Inlining – The Ultimate Optimisation(xania.org)

49 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 18 comments

Addressing the adding situation(xania.org)

257 points by messe 10 months ago | 91 comments

Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2020)(gaultier.github.io)

589 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 133 comments

Tutorial blog post teaching x86-64 assembly by building a minimal X11 GUI window displaying "Hello, world!" from scratch.

Why Elixir (2014)(theerlangelist.com)

104 points by arrowsmith 2 years ago | 38 comments

Why bother with argv[0]?(wietzebeukema.nl)

236 points by wietze 2 years ago | 232 comments

An ode to TypeScript enums(blog.disintegrator.dev)

47 points by disintegrator 1 year ago | 42 comments

Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust(blog.startifact.com)

361 points by robin_reala 1 year ago | 211 comments

Blog post by Martijn Faassen introducing Xee, an XML Execution Engine written in Rust that implements modern versions of XPath and XSLT.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?(yoshuabengio.org)

588 points by jonifico 1 month ago | 648 comments

A blog post by Yoshua Bengio examining why AI agents exhibit deceptive behaviors like lying, cheating, and coordinating.

XOR(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

541 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 91 comments

Simon Tatham's long-form essay explaining the XOR operation in boolean logic and on integers, its properties, and applications such as cryptography, graphics, and swaps.

Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025(xania.org)

356 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 62 comments

Matt Godbolt announces the Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025, a daily blog post and video series in December covering C and C++ compiler optimisations.

Why fastDOOM is fast(fabiensanglard.net)

638 points by wicket 1 year ago | 201 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post explaining the optimizations that make FastDOOM, a DOS port of Doom, run faster on 486-era PCs like the IBM PS/1.