Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient(steveklabnik.com)

163 points by weinzierl 2 years ago | 118 comments

In-Memory Filesystems in Rust(andre.arko.net)

111 points by ingve 1 year ago | 47 comments

Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It(evanjones.ca)

184 points by r4um 2 years ago | 259 comments

Fixing a memory leak of xmlEntityPtr in librsvg(viruta.org)

35 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 15 comments

Debugging a Failing Hotkey(tratt.net)

44 points by ltratt 2 years ago | 6 comments

Circle C++ with memory safety(circle-lang.org)

149 points by davikr 2 years ago | 153 comments

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)

804 points by sidnarsipur 8 months ago | 436 comments

Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

519 points by ssaboum 7 months ago | 261 comments

Blog post by Olivier Girardot arguing that good software should know when to stop adding features, opening with a hypothetical surprising change to the ls command.

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You(alexn.org)

311 points by dimonomid 1 month ago | 438 comments

Blog post by Alexandru Nedelcu arguing that AI lacks wisdom and that relying on it for coding, skipping code reviews and reading code, erodes developers' own judgment.