Bypassing the Branch Predictor

Whatever Happened to String Theory?

Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26)

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

Gamification of Programming Languages

This Isn't a Battle

The price of dynamic memory: Memory Access (2020)

Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models"

Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors

LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology

The folly that was Tandem Computers and the path that led me to NonStop

Problems with C++ exceptions

AI's $5T Data-Center Boom Will Dip into Every Debt Market: JPMorgan

Super Thin RAII Wrappers for C Types

The Root Cause Fallacy: Hidden Causes

How I learned to love Zig's diagnostic pattern (2024)

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking

A Plan for 5-10%* Faster Free-Threaded JIT by Python 3.16

Dissecting the Syscall Instruction: Kernel Entry and Exit Mechanisms

C++ Move Semantics Considered Harmful (Rust Is Better) [2021]

Problems With C++ Move Semantics (YT) [video]

Error Codes for Control Flow

Building Reliable Systems

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

Handbook of Biological Statistics

Lessons from the Vibe Coding Trenches

The Power of Limit Thinking

A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years

My tutorial and take on C++20 coroutines (2021)

A Note on Fil-C

Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

How the Most Famous Code Was Cracked

Disassembling Terabytes of Random Data with Zig and Capstone to Prove a Point

How I am deeply integrating Emacs

I want a good parallel language [YT] [video]

On Async Mutexes

Defeating Kaslr by Doing Nothing at All

Hobbes' Internet Timeline 25 (2018)

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP

Architectural debt is not just technical debt

New Cancer Therapy Trains Immune System to Attack and Destroy Resistant Cancers

Awk Technical Notes (2023)

Sam Altman says 'enough' to questions about OpenAI's revenue

Inside Multi-Platform Docker Builds with QEMU

Thinking About Thinking with LLMs

Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust

Punching Holes into Firewalls

Zig's New Async I/O (Text Version)

Early history (1978) of Emacs from PDP-10 ITS archive

Understanding Docker Internals: Building a Container Runtime in Python

The Lost War of Information Technology

'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming

Emulsiv: A visual simulator for teaching computer architecture using RISC-V

Encryption using SSH Keys with age in Linux

Putting the "You" in CPU (2023)

Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust

Concept Based Generic Programming in C++ (Stroustrup) [pdf]

What makes cheap_steady_clock faster than std:chrono:high_resolution_clock?

How Tailscale is improving NAT traversal (Part 1)

Programming with Less Than Nothing

Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways

You too can crash today's 6.12.43 LTS kernel

Why 'Functor' Doesn't Matter (2019)

What would you differently, if you could redesign Linux userland from scratch?

Memory Subsystem Optimizations (Article Series)

Tracking Down a Regression in Mesa 3D

mRNA Covid vaccines spark immune response that may aid cancer survival

South Korea's AI textbooks fail after rushed rollout

The reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup