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Babbel is the linguist-created app millions use to learn new languages

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What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.…

Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?

AI can help move analysis forward, but human ingenuity is still essential in this field.…

Study documents a precipitous decline in the number of languages

During a period spanning the first millennium B.C. and ‌first millennium ‌A.D., humankind may have spoken tens of thousands of different languages, compared to about 7,500 now.…

Cracking the code: Can AI help us decipher ancient languages?

How Does a Bilingual Speaker's Brain Process Two Languages? New Research Suggests That Both Rely on the Same Neural Wiring

Scientists have long wondered whether different neural mechanisms govern each language within a bilingual speaker’s brain. A recent study of people who speak both English and Spani…

This $70 app teaches 150+ languages with native speakers

Learn the words you'll actually use IRL.…

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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on AI, User Motivation, and Expanding Beyond Languages

TIME spoke with Luis von Ahn about Duolingo’s story, user engagement, and how he’s approaching AI integration.…

Xavier Leroy on programming, languages and formal verification

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Languages as designed latent spaces

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Meet the robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages

Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics.…

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Scientists Uncover Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Languages That Ended 1,000 Years Ago

Scientists have predicted that human linguistic diversity flourished between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago, before declining with the rise of multinational states and colonial expansio…

Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age'

A new study suggests linguistic diversity reached its peak between 1000 B.C.E. and 1000 C.E. before declining…

Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages

Métis Life on Roblox Reclaims Endangered Languages for Next-Gen Players - Morningstar

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

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Asian languages are dying in Australian schools. Here are the big ideas to save them

Five bonus ATAR points, a reviewed visa system for language teachers, and bilingual high schools are among the ideas proposed.…

Learn a new language this summer with lifetime access to all 14 Babbel languages

Babbel's Lifetime Subscription includes all 14 languages and over 10,000 hours of expert-crafted lessons. Available now at the lowest price of the year through the PCWorld Shop.…

Engineering Notes #1 — AI Isn't Replacing Programming Languages

AI Isn't Replacing Programming Languages. It's Replacing the Need to Think in Them. Disclaimer: This...…

Built Log Stripper: A VS Code Extension to Remove Debug Logs Across 23+ Languages

Every developer has a version of this story. You're about to open a pull request. The code works....…

Ask HN: Does using non-English languages affect LLM output quality?

Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously (2025)

Esoteric programming languages are challenging to learn, but their unusual features and constraints may serve to improve programming ability. From languages designed to be intentio…

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...…

ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs)

ELI5 Why do most of the languages have the sound /m/ in their word for Mother?

Continuous Diffusion Models Can Obey Formal Syntax

Diffusion language models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their global, non-causal generation process, but their continuous latent dynamics make discr…

Github's Top Programming Languages Over Time

Explore a universe of data about how the world is building software together on GitHub.…

TIL that no matter how fast or slow a language is spoken, every human language transmits information at approximately 39 bits per second. Fast languages like Japanese pack less meaning per syllable, slow languages like Mandarin pack more, the brain has a hard speed limit.

Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories and five languages, and says GPT-5.5 is the leader at 70% (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

A Case for Tracing Based DSL Kernel Languages

On the architectural divide between parsing and tracing kernel DSLs, and what tends to go wrong in each.…

BODHI: Precise OS Kernel Specification Inference

The formal verification of operating system kernels requires precise specifications that capture the intended behavior of system calls. Writing these specifications manually demand…

I Built a Multilingual Spam Detection Dataset with 149K+ Messages Across 23 Languages

Spam detection datasets are surprisingly bad once you move outside English. Most public datasets...…

[Showoff Saturday] My website now supports 28 fully localized languages

Loop Fusion in Array Languages

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Māori Text-to-Speech Model Spurns Big Tech’s Values

Several projects around the world are working to develop indigenous-owned AI models…

Prompify now speaks your language — AI prompt generator added support for 9 languages (including Arabic RTL)

Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML

How I Parse 14 Languages With One Function — Codewalk Deep Dives #1

Building a polyglot code parser with tree-sitter that handles Python, Rust, Dart, Go, and 10 more —...…

Show HN: Building a Programming Language for Myself

IntroductionI really enjoy programming in Kotlin but it can be a bit of a chore to get started with the initial project setup boilerplate like Intellij and Maven + pom.xml file. In…

KDA objects to teaching three languages in CBSE schools

The Kannada Development Authority (KDA) has objected to the recent order issued by the Union Education Ministry making the study of three languages (R1, R2, R3) mandatory for class…

All the a Trading Zone, and All the Languages Merely Pidgins

I take an article about the mechanics of intercultural communication and extend it, arguing most communication these days could be considered intercultural. Read more (6 min, 1500 …

Phrasing helps you become fluent in multiple languages

Learn multiple languages faster with our science-based methods. Turn any book, movie, or podcast into comprehenible input, and accelerate your learning with spaced retrieval. Over …

Hyperpolyglot ML Dialects and Haskell: SML, OCaml, F#, Haskell

I ran the same research prompt through 6 AI systems in 5 languages. The results were not the same

Skip the subscription model and learn languages for a lifetime fee of $54.97

Promova uses personalized learning plans to make language learning less like homework. Right now, a lifetime subscription is $54.97.…

Workshop on evaluation terminology in Indian languages begins at CIIL

A five-day workshop at CIIL aims to standardize evaluation terminology in Indian languages, enhancing multilingual education practices.…

Hydra: Efficient, Correct Code Generation via Checkpoint-and-Rollback Support

Large language models are increasingly used for code generation, but many generated programs fail to compile, a prerequisite for further correctness checks such as unit tests. Exis…

ELI5 why do languages exist?

How I Used 6 AI Systems Across 5 Languages to Track LENR and Superconductivity Signals A…

It turns out that other creatures also possess complex communication languages. Soon we will be able not only to understand but also to communicate with them.

CBSE makes three languages mandatory in Class 9-10, no board exam for the third

The assessments for the third language (R3) would be school-based and internal. | India News…

Matlab and APL: Meeting Cleve Moler (2012)

I have often described MATLAB as “APL with a normal character set,” but I didn’t actually know anything about how MATLAB came to be or if there was any relationship.  Last night, ……

Top news of the day: NEET paper leak ‘mastermind’ arrested; CBSE mandates three languages for Class IX, and more

Today's top news: NEET paper leak arrest, CBSE's new language mandate, and WHO's warning on youth-targeted nicotine pouches.…