Articles by signa11
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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)

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Digital Signals Theory (brianmcfee.net)

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WhatsApp Census [pdf] (github.com/sbaresearch)

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Science: The Endless Frontier (Vannevar Bush) (1945 !)[pdf] (fermatslibrary.com)

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Improving NAT traversal, part 2: challenges in cloud environments (tailscale.com)

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A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming (checkeagle.com)

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Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS (github.com/mic92)

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Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS (github.com/mic92)

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C23: A Slightly Better C (lemire.me)

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The Life of a Packet in the Linux kernel: From write() to recv() (0xkato.xyz)

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Bypassing the Branch Predictor (nicula.xyz)

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Whatever Happened to String Theory? (gizmodo.com)

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

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TCP, the workhorse of the internet (cefboud.com)

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Gamification of Programming Languages (sigusr2.net)

1

This Isn't a Battle (dragas.net)

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The price of dynamic memory: Memory Access (2020) (johnnysswlab.com)

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Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models" (entropytown.com)

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Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors (thegreenplace.net)

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LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology (thegreenplace.net)

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The folly that was Tandem Computers and the path that led me to NonStop (itug-connection.blogspot.com)

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Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git (lwn.net)

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Problems with C++ exceptions (marler8997.github.io)

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AI's $5T Data-Center Boom Will Dip into Every Debt Market: JPMorgan (bloomberg.com)

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Super Thin RAII Wrappers for C Types (mikemikeb.com)

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Bashisms Part 1 (mikemikeb.com)

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The Root Cause Fallacy: Hidden Causes (perspectiveship.com)

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How I learned to love Zig's diagnostic pattern (2024) (mikemikeb.com)

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5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking (interconnects.ai)

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A Plan for 5-10%* Faster Free-Threaded JIT by Python 3.16 (fidget-spinner.github.io)

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Dissecting the Syscall Instruction: Kernel Entry and Exit Mechanisms (howtech.substack.com)

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C++ Move Semantics Considered Harmful (Rust Is Better) [2021] (thecodedmessage.com)

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Problems With C++ Move Semantics (YT) [video] (youtube.com)

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Error Codes for Control Flow (matklad.github.io)

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Building Reliable Systems (medium.com/itshabib)

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When did people favor composition over inheritance? (sicpers.info)

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Handbook of Biological Statistics (biostathandbook.com)

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Lessons from the Vibe Coding Trenches (brandonharris.io)

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The Power of Limit Thinking (asimov.press)

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A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years (landaire.net)

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My tutorial and take on C++20 coroutines (2021) (stanford.edu)

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A Note on Fil-C (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

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Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation (lwn.net)

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How the Most Famous Code Was Cracked (scientificamerican.com)

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Disassembling Terabytes of Random Data with Zig and Capstone to Prove a Point (jstrieb.github.io)

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How I am deeply integrating Emacs (joshblais.com)

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I want a good parallel language [YT] [video] (youtube.com)

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On Async Mutexes (matklad.github.io)

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Defeating Kaslr by Doing Nothing at All (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

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Hobbes' Internet Timeline 25 (2018) (zakon.org)

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Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP (theverge.com)

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Architectural debt is not just technical debt (frederickvanbrabant.com)

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New Cancer Therapy Trains Immune System to Attack and Destroy Resistant Cancers (ecency.com)

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Awk Technical Notes (2023) (maximullaris.com)

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Sam Altman says 'enough' to questions about OpenAI's revenue (techcrunch.com)

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Inside Multi-Platform Docker Builds with QEMU (cefboud.com)

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Thinking About Thinking with LLMs (davi.sh)

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Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust (cloudflare.com)

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Punching Holes into Firewalls (sebsauvage.net)

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Zig's New Async I/O (Text Version) (andrewkelley.me)

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Early history (1978) of Emacs from PDP-10 ITS archive (github.com/pdp-10)

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Understanding Docker Internals: Building a Container Runtime in Python (muhammadraza.me)

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The Lost War of Information Technology (unworkableideas.com)

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'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming (alexn.org)

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Emulsiv: A visual simulator for teaching computer architecture using RISC-V (github.com/eseo-tech)

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Encryption using SSH Keys with age in Linux (ittavern.com)

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Putting the "You" in CPU (2023) (cpu.land)

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Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust (rvemu.app)