Teaching LLVM a trick it already knew - Rahul Yadav
There are two ways to get the same answer, and one is cheaper. LLVM knew the cheaper one all along, just not in the part of the compiler that decides what's cheap.
LLMs have improved drastically in the past year and quality arguments do not work anymore for anything coding-related. The ethical side has not changed, though.
In Rust, one of the most common ways to implement core traits (like Debug, Display, and Clone) is to #[derive(...)] them, e.g.:
2026 October 03
Free, open-source system design curriculum: 200 topics across 6 tracks, 32 interactive simulators, 15 from-scratch builds, 470 videos, and 600 questions.
On Friday Andrej Karpathy posted about something I’ve been thinking about a lot while using coding agents: as the models do more of the work, more of our own work moves toward understanding what th...
AI Risk – A user’s guide (Part IV): Understanding Agent Drift
Here’s a question I have been asking technology leaders lately: “If nobody changed the agent, why did its behavior change?” Sit with that for a second. No new prompt was deployed. No developer chan…
Three months after launch, someone used my invoicing tool to send phishing. Why a small product is the better target, and why its numbers are worse.
A Mentec CPU made this PDP-11 about 4× faster. That is why it would not boot. Once it did, it went on the internet as pdp1173.com, serving a live UNIX process list and the front end for Gary, a curmudgeonly wizard whose answers come from a pair of modern GPUs.…
The US will have “single payer” within 5 - 7 years
And we’ll do it the least efficient way possible.
Survival Ball Versus: The Sabbatical Sprint - Byte Tank
How I built the new Versus Mode for Survival Ball (Steam game)
emails [at] jacobg.co · Jacob Goldstein
Student, entrepeneur, researcher
What Happens Next
History doesn’t move in a straight line. I remember growing up in the seventies and eighties, and even as a child understanding that the world could end at any moment due to forces beyond my …
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Row-level security performance in PostgreSQL, measured | Now-Next
What an RLS policy costs in PostgreSQL 17: function volatility, the (select …) wrapper, membership subqueries and the leakproof rule that disables your index.
On Age Verification
Frisk discusses recent developments regarding Age Verification on the Internet as well as points issues with it in general
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
GitHub - Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. - Niko1221/Strata
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux ga…
Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.
Peter Bex on CHICKEN Scheme
Chicken Scheme maintainer, optimizer and Postgres fan
Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …
Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? - The Old New Thing
They either predate hot-patching or never needed it.
Why My Asus Laptop Kept Rebooting After Sleep and How to Fix it
Three years ago, I bought an Asus laptop, specifically the Zenbook Pro 17. It's a powerful machine and works just fine for my needs, but it had one problem that made me want to either return it or thr