Monte-Carlo Simulations(eli.thegreenplace.net)

154 points by ibobev 12 days ago | 35 comments

Eli Bendersky blog post explaining Monte Carlo simulations with examples like estimating pi by throwing darts, using Rust and Python.

Programmable Cryptography (2024)(0xparc.org)

76 points by fi-le 7 months ago | 41 comments

Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon(va3ndf.com)

42 points by va3ndf 12 days ago | 10 comments

A blog post recounting the design and production of 1,750 programmable PCB name badges for a large Canadian hackathon, including problems encountered.

CKKS – Addition and Multiplication(jeremykun.com)

9 points by ibobev 10 days ago | 0 comments

A tutorial article from Jeremy Kun's Math ∩ Programming series explaining and implementing ciphertext addition and multiplication in the CKKS homomorphic encryption scheme.

A systematic critique of Bitcoin's value proposition(blog.rongarret.info)

29 points by lisper 3 years ago | 37 comments

RSA-896(saweis.net)

196 points by madars 1 month ago | 78 comments

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going(rtfeldman.com)

488 points by jorangreef 3 months ago | 257 comments

Richard Feldman's blog post reporting on the Roc compiler team's rewrite of 300,000 lines of Rust into Zig, which recently reached feature parity.

How close can pure functional programming get to C?(rtfeldman.com)

268 points by stmonty 2 days ago | 94 comments

Richard Feldman's blog post benchmarking roc-deflate, a pure Roc DEFLATE library, against C's libdeflate, finding it under 10% slower, and describing Roc-specific optimizations.

Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit(skii.dev)

379 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 120 comments

A blog post describing how the author found and exploited a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on chess.com.

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs(stolen-thoughts.com)

665 points by quantumgarbage 2 months ago | 295 comments

Project page for a research paper on extracting hidden reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, by authors from MATS, ELLIS, Max Planck and Tübingen.

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.

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.