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Lars Wirzenius would like to review your README (liw.fi)

5 months ago | fanf2 | liw.fi | newest

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The problem with function namespaces and Lisp macros (ianthehenry.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | ianthehenry.com | newest

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GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (2022) (redhat.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | redhat.com | best

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How to Design an ISA (acm.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | acm.org | frontpage

6

Optimizing the Roc parser/compiler with data-oriented design (tweedegolf.nl)

5 months ago | fanf2 | tweedegolf.nl | frontpage

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\Device\Afd: what makes async Rust and libuv work on Windows (notgull.net)

5 months ago | fanf2 | notgull.net | newest

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\Device\Afd: what makes async Rust and libuv work on Windows (notgull.github.io)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | newest

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The prevalence, persistence, and perils of lame delegations (2021) (apnic.net)

5 months ago | fanf2 | apnic.net | frontpage

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Avoiding Emacs Bankruptcy (b.tuxes.uk)

5 months ago | fanf2 | tuxes.uk | best

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Understanding misunderstandings in C source code using IOCCC winners (acm.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | acm.org | newest

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A probabilistic solution to the three-body problem (2021) (technion.ac.il)

5 months ago | fanf2 | technion.ac.il | frontpage

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Nominative Determinism in Hospital Medicine (rcseng.ac.uk)

5 months ago | fanf2 | rcseng.ac.uk | newest

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SVG: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2021) (eisfunke.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | eisfunke.com | best

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How to draw ugly lines fast (cohost.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | cohost.org | newest

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How Does Ouroboros Relate to RINA, the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture? (2021) (ouroboros.rocks)

5 months ago | fanf2 | ouroboros.rocks | newest

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Yacv (Yet Another Compiler Visualizer): LL and LR Parser Animations (github.com/ashutoshbsathe)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | frontpage

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Logs said it was DNS, it looked like DNS, it had to be DNS, it wasn't DNS (usenix.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | usenix.org | newest

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Eight million pixels and counting: improving texture atlas allocation in Firefox (2021) (nical.github.io)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | frontpage

3

Stop your (business rules) engines (adhocteam.us)

5 months ago | fanf2 | adhocteam.us | newest

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The DeepMind AlphaTensor new matrix multiplication algorithms (fgiesen.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | wordpress.com | newest

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Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life (lwn.net)

5 months ago | fanf2 | lwn.net | best

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On "The OSI Deprogrammer" (apnic.net)

5 months ago | fanf2 | apnic.net | newest

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The thorny problem of keeping the Internet's time (2022) (newyorker.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | newyorker.com | newest

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Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC (2019) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | blogspot.com | newest

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Identity crisis: sequence vs. UUID as primary key (brandur.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | brandur.org | newest

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Four Months with Ada (pyjarrett.github.io)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | frontpage

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I've Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? (nightingaledvs.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | nightingaledvs.com | newest

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Box Plots Are the Better Default Choice for Visualizing Performance (stefan-marr.de)

5 months ago | fanf2 | stefan-marr.de | newest

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Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild; here's (theconversation.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | theconversation.com | frontpage

2

Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig (ziglang.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | ziglang.org | newest

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Destructing Trees Safely and Cheaply (ismailmaj.github.io)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | newest

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Building a virtual machine inside ChatGPT (2023) (engraved.blog)

5 months ago | fanf2 | engraved.blog | frontpage

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Fuzzing an eBPF Implementation in Rust (secret.club)

5 months ago | fanf2 | secret.club | newest

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Thomas Rokicki's survey of algorithms for Conway's Game of Life [pdf] (gathering4gardner.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | gathering4gardner.org | newest

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Nsss: A secure NSS-like implementation for static linking (skarnet.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | skarnet.org | frontpage

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Call-by-push-value. (1999) [pdf] (bham.ac.uk)

5 months ago | fanf2 | bham.ac.uk | newest

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Binary Fuse Filters: fast and smaller than XOR filters (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | arxiv.org | newest

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Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals (raphlinus.github.io)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | newest

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A year in the Nakagin tower's metabolist future of 1972 (failedarchitecture.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | failedarchitecture.com | newest

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Mull: Practical mutation testing for C and C++ (github.com/mull-project)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Make your QEMU 9p server 10 times faster with this one weird trick (schreibt.jetzt)

5 months ago | fanf2 | schreibt.jetzt | newest

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Patterns in Confusing Explanations (jvns.ca)

5 months ago | fanf2 | jvns.ca | newest

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UC Davis medical school became remarkably diverse (2023) (statnews.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | statnews.com | newest

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Simple Proofs with Z3Py (2019) (philipzucker.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | philipzucker.com | newest

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Exponentially Better Rotations (2022) (thenumb.at)

5 months ago | fanf2 | thenumb.at | best

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PostGIS at 20: The Beginning (cleverelephant.ca)

5 months ago | fanf2 | cleverelephant.ca | newest

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How does Golang know time.Now? (tpaschalis.me)

5 months ago | fanf2 | tpaschalis.me | newest

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I've Womansplained Him to Death (lynnesbian.space)

5 months ago | fanf2 | lynnesbian.space | newest

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Inet.af/netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Golang (tailscale.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | tailscale.com | newest

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Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers (berthub.eu)

