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42x Faster Prompt Lookup Drafting in llama.cpp
Four changes to the n-gram caches of llama.cpp make drafting up to 41.6x faster, load the static cache up to 23.5x faster, and lower peak memory up to 2.65x.
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NetBSD: Playing with disklabels
A hands-on walkthrough of NetBSD disklabels for someone coming from Linux/DOS: how labels are structured, how to inspect and edit them safely, and the gotchas when partitioning disks the BSD way.
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Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to avoid future drama and have a position against AI. However, although I was not using AI for my FOSS contributions, I kept using it at work. In my workplace, as well as in many of my developer friends’,…
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He who does not code, neither shall he eat
You have never heard of me, and depending on who you are, god do I hope you will forget my name as soon as you finish reading this. Quite frankly, I am unimportant. I am not a maintainer of any major Open Source project. My largest Open Source contributions have been completely replaced by better code, and were not meaningful enough to make me qualified to speak on this issue.
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
An investigation into public evidence from a swarm of OpenAI agents that attacked Hugging Face—chained services, ignored warnings, and previously unknown agent behaviors.
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LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs
Diego Escalante argues that GNOME and KDE LLM-policy debates are really about whether open-source communities will accept “progress at all costs,” and what values get traded away when AI tooling is waved through.
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GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks
A software vendor reports a malware-laced GitHub imitation of Easy Data Transform that sat for weeks after reports—until the post hit Hacker News and the page disappeared within minutes.
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VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next.
The Video Game History Foundation marks 5000 magazines in its free research archive and outlines the next phase of digitization, access, and preservation priorities.
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mitxela builds a FLIP fluid simulation on salvaged Hanover flipdot panels for EMF2026—drive electronics, power, eight-panel install, and the pun that started it.
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Parsing Expression Grammar in Lisp: Converting Org to HTML with (ice-9 peg) in Guile
Hi everyone. In this blog post I want to take you in an adventure of parsing Org mode with Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) in Guile Scheme (ice 9 peg) and converting to HTML (via SXML): OrgWebAlchemy. I wanted to share something with you all that I’ve been working on for a while. It all started with some naive regular expressions to parse Org mode content, but I pretty quickly realized I needed something smarter than that to get to where I want to.
5 min · 1,135 words
From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The tine Build System
Martin Pitt and Daan De Meyer introduce tine: reproducible builds of RPM, Go, and Rust components into bootable images from minimal host requirements.
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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.
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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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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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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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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Daniel Gultsch recounts twelve years of Conversations on Google Play, why the XMPP client is leaving the Play Store, and what going fully free means for Android messaging and F-Droid distribution.
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Is Structured Human Input the Missing Link in Agentic Work?
Long-running agents pause unpredictably for human input. Ben Greenberg argues A2A’s input-required state needs a schema contract—not free-form text—so pauses become reliable handoffs.
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AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
Antonio Morales walks through GitHub Security Lab’s Fuzzing Taskflow: point it at a C/C++ repo and an LLM agent writes harnesses, runs AFL++, reads coverage, triages crashes, and files reports.
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Introducing WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL
Today, we’re announcing WalShadow, an open-source engine that replicates Postgres data to ClickHouse directly from physical WAL. In our benchmarks, transactions committed in Postgres became visible in ClickHouse in around 200 ms, while WalShadow sustained 289K rows/sec, effectively keeping pace with the source Postgres instance. Unlike traditional CDC based systems, WalShadow doesn’t use Postgres logical replication. It consumes the same physical WAL stream used by Postgres replicas, decodes…
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