I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious(lesswrong.com)

136 points by porridgeraisin 7 days ago | 155 comments

A LessWrong shortform comment by Arjun Panickssery arguing AI agents show poor research judgment in autonomous R&D side projects like a Scrabble engine and philosophy research.

Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)

63 points by pbohun 4 days ago | 18 comments

Pigshell 0.6.4 is a browser-based Unix-style shell that represents web resources and cloud data as files you can process with command pipelines.

Awesome repositories are no longer awesome(erikgahner.github.io)

239 points by erikgahner 8 days ago | 116 comments

A blog post arguing that GitHub 'awesome' curated lists have become less useful due to outdated content and floods of AI-generated pull requests promoting vibe-coded sites.

Lean Grimoire(terrytao.wordpress.com)

51 points by smilelamp 1 day ago | 8 comments

Terence Tao blog post announcing Lean Grimoire, a coding-agent-rebuilt version of his QED logic crafting game with Lean proof display and a fantasy mode.

OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM(openssh.org)

247 points by selckin 8 days ago | 12 comments

OpenSSH release notes for portable 10.6p2, which fixes a password authentication bypass in sshd on Linux systems using musl libc with PAM disabled.

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world(shubs.io)

578 points by infosecau 5 days ago | 317 comments

Python numbers every programmer should know(mkennedy.codes)

382 points by WoodenChair 10 months ago | 157 comments

Michael Kennedy's blog post listing Python performance and memory numbers, such as list operations, file I/O, object sizes, and web framework speed.

Everything in C is undefined behavior(blog.habets.se)

459 points by lycopodiopsida 5 months ago | 598 comments

Personal blog post arguing that nobody can write correct C or C++ because nearly all code triggers undefined behavior, and that the languages are outdated.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 4 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Pure Sh Bible(github.com)

359 points by akraker 3 years ago | 103 comments

GitHub repository by dylanaraps collecting pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes, as a shell scripting reference.

The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition(routledge.com)

343 points by zzxcvb 3 years ago | 153 comments

Routledge product page for the 2nd edition of The Garbage Collection Handbook by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, a book on automatic memory management.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 11 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.