GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2^74,207,281-1

From SMM to userland in a few bytes, how to build a SMM rootkit.

Roaming through the OpenSSH client: CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778

awk-raycaster, a pseudo-3D shooter written completely in awk using raycasting technique.

Two Fake Coins, on the classic riddle: “My colleagues from Russia, Konstantin Knop and Oleg Polubasov, performed some fantastic programming accompanied with some subtle heuristic and found optimal solutions for up to 10 weighings.”

Number of legal Go positions, now exactly computed.

Thinking about Grothendieck (PDF), by Barry Mazur.

Sanos PDP-11 Simulator with UNIX V7e, ready to boot.

Reverse engineering the ARM1

Super Mario 64: Watch for Rolling Rocks with 0.5x A presses. WJW.

Washing machine brick bouncing on trampoline (YouTube)

How to create a top journal by accepting (almost) everything, very interesting.

Provably Correct Peephole Optimizations with Alive (PDF), by Nuno P. Lopes, David Menendez, Santosh Nagarakatte, and John Regehr.

Modula-2 R10 attempts to be a revised version of Modula-2.

Papers, Please: Auditing SSH Access at Spreedly, sounds like a good idea.

2015 music wrap-up, by jwz.

Swiss in CSS, a homage to the International Typographic Style.

Kids Turn Bratz into Star Wars Rey Dolls

Vader’s Redemption: The Imperial March in a Major Key

RIP Ian Murdock

RIP Joyce Reynolds, RFC editor.

The Website Obesity Crisis, talk transcript by Maciej Cegłowski. This.

cparser 1.22.0 has been released, together with libfirm a lean C99 compiler under GPL-2/LGPL-2.1.

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (PDF), by Phillip Rogaway.

Das Git-Buch von Valentin Haenel und Julius Plenz ist jetzt unter einer CreativeCommons-Lizenz frei zugänglich.

Exploring the QNX shadowed password hash formats

About the DK versions of Lucida (PDF), by Charles Bigelow. Adding a squarish O for Don Knuth.

How to make any plot in ggplot2? “This tutorial focusses on exposing this underlying structure you can use to make any ggplot.”

Windows 95 on a Nintendo 3DS is as strange as you’d think

Category: Lists by death toll on Wikipedia.

printbf, a Brainfuck interpreter in printf.