Articles by pykello
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Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature (lwn.net)

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The Year in Physics (quantamagazine.org)

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The Biggest Breakthroughs in Mathematics: 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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Eventual Rust in CPython (lwn.net)

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Technology Radar (thoughtworks.com)

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A beginners' guide away from scanf() (sekrit.de)

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I wasted 6 months "building systems". I should've recorded myself do the work (reddit.com)

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Pouring Packages with Homebrew (lwn.net)

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PatchworkOS: An OS for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly (github.com/kainorberg)

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An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (betterexplained.com)

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Building Ads Optimization (nima101.github.io)

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Detection as Code (mostafa.dev)

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Low Latency Optimization: Understanding Huge Pages (Part 1) (hudsonrivertrading.com)

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Snake in Bpftrace (github.com/amiremohamadi)

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Explicit Lazy Imports for Python (lwn.net)

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Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more (lwn.net)

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The Hogg Notes on Special Relativity (nyu.edu)

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Acwj: A Compiler Writing Journey (github.com/doctorwkt)

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Enhancing FineIBT (lwn.net)

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The FSF considers large language models (lwn.net)

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A new API for interrupt-aware spinlocks (lwn.net)

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How the Brain Moves from Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again) (quantamagazine.org)

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Gymnasium: An API standard for reinforcement learning (farama.org)

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Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping (lwn.net)

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A Look at the Robot Operating System (lwn.net)

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vLLM TPU: A New Unified Backend Supporting PyTorch and JAX on TPU (vllm.ai)

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Waymo is bringing autonomous, driverless ride-hailing to London in 2026 (9to5google.com)

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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View (quantamagazine.org)

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Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development (lwn.net)

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PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database (postgrest.org)

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Firefox 144.0 Includes Perplexity AI Search (firefox.com)

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Matrix Multiplication on Blackwell (modular.com)

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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (jezzamon.com)

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GPU Specs Database (techpowerup.com)

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Git-appraise: Distributed code review system for Git repos (github.com/google)

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Crubit: C++/Rust Bidirectional Interop Tool (github.com/google)

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Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize (quantamagazine.org)

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micro: A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (github.com/zyedidia)

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RustPython: A Python Interpreter Written in Rust (rustpython.github.io)

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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2025 (nobelprize.org)

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Wokwi – Simulate IoT Projects in the Browser (wokwi.com)

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Matrix Multiplication in CUDA (kharshit.github.io)

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MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks (news.mit.edu)

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Build your own X (github.com/codecrafters-io)

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Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things (quantamagazine.org)

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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado (nobelprize.org)

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Managing Encrypted Filesystems with dirlock (lwn.net)

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AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really? (nature.com)

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The phaseout of the mmap() file operation (lwn.net)

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Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life to Become Complex (quantamagazine.org)

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Linting Rust Code in the Kernel (lwn.net)

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I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue) (nima101.github.io)

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 (nobelprize.org)

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The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (joelonsoftware.com)

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Nvidia to Finance Musk's xAI Chips as Part of $20B Deal (bloomberg.com)

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N J Wildberger: Computer Science is more rigorous than Pure Maths [video] (youtube.com)

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Microsoft's Rusty Revolution [video] (youtube.com)

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Sysinternals (microsoft.com)

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Komorebi: A tiling window manager for Windows (github.com/lgug2z)

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CHERI with a Linux on Top (lwn.net)

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How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment (quantamagazine.org)

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Hamas accepts Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza, but with conditions (washingtonpost.com)

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Multiple Kernels on a Single System (lwn.net)

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Build files are the best tool to represent software architecture (blogsystem5.substack.com)

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AI has designed thousands of potential antibiotics. Will any work? (nature.com)

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Canceling Asynchronous Rust (lwn.net)

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Blender 4.5 LTS (lwn.net)

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Fish, a command line shell for the 90s (fishshell.com)

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Trump's Gaza Strip Proposal (wikipedia.org)

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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness (quantamagazine.org)

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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness (quantamagazine.org)

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Fish shell: The user-friendly command line shell (github.com/fish-shell)

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Solving 2-SAT (nima101.github.io)

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Discrete Fourier Transform (nima101.github.io)

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How to create an OS from scratch (github.com/cfenollosa)

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A No-Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity [pdf] (preposterousuniverse.com)

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Libwebsockets: Lightweight pure C library for implementing network protocols (github.com/warmcat)

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How to Optimize Rust for Slowness [video] (youtube.com)

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Stb: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ (github.com/nothings)

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Comparing Rust to Carbon (lwn.net)

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US autism research gets $50M funding boost – amid row over Tylenol (nature.com)

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Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement (lwn.net)

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New math revives geometry's oldest problems (quantamagazine.org)

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Macroquad: Cross-platform game engine in Rust (github.com/not-fl3)

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Providing support for Windows 10 refugees (lwn.net)

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Story-time: C++, bounds checking, performance, and compilers (chandlerc.blog)

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To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves (quantamagazine.org)

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Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement (lwn.net)

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Comparing Rust to Carbon (lwn.net)

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To become a good C programmer (2011) (fabiensanglard.net)

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OpenFake: An Open Dataset and Platform Toward Large-Scale Deepfake Detection (arxiv.org)

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NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet Trappist-1 E (nasa.gov)

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Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works (scientificamerican.com)

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Tails: A portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship (tails.net)

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Rust compiler performance survey 2025 results (rust-lang.org)

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Susan Rigetti's guide to learning Physics (2021) (susanrigetti.com)

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GNU LibreJS (gnu.org)

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Vulcan (Hypothetical Planet) (wikipedia.org)

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Tutorial Introduction to Guile (gnu.org)

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Why You Love That Ikea Table, Even If It's Crooked (npr.org)