LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Obfuscating Lua (2019)(gist.github.com)

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.

Orthodox C++(gist.github.com)

48 points by klaussilveira 2 years ago | 35 comments

Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig(gist.github.com)

322 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 237 comments

A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.

MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates(mullvad.net)

344 points by dulvui 2 years ago | 172 comments

Mullvad blog post reporting that macOS can leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel after system updates because the firewall ignores rules until a reboot.

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL(developer.apple.com)

271 points by Audiophilip 8 days ago | 303 comments

Apple Developer Forums thread reporting that macOS 15.8.2 RC breaks NSOpenGLView/NSOpenGLContext setView, leaving OpenGL windows with no drawable and rendering blank.

macOS command-line tools you might not know about(saurabhs.org)

1910 points by Gadiguibou 3 years ago | 411 comments

A personal blog post listing macOS-specific command-line utilities such as caffeinate, with usage examples and flags.

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories(twitter.com)

527 points by splenditer 5 months ago | 289 comments

A post on X from GitHub stating it is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories, with no current evidence of impact to customer data.

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.

I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets(github.com)

202 points by trvrprkr 9 days ago | 155 comments

A closed GitHub issue on the home-assistant.io repo in which a user complains that an integration scanning their secrets was enabled without authorization, calling it a privacy invasion.