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.

macOS Internals(gist.github.com)

698 points by JoelMcCracken 3 years ago | 112 comments

A GitHub Gist collecting links to John Siracusa's Mac OS X reviews, tracing macOS internals from the prerelease era to Swift.

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes(gist.github.com)

278 points by interpidused 8 months ago | 105 comments

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

39 points by shakna 2 years ago | 10 comments

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing(gist.github.com)

221 points by radeeyate 11 months ago | 153 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.