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Writing a ray tracer in Brainfuck
A playful systems post that implements a ray tracer in Brainfuck—compilers, esolangs, and the surprising claim that sometimes the correct answer is to write a compiler.
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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer. Johannes was one of the most prolific and respected contributors to the LLVM compiler project, and his loss will be deeply felt.
5 min · 1,239 words
Evolving programming languages in the AI era
José Valim’s reflections on how programming languages, ecosystems, and agentic tooling may evolve when humans are no longer writing most of the code.
9 min · 1,980 words
We’re gonna need a lot more mathematicians
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.]
6 min · 1,318 words
Building a 64-Bit OS — Chapter 3: Interrupt Descriptor Tables (The magic behind a working keyboard)
Building a 64-Bit OS — Chapter 3: Interrupt Descriptor Tables (The magic behind a working keyboard) Interrupts Interrupts are easily one of my favorite topics.
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I’ve been thinking about where I stand in respect to the current state of the industry.
5 min · 1,068 words
A Type Stronger than the Sum of its Components
Richard Schneeman walks through a Ruby type design that becomes more powerful than the sum of its parts—how carefully composed types can encode invariants that ad-hoc checks miss.
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Every package is already installed
Farid Zakaria introduces omnibin: a FUSE filesystem that puts every binary Nixpkgs ever shipped on your $PATH—nothing installed upfront, 0 bytes on disk until something is actually run.
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Secure Acceleration: A Cyberdefense Strategy for Superintelligence
Enclosure co-founders Shalev and Romi Lifshitz outline a cyberdefense strategy for superintelligence, centered on sabotage, escape, and theft threats from AI cyberswarms.
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How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
Cloudflare details how a Containers/Sandboxes cross-tenant bug let residual dm-thin disk blocks leak between customers, how Oren Yomtov reported it, and the fleet-wide remediation completed by 19 Sep 2026.
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Notes on loading oliveoil22's Casio CZ-101 patch banks into the browser-based CZP-1 synthesizer, with downloadable JSON bank data and step-by-step library import instructions.
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The Phantom Meta-Review: A Case Study in Procedural Breakdown at NeurIPS 2026
A case study of phantom meta-reviews and OpenReview failures at NeurIPS 2026, arguing the machine-learning peer-review system needs structural change—not just more volume.
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Artificial symbiotic intelligence: Agents, AGI and the orchestration of many minds
DeepMind Institute essay arguing AGI may emerge from societies of cooperating agents, tools, and humans—shifting the problem from building one mind to orchestrating many.
10 min · 2,268 words
AI labs need to start funding historical research
Res Obscura argues frontier labs should fund historical scholarship, using alchemical correspondence and early modern sources as a case for AI-assisted discovery.
14 min · 3,217 words
SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py)
Write-up of CVE-class XSS in SourceHut’s ansi2html path: how crafted build logs could escalate to account takeover, and the fix timeline.
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Ed Zitron's AI prediction track record
Dan Luu audits Ed Zitron’s AI commentary against outcomes: which predictions held, which missed, and how to read media AI takes more carefully.
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Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space
Google Research outlines Project Suncatcher: a moonshot exploring solar-powered ML infrastructure in space, and the engineering facts behind the idea.
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Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
Dynomight asks why the liver regenerates so well while most human tissues heal poorly, surveying biology, evolution, and regenerative medicine.
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Agentic Hacks, Real Proofs: Inside Google's PageBreak Project
Google's Michał Bentkowski details PageBreak, an agentic AI web security scanner that pairs LLM findings with real proof-of-concept validation to cut AI-slop noise in vulnerability reports.
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F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
F-Droid announces version 2.0—the largest official app update in a decade—with a redesigned UI, better discovery and search, and a simpler experience for installing free and open-source Android apps.
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