An incremental approach to JIT construction(dl.acm.org)

34 points by andsoitis 9 days ago | 1 comments

ACM Digital Library page for an open-access Scheme '26 workshop paper presenting an incremental, classroom-scale approach to building a JIT compiler.

Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)(dl.acm.org)

101 points by Cieplak 2 years ago | 16 comments

Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)(arxiv.org)

27 points by abrax3141 5 days ago | 0 comments

arXiv paper on reanimating two historical AI programming systems, Simon's Heuristic Compiler (1961) and MIT's KBEmacs (1984), by running their original code with help from Claude Code.

Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU(arxiv.org)

91 points by anewhnaccount2 2 years ago | 48 comments

Monoidal computer I: Basic computability by string diagrams (2012)(arxiv.org)

3 points by measurablefunc 10 days ago | 0 comments

arXiv abstract page for Dusko Pavlovic's 2012 paper proposing a model of computation based on monoidal categories and string diagrams.

BLISS(en.wikipedia.org)

39 points by tosh 3 months ago | 8 comments

Full Text Search of US Court records(judyrecords.com)

412 points by FigurativeVoid 1 year ago | 81 comments

Judyrecords is a free full-text search engine covering over 740 million United States court cases, with an API.

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video](youtube.com)

82 points by Rochus 1 month ago | 28 comments

A Computer History Museum YouTube video featuring a 1.5-hour oral history interview with John Chowning, inventor of FM sound synthesis.

Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)

788 points by vaylian 7 months ago | 250 comments

Blog essay by Armin Ronacher arguing that some valuable things, like mature trees or established software and communities, can only be achieved through time.

The early days of Linux (2023)(lwn.net)

422 points by stmw 1 year ago | 125 comments

LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recalling his memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, and its early growth.

Calculus with Julia(jverzani.github.io)

249 points by subset 23 days ago | 49 comments

Online open textbook by John Verzani teaching calculus using the Julia programming language, shown at its preface page.

The early days of Linux(lwn.net)

1199 points by Paul-Craft 3 years ago | 198 comments

LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recounting his memories of the earliest days of Linux and his time with Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki.