Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry(amutable.com)

14 points by Levitating 26 days ago | 0 comments

Amutable blog post by Aleksa Sarai describing Quarry, a system for distributing OS images using dumb servers and smart clients.

Using the FDAP Architecture to Build InfluxDB 3.0: Flight, DataFusion, Arrow(influxdata.com)

19 points by treesciencebot 3 years ago | 4 comments

Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching(blog.maximeheckel.com)

112 points by drux 3 years ago | 10 comments

The Polyglot NixOS(x86.lol)

114 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 39 comments

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion(tailscale.com)

556 points by bluehatbrit 2 months ago | 206 comments

Tailscale blog post discussing a security intrusion at Hugging Face and explaining that Tailscale did not prevent it.

Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI(avelino.run)

52 points by PaulHoule 8 months ago | 3 comments

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware(blogs.gnome.org)

224 points by ErenayDev 11 days ago | 198 comments

Blog post by Christian F.K. Schaller, a Red Hat developer, about using AI tools to reverse engineer hardware, presumably for Linux driver development.

Agents.md speaks Unix, and you should too(fmind.dev)

10 points by fmind-dev 1 month ago | 2 comments

Blog post by Médéric Hurier arguing that AGENTS.md files should guide coding agents using Unix tools, with lessons from his dotfiles and human review.

Rat's Register Allocator(hexrat.cc)

53 points by mpweiher 16 days ago | 3 comments

Blog post describing how the rat compiler backend replaced its linear scan register allocator with a simpler priority bin-packing allocator for x86-64.

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.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.