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.

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

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

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

“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4(gist.github.com)

153 points by LifeIsBio 3 years ago | 74 comments

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

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going(rtfeldman.com)

488 points by jorangreef 3 months ago | 257 comments

Richard Feldman's blog post reporting on the Roc compiler team's rewrite of 300,000 lines of Rust into Zig, which recently reached feature parity.

Zig is hard but worth it(ratfactor.com)

352 points by signa11 3 years ago | 259 comments

A personal blog essay by Ratfactor arguing that the Zig programming language is hard to learn but worth the effort, illustrated with a cartoon.

A Git story: Not so fun this time(blog.brachiosoft.com)

470 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 104 comments

Blog post recounting the origin story of Git, starting from Linux's scaling problems in 1998 and Linus Torvalds' path to creating it.

How I configure my Git identities(benji.dog)

362 points by 8organicbits 1 year ago | 72 comments

A personal blog post explaining how the author uses Git's includeIf directive to manage separate Git identities and signing keys per directory.

The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist(github.com)

351 points by diginova 1 year ago | 161 comments

GitHub repository containing source code of the earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler (last1120c and prestruct).

Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE(dgl.cx)

357 points by dgl 1 year ago | 147 comments

A blog post explaining CVE-2025-48384, a Git vulnerability where carriage return handling allows remote code execution via git clone --recursive on Unix-like systems.