How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

56 points by ingve 2 months ago | 38 comments

A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm(devblogs.microsoft.com)

37 points by soheilpro 4 months ago | 12 comments

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

331 points by luu 2 months ago | 123 comments

A 2003 Old New Thing post by Raymond Chen recounting how the Windows 95 box's anti-piracy hologram of a baby drew offended reactions despite seeming harmless.

Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

79 points by HeliumHydride 10 months ago | 55 comments

How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

128 points by ayi 11 months ago | 73 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

245 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 57 comments

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

Okay, I Like WezTerm(alexplescan.com)

410 points by alexpls 2 years ago | 223 comments

A blog post by Alex Plescan describing his switch from iTerm 2 to the WezTerm terminal emulator and why he likes it.

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.