Declarative Dragging Framework Earns Best Paper
Declarative dragging lets interface authors specify which future application states a drag should lead to, and an engine speculatively renders those states to synthesize the interaction. The approach, implemented in the Dragology library for SVG web interfaces, earned Best Paper recognition at UIST. — declarative-dragging.github.io
Sunburst Image Model Adds Planning Control
OpenAI's Sunburst image model adds a complexity setting that controls how much it plans before rendering, trading speed for accuracy on dense text and intricate layouts. The model also generates images 50% faster than its predecessor. — replicate.com
Ripple-65B Sets Open-Weight Coding Record
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weight model trained from scratch for $32M that sets the U.S. state of the art on agentic coding while beating much larger rivals. — ricursive.com
Go's Rewritten JSON API Goes Stable
Go's encoding/json/v2 API is now stable, fixing silent acceptance of duplicate names, invalid UTF-8, and other flaws while keeping the old behavior selectable through options. Unmarshaling runs up to 10x faster, and the original package is reimplemented on top of the new one. — go.dev
Zig libc Rewrite Slows SQLite Tokenizing
A Zig rewrite of standard C string functions re-measures a whole string on every tokenization step, the Shlemiel the Painter pattern that turned SQLite JSON inserts in one chess-analysis service into multi-minute stalls. Large files tokenized roughly 12,000x slower, with costs growing quadratically with input size. — dennisforbes.ca