Computer science recap for week 6/2025

From 3/2/2025 to 9/2/2025

Articles #

• Roc's compiler is being rewritten in Zig instead of Rust 439 comments in 5 discussions

• Google opens Gemini 2.0, its most powerful AI models to everyone 297 comments in 4 discussions

• Sentence I couldn't understand 296 comments in 4 discussions

• Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone 282 comments in 4 discussions

• AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt 199 comments in 5 discussions

• [R] Your AI can’t see gorillas: A comparison of LLMs’ ability to perform exploratory data analysis 197 comments in 2 discussions

• [R] LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning 174 comments in 2 discussions

• I dedicated three years to work on Travelling Salesman Problem. 168 comments in 2 discussions

• baffled by generational garbage collection 138 comments in 2 discussions

• U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts 135 comments in 2 discussions

• Request for good resources discussing the meta-problems of using time in cryptographic protocol engineering 109 comments in 4 discussions

• The inevitability of the borrow checker 90 comments in 3 discussions

• A Brief History of Code Signing at Mozilla 85 comments in 1 discussion

• The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura (2009) 79 comments in 7 discussions

• Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time 73 comments in 4 discussions

Releases #

• OpenWrt 24.10.0 - First Stable Release 190 comments in 3 discussions

Projects #

• blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency 169 comments in 4 discussions

• Not Every AI Problem Needs a 100B Parameter Model 🤦‍♂️ 88 comments in 8 discussions

• A Java JIT Compiler and Runtime in Common Lisp 77 comments in 4 discussions

• We Are Aggregating the Ultimate List of Privacy-Friendly European Tech! 70 comments in 4 discussions

• Use LLMs like scikit-learn 66 comments in 6 discussions

• T1: A RISC-V Vector processor implementation 19 comments in 1 discussion

• [P] Torchhd: A Python Library for Hyperdimensional Computing 14 comments in 1 discussion

• Filipe - a new high level interpreted language powered by Rust 10 comments in 1 discussion

• AI by Hand Exercises in Excel 10 comments in 2 discussions

• comic-web-markup: Comic-web is a markup language for describing comics, as well as a rendering engine for this language 5 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• [N] How Deepseek trained their R1 models, and how frontier LLMs are trained today. 42 comments in 1 discussion

• Blazing Trails: Building the World's Fastest GameBoy Emulator in Modern C++ - Tom Tesch CppCon 2024 25 comments in 1 discussion

• [N] Robotics at IEEE Telepresence 2024 & Upcoming 2025 Conference 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Content-Based Recommender Systems - Explained

• AI exploits a gamebreaking bug in Trackmania