Articles by signa11
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Ascetic Computing (ratfactor.com)

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New Design For The FreeBSD Website (freebsd.org)

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Std: Is_heap Could Be Faster (quuxplusone.github.io)

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Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today (lalinsky.com)

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C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)

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Restartable Sequences, TCMalloc, and Hyrum's Law (lwn.net)

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Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) (2uo.de)

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A Technical Guide to Compiling Emacs for Performance on Linux and Unix Systems (jamescherti.com)

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Fiber optic cables can eavesdrop on nearby conversations (science.org)

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Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive (lwn.net)

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Checking Multiplication Overflow (lemire.me)

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Copying Memory Is an Art (online.fr)

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60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour (theregister.com)

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The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle (wired.com)

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3 Women Who Fundamentally Shaped Modern Software [Reddit!!!] (reddit.com)

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Mojo v1.0.0b1 (mojolang.org)

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Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation (lwn.net)

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iPhone Dumbphone (stopa.io)

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Open weights are quietly closing up – and that's a problem (martinalderson.com)

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Algorithms for Competitive Programming (cp-algorithms.com)

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StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)

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The Tragedy of Gethostbyname (ariadne.space)

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The Tragedy of Gethostbyname

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Why I Don't Vibe Code (jacobharr.is)

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A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm (lwn.net)

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OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers (tomshardware.com)

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You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)

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Why skill match is not enough (gudok.xyz)

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Electrical current might be the key to a better cup of coffee (arstechnica.com)

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What it takes to transpose a matrix (gudok.xyz)

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Bypassing DPI with eBPF Sock_ops (bora.sh)

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A Field Guide to Bugs (stephendiehl.com)

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Barbara Liskov: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems (developing.dev)

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WASM is not quite a stack machine (purplesyringa.moe)

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A Fast Quicksort in C for Modern CPUs with Threads and Branch‑Avoidant Coding (easylang.online)

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How I Made My Vector Search Engine 16x Faster Without Changing the Algorithm (dubeykartikay.com)

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Why the Future Doesn't Need US (archive.org)

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A Eulogy for Vim (drewdevault.com)

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A flood of useful security reports (lwn.net)

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Tagging Music with MusicBrainz Picard (lwn.net)

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Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (online.fr)

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Fun with an indecisive AI coding agent (benhoyt.com)

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The Things I Wanted to Know Before Buying Apple's Studio Display XDR (tymscar.com)

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A Fast Quicksort for Modern CPUs with Threads and Branch‑Avoidant Partitioning (easylang.online)

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Emacs Is My Browser (joshblais.com)

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Finishing Things (ratfactor.com)

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Alex Bores rolls out "AI dividend" plan to share AI wealth (axios.com)

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Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for 'blowing up' equations (scientificamerican.com)

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Subtyping, Subclassing, and Trouble with OOP (okmij.org)

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C++: Growing in a world of competition, safety, and AI (herb-sutter) [pdf] (becpp.org)

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The Art of Craftsmanship (Monozukuri) in the Age of AI (rapha.land)

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Glyph Protocol for Terminals (rapha.land)

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Can your AI rewrite your code in assembly? (lemire.me)

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The Secret Life of Circuits (coredump.cx)

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Hyrum's Law: The hunt for a faster syscall trap (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)

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A brief history of C/C++ programming languages (lemire.me)

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Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)

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Discovering Dennis Ritchie's Lost Dissertation (computerhistory.org)

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Handling Instruction Branching in Modern Processors (blog-site-ivory.vercel.app)

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A History of Teapots and Unix (discuss.systems)

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IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1 (lwn.net)

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Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)

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The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Source Revealed About AI Engg Culture (techtrenches.dev)

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The Biggest Advance in AI Since the LLM (acm.org)

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A brief history of C/C++ programming languages (lemire.me)

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A brief history of C/C++ programming languages (lemire.me)

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Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD (lwn.net)

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The role of LLMs in patch review (lwn.net)

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The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise (lwn.net)

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The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026 (caio.ca)

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Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs (emacsredux.com)

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Oneness Is All You Need (birkey.co)

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ELF and Dynamic Linking (fmdlc.github.io)

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Implementing Amazon Dynamo in Elixir (jiteshcodes.com)

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Idiomatic Lisp and the Nbody Benchmark (stylewarning.com)

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I may have solved a long standing problem with Object Oriented systems (mempko.com)

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I used AI. It worked. I hated it (taggart-tech.com)

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Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen (benhoyt.com)

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Garbage Collection: From First Principles to Modern GC in Java, Go and Python (shbhmrzd.github.io)

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Embracing AI with Claude's C Compiler (chipsandcheese.com)

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The Subprime AI Crisis (wheresyoured.at)

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The x86-TSO Memory Model (louis.co.nz)

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NumPy as Synth Engine (kennethreitz.org)

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You're right, no one can tell if C++ is AI generated (mropert.github.io)

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How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of its earliest days (fastcompany.com)

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AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C (newscientist.com)

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GitHub Monaspace Case Study (lettermatic.com)

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Intuiting Pratt Parsing (louis.co.nz)

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Emacs as a Programmable Workbench (birkey.co)

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Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt (github.com/rwc9u)

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Initweave – build your Emacs init.el (initweave.com)

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Linux, Finally for Everyone (yololinux.com)

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C Preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (github.com/pfultz2)

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BPF Comes to Io_uring at Last (lwn.net)

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Ipxlat: a stateless IPv4/IPv6 translation device (kernel.org)

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A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU) (github.com/ben-j-c)

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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)

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Who is that actor on the screen? Emacs/LLM/Fun Redux (ingebrigtsen.no)

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Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks (nullprogram.com)