The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)(missing.csail.mit.edu)

48 points by vismit2000 1 year ago | 20 comments

MIT Missing Semester 2026(missing.csail.mit.edu)

61 points by vismit2000 10 months ago | 31 comments

The missing C++ smart pointer(blog.matthieud.me)

61 points by maattdd 3 years ago | 67 comments

Operating systems with Rust – video lectures (2014)(rust-class.org)

39 points by amkhrjee 3 years ago | 9 comments

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course(cs.cornell.edu)

367 points by swatson741 2 years ago | 78 comments

Self-guided online version of Cornell's PhD-level CS 6120 Advanced Compilers course by Adrian Sampson, with lessons, videos, papers, and LLVM-based implementation tasks.

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)(cs.cornell.edu)

422 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 59 comments

Landing page for the self-guided online version of Cornell's CS 6120 PhD-level Advanced Compilers course by Adrian Sampson, with lessons, videos, papers, and implementation tasks.

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch(cs336.stanford.edu)

529 points by kristianpaul 4 months ago | 49 comments

Course homepage for Stanford's CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (Spring 2026), listing instructors Tatsunori Hashimoto and Percy Liang and course staff.

Reverse Engineering for Everyone(0xinfection.github.io)

561 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 60 comments

A free online tutorial series by @mytechnotalent teaching reverse engineering, starting with x86 assembly, number systems, registers, and malware basics.

The costs of microservices (2020)(robertovitillo.com)

381 points by kiyanwang 3 years ago | 347 comments

Blog post by Roberto Vitillo examining the trade-offs and costs of splitting a monolithic backend into microservices.

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective(turkeyland.net)

92 points by ArchAndStarch 25 days ago | 68 comments

Instructor Jeff Turkstra's retrospective on an AI/LLM cheating incident in his Spring 2026 CS 240 Programming in C course and how it was handled.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

2025: The Year in LLMs(simonwillison.net)

823 points by simonw 9 months ago | 451 comments

Simon Willison's annual blog post reviewing major LLM trends of 2025, including reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, and Gemini.