Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)(maizure.org)

232 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 78 comments

Extending ts-Wolfram: dropping OOP, kernel/userspace interop, better printing(spakhm.com)

5 points by lioeters 10 months ago | 1 comments

How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)(pixelbeat.org)

87 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 14 comments

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures(radgametools.com)

338 points by firebaze 2 years ago | 215 comments

RAD Game Tools notice explaining that instability in Intel 13th/14th-gen CPUs like the 13900K and 14900K causes Oodle decompression failures and crashes in Unreal games.

Understanding GPT tokenizers(simonwillison.net)

380 points by simonw 3 years ago | 110 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining how GPT tokenizers convert text to integer tokens, with an Observable notebook tool for encoding, decoding and searching tokens.

UE5 Nanite in WebGPU(github.com)

372 points by vouwfietsman 2 years ago | 107 comments

GitHub repository implementing UE5's Nanite virtualized geometry in WebGPU, with meshlet LOD hierarchy, software rasterizer, billboard impostors, and culling.

GPUs Go Brrr(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

1056 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 243 comments

Stanford Hazy Research blog post on what GPU hardware wants for efficient AI kernels, introducing the ThunderKittens CUDA kernel library.

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 240 comments

Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.

gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer(github.com)

67 points by luu 23 days ago | 10 comments

GitHub repository for gpuvis, an MIT-licensed GPU trace visualizer tool for viewing GPU and CPU event timelines.

GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance(github.com)

339 points by maille 3 months ago | 140 comments

GitHub issue on openai/codex reporting GPT-5.5 reasoning-token counts clustering at 516/1034/1552, possibly degrading performance on complex tasks.

Making noisy SVGs(daniel.do)

449 points by dimmke 2 years ago | 83 comments

Daniel Immke's blog post explaining how to add noise texture to SVG graphics using only code.