Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance, by Maciej Cegłowski. Required reading.

LambdaDelta is an emulator of the LMI Lambda Lisp Machine. (If you are looking for the ROMs, look here.)

What Is Digital Humanism?, by Tim Carmody.

A Source Book in APL, Papers by Adin D. Falkoff and Kenneth E. Iverson, with an introduction by Eugene E. McDonnell. Recommended reading.

Category Theory, Syntactically, a very non-traditional introduction to the ideas behind category theory.

A Mind Is Born, impressive 256 byte(!) C64 demo by Linus Akesson.

Starfriends is an inclusive social network/dating site. “It doesn’t ask for your gender, and never will. Instead, you can add to your profile an unlimited amount of tags to describe yourself, the persons you’d like to meet and the activities you might want to share with them.”

Macaroni Nightmare

Robert Taylor, Innovator Who Shaped Modern Computing, Dies at 85, RIP.

OpenBSD 6.1 has been released! (42nd release!)

Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM, by John Regehr.

Identifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real-Time (PDF), by Andrew Reed and Michael Kranch.

The Functional Language Research Compiler (FLRC) was designed at Intel to be a general compiler framework for functional languages. The only supported compiler that is being released is a Haskell Research Compiler (HRC).

Leibniz is an attempt to define a digital scientific notation, i.e. a formal language for writing down scientific models in terms of equations and algorithms.

Numeric age for D, “Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen.” Impressive!

RFC1982: Serial Number Arithmetic, the more you know.

The LandHere architecture is a simulated implementation of several proposed instruction set features intended to preserve correct program control flow at a hardware level. Cool use of Void Linux!

dmd Backend converted to Boost License, yay!

Don’t Fear the Reaper, Michael Parker on D’s garbage collector.

BearSSL: SSL for all Things (PDF), slides by Thomas Pornin for BSides Edinburgh.

Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM, interesting.

Urn, a Lisp implementation for Lua.

Getting OpenBSD running on Raspberry Pi 3

Losing Chess has been solved.

Statement Regarding Research Unix Editions 8, 9, and 10 (PDF), “Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., on behalf of itself and Nokia Bell Laboratories agrees, to the extent of its ability to do so, that it will not assert its copyright rights with respect to any non-commercial copying, distribution, performance, display or creation of derivative works of Research Unix Editions 8, 9, and 10.” Yay!

Idris 1.0 Released

Stochastic program optimization can consider the whole program and find solutions that can only be obtained through, for example, “the simultaneous consideration of mutually dependent issues such as instruction selection, register allocation, and target-dependent optimisation.”

Pratt Parsing Without Prototypal Inheritance, Global Variables, Virtual Dispatch, or Java

Attack of the Killer Microseconds, “it is quite easy to take fast hardware and throw away its performance with software designed for millisecond-scale devices.”

Ted Nelson’s JOT word-processing interface from the 1970’s. Emulated in your browser.

RFC 8140: The Arte of ASCII or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character.