Noise is a JSON full text and ad-hoc query engine with example-based query syntax. More by Damien Katz.
AES-GCM-SIV, by Adam Langley.
The largest Git repo on the planet, at Microsoft.
Jbuilder, a composable build system for OCaml and Reason.
deadspecs, “Dead specifications work forever.”
Chelsea Manning has been released from prison
Rejection Letter, by Charlie Stross. “I’m afraid we can’t publish your book, “Zero Day: The story of MS17-010”, as things stand.”
update: die kunst des liebens, Felix Schwenzels Vortrag auf der re:publica 2017. Empfehlenswert.
Post-quantum RSA, by Daniel J. Bernstein, Nadia Heninger, Paul Lou, and Luke Valenta. Featuring 1TB RSA keys. WJW.
Formally Proving the Boolean Pythagorean Triples Conjecture (PDF), by Luís Cruz-Filipe and Peter Schneider-Kamp.
JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. Trivium now has one too, it is really straight-forward to implement.
AMT status checker for Linux, a simple tool that tells you whether AMT is enabled and provisioned on Linux systems.
Flang is a Fortran compiler targeting LLVM (based on PGI’s frontend).
HypheNN-de, a neural network that hyphenates German words.
My social media fast, by Jason Kottke.
Unreal Engine 1 to Emscripten.
Computational Balloon Twisting: The Theory of Balloon Polyhedra (PDF, 2008), by Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Vi Hart.
SeqBox, a single file container/archive that can be reconstructed even after total loss of file system structures.
Tensorial logic is a primitive logic of tensor and negation, whose purpose is to circumscribe the basic ingredients of reasoning, and to study them using the tools of contemporary algebra.
A Primer on Bézier Curves, a free, online book for when you really need to know how to do Bézier things.
Breakthrough is an abstract strategy board game invented by Dan Troyka in 2000.
Vernon Rylands Parton was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor.
Minecraft in real life, “ANICUBE”.
Recursive DNS Server Fingerprint, “Our goal is to identify hijacked resolvers by analyzing their fingerprints, in order to increase safety of Internet users.”
220,000 cores and counting: MIT math professor breaks record for largest ever Compute Engine job, “Andrew V. Sutherland is a computational number theorist and Principal Research Scientist at MIT, and is using Compute Engine to explore generalizations of the Sato-Tate Conjecture and the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer to curves of higher genus.”
Glob Matching Can Be Simple And Fast Too, by Russ Cox. (But it mostly isn’t.)
A simple, possibly correct LR parser for C11 (PDF), by Jacques-Henri Jourdan and François Pottier.
NNCP (Node to Node copy) is a collection of utilities simplifying secure store-and-forward files and mail exchanging.
SciTECO, an advanced TECO dialect and interactive screen editor based on Scintilla. WJW.
rustasm6502, a MOS6502 assembler implemented as a Rust macro.
Scripts for installing V8 UNIX from tape, running on a SIMH VAX. Now with blit support!