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Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gómez-Serrano, Adam Zsolt Wagner, and I have uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale”. This is a longer report on…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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How I am deeply integrating Emacs
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.
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My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi
How I went about creating a concealed modification for a fan so I could control it over WiFi with ESPHome and Home Assistant.
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A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios
VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.
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The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
If you’re already familiar with SIMD, the table is all you need. And if you’re not, you will understand the table by the end of the…
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Fourier Transforms
Fourier Transform
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Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk
Smalltalk was the second major influence on Ruby's design. A different kind of influence, since almost nothing of Smalltalk's syntax made into Ruby. But many of the details of how objects work are directly inspired by Smalltalk, including the idea that every piece of data is part of the object system.
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The shadows lurking in the equations
If you've ever graphed equations, chances are you have only ever graphed equations in what I refer to as "Binary mode" - which draws a line where the equation is EXACTLY equal, and leaves white everywhere else.
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A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)
Using QUIC to achieve everything needed for NAT traversal, from address discovery to proxying UDP
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The kind of company I want to be a part of
'aight, hear me out guy(s) (👀 👀 👀)
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I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
I'm worried that they put co-pilot in Excel because Excel is the beast that drives our entire economy and do you know who has tamed that beast? Brenda. Who is …
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What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." -Balzac
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Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The
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I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
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Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
Datalog primer and a neat data structure
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Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters
Modularity is a crucial concept when designing and creating software. Independent of whether our chosen architecture style is to have a single unit of deployment - Monolith or multiple units of deployment - Microservices/Services. It is a quality that should be treated completely independent of how many deployable…
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When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug
An "impossible" Ruby bug: Hashes becoming Strings at runtime. 2,700 identical crashes. No corruption. Just objects changing what they are. Deep dive.
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When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads
From the seventies to nineties, cars that roamed Singapore roads were largely imported from countries such as Australia (Holden), Czechoslovakia (Skoda), France (Citroen, Peugeot, Renault), Germany…
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My Experience of building Bytebeat player in Zig
I graduated last month, and my GSoC project along with my startup work finally wrapped up. To take a proper break and enjoy some deliberate...
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Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale
Jonathan Arns's personal blog
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JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective
Some time ago, I played around with decompiling Java class files in a more efficient manner than traditional solutions like Vineflower allow. Eventually, I wrote an article on my approach to decompiling control flow, which was a great performance boost for my prototype. At the time, I believed that this method can be…
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You can't cURL a Border
Building a state machine for travel - tracking Schengen days, the 183-day rule for tax residency across countries, and visa thresholds when governments won't expose state.
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Things you can do with diodes
Paying homage to the component we usually don't think about.
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A friendly tour of process memory on Linux
A deep dive into how Linux manages process memory, page tables, and virtual address spaces
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Today I Learned: Binfmt_misc
Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)
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Dependent types and how to get rid of them
are-dependent-types-actually-erased - Chad Nauseam Home
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Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.