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Post #13142 110 May 4, 2026, 12:29 UTC

The peril of laziness lost
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/

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The Observation Deck The peril of laziness lost In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: If we’re going to talk about good software design…

Post #13141 113 May 3, 2026, 12:29 UTC

Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

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GitHub Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

Post #13140 107 May 3, 2026, 04:29 UTC

Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake
https://c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-sizes-a-five-year-mistake/

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C3 Programming Language Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake C3 is the ergonomic, safe evolution of C. Familiar syntax, full ABI compatibility, optionals, slices, contracts and zero-cost abstractions.

Post #13139 102 May 2, 2026, 22:29 UTC

Approaching zero bugs? - Daniel Stenberg
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/30/approaching-zero-bugs/

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daniel.haxx.se Approaching zero bugs? In this era of powerful tools to find software bugs, we now see tools find a lot of problems at a high speed. This causes problems for developers, as dealing with the growing list of issues is hard. It may take a longer time to address the problems than to…

Post #13138 86 May 2, 2026, 00:29 UTC

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10

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Reddit From the programming community on Reddit: For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions Posted by Either_Collection349 - 97 votes and 11 comments

Post #13137 90 May 1, 2026, 22:29 UTC

How Containers Work: Building a Docker-like Container From Scratch
https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-filesystem-from-scratch

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iximiuz Labs How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-like Container From Scratch | iximiuz Labs Learn how Linux containers are built from the ground up. Starting with the mount namespace and a root filesystem, see why PID, cgroup, UTS, and network namespaces naturally follow - and how this foundation makes concepts like bind mounts, volumes, and persistence…

Post #13136 81 May 1, 2026, 08:29 UTC

You can beat the binary search
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/

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Daniel Lemire's blog You can beat the binary search We sometimes have to look for a value in a sorted array. The simplest algorithm consists in just going through the values one by one, until we encounter the value, or exhaust the array. We sometimes call this algorithm a linear search. In C++, you can get…

Post #13135 94 May 1, 2026, 02:29 UTC

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date

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Ars Technica Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it.

Post #13134 85 Apr 30, 2026, 16:29 UTC

Copy Fail: an exploit for all Linux distributions since 2017
https://copy.fail

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Xint Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.

Post #13133 90 Apr 30, 2026, 06:29 UTC

Someone compromised SAP's npm packages and used the CI pipeline against itself
https://safedep.io/mini-shai-hulud-and-sap-compromise/

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SafeDep - Real-time Open Source Software Supply Chain Security Mini Shai Hulud and SAP Compromise Four SAP npm packages published on April 29, 2026 contain a two-stage credential-stealing payload targeting GitHub tokens, AWS keys, and CI/CD pipelines. The packages share SAP-affiliated maintainers, pointing to a publisher account compromise.

Post #13132 92 Apr 30, 2026, 04:29 UTC

FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies

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www.agwa.name FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies For FastCGI's 30th birthday, let's look at how it avoids the security problems inherent in HTTP reverse proxying

Post #13131 174 Apr 29, 2026, 20:29 UTC

Bugs Rust Won't Catch
https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/

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Corrode Rust Consulting Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils that ships by default since 25.10. Most of them came out of an external audit commissioned ahead of the 26.04 LTS. I read through the list and thought th…

Post #13130 92 Apr 29, 2026, 04:29 UTC

Researchers Find RCE Vulnerability in GitHub.com (CVE-2026-3854)
https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854

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wiz.io GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown | Wiz Blog A CVSS 8.7 vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote code execution. Read the threat brief and find vulnerable GHES instances from Wiz.

Post #13129 81 Apr 28, 2026, 22:29 UTC

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

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Reddit From the programming community on Reddit: Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub Posted by davidcelis - 286 votes and 79 comments

Post #13128 81 Apr 28, 2026, 14:29 UTC

An update on GitHub availability
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/

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The GitHub Blog An update on GitHub availability Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

Post #13127 83 Apr 28, 2026, 08:29 UTC

Box to save memory in Rust
https://dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/

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dystroy.org Box to save memory dystroy - blog

Post #13126 96 Apr 28, 2026, 02:29 UTC

First time using the MareNostrum V Supercomputer, writeup of what actually surprised me coming from cloud
https://towardsdatascience.com/what-it-actually-takes-to-run-code-on-200me-supercomputer/

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Towards Data Science What It Actually Takes to Run Code on 200M€ Supercomputer (HPC & SLURM) | Towards Data Science Inside MareNostrum V: SLURM schedulers, fat-tree topologies, and scaling pipelines across 8,000 nodes in a 19th-century chapel

Post #13125 82 Apr 26, 2026, 22:29 UTC

Same algorithm, 16x faster: optimizing a vector search engine’s hot path
https://dubeykartikay.com/posts/sembed-engine-vector-search-performance/

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Kartikay Dubey's Blog Vector Search Engine Performance: 16x Faster Vamana Search See how sembed-engine made Vamana vector search 16x faster with flat arrays, lightweight views, squared distances, SIMD-friendly loops, and cached candidate scores.

Post #13124 77 Apr 26, 2026, 14:29 UTC

The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things

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techtrenches.dev The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.

Post #13123 80 Apr 26, 2026, 06:29 UTC

Java Virtual Threads: The Pinning Problem and the Fix in Java 24
https://shbhmrzd.github.io/java/concurrency/virtual-threads/2026/04/25/java-virtual-threads-pinning-and-the-deadlock-problem.html

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Shubham Raizada’s Blog Java Virtual Threads: The Pinning Problem, the Deadlock, and the Fix in Java 24 These blogs cover what I’ve learned so far, and I’ll continue to add more as I explore new topics.

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