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.

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

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor(gist.github.com)

1542 points by mmsc 2 years ago | 400 comments

A GitHub Gist write-up by a 15-year-old bug hunter describing a Zendesk bug affecting many Fortune 500 companies that earned over $50,000 in bounties.

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything(gist.github.com)

10 points by em-bee 1 year ago | 4 comments

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

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 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.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster(github.com)

319 points by realsarm 2 years ago | 149 comments

GitHub repository for FastUI by Pydantic, a library for building web user interfaces declaratively in Python with React rendering.

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide(sysprog21.github.io)

340 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 26 comments

Online edition of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Salzman, Burian, Pomerantz, Mottram and Huang, with GitHub source and PDF download.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)(mazzo.li)

462 points by SEJeff 3 years ago | 87 comments

Blog post exploring how Linux pipes are implemented by iteratively optimizing a pipe-based test program from 3.5GiB/s to about 65GiB/s using perf profiling.