ROBOT: Return Of Bleichenbacher’s Oracle Threat, by Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky, and Craig Young. “ROBOT is the return of a 19-year-old vulnerability that allows performing RSA decryption and signing operations with the private key of a TLS server.”

winss is a small suite of tools for Windows that is designed to be as close to its counterpart S6 as possible using native Windows features.

How to Print Integers Really Fast, with radix-100.

haroldbot can do proofs with machine integers.

Google Maps’s Moat, interesting longread.

SIMPLE Is a Macro Processing Language Element (1998).

Bushi Shogi is played on a 1x2 field.

The future is here – AlphaZero learns chess, analysis of the games at chessbase.com.

Debugging an evil Go runtime bug, exciting story.

Numba gives you the power to speed up your applications with high performance functions written directly in Python. Uses LLVM.

Use pax, by David Kendal. “[T]he pax program, by default, produces and unpacks tar files, with a much simpler interface than tar: it’s quite easy to commit the basics of it to memory.” I never had trouble using tar, but I have to admit that pax is more logical.

Tau Prolog is a Prolog interpreter fully implemented in JavaScript.

Interview with Xavier Leroy

A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System, by J. Lions. Classic book, in a nice HTML rendering.

Skewer Hyperboloids, by George W. Hart.

Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, “a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use.”

Gravity-SPHINCS is a stateless hash-based signature scheme designed by Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Guillaume Endignoux.

Why Gets You Root, tracking down the cause a serious authentication flaw in macOS High Sierra.

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. Lightweight and simple to install.

Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One, Day Two, notes by Alex Bradbury.

Advent of Code 2017

blinry’s Advent Calendar of Curiosities 2017

Das Unicorn, Ein Einhorn auf Weltreise. Jeden Tag ein Reisetürchen.

The Advent of Void, “Every day until Dec 25, we’ll show you one of the lesser known packages of Void Linux, with some focus on command line tools.”

The Game of the Amazons is a two-player abstract strategy game invented in 1988 by Walter Zamkauskas of Argentina.