runter vom eis, felix schwenzel schreibt: “ich möchte am liebsten vom verlauf der weltgeschichte allein gelassen werden.”

AWS gains IPv6 support for 15 regions, no more excuses!

Google’s SRE book is now public under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

The Essence of Event-Driven Programming (PDF), by Jennifer Paykin, Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, and Steve Zdancewic.

TCP-ENO: Encryption Negotiation Option, RFC draft: “The TCP Encryption Negotiation Option (TCP-ENO) addresses both of these problems through a new TCP option kind providing out-of-band, fully backward-compatible negotiation of encryption.”.

1.1 Billion Taxi Rides on kdb+/q & 4 Xeon Phi CPUs, neat!

How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros

Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators, by Radford M. Neal. Amazingly tricky.

Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Molecular Tschunk Spheres

President Obama Grants Commutation to Chelsea Manning, “Manning will reportedly be freed in May 2017.”

A New RFC Archive, “Late in 2016, the RFC Editor entered into an agreement with the National Library of Sweden to properly archive RFCs.”

Inside the 74181 ALU chip: die photos and reverse engineering, by Ken Shirriff.

Pentest-Report Dovecot 11.2016 (PDF), by Cure53. “Despite much effort and thoroughly all-encompassing approach, the Cure53 testers only managed to assert the excellent security-standing of Dovecot.”

The design of Chacha20

Q for Mortals, an introduction to q programming by Jeffry A. Borror. Third edition now online.

Incompatible Timesharing System, MIT’s one true OS is now on GitHub!

FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage.

Edge 2017: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?

Basic Category Theory free online, Tom Leinster released his book under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Graph Isomorphism update, by László Babai. “With this announcement, I am retracting the quasipolynomial claim. On the other hand, I affirm that significant progress has been made.”

Farfalle, a new mode for building a pseudorandom function (PRF) from a b-bit cryptographic permutation.

NsJail, a light-weight process isolation tool, making use of Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

qc is a C frontend for the awesome QBE SSA backend written by Quentin Carbonneaux, written in Myrddin.

void, a terminal-based personal organizer outliner thingy.

The moving sofa problem, with nice animations.