The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

OpenAI and Google DeepMind Outshine Students at World’s Top Coding Contest

OpenAI scored a flawless 12/12 and Google DeepMind struck gold at ICPC 2025, the world’s toughest programming contest for top ...
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NYT Connections: hints and answers for Tuesday, September 16

Connections is one of the best puzzle games from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to ...

Vibe Coding Gains Traction Via Users Writing Prompts That Spur AI To Automatically Generate Usable Software Code

Vibe coding is the hot trend. You enter prompts into AI that tell it to produce a program for you. Voila, it generates the ...