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Tenstorrent Cuts 20 Cores from Already-Shipping "Blackhole" P150 Cards (techpowerup.com)

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A few CPU hardware bugs (taricorp.net)

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Wirth's Revenge (jmoiron.net)

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A Simple fwd_diff<T> for Forward-Mode AD in C++ (solidean.com)

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The Dumbest Performance Fix Ever (computergoblin.com)

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Trust in Ranking (marginalia.nu)

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Profiling in production with function call traces (yosefk.com)

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Can AI companies become profitable? (epoch.ai)

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For the Love of Troff [pdf] (schemamania.org)

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The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)

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Zerobrew: A drop-in, 5-20x faster, experimental Homebrew alternative (github.com/lucasgelfond)

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Modern C++ Use in Chromium (googlesource.com)

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Dcli: Declarative Package Management for Arch Linux (Inspired by NixOS) (gitlab.com/theblackdon)

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Asciinema: Making Movies at the Command-Line (lwn.net)

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Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk with systemd initrd on Arch (jyn.dev)

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I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds (atempleton.bearblog.dev)

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Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)

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Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)

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Predictions for the New Year (lwn.net)

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Cursor CEO Built a Browser Using AI, but Does It Work? (finalroundai.com)

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eBPF Party: Interactive eBPF Playground (ebpf.party)

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In Memory of Frank Gehry (systemsapproach.org)

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A tiny LM that does inference at compile time (github.com/erodola)

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C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories (0xghost.dev)

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Google Is Adding an 'AI Inbox' to Gmail That Summarizes Emails (wired.com)

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Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show (lwn.net)

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Treating UI Regions as Independent Actors Makes Terminal State Manageable (rodriguez.today)

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Linus T: "The AI Slop Issue Is *Not* Going to Be Solved with Documentation" (phoronix.com)

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The Slow Way Is the Fast Way (mark-samples.com)

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Relax for the Same Result (sive.rs)

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PMU Counters on Apple Silicon (bugsiki.dev)

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Modern C++ Programming Course (github.com/federico-busato)

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Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks (nullprogram.com)

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I automatically generated minutes for five years of IETF meetings (educatedguesswork.org)

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Was it a billion dollar mistake? (gingerbill.org)

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Formal methods only solve half my problems (brooker.co.za)

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A Solid Load of Bull (loup-vaillant.fr)

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You Can't Trust Your Eyes to Tell You What's Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head (theverge.com)

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Clinic-in-the-Loop: Eroom's Law (asimov.press)

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Goodbye Sass (redblobgames.com)

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How Email Works: Behind the Screen (sushantdhiman.substack.com)

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Asus ROG Laptops Are Broken by Design: A Forensic Deep Dive (drive.google.com)

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Goodbye SASS (redblobgames.com)

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A Tour of Common Concurrent Hash Table Designs (bluuewhale.github.io)

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Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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Concurrent Hash Table Designs (bluuewhale.github.io)

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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (imgur.com)

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How Email Works (sushantdhiman.substack.com)

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Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment (lwn.net)

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A Curl 2025 Review (haxx.se)

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(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming) (matthewbrunelle.com)

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Schrödinger's test: The /dev/mem case (elisa.tech)

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Tieredsort: Header only, blazing fast (3-4x) C++17 sorting for numeric types (github.com/cranot)

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Rex: Safe Rust Kernel Extensions for the Linux Kernel, in Place of eBPF (phoronix.com)

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An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

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Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am (pcloadletter.dev)

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Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode (nullprogram.com)

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When SIMD Fails: Floating Point Associativity (xania.org)

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Faster Practical Modular Inversion (purplesyringa.moe)

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Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26) (lemire.me)

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Bazzite: A Gem for Linux Gamers (lwn.net)

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Eventual Rust in CPython (lwn.net)

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Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers (ariadne.space)

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Elixir: The Great WebSocket Hunt: 50k Connections, Zero Crashes (medium.com/beamworld)

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Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer (h4x0r.org)

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Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc (arstechnica.com)

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Clouded Judgement 12.12.25 – Long Live Systems of Record (cloudedjudgement.substack.com)

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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class (nytimes.com)

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What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers? (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)

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Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world (nature.com)

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The story of Erdős problem #1026 (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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Firefox 146 Now Available with Native Fractional Scaling on Wayland (phoronix.com)

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Zig asserts are not C asserts (cryptocode.github.io)

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Stack Overflow: Challenge #14 Signal from Noise (stackoverflow.com)

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Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won't Steal Your Job (lemire.me)

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Cursed circuits #2: switched capacitor lowpass (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft (bbc.com)

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Flow Control: a programmer's text editor (flow-control.dev)

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Unredacted Magazine Issue 008 SEP 2025 [pdf] (unredactedmagazine.com)

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Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive (stacktower.io)

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Pouring Packages with Homebrew (lwn.net)

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Linus Torvalds vs. Ambiguous Abstractions: When Helper Function Hides the Intent (thecoder.cafe)

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A Proposal for Simplified, Modern Definitions of "Object" and "Object Oriented" (archive.org)

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Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they have an AI hardware prototype (theverge.com)

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Why I (Still) Love Linux ? (dragas.net)

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The Latent Role of Open Models in the AI Economy (ssrn.com)

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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs (lalitm.com)

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B-Trees: Why Every Database Uses Them (mehmetgoekce.substack.com)

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Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing (twdev.blog)

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Introducing The Flux Keyboard (fluxkeyboard.com)

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The Quality-Oriented Developer (renomad.com)

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Is C++26 getting destructive move semantics? (stackoverflow.com)

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What's going on here, with this human? (grahamduncan.blog)

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Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away (itsfoss.com)

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Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems (lwn.net)

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Cloudflare Vibe SDK (github.com/cloudflare)

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Testing shows Apple N1 Wi-Fi chip improves on older Broadcom chips in every way (arstechnica.com)

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China's "intelligent mines" are getting rid of truck drivers and diesel fuel (kdwalmsley.substack.com)

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In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research (nytimes.com)

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Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins? (cuongle.dev)