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Pile of Eternal Rejections: The Cost of Garbage Collection for State Machine Replication – Aleksey Charapko
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Spade, a hardware description language inspired by modern software languages
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“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
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Piranesi’s Perspective Trick
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AI is the future of accessibility
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Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon**
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How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
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Building Standardized AI Tools with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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Elastic BBQ: Better Binary Quantization in Lucene & Elasticsearch
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Writing Useful Documentation
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prepare()-ing for execution: a new API for process creation
UNIX famously uses fork+exec to create processes, a simple API that is nevertheless quite tricky to use correctly and that comes with a bunch of problems. The alternative, spawn, as used by VMS, Windows NT and recently POSIX, fixes many of these issues but it overly complex and makes it hard to add new features.

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War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
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RealtimeKit and CPU Scheduling
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Decent-Auth: backend auth library that works in several different languages via WASM
Explanation from author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484120

Actual implementation is in the rust repo. I found the node binding to be the easiest to follow.

https://lobste.rs/s/fm08m8/extism\_make\_all\_software\_programmable was posted here before with overall negative feedback.

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Oracle Breached
tl;dr: Though Oracle denies it, a hacker produced valid data from Oracle customers.

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Reasoning by Analogy
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Tunneling corporate firewalls for developers
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Bevy Meetup - Intermediate Representations for Reactive Structures
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Europen Union creates Fedora-based Linux distribution for the public sector
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Matrix Profiles
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Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness
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Google will now develop the Android OS in private
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Hyperlight Wasm: Fast, secure, and OS-free
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A Very (!) Early Play With Astral's Red Knot Static Type Checker
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A Daft proc-macro trick: How to Emit Partial-Code + Errors
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Reproducible builds
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Revisiting CSS border-image
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Problems with the heap
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Security on the path to AGI
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You just can’t be Googling ‘Select’**
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Ferrous Systems Donates Ferrocene Language Specification to Rust Project
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Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it
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doccmd: Run commands (linters, formatters, etc.) against code blocks in documentation files
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Up and Running with JAX - JIT Compilation, Vectorizing Transformations and autodiff
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Pushing the opam-repository into a sustainable repository
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AI will change the world but not in the way you think
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What's New in Neovim 0.11
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Getting Started with TDD: A Practical Guide to Beginning a Lasting Practice
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You should know this before choosing Next.js
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Pi Pico Rx - A crystal radio for the digital age?**
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PEG parsing series
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antirez wants to make Redis open source, again
If you’d prefer reading to watching, here’s a link to the same section in the transcript:

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Introduction to Monoio: A High-Performance Rust Runtime
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Simplicity and Global Mutable Values
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Kill Math (2011)
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What is plus times plus?**
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Shrink your Go binaries with this one weird trick (2016)
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Don't bring slop to a slop fight
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OpenSMTPD & Maildrop working in concert
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You might want to stop running atop
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Postel's Law and the Three Ring Circus
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Mobile Cyberattacks Conducted by US Intelligence Agencies
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Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions?**
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Are AI agents the future of observability?**
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Prospero challenge, now with more garbage collection
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REST in Peace? Django's Framework Problem
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Considering A W3C Standard For Stateful Serverless
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spade - A work in progress HDL that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out
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Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH
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Notes on MCP
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The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption
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Database Protocols Are Underwhelming
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TrapC: Memory Safe C Programming with No UB
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Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
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Better Shell History Search
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Occlusion with Bells On
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Beyond Traditional Pattern Matching in Lisp
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Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport at SCALE 22x: Coding isn't programming
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Closing the chapter on OpenH264
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Next.js CVE-2025-29927
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CDC attack mitigation in Plakar
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Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations
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FFMPEG's Assembly Language Lessons
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Post Apocalyptic Computing
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RCE Vulnerabilities in k8s Ingress NGINX (9.8 CVE for ingress-nginx)
I haven’t seen this posted yet here so I figured I’d share, this is _not_ blogspam, and I am _not_ affiliated with Wiz. This is a real CVE for ingress-nginx. Not to be confused with nginx-ingress which appears to be not vulnerable in the same way.

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Latest Setuptools broke a bunch of packages
Luckily, they have since released a bugfix release to unbreak them.

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v78-0-2

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Parser combinators under the hood: advanced example
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The next generation of Bazel builds
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Ledger Implementation in PostgreSQL
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LLMs on a PowerPC Mac
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Triforce: a microphone array beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops
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Networking in Bevy with ECS Replication (using Rust)
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A CSS-based NoJS Anti-BOT Web Application Firewall (Proof of Concept)
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Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders
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Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way (on Windows)
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Non-Obvious Haskell Idiom: Conditional For
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Bringing Record and Replay everywhere
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argp: GNU command line argument parser
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Nix derivations by hand
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GPSTracker: A self-hosted FOSS alternative to Google Maps Timeline
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RDNA 4's "Out-of-Order" Memory Accesses
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Notes on building an app that looks like an IKEA manual
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Golang on the PlayStation 2
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Fastrace: A Modern Approach to Distributed Tracing in Rust | FastLabs / Blog
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Basedpyright: pyright fork with various type checking improvements
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Figma’s not a design tool — it’s a Rube Goldberg machine for avoiding code
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My Ruby Debugging Tips in 2025
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GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta)
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