ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance. Back in January of this year we published a post about the start of our performance journey. We've come a long way since then and we're excited to…
A bunch of malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store have hidden affiliate fraud functionality, collect users’ browsing profiles, or both. These extensions appear to be connected to the Karma shopping assistant, developed by Karma Shopping Ltd. which is not a small company.
Our data-centric way of seeing the world isn't serving us well. Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier argue that we need new socio-technical systems that leave room for the inherent messiness of reality.
Researchers at DTU and Lund University have discovered enzymes that remove hindrances that stood in the way of developing universal donor blood.
Zngur (/zængɑr/) is a C++/Rust interop tool. It tries to expose arbitrary Rust types, methods, and functions while preserving their semantics and ergonomics as much as possible. Using Zngur, you can use arbitrary Rust crates in your C++ code as easily as using them in normal Rust code, and you can write idiomatic…
“Summing ASCII Encoded Integers on Haswell at the Speed of memcpy” turned out more popular than I expected, which inspired me to take on another challenge on HighLoad: Counting uint8s . I’m currently only #13 on the leaderboard, ~7% behind #1, but I have already learned some interesting things. In this post I’ll…
I did not expect this! [...] we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places ("FSQ OS Places"). This base layer of …
Lessons from implementing our first Responsible Scaling Policy, which focuses on catastrophic safety failures and misuse of frontier models.
I had never met Randal Schwartz before, but when I reached out to him about contributing to year 25 of the Perl Advent Calendar, he immediately agreed. This year I wanted to try some new things and Randal suggested giving a Perl-specific talk which he had given once before, but which was lacking in recording quality…
React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm!
The marketing and reality of the United Fruit Company
I am Dan, full stack software engineer.
We're open-sourcing a tool that may be useful to people who develop code on NixOS and distribute it in binary form.
Why do I do this to myself? I have no idea. Anyway, let's learn how to eat disk space.
Columbia biomedical engineers are collaborating with orthopedic surgeons to build a living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years.
Inspired by the 1BR Challenge, I wanted to see how much it would cost to transfer 1 billion rows from Postgres to Snowflake. Moving 1 billion rows is no…
About a year ago I blogged about games that use curl. In that post I listed a bunch of well-known titles I knew use curl and there was a list of 136 additional games giving credit to curl. Kind of amazing that over one hundred games decided to use curl! At the time, lots of … Continue reading Inside 22,734 Steam games…
Detailed description of an algorithm and a comparison between different languages.
“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? is a new book by Kent Beck. It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them)…
A historical analysis of what the earliest electrical and great applied R&D labs can teach Answer.AI, and potential pitfalls
Lessons from the plagiarists of the steppe
The boolean satisfiability problem (“SAT” for short) is arguably the most famous NP-complete problem in theoretical computer science. According to Wikipedia, it is “the problem of determining if there exists an interpretation that satisfies a given Boolean formula ”; or, in simpler terms, if there is at least one…
Two recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe.
Visualizations and techniques for different maze generation algorithms.
Going in depth into the Address Sanitizer internals.
