Computer science recap for week 14/2025

From 31/3/2025 to 6/4/2025

Articles #

• FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 2412 comments in 4 discussions

• A love letter to the CSV format 709 comments in 2 discussions

• Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit 436 comments in 1 discussion

• There is no Vibe Engineering 301 comments in 3 discussions

• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation 261 comments in 1 discussion

• The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort & Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers 203 comments in 2 discussions

• Why I stopped using AI code editors 184 comments in 3 discussions

• What is your practical NER (Named Entity Recognition) approach? [P] 168 comments in 4 discussions

• Programming with an AI copilot: My perspective as a senior dev 160 comments in 3 discussions

• Stop syncing everything 134 comments in 3 discussions

• The Memory Safety Continuum 95 comments in 5 discussions

• Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders 94 comments in 4 discussions

• AI ambivalence 84 comments in 2 discussions

• Why does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation? 81 comments in 1 discussion

• How We Got the Generics We Have: (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love erasure) 67 comments in 4 discussions

Releases #

• The Llama 4 herd 20 comments in 2 discussions

Projects #

• [R] Implemented 18 RL Algorithms in a Simpler Way 39 comments in 4 discussions

• [Project] Real-Time Cascading Speech-to-Speech Chatbot: Whisper, Llama 3.1, Kokoro, and Silero VAD 🚀 20 comments in 1 discussion

• anubis: Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers 17 comments in 2 discussions

• Active MCP: Integrate Rails with AI Assistants using Model Context Protocol 15 comments in 1 discussion

• AI Runner: my python side project that allows you to use local, offline AI models 13 comments in 4 discussions

• I made a free browser extension that dynamically recognizes procrastination using semantic similarity 12 comments in 3 discussions

• [P] Curated List of Awesome Time Series Papers – Open Source Resource on GitHub 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Roguetype: The first ever roguelike written in the OCaml type system 6 comments in 1 discussion

• [P] Developing a open-source (Retrieval Augmented Generation) framework written in C++ with python bindings for high performance 4 comments in 2 discussions

• Chip-8 weird bug 3 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• The Kernel Trick - Explained 16 comments in 2 discussions

• Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering 6 comments in 2 discussions

• [D] Scanning the OpenAI cookbook for vulnerabilities (with open-source) 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Jurgen Appelo – Human Robot Agent: Scouting AI Beyond Hype and Doom [video]