Articles by signa11
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Magit 4.6 Released (emacsair.me)

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Processing files that are too big to fit into memory (bylizhao.github.io)

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What Happened to the Fight for the Internet? (dustycloud.org)

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When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter (colinbreck.com)

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Investigating Linux Graphics (roscidus.com)

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The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment (juszkiewicz.com.pl)

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Towards Understandable Software (gracefulliberty.com)

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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (otherhand.org)

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AMOC Weakening Causes "Cold Blob" in the Atlantic Ocean (Not Surface Fluxes) (wiley.com)

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Memory-Hierarchy Understanding Tools (github.com/ob)

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After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed 'Erdős Method' an Upgrade (quantamagazine.org)

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Fintech Engineering Handbook (pitula.me)

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SVG-Margin: Better Gutters for Emacs (chiply.dev)

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'Fingerprints' of black hole's event horizon detected for first time (phys.org)

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Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack (grack.com)

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Echoes of the AI Winter (netzhansa.com)

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Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected (xlii.space)

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Periodic Table of Computing (alexandrehtrb.github.io)

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Matrix and Quaternion FAQ (j3d.org)

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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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The Secret Life of Computers (thechipletter.substack.com)

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Timesharing on the MIT Weather Radar PDP-8/IX (retrocomputingforum.com)

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Is anyone still using Emacs? (blogsystem5.substack.com)

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A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding (iximiuz.com)

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Moving Beyond Fork() + Exec() (lwn.net)

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Care about what you do – even when nobody's watching (mattcasmith.net)

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Even more batteries included with Emacs (karthinks.com)

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Virtualisation on Apple Silicon (eclecticlight.co)

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Tobias Hieta: A Brief Overview of the LLVM Architecture [video] (youtube.com)

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Orthodox C++ (2016) (bkaradzic.github.io)

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On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles (6it.dev)

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BPF in the Agentic Era (lwn.net)

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Humans ask, computers propose, humans decide (jakemccrary.com)

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Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot (safedep.io)

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How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go? (lemire.me)

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Commandments of Synchronization (2011) [pdf] (cornell.edu)

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A Little Explanation of Little's Law (rugu.dev)

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Concurrent, atomic MSI hash tables (nullprogram.com)

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39C3: The art of text rendering (Nicolas Rougier)

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Alan Kay on "Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?" (donhopkins.medium.com)

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The Smallest C Binary (weineng.me)

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AI Optimists Race Clock; Skeptics Race Decay (charitydotwtf.substack.com)

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Pre-Pooping Your Pants with Rust (2015) (faultlore.com)

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Groups and Diffie-Hellman (derangedmathematician.substack.com)

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Magit-difftastic: render diffs with difftastic inside magit's buffers (github.com/rschmukler)

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BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond (lwn.net)

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Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development (lwn.net)

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Embodied Cognition and Agentic AI (lemire.me)

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My Software North Star (kristoff.it)

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Fast Branchless Quicksort Using Sorting-Networks with C and C++ Interface (tiki.li)

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Floating-Point Error Handling in C++: What Works (johnnysswlab.com)

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Revo, the Programming Language (if-not-nil.github.io)

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Quality in the Age of Slop (sinclairtarget.com)

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Asserts in Zig (kristoff.it)

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Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)

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SQLite Does Not Accept Agentic Code (simonwillison.net)

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There Is a Mountain Lion in the Datacenter (hftuniversity.com)

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Controlling Memory Management with BPF (lwn.net)

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Rust Will Save Linux from AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman (zdnet.com)

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High Speed Networking: The View from the Machine (c21-mac.com)

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Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)

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Enhanced Games: Think Olympics with No Rigid Doping Rules (npr.org)

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Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)

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Building a Host-Tuned GCC to Make GCC Compile Faster (peter0x44.github.io)

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What is so special about Emacs? [video] (youtube.com)

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C array types are weird (anselmschueler.com)

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How My minimal, memory-safe Go rsync steers clear of vulnerabilities (stapelberg.ch)

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Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel (qualys.com)

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Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding (third-bit.com)

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Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers (lemire.me)

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Exploring Ref Qualifiers in C++ (meetingcpp.com)

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The Brain vs. Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity (timdettmers.com)

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Highest Random Weight in Elixir (jola.dev)

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Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence (businessinsider.com)

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I2C Notes (rana-emaan.com)

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Samsung to distribute up to $26.6B to staff in AI-driven bonuses (tomshardware.com)

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Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist? (stackoverflow.com)

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Welcome to John Regehr's Integers in C quiz (acepace.net)

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A Girl Who Couldn't Draw Home (gailweiner.com)

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Bun's rust rewrite is a marketing stunt (versary.town)

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A Practical Guide to Profiling in Go (jetbrains.com)

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Misconceptions about the Unix Philosophy (posixcafe.org)

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Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ (ryanjk5.github.io)

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Layoffs and Harsh AI Reality Inside Meta (cnbc.com)

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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)