5 months ago | fanf2 | berthub.eu | newest

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Wasm2ps: Compile a small subset of WebAssembly to PostScript. (using wasm2wat) (github.com/no-defun-allowed)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Building an Intelligent Emacs (2022) (ianyepan.github.io)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | newest

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nsnotifyd-2.1 released (dotat.at)

5 months ago | fanf2 | dotat.at | frontpage

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The modern packager's security nightmare (gentoo.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | gentoo.org | newest

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Long-Term Maintenance of PCRE2 (github.com/pcre2project)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Better Binary Search in Haskell (byorgey.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | wordpress.com | newest

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Safe flexible aliasing with deferred borrows in Rust [pdf] (cfallin.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | cfallin.org | newest

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George Gorton Machine Co engraver typefaces (devroye.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | devroye.org | best

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TypeScript-is: generate run-time type-checks (github.com/woutervh-)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Country Centered Map Projections (engaging-data.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | engaging-data.com | newest

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Libtree: Ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not (github.com/haampie)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | best

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Protecting PostgreSQL from FreeBSD's OOM Killer (fluca1978.github.io)

5 months ago | fanf2 | github.io | frontpage

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Speeding up crash recovery and VACUUM in PostgreSQL 14 (microsoft.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | microsoft.com | newest

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Waiting for PostgreSQL 14: SEARCH and CYCLE clauses (2021) (depesz.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | depesz.com | frontpage

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Retroﬁtted parallelism considered grossly sub-optimal (usenix.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | usenix.org | newest

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Diff modulo base, for comparing rebased branches (sr.ht)

5 months ago | fanf2 | sr.ht | newest

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ITU News Magazine: The Future of Coordinated Universal Time (itu.int)

5 months ago | fanf2 | itu.int | newest

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Rust and C++ Interoperability (slint.dev)

5 months ago | fanf2 | slint.dev | newest

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Add a facility to sshd(8) to penalise particular problematic client behaviours (marc.info)

5 months ago | fanf2 | marc.info | newest

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Italian streets that don't exist on any map (2022) (atlasobscura.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | atlasobscura.com | best

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What is the "God Mode" folder in Windows 10, and how do I enable it? (2022) (howtogeek.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | howtogeek.com | best

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Migrating from Emacs lsp-mode to Eglot (andreyor.st)

5 months ago | fanf2 | andreyor.st | newest

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Lon Lat or Lat Lon? (macwright.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | macwright.com | newest

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Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes (stanford.edu)

5 months ago | fanf2 | stanford.edu | newest

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Call-by-push-value: decomposing call-by-value and call-by-name [pdf] (bham.ac.uk)

5 months ago | fanf2 | bham.ac.uk | newest

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Can your static type system handle linear algebra? (yosefk.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | yosefk.com | newest

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Benchmarking Division and Libdivide on Apple M1 and Intel AVX512 (2021) (ridiculousfish.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | ridiculousfish.com | frontpage

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Bit-twiddling abstract addition with unknown bits (2020) (dougallj.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | wordpress.com | best

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bddbddb: Using Datalog with Binary Decision Diagrams for Program Analysis [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

5 months ago | fanf2 | mit.edu | newest

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Sound, Precise, and Fast Abstract Interpretation with Tristate Numbers (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | arxiv.org | newest

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Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it's so awesome) (tomhultonharrop.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | tomhultonharrop.com | best

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Automemcpy: A framework for generating fundamental memory operations (acm.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | acm.org | newest

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{fmt}: a modern C++ string formatting library (fmt.dev)

5 months ago | fanf2 | fmt.dev | newest

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An overview of the Starlark programming language (le-brun.eu)

5 months ago | fanf2 | le-brun.eu | newest

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Flicker-Free Elite on the BBC Micro (Like the BBC Master) (2021) (stardot.org.uk)

5 months ago | fanf2 | stardot.org.uk | frontpage

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The simdjson library (simdjson.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | simdjson.org | best

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An animated roller-coaster in Excel (excelunusual.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | excelunusual.com | newest

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Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) (seriot.ch)

5 months ago | fanf2 | seriot.ch | best

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Will we have a negative leap second? [pdf] (2022) (gps.gov)

5 months ago | fanf2 | gps.gov | best

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History Of Window Systems (2021) (dshr.org)

5 months ago | fanf2 | dshr.org | best

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Designing a PCB for the RP2040 Microcontroller – Microcontroller Tutorials (teachmemicro.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | teachmemicro.com | newest

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One does not simply calculate the absolute value (habr.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | habr.com | newest

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Why is tech illustration stuck on repeat? (protocol.com)

5 months ago | fanf2 | protocol.com | newest

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Design Issues in LLVM IR (npopov.com)

6 months ago | fanf2 | npopov.com | newest

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Eliminating data races in Firefox with Thread Sanitizer (blog.mozilla.org)

6 months ago | fanf2 | mozilla.org | newest

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The greatest clock (and map) ever made [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | fanf2 | youtube.com | newest

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Cloning the Linux kernel in under a minute with gitoxide (github.com/byron)

6 months ago | fanf2 | github.com | newest

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Advancing the state of the art for C++ std:unordered_map implementations (bannalia.blogspot.com)

6 months ago | fanf2 | blogspot.com | newest

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If multicast is the answer, what was the question? (arxiv.org)

6 months ago | fanf2 | arxiv.org | newest

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in Rust, methods should be object safe (nora.codes)

5 months ago | fanf2 | nora.codes | best