84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.

Presented by : Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso

The TASBot community deals with extreme precision when it comes to creating automated playthroughs of games on real hardware. In trying to figure out why venerable SNES consoles kept getting out of sync, the community…

This raises so many questions. Does Bluesky have a communications team (apparently not)? Why do so many of the Bluesky staff treat their (very queer, very trans, very liberal) userbase with open contempt? Why are they so attached to having bigots on their…

Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent of extended [...]

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My career in data started as a SQL Server performance specialist, which meant I was deep into the nuances of indexes, locking and blocking, execution plan analysis and query design. These days I’m more in the world of the open table format such as Apache…

In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure. The government did not take a position on the proposal. This…

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Highlights of the Julia 1.12 release.

HUML is a simple, strict, serialization language for documents, datasets, and configuration.

Interviewed by David C. Brock on 2024-03-15 in The Sea Ranch, CA
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This is an oral history interview with Ken Thompson, created in partnership by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer History Museum, in connection…

I learned about the new range API of std::optional from Steve Downey at CppCon 2025 during his talk about std::optional<T&>. To be honest, I found the idea quite strange at first. I wanted to dig deeper to understand the motivation and the implications. The…

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How I built a benchmark to measure what truly matters for AI coding assistants - file editing precision, instruction following, and handling complex context.

Imagine that your commercial product is based on a component with source code written in a mix of C language and custom assembly. Due to low determinism, finding reproducers is difficult, and without a reproducer, the project maintainer states: "Make it so…

I remember the first time I opened VS Code. The blank screen stared at me like an existential void. One blinking cursor, endless…

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Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…