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21 hours ago

Commoditize the Complement of Your Research | Rachit Nigam

mit.edu

“Commoditize your complement” is an idea about how companies can build profitable markets without complete vertical...
“Commoditize your complement” is an idea about how companies can build profitable markets without complete vertical integration or monopolization. I highly recommend “Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement” for a more in-depth look into this idea. Very briefly, the idea is this: every product has a substitute and...

culture
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21 hours ago

A 10x Faster TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | BRK116

youtube.com

compilers go javascript science & technology video
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21 hours ago

Why Algebraic Effects?

antelang.org

Algebraic effects1 (a.k.a. effect handlers) are a very useful up-and-coming feature that I personally think will...
Algebraic effects1 (a.k.a. effect handlers) are a very useful up-and-coming feature that I personally think will see a huge surge in popularity in the programming languages of tomorrow. They’re one of the core features of Ante, as well as being the focus of many research languages including Koka, Effekt, Eff, and Fl...

ante antelang lang language plt
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21 hours ago

[Guix] Emacs dired-mode as a file manager

lynn.sh

I'm sure some of you reading this are rolling your eyes or reciting the well-known "Emacs...
I'm sure some of you reading this are rolling your eyes or reciting the well-known "Emacs is a great OS, but …" I use it a lot, though. I already use dired-mode to manage my writing and programming. It's something that is powerful, and comfortable to use. If you are following along and use something else, it is also...

emacs
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22 hours ago

Configuring Jujutsu

oppi.li

There are a lot of reasons to use jujutsu, but this post is not about that....
There are a lot of reasons to use jujutsu, but this post is not about that. I have this terrible habit of turning every knob on a tool before I even fully absorb how it works; and boy does jj have a lot of knobs. Templates jj let you tweak nearly every single character of its output. In fact, jj includes a full-blow...

vcs
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22 hours ago

Deep Learning is no Intelligence

cullmann.dev

Here we are in the year 2025 and every company that wants to grab your money...
Here we are in the year 2025 and every company that wants to grab your money now peddles AI.Even most search engines will now start with some “AI powered” summary.Unfortunately, what they give you is just some deep learning intelligence fake.Just imagine, you don’t read the links yourself, but you pass that to some ...

ai vibecoding
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1 day ago

The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace

plover.com

unix
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1 day ago

Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT - Matthew Weidner

mattweidner.com

articulated programming server reconciliation text editing
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1 day ago

Botnet Part 1: Those Stealthy Botnets

wildeboer.net

security
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1 day ago

What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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1 day ago

FreeBSD Status Report First Quarter 2025

freebsd.org

bsd freebsd open source unix
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May 22

Hypersystem: a pixel display font for Hypermedia Systems

aksimsek.tr

Hypertexts: new forms of writing, appearing on computer screens, that will branch or perform at the...
Hypertexts: new forms of writing, appearing on computer screens, that will branch or perform at the reader’s command. A hypertext is a non-sequential piece of writing; only the computer display makes it practical. Download Hypersystem Hypersystem is a new font I designed for the web version of Hypermedia Systems. Re...

design
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May 22

Debugging memory leaks in Postgres, heaptrack edition

enterprisedb.com

In this post we'll introduce two memory leaks into Postgres and debug them with heaptrack. Like...
In this post we'll introduce two memory leaks into Postgres and debug them with heaptrack. Like almost every memory leak tool available to us (including memleak which I wrote about last time), heaptrack requires you to be on Linux. But a Linux VM on a Mac is fine too (that is where I'm running this code from).Althou...

debugging heaptrack linux memory leaks memorycontexts
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May 22

Claude and I write a utility program

plover.com

vibecoding
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May 22

The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess

aphyr.com

Update, 2025-05-22: TrueNAS was kind enough to reach out and let me know that their support...
Update, 2025-05-22: TrueNAS was kind enough to reach out and let me know that their support process does not normally incorporate LLMs. They’re talking about what happened internally, and intend to prevent it from happening again through improved documentation and reviewing the support process as a whole. I’m happy ...

vibecoding
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May 22

another tale of go.mod bloat

tedunangst.com

It’s been one year since our previous adventure, so it’s time for another round of guess...
It’s been one year since our previous adventure, so it’s time for another round of guess why that dependency shows up in the tarball. This time we’re looking at honk, an ActivityPub server that’s supposed to be idiosyncratic with minimal dependencies, so you can keep all your attention focused where it’s needed.Look...

go
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May 22

Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% Faster

ohadravid.github.io

blog performance rust tech
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May 22

3 Years of Extremely Remote Work

brendangregg.com

blog programming remote work
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May 22

whippet lab notebook: guile, heuristics, and heap growth — wingolog

wingolog.org

Greets all! Another brief note today. I have gotten Guile working with one of the Nofl-based...
Greets all! Another brief note today. I have gotten Guile working with one of the Nofl-based collectors, specifically the one that scans all edges conservatively (heap-conservative-mmc / heap-conservative-parallel-mmc). Hurrah!It was a pleasant surprise how easy it was to switch—from the user’s point of view, you ju...

bdw garbage collection gc guile lisp
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May 22

Transpiler, a meaningless word | Rachit Nigam

mit.edu

This tool is different from a compiler which often has a complex frontend, an optimizing middle...
This tool is different from a compiler which often has a complex frontend, an optimizing middle end, and code generators for various backends. The big problem around most of the arguments to distinguish between compilers and “transpilers” focus on language syntax. However, anyone who wants one of these tools to actu...

compilers
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May 22

Machinist and Machine

punkx.org

philosophy
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May 22

Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs

wordpress.com

There’s a hardware problem affecting Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs, mostly desktop ones. This made the rounds...
There’s a hardware problem affecting Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs, mostly desktop ones. This made the rounds through the press last year and has been on forums etc. for much longer than that. For months, we thought this was a rare bug in the decoder, but from stats in Epic’s crash reports for Fortnite (as well as stats ...

assembly debugging hardware
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May 22

libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events - Phoronix

phoronix.com

desktop linux linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks linux hardware reviews
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May 22

Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools

lwn.net

The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of...
The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! In late March, version 78....

python
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