The Noise protocols offer a “cryptographic core” which can be fleshed out into protocols for encrypted email, interactive connections, etc.
Introduction to Arithmetic Groups, by Dave Witte Morris.
Half a coin is stranger than none, by John Baez.
Licensing in a Post Copyright World, by Armin Ronacher.
rrsync restricts rsync to subdirectory declared in .ssh/authorized_keys.
This is the bestest briefing on intersectionality ever
20 Amazing True Facts About Introverts and Extroverts
An uroboros program with 50 programming languages, WJW.
Brutal [Meta]Introduction to Dependent Types in Agda
A reduction of 3-SAT problem to Buchberger algorithm, by Maiia Bakhova.
A quasi-polynomial algorithm for discrete logarithm in finite fields of small characteristic, by Razvan Barbulescu, Pierrick Gaudry, Antoine Joux, and Emmanuel Thomé.
Bypassing no-go theorems, by John Shutt. “A valid no-go theorem identifies a hopeless avenue of research; but in some cases, it also identifies a potentially valuable avenue for research.” Gets pretty interesting at the end.
Hash based signatures, an introduction by Adam Langley. “[P]ost-quantum cryptography is the answer”.
Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers, hilarious.
Bad idea: Berlin considers turning Tempelhof Airport into a model Smart City, says Peter Bihr.
Social Anarchy in Software Development, talk transcript by Barun Singh.
Fear and Loathing in Modern Media: Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism, Politics, and the Subjective, by Maria Popova.
Who By Very Slow Decay, “If you are like the patients I see dying, then here is how you will go.” Recommended reading.
10 Rules of Internet, by Anil Dash.
Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years
How to solve the Riemann Hypothesis
It’s Finally Ironic (YouTube)
Mathematicians Shed Light on Minimalist Conjecture, “The conjecture speculates that, statistically speaking, half of all elliptic curves have rank 0 (meaning that they have either finitely many rational points or none at all) and half have rank 1 (meaning that their infinite set of rational points can be generated essentially from just one point).”
Too DRY – The Grep Test, by Jamie Wong. “If any code declares or makes use of a function, class, module, or variable that cannot be located by grepping for its full identifying token, it fails the Grep Test.” Oh yes.
The Garden-of-Eden theorem was the first rigorous result of cellular automata theory.
git-imerge, incremental merge and rebase for Git.
Portable conditionals in makefiles, yikes!
DIY sound suppressor for the Unicomp / Model M keyboard, WJW.
Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88
A few words on Doug Engelbart, by Bret Victor.
From the archives: Douglas Engelbart profile, 1994
cjdns implements an encrypted IPv6 network using public key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing. Very interesting!
Coconut is a library for testing and debugging concurrent applications in C/C++. It allows programmer to exercise selected interleavings and check some assertions.
The SIMON and SPECK Families of Lightweight Block Ciphers, by Ray Beaulieu, Douglas Shors, Jason Smith, Stefan Treatman-Clark, Bryan Weeks, and Louis Wingers (all NSA).
NULL considered harmful, says Rich Felker.
Lua⋆APL is Lua powered by APL. The module table contains mostly Lua functions mapped to APL names, by and large doing what the corresponding APL functions would do, but operating on Lua numbers, strings, tables and functions.
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