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30

Cleaning house in Nx monorepo, how i removed unused deps safely (johnjames.blog)

a month ago | birdculture | johnjames.blog | frontpage

1

Go's builtin 'new()' function will take an expression in Go 1.26 (utcc.utoronto.ca)

a month ago | birdculture | utoronto.ca | newest

38

We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4 (modal.com)

a month ago | birdculture | modal.com | best

2

What are popular AI coding benchmarks measuring? (nilenso.com)

a month ago | birdculture | nilenso.com | newest

2

Exploring Terminals, TTYs, and PTYs (cefboud.com)

a month ago | birdculture | cefboud.com | newest

2

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (modal.com)

a month ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

2

Modal built their own container runtime, file system, GPU solver, and more [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | birdculture | youtube.com | newest

3

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions (pkh.me)

4 months ago | birdculture | pkh.me | frontpage

1

Exploiting Zapier's Gmail auto-reply agent for data exfiltration (repello.ai)

4 months ago | birdculture | repello.ai | newest

1

Systemd 258-Rc1 Is a Feature Release with New Tools, 260 Changes (phoronix.com)

4 months ago | birdculture | phoronix.com | newest

2

Dollars per Token Considered Harmful (modal.com)

4 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

1

Detour: A detour through the Linux dynamic linker (github.com/graphitemaster)

4 months ago | birdculture | github.com | frontpage

73

Don't animate height (granola.ai)

4 months ago | birdculture | granola.ai | best

5

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | birdculture | arstechnica.com | newest

1

Hypershell: A Type-Level DSL for Shell-Scripting in Rust (contextgeneric.dev)

5 months ago | birdculture | contextgeneric.dev | newest

3

The LLM Engineer's Almanac (modal.com)

5 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

3

AI coding assistants aren't making devs feel more productive (leaddev.com)

5 months ago | birdculture | leaddev.com | newest

2

Five-year review of BQN design (mlochbaum.github.io)

5 months ago | birdculture | github.io | newest

1

The LLM Engine Almanac (modal.com)

5 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

4

Ironclad 0.7.0 – formally verified Unix-like kernel in SPARK and Ada (codeberg.org/ironclad)

5 months ago | birdculture | codeberg.org | frontpage

3

Transpiler Is a Meaningless Word (csail.mit.edu)

6 months ago | birdculture | mit.edu | newest

2

Building a fast website with the MASH stack in Rust (emschwartz.me)

6 months ago | birdculture | emschwartz.me | newest

1

Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU (lisyarus.github.io)

6 months ago | birdculture | github.io | newest

2

"Safe" YAML Monster (gist.github.com)

6 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

1

Modal's Serverless KV Store Now Scales to Infinity (modal.com)

6 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

1

QUIC restarts, slow problems: udpgrm to the rescue (cloudflare.com)

6 months ago | birdculture | cloudflare.com | newest

37

Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation (moonside.games)

6 months ago | birdculture | moonside.games | frontpage

1

Circular Reasoning in Unit Tests – It works because it does what it does (laser-coder.net)

6 months ago | birdculture | laser-coder.net | newest

3

GPU Glossary: Open-source GPU documentation for humans (github.com/modal-labs)

6 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

19

OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025 (tarides.com)

6 months ago | birdculture | tarides.com | frontpage

3

Beware the Complexity Merchants (chrlschn.dev)

6 months ago | birdculture | chrlschn.dev | newest

1

GPU Glossary: GPU documentation for humans (github.com/modal-labs)

6 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

2

GPU Glossary: GPU documentation for humans (github.com/modal-labs)

6 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

160

Flattening Rust’s learning curve (corrode.dev)

6 months ago | birdculture | corrode.dev | best

2

Netflix Is Built on Java (youtube.com)

6 months ago | birdculture | youtube.com | frontpage

5

Implement Your Language Twice (futhark-lang.org)

6 months ago | birdculture | futhark-lang.org | frontpage

1

A Critical Look at MCP (raz.sh)

6 months ago | birdculture | raz.sh | newest

145

Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) (yaakov.online)

6 months ago | birdculture | yaakov.online | best

1

Prompt chaining reimagined with type inference (haskellforall.com)

6 months ago | birdculture | haskellforall.com | newest

3

Can you remove ads from the documentation? (github.com/dotnet)

6 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

5

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (arstechnica.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | arstechnica.com | frontpage

1

GCC 15.1 Released (gcc.gnu.org)

7 months ago | birdculture | gnu.org | newest

1

Hacking My Coworker (In Minecraft) [pdf] (redvice.org)

7 months ago | birdculture | redvice.org | newest

1

Reflections on Unikernels (recoil.org)

7 months ago | birdculture | recoil.org | newest

3

Common Shell Script Mistakes (pixelbeat.org)

7 months ago | birdculture | pixelbeat.org | newest

1

Lustre v5.0.0 Released (hexdocs.pm)

7 months ago | birdculture | hexdocs.pm | newest

1

Retracing Google's steps: recreating the Webtable in Rust (fjall-rs.github.io)

7 months ago | birdculture | github.io | newest

1

Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL with automatic sharding (github.com/pgdogdev)

7 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

2

Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer (validark.dev)

7 months ago | birdculture | validark.dev | frontpage

2

Using the Lamborghini of inference engines for serverless Llama 3 (modal.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

