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Archives for 30 Mar 2024

1. Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects
   (526 points | Comments)

2. Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize
   (133 points | Comments)

3. Notes on El Salvador
   (281 points | Comments)

4. Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel
   (126 points | Comments)

5. The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs
   (148 points | Comments)

6. Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
   (535 points | Comments)

7. NetBSD 10.0 Released
   (131 points | Comments)

8. Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5
   (126 points | Comments)

9. The Mongolian Meta
   (161 points | Comments)

10. Models all the way down
    (114 points | Comments)

11. Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters
    (170 points | Comments)

12. Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
    (467 points | Comments)

13. Git as a debugging tool
    (211 points | Comments)

14. Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
    (301 points | Comments)

15. Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)
    (149 points | Comments)

16. XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
    (1323 points | Comments)

17. The Canadian government's plan to plant two billion trees
    (122 points | Comments)

18. An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array
    (150 points | Comments)

19. Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16
    (191 points | Comments)

20. Mamba Explained
    (201 points | Comments)

21. About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
    (245 points | Comments)

22. DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009)
    (131 points | Comments)

23. US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS
    (116 points | Comments)

24. IrfanView
    (520 points | Comments)

25. How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform
    (176 points | Comments)

26. XZ Utils Backdoor
    (114 points | Comments)

27. Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?
    (538 points | Comments)

28. The Ken Thompson Hack
    (127 points | Comments)

29. Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went
    (114 points | Comments)

30. How well can LLMs write COBOL?
    (106 points | Comments)

31. Linear Algebra of Types (2019)
    (115 points | Comments)

32. Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)
    (396 points | Comments)

33. Reported Supply Chain Compromise Affecting XZ Utils Data Compression Library
    (119 points | Comments)

34. Prolog language for PostgreSQL proof of concept
    (214 points | Comments)

35. Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
    (124 points | Comments)

36. Debian on xz-utils: revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor
    (148 points | Comments)

37. Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
    (320 points | Comments)

38. The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas
    (109 points | Comments)

39. When will the eclipse happen? A multimillennium tale of computation
    (140 points | Comments)

40. America's Drivers Agree: LED Headlights Are Just Too Bright
    (101 points | Comments)

41. Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)
    (101 points | Comments)

42. Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?
    (169 points | Comments)

43. Paint.net
    (221 points | Comments)

44. Full-scale file system acceleration on GPU [pdf]
    (148 points | Comments)

45. Jails banned visits in "quid pro quo" with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
    (107 points | Comments)

46. Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers
    (170 points | Comments)