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There are only three frequencies: never, sometimes, always (lukeplant.me.uk)

2 months ago | fanf2 | lukeplant.me.uk | newest

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It's Not Always iCache (2021) (matklad.github.io)

2 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | newest

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The simple essence of algebraic subtyping: principal type inference with subtypi (acm.org)

2 months ago | fanf2 | acm.org | newest

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It's About Time Accurate clocks in distributed systems (brooker.co.za)

2 months ago | fanf2 | brooker.co.za | newest

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An illustrated guide to elliptic curve cryptography validation (nccgroup.com)

2 months ago | fanf2 | nccgroup.com | frontpage

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Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix (tvl.fyi)

2 months ago | fanf2 | tvl.fyi | newest

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A simple generic parallelism idiom and C++17 specifics (berthub.eu)

2 months ago | fanf2 | berthub.eu | newest

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PaperWM.spoon: tiled scrollable window manager for Hammerspoon on macOS (github.com/mogenson)

2 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Rpi-open-firmware: open-source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi (github.com/librerpi)

2 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL (iamsafts.com)

2 months ago | fanf2 | iamsafts.com | newest

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Project Champollion: reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 (ffri.github.io)

2 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | frontpage

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Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust (nlnetlabs.nl)

2 months ago | fanf2 | nlnetlabs.nl | newest

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Shaving is too expensive (johnwhiles.com)

2 months ago | fanf2 | johnwhiles.com | best

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How to use the new counted_by attribute in C and Linux (embeddedor.com)

2 months ago | fanf2 | embeddedor.com | newest

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An exploration of JSON interoperability vulnerabilities (bishopfox.com)

2 months ago | fanf2 | bishopfox.com | newest

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The await event horizon in JavaScript (frontside.com)

2 months ago | fanf2 | frontside.com | frontpage

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What even is a pidfd anyway? (corsix.org)

2 months ago | fanf2 | corsix.org | newest

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The as-if infinitely ranged (AIR) integer model (cmu.edu)

2 months ago | fanf2 | cmu.edu | newest

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Exponential Rate Limiting (dotat.at)

2 months ago | fanf2 | dotat.at | newest

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Pin and Suffering in Async Rust (fasterthanli.me)

2 months ago | fanf2 | fasterthanli.me | newest

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Speeding up rustc by being lazy (davidlattimore.github.io)

2 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | newest

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Measuring frecency (a combination of frequency and recency) with exponential dec (wiki.mozilla.org)

2 months ago | fanf2 | mozilla.org | newest

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Simple generic parallelism idiom and C++17 specifics (berthub.eu)

2 months ago | fanf2 | berthub.eu | newest

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Why COBOL Isn't the Problem (lucid.co)

2 months ago | fanf2 | lucid.co | frontpage

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Pointers Are Complicated III: pointer-integer casts exposed. (strict provenance (ralfj.de)

2 months ago | fanf2 | ralfj.de | newest

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Conway's Law: the only unbreakable law (youtube.com)

2 months ago | fanf2 | youtube.com | newest

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What is CapTP, and what does it enable? (spritelyproject.org)

2 months ago | fanf2 | spritelyproject.org | newest

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A (draft) taxonomy of SIMD usage (branchfree.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | branchfree.org | newest

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The EU eIDAS regulation and QWAC X.509 certificates (educatedguesswork.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | educatedguesswork.org | newest

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Automemcpy: A framework for automatic generation of fundamental memory operation (acm.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | acm.org | newest

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Kathleen Stock, TERF (praile.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | praile.com | newest

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Sugar Substitutes Surprise (2022) (science.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | science.org | frontpage

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GCRA: Leaky Buckets Without the Buckets (dotat.at)

3 months ago | fanf2 | dotat.at | newest

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Demystifying Rust's? operator and Try trait (sulami.xyz)

3 months ago | fanf2 | sulami.xyz | newest

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Compiling JavaScript to Wasm: partial evaluation and the 1st Futamura projection (cfallin.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | cfallin.org | newest

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Wrench: An Embedded Interpreter (northarc.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | northarc.com | newest

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Profiling with Ctrl-C (yosefk.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | yosefk.com | newest

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From Julia to Rust (2021) (miguelraz.github.io)

3 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | best

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Edward Luper's 36 Views of the BT Tower (spoon-tamago.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | spoon-tamago.com | newest

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Taking This Serially (computer.rip)

3 months ago | fanf2 | computer.rip | newest

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Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022) (nnethercote.github.io)

3 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | best

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Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one (2021) (counting.substack.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | substack.com | newest

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Formal CHERI: design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties (2022) (lightbluetouchpaper.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | lightbluetouchpaper.org | best

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Space Invaders street art mosaics (space-invaders.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | space-invaders.com | newest

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A new provisioning tool built with mgmt (purpleidea.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | purpleidea.com | newest

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Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible (2021) (apnic.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | apnic.net | best

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A History of Library Hand (bookriot.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | bookriot.com | newest

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Canary in the kernel mine: exploiting and defending against same-type object reu (grsecurity.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | grsecurity.net | newest

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The Negro Subversive on Critical Race Theory (noahpinion.blog)

3 months ago | fanf2 | noahpinion.blog | newest

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HOTscript: Higher-order TypeScript, a library for type-level madness (github.com/gvergnaud)

3 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Blamer.el: A Git blame plugin for Emacs inspired by VS Code's GitLens plugin (github.com/artawower)

