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1.
XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." (bsky.app)
1323 points by junon 6 months ago | 811 comments
2.
Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023) (bitbashing.io)
396 points by ingve 6 months ago | 267 comments
3.
About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024 (tailscale.com)
245 points by tatersolid 6 months ago | 123 comments
4.
Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover (danverbraganza.com)
467 points by nvader 6 months ago | 256 comments
5.
Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock? (tukaani.org)
538 points by dhx 6 months ago | 313 comments
6.
Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept (github.com/tatut)
214 points by triska 6 months ago | 77 comments
7.
Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained (gynvael.coldwind.pl)
535 points by ecliptik 6 months ago | 128 comments
8.
IrfanView (irfanview.com)
520 points by omnibrain 6 months ago | 330 comments
9.
An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array (righto.com)
150 points by codezero 6 months ago | 31 comments
10.
Mamba Explained (thegradient.pub)
201 points by andreyk 6 months ago | 44 comments
11.
Richard Serra, minimalist sculptor whose steel creations awed viewers, has died (artnews.com)
136 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | 75 comments
12.
Santa Barbara's collective memory, sold for kindling (independent.com)
279 points by shortformblog 6 months ago | 81 comments
13.
Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023) (smunshi.net)
149 points by rgbimbochamp 6 months ago | 99 comments
14.
When will the eclipse happen? A multimillennium tale of computation (stephenwolfram.com)
140 points by nsoonhui 6 months ago | 26 comments
15.
Git as a debugging tool (lucasoshiro.github.io)
211 points by lucasoshiro 6 months ago | 76 comments
16.
Full-scale file system acceleration on GPU [pdf] (gi.de)
148 points by west0n 6 months ago | 45 comments
17.
Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser (simonwillison.net)
301 points by simonw 6 months ago | 59 comments
18.
Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem (dzombak.com)
218 points by ingve 6 months ago | 75 comments
19.
Paint.net (getpaint.net)
221 points by lazyjeff 6 months ago | 107 comments
20.
Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel (redox-os.org)
126 points by akyuu 6 months ago | 22 comments
21.
Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products (news.mit.edu)
107 points by gmays 6 months ago | 93 comments
22.
Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16 (veloren.net)
191 points by AngelOnFira 6 months ago | 17 comments
23.
DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009) (craig-henderson.blogspot.com)
131 points by mooreds 6 months ago | 111 comments
24.
The Canadian government's plan to plant two billion trees (cbc.ca)
122 points by voisin 6 months ago | 107 comments
25.
From scratch OpenGL and shaders with raw Xlib (hereket.com)
97 points by libcheet 6 months ago | 42 comments
26.
Tom's Essay (2008) (nytimes.com)
87 points by neom 6 months ago | 12 comments
27.
Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
124 points by ingve 6 months ago | 117 comments
28.
The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs (bloomberry.com)
148 points by mooreds 6 months ago | 95 comments
29.
Awk as a major systems programming language, revisited (2018) (skeeve.com)
116 points by goranmoomin 6 months ago | 14 comments
30.
Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went (arstechnica.com)
114 points by donatzsky 6 months ago | 11 comments

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