Zed is now available on Windows(zed.dev)

506 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 324 comments

Zed blog post by Max Brunsfeld announcing that the Zed code editor is now available as a fully supported stable release on Windows.

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop(devblog.qnx.com)

257 points by transpute 10 months ago | 147 comments

Why LLMs can't really build software(zed.dev)

321 points by srid 1 year ago | 196 comments

A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.

Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles(quantamagazine.org)

13 points by GavCo 1 year ago | 4 comments

How fast can browsers process base64 data?(lemire.me)

35 points by mfiguiere 11 months ago | 20 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines(github.com)

411 points by overbytecode 2 years ago | 128 comments

GitHub repository for Quickemu, a tool that quickly creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines using QEMU.

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)

767 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 572 comments

Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.

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.

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains(xda-developers.com)

1130 points by felineflock 7 months ago | 402 comments

XDA Developers article on Wine 11 changing how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, with large performance gains.