3 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009) (raphkoster.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | raphkoster.com | best

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Recursive Macros with C++20 __VA_OPT__ (stanford.edu)

3 months ago | fanf2 | stanford.edu | frontpage

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The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021) (jonudell.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | jonudell.net | best

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I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped (rasbora.dev)

3 months ago | fanf2 | rasbora.dev | newest

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That afternoon headache is a sign of stale air (rawsignal.ca)

3 months ago | fanf2 | rawsignal.ca | newest

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Better performance for dynamic linking with -fno-semantic-interposition (maskray.me)

3 months ago | fanf2 | maskray.me | newest

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Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism (bps.org.uk)

3 months ago | fanf2 | bps.org.uk | frontpage

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Bitbottle: An archive file format (in Rust) (lag.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | lag.net | newest

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Language Compilation Speed Comparison (alopex.li)

3 months ago | fanf2 | alopex.li | newest

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Rustc_codegen_GCC can now run libcore's tests and pass most of them (antoyo.xyz)

3 months ago | fanf2 | antoyo.xyz | newest

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Speeding Up `Atan2f` by 50x (mazzo.li)

3 months ago | fanf2 | mazzo.li | newest

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New Ansible data validation module(s) (ipspace.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | ipspace.net | newest

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Faster Inverse BWT (2021) (cbloomrants.blogspot.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | blogspot.com | best

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Hash maps that don't hate you (2021) (toit.io)

3 months ago | fanf2 | toit.io | newest

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Terrible Choices: MySQL (ionelmc.ro)

3 months ago | fanf2 | ionelmc.ro | newest

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Git as a tamperproof file archive using chained RFC3161 timestamps (medium.com/swlh)

3 months ago | fanf2 | medium.com | newest

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Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020) (cantrip.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | cantrip.org | best

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Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming (2021) (drossbucket.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | drossbucket.com | newest

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The scandalous history of the last rotor cipher machine (2021) (ieee.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | ieee.org | newest

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Reflecting on transducers in Scheme (2023) (thatgeoguy.ca)

3 months ago | fanf2 | thatgeoguy.ca | best

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CompilerFax: Phone a compiler, fax it some code, it faxes back the results (github.com/lexbailey)

3 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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TCP Performance and the Mathis Equation (2009) (netcraftsmen.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | netcraftsmen.com | newest

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A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter (2022) (danluu.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | danluu.com | newest

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The problem with mechanical keyboard switch reviews (input.club)

3 months ago | fanf2 | input.club | newest

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Remembering Ned Freed (1959-2022) (theviewfromguppylake.blogspot.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | blogspot.com | newest

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Don't Repeat Yourself and the Strong Law of Small Numbers (jerf.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | jerf.org | newest

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Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021) (reverberate.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | reverberate.org | best

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A survey of approaches to securing BGP and inter-domain routing (potaroo.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | potaroo.net | frontpage

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The Terminal Escapes: Engineering unexpected execution from command line interfa (gresearch.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | gresearch.com | newest

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Regexploit: A tool for finding DoS-able regular expressions (doyensec.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | doyensec.com | newest

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Tests aren't enough: adding type hints to Python urllib3 (sethmlarson.dev)

3 months ago | fanf2 | sethmlarson.dev | newest

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Qiwi: A quick, emulation-focused launcher for QEMU (gitlab.com/eg-tech)

3 months ago | fanf2 | gitlab.com | newest

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Bootp and ARP History (nanog.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | nanog.org | newest

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Summary of the USA federal government's zero-trust memo (bastionzero.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | bastionzero.com | frontpage

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Cap: An allocator that can track and limit memory usage in Rust (crates.io)

3 months ago | fanf2 | crates.io | newest

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DNSSEC algorithms for TLDs (and everyone else) (apnic.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | apnic.net | newest

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Unhygienic and referentially opaque macros with Scheme syntax-rules [pdf] (2013) (okmij.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | okmij.org | frontpage

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Laura Kuenssberg's time as BBC Political Editor has been a catastrophic, syste (bylinetimes.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | bylinetimes.com | newest

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Benchmarking oksh (OpenBSD Korn shell) with lots of C compilers (2021) (briancallahan.net)

3 months ago | fanf2 | briancallahan.net | newest

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Developer tools can be magic. Instead, they collect dust (2021) (pathsensitive.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | pathsensitive.com | newest

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UDDSketch: A C implementation of DDSketch with a better uniform collapsing strat (github.com/cafaro)

3 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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The state of time in Rust: leaps and bounds (rust-lang.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | rust-lang.org | newest

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Locales, encodings, Unicode, and C++ [pdf] (2020) (open-std.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | open-std.org | newest

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Bravo: Biased locking for reader-writer locks (arxiv.org)

3 months ago | fanf2 | arxiv.org | newest

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A History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (haxx.se)

3 months ago | fanf2 | haxx.se | newest

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Programming pearls: Bumper sticker computer science [pdf] (bowdoin.edu)

3 months ago | fanf2 | bowdoin.edu | newest

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Why Macron's use of the French swear word 'emmerder' is so hard to transl (thewire.in)

3 months ago | fanf2 | thewire.in | newest

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I avoid async/await in JavaScript (2022) (uniqname.medium.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | medium.com | frontpage

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So you want to learn to break ciphers? (littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com)

3 months ago | fanf2 | wordpress.com | newest