theanonymousone•1h ago•18 comments

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https://yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-as-a-thinking-tool/
102•yedhukrishnan•4h ago•58 comments

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117•ibobev•8h ago•47 comments

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https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/09/30/recursive-make-j/
13•ibobev•4h ago•4 comments

Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry

https://amutable.com/blog/distributing-images-quarry
14•Levitating•9h ago•0 comments

Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games

https://log.schemescape.com/posts/memoir/dos.html
6•zdw•22h ago•1 comments

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

https://agmai.org/general-sep29/
58•aureianimus•19h ago•59 comments