Polyamory and Respect, by Luke Palmer. One of the best things I read about the matter. “Where does the idea that love is a finite resource come from?”
Major arcs for Goldbach’s theorem, by H. A. Helfgott. “The ternary Goldbach conjecture, or three-primes problem, asserts that every odd integer N greater than 5 is the sum of three primes. The present paper proves this conjecture.”
XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data, “Our modified HDFS implementation shows a reduction of approximately 2x on the repair disk I/O and repair network traffic.”
Least efficient packing shapes, by Yoav Kallus.
How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners, by Sacha Chua. Best thing: it doesn’t recommend a preconfigured setup.
QCC: A Quick C Compiler written in Ocaml.
ocaml-bitstring adds Erlang-style bitstrings and matching over bitstrings as a syntax extension and library for OCaml.
Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language.
CoVim is a Vim Plugin that adds real-time collaboration to your favorite text editor.
Bunny is a wireless. meshing, darknet that uses 802.11 to hide its communications.
The axTLS embedded SSL project is a highly configurable client/server TLSv1 SSL library designed for platforms with small memory requirements. It comes with a small HTTP/HTTPS server and additional test tools. BSD licensed!
Reforth is small, familiar, still a Forth. Contains some interesting ideas.
PDP-11/70 CPU core and SoC running 5th Edition UNIX or 2.11BSD UNIX on a FPGA.
Utopien, “Am Ende mündet jede Utopie in Erschießungskommandos, egal ob linke oder rechte, und so gut gemeint sie auch gewesen sein mag.”
On the Constant Moment, essay by Clayton Cubitt.
“Poohenge”, unusual inflatable sculpture graces Hong Kong park.
Leaf Me Alone, very nice little Flash game.