27

Falsify: Hypothesis-Inspired Shrinking for Haskell (2023) (well-typed.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | well-typed.com | frontpage

1

Designing a fast RNG for SIMD, GPUs, and shaders (vectrx.substack.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | substack.com | newest

2

We don't need no virtualization (snork.dev)

7 months ago | birdculture | snork.dev | newest

1

C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us (geldata.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | geldata.com | newest

4

Ship Software That Does Nothing (kerrick.blog)

7 months ago | birdculture | kerrick.blog | newest

4

My Journey to FreeBSD: Building a 'Just Focus' Laptop (stevengharms.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | stevengharms.com | newest

4

CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks (simonwillison.net)

7 months ago | birdculture | simonwillison.net | frontpage

2

Nginx's Concurrent Connection Handling (javarevisited.substack.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | substack.com | newest

4

Pitfalls of Safe Rust (corrode.dev)

7 months ago | birdculture | corrode.dev | frontpage

1

How I learned to stop worrying and love erasure (openjdk.org)

7 months ago | birdculture | openjdk.org | newest

2

New Python lock file format will specify dependencies (infoworld.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | infoworld.com | frontpage

7

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (righto.com)

7 months ago | birdculture | righto.com | frontpage

3

Database Protocols Are Underwhelming (byroot.github.io)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.io | newest

19

OSS-SEC: Three bypasses of Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restrictions (seclists.org)

8 months ago | birdculture | seclists.org | frontpage

3

Prepare()-ing for execution: a new API for process creation (gist.github.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.com | frontpage

1

Introduction to Monoio: A High-Performance Rust Runtime (chesedo.me)

8 months ago | birdculture | chesedo.me | newest

2

Real-time face swap with serverless WebRTC (github.com/philipp-eisen)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

1

Minecraft clone showcasing the SDL3 GPU API (github.com/jsoulier)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

4

Microsoft Proposes "Hornet" Security Module for the Linux Kernel (phoronix.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | phoronix.com | newest

2

Facestream: Real-time face swap with serverless WebRTC (github.com/philipp-eisen)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.com | frontpage

203

“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality (cendyne.dev)

8 months ago | birdculture | cendyne.dev | best

99

NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor (luj.fr)

8 months ago | birdculture | luj.fr | best

1

Tiling Window Managers on macOS (lilysthings.org)

8 months ago | birdculture | lilysthings.org | newest

2

Open-source collaborative notes, wiki and documentation by French government (gouv.fr)

8 months ago | birdculture | numerique.gouv.fr | newest

1

Did you ever read so hard you accidentally wrote? (danslimmon.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | danslimmon.com | newest

3

Curry: A Integrated Functional Logic Programming Language (curry-lang.org)

8 months ago | birdculture | curry-lang.org | newest

1

Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen (2024) (theregister.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | theregister.com | newest

43

Zinc, a systems programming language prototype (sr.ht)

8 months ago | birdculture | sr.ht | best

1

The zinc systems programming language (sr.ht)

8 months ago | birdculture | sr.ht | newest

2

Dmap: A C hashmap that's stupid simple and surprisingly fast (github.com/jamesnolanverran)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.com | frontpage

5

I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU (modal.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

14

Internationalization-puzzles: Daily programming puzzles just like Advent of Code (i18n-puzzles.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | i18n-puzzles.com | best

1

Algebraic effects are a functional approach to manage side effects (crowdhailer.me)

8 months ago | birdculture | crowdhailer.me | newest

68

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology (fb.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | fb.com | best

2

TigerBeetle Architecture (github.com/tigerbeetle)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

1

SSL Certificates – For the Rest of Us (tusharf5.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | tusharf5.com | newest

2

I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU (modal.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

3

Programming Without Pointers (hytradboi.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | hytradboi.com | newest

1

Nix pragmatism: Nix-ld and envfs (fzakaria.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | fzakaria.com | newest

2

Facestream: Real-time face swap with serverless WebRTC (github.com/philipp-eisen)

8 months ago | birdculture | github.com | newest

36

Microsoft Copilot continues to expose private GitHub repositories (developer-tech.com)

8 months ago | birdculture | developer-tech.com | frontpage

3

'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU' (modal.com)

9 months ago | birdculture | modal.com | newest

2

Fullstack-Bench (convex.dev)

9 months ago | birdculture | convex.dev | newest

1

A brief history of our serverless future (thundergolfer.com)

9 months ago | birdculture | thundergolfer.com | newest

2

The First WASM_of_OCaml Release Is Out (tarides.com)

9 months ago | birdculture | tarides.com | newest

2

Travertine (CVE-2025-24118): Race condition in macOS kernel (jprx.io)

9 months ago | birdculture | jprx.io | newest

2

MitM attack against OpenSSH's VerifyHostKeyDNS-enabled client (marc.info)

9 months ago | birdculture | marc.info | frontpage

2

BadSeek: How to Backdoor Large Language Models (sshh.io)

9 months ago | birdculture | sshh.io | newest

1

A Beginner's Guide to Vectorization by Hand: Part 4 – Convolution (sbaziotis.com)

9 months ago | birdculture | sbaziotis.com | newest

1

Amazon AWS "WhoAMI" Attack Exploits AMI Name Confusion to Take over Instances (reddit.com)

9 months ago | birdculture | reddit.com